The unexpected.

Well now my car is making noises, a noise that I do not want. My oh my. This morning we got up to a crisp frost yeah. I have never seen children so happy. The north got dumped with snow. I guess our lives can be compared to the unexpected snow in the North east of America. There was no warnings and temperatures just dropped. So it is in life sometimes it is a crisp wonderful day and your car breaks down and then it seams that one thing after another happens. One thing it has taught me is to have compassion. Many turn their backs on people when unexpected storms come. It is not the time to run from those people it is the time to comfort those.

It is easy to love the lovable not so easy to love a person like the hunchback of Notre dame.

But perhaps if we did we would see really beauty and accept real love.

Please have a cup of tea with me today.

A blackbird morning.

Well sorry for the lack of posts. You know I must not be well if I am not posting on here. I love writing so I am sorry. I am still not feeling my best. So I ask all who read this to be in prayer that something is sorted out soon and that God provides the money for any bills that are associated with it all.

Well today when we got up and the temperature hadchanged a lot. We saw hundreds and hundreds of black birds my younger daughter said " we know it is near Halloween Mum". I will have to say I do not like black birds or crows at all. But as I watched them go from garden to garden I could not help but think of how these birds keep together. How many of us keep together like that? It is like they all knew that there was food and as a family they stuck together. I know reality is that animals kill each other. But we can learn something from this black bird morning. It is better to stay and look after a friend in need than turn your back and move on to something else. Better to take a few more minutes and care than to miss an opportunity in life.

It is so easy to fly away but the blessing is in staying.

Please have a cup of tea with me today.

Doing what is right regardless

Hi Cornfield Dreams, I have not been very well this week. One thing I have learnt through the help of a good friend is that sometimes you just have to let go of things. As I sat on my couch feeling very sick I truly thought of what she had said. She was right somethings in life are just not worth the fight, the energy and all that mess that goes along with it. In fact as laid down my guilt feeling about not going home for my brothers funeral, and more feelings I felt a weight lift off me. I may still feel sick and have a pounding headache but inside I know I have done the right thing. It does not matter what the world thinks it is truly you doing what is right what matters.

So try it, it might well save you from a migraine, stress and many other illnesses in fact it may give you life.

Please have a cup of tea with me today.

The Right Doors Open

Here is a saying that someone emailed me. It is so encouraging.

The Right Doors Open
You try one door after another, yet no one responds to your résumé. No university accepts your application. No doctor has a solution for your illness. No buyers look at your house.Obstacles pack your path. Road, barricaded. Doorway, padlocked. Do you know the frustration of a blocked door?God uses closed doors to advance his cause.He closed the womb of a young Sarah so he could display his power to the elderly one.He shut the palace door on Moses the prince so he could open shackles through Moses the liberator.He marched Daniel out of Jerusalem so he could use Daniel in Babylon. And Jesus. Yes, even Jesus knew the challenge of a blocked door. When he requested a path that bypassed the cross, God said no. He said no to Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane so he could say yes to us at the gates of heaven.It’s not that our plans are bad but that God’s plans are better.“My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the Lord.“And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine.For just as the heavens are higher than the earth,so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.” (Isa. 55:8–9 NLT)
Your blocked door doesn’t mean God doesn’t love you. Quite the opposite. It’s proof that he does.

Please have a cup of tea with me today.

Oh to Autumn

I actually got some energy today. Yeah. It was so nice to walk around my garden and see the wonderful colors of Autumn. It is almost as though God created a unique patchwork in every leave. My sister use to make patchworks and I loved how all the colors looked together. The sunsets in the Autumn remind me of the crocheted blanket that I made at school, the colors making a symphony of warmth to entice the coldest person in and warming up the coldest soul.

I love the sound of the crisp leaves underneath my feet. Oh I so remember raking up leaves as a child and the sounds of those leaves all rustling together, as though they themselves were trying to keep warm.

I love looking for mittens and pulling out winter coats. The summers here are oh so long. I am sure I said in England oh the summers are oh so short and the winters are oh so long.

Well I hope your week is going well, take a walk and enjoy this season.

Please have a cup of tea with me today.

England

I have not been feeling great for the last few days so I am going to post some photos of when I was last in England. Oh how I miss it. Sigh hope to go home one day.

Enjoy hopefully I will back up and perky here again soon.

Please have a cup of tea with me today.

Phony or Real?

Through different times in middle school, high school, and life I have realized that somethings aren't always what it seems. The popular people don't really have it all. It is really those people who are true to themselves and are that same way at school and at home- to friends and to their parents who are the real "popular people." It might not seem like "the place to be" but time will show that you are the one that others will remember and want to stay in touch with, because they can trust you and know who you really are.

It's that time when you realize that the friends you had weren't real, and you realize you are glad that they are just acquaintances now.It's that moment when you are jealous of those popular kids who have it all- but really had... well... have absolutely nothing.The moment when you are upset with the people who can be one minute the nicest of people on the planet and make you float on cloud nine, but the next minute make you feel like dirt, that you realized you are worth better than being and listening to them.It's in life, that you find that not always the title of Miss Top Cheerleader-who has the boyfriend, the money, the so called millions friends, is the place you want to in.

You realize you'd rather be real and people to see you for who you are instead of being a phony in pretty outfits.

It's then that you realize You Are Worth WAY More and well, ARE Beautiful Just the Way You Are.

Emily

Please have a cup of tea with me.