Happy Monday!
You can't see them well but we have had a momma and daddy geese raise their four babies on our pond. They have been here a couple of months. Each morning my Brian and I would watch from the porch while they taught those babies how to flap their wings and fly. It was such fun watching them play in the water. This week they took their flight away~ wish them well. Daddy Goose would not let me get close enough for a good picture~ he stood guard at all times.After 10 days of staycationing I am back to normal routine. I sure miss my guy not being home but I enjoy getting back to a schedule. My Brian and I have a whole week alone next week to staycation again but this week is getting things put to order.
My Brian has been hard at work~ just look.
After building the house and trying to make a 10 acre pasture look like a yard we were exhausted.
We are just now finishing the basement. It is coming along nicely.
This area will be a kitchen area so we are putting tile down.
A Pocket Full Of Dreams~
This morning I read a devotion from Luci Swindoll. She shared a story about an eighty-seven year old woman who finished college and earned her degree. Her name was Anne Martindell. She first started classes in 1932 but had to leave a year later. Her father~ a federal judge~ feared she'd be too educated to find a husband~ imagine that.
In the interim, she served as a U.S. ambassador to New Zealand, a New Jersey state senator and head of the U.S. Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance. She married and divorced two times~ had four children~ nine grandchildren~ and two great-grandchildren. In 1996~ she began to feel a void in her life and decided to take the advice of a loved one to enroll in Smith's educational program for older women. She earned her diploma in 2002 and received an honorary doctorate at the same time.
The founding director of the school told the reporter that when she first arrived at college she used a cane but just within weeks the cane disappeared and it was in no time she was revitalized. "There was a spring in her step and a gleam in her eye," the director said.
Now that is what I call a pocket full of dreams. I had to do a little more research this morning~ always a homeschool mom. She did not enter politics until her 50's~ she became an ambassador in her 60's~ earned a degree in her 80's and published a memoir titled, "Never Too Late" in her 90's. She thought of going to graduate school stating~ "That would be a good ticket to a job, I suppose," She died in 2008 at the age of 93.
Ok~ now if that is not the cure to any mid-life crisis I might be having. Just imagine what the Lord can do with our pocket full of dreams if we allow Him to have them and use us. I am inspired now ~ how about you?
If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there:
if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
(KJV) Psalm 139:8
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