Hello there . . .  Are ya enjoying your summer?

We're lov'in it!!!

Of course some days are sweeter than others . . . :)

This being one of them . . .

Loraine picks flowers every day . . .

It's just her favorite thing to do!!!  :)

And of course Lynne doesn't like being left out . . .

God bless your day with sunshine and daisies and little ones to kiss . . . :)

Until next time . . . See ya!

Ya know how some days go . . . Ya just don’t seem to be motivated at all or get anything done . . . Yet, I’ve often realized that “rest” is  (at least in times of my life where I need lots of rest) a prelude to getting alot done . . . hmmm . . .

So in a bigger scale, pregnancy seems to be the same way . . . lots of long, tiring, seemingly unproductive days that stretch into long tiring, seeminly unproductive months, with aches and pains and hippo status . . .  yet in the end, Lord willing, one is crowned with a son or a daugher to grace our days and years . . .

These past few days the children and I have been learning some new songs.  We’re going through the book (and tape) “Little Ones Praise” that the children got through Sunday School.

Our church has a neat incentive program for memorizing Scripture.  Each verse can “buy” a ticket, and each ticket can be redeemed for a prize . . . So the boys have been saving and last Sunday they came home with a long saved for pitch pipe and this song book with a tape and some styrafoam airplanes .

We are enjoying these songs . . . and practicing for when we are to have “Special” music at church . . .  No, we are’t anything special, far from it, but our song leader has everybody involved sometime throughout this year.

Anyway, all that to say that one of the songs comes from Psalm 65.  “He crowneth the year with His goodness;  the little hills rejoice . . . They shout for joy, they also sing, they shout for joy and they sing.”

And all that to say, I have to remind myself often, that this season is a “rest” season though many times it seems anything but restful . . .  I have to remind myself to REST in the Lord . . .

I love this song called,”  Fret not”

“Commit thy way unto the Lord, all you need He will afford

Never fret nor be oppressed,

Commit and trust, delight and rest . . .

Fret not, He’s watching over you,

Fret not, the Lord will see you though,

Fret not, you’re sure to stand the test.

Commit and trust, delight and rest.“