“The toes cannot go where I cannot see.”

Sometimes I can’t find the images in my mind when I search online, & it yields some surprising composites :-). In the upper left you see someone with a gloved hand & a tool, prepared to weed. This is not usually how I weed. Usually in the summer it is too hot to go out & work, so as I drive home & see something amiss in my yard (many things are amiss in my yard, I am referring to things glaringly amiss), I just go out & try to fix the obvious. Wearing sandals only, hands ungloved, I reach down & yank the unsightliest of unlovelies. The other day I posted about sitting down on a curb I had scanned for (& found no trace of) ants only to be attacked shortly by a swarm of black ants that found my feet anyway. With this on my mind, today I decided I will only go in & pull just a FEW weeds. However as I walked into my garden, I heard myself saying (out loud – to myself), “Oh no, the toes cannot go where I cannot see!” This has double meaning for me. Perhaps there is something amiss in my psyche, or perhaps as I get older, the filter wears thinner. But I often find myself saying things that have a double meaning & this one caught my attention immediately. No, I rarely go where I plan – life has a way of taking you off course – but at least I try to see ahead…step only where it is “safe.” But have I tried to play life too safe? Ironically, that is never safe at all! Perhaps there is a better way & perhaps it is not too late for me! (PS, try not to look for these “See ‘n Say” “Rorschach” tests of the mind in yourself or others. Perhaps if something blatantly Freudian or clearly double-meaninged slaps you in the face you might take pause. But it is never safe to assume). #Youcallmeoutuponthewatersthegreatunknownwherefeetmayfail (“Oceans” by Hillsong United)
#ifitstrueYouusebrokenthingsthenhereIamLordImallYours(“Broken Things” – Matthew West
#nofilter
#Peoplearestrangewhenyoureastranger (The Doors)
#healingishappening
#inthesubconsciousWheretheWildThingsAre (Maurice Sendak, totally out of context 😉

Life lessons from Christmas Carols?! (Or…be careful what horse you ride?!)

More things you learn from Christmas carols:
12) You will get a sentimental feeling when you hear voices singing.
13) If you have a notion to take a ride in a one-horse open sleigh, you might suddenly find someone by your side, but be careful to find a horse for whom Misfortune does not seem to be his lot!
14) Everybody knows a turkey and some mistletoe help to make the season bright…unless you’re a vegetarian. Or a tree – mistletoe is, after all, a parasite.
15) ‘Tis the season to be jolly, evidenced by Fa la la la la la la la-ing!
16) Stars can dance, & the night wind can not only see it, but can talk to the little lamb & ask him if he sees it too. And not only that but a little lamb can hear songs & ask a shepherd boy if he hears them too, & the shepherd boy can ask the king if he knows what the shepherd knows, that a baby shivers in the cold. And he is not afraid to ask the king to give him silver and gold, & this king is not afraid to ask people everywhere to pray for peace, & to tell them that the child will bring them goodness & light. And it all began with a dancing star with a tail as big as a kite!
17) “They should never give a license
to a man who drives a sleigh & plays with elves…
Grandma got run over by a reindeer
walkin’ home from our house, Christmas Eve…You can say there’s no such thing as Santa, but as for me and Grandpa, we believe!”
18) “Hark! the herald angels sing,
‘Glory to the newborn King!'” – there are journalist angels in Heaven, & they publish abroad their glad tidings in Olde English!
19) The prettiest sight to see, is the holly that will be on your own front door.
20) So if everyone is still dancing in the “new old-fashioned way” & that was in 1958, then they are now dancing in the old old-fashioned way.
21) It’s the most wonderful time of the year, but Mom and Dad can hardly wait for school to start again.
22) Some people will do anything to get Santa to tell them what he is bringing them, but there are those who don’t want any single soul to hear what they whispered in Santa’s ear…Wha??

Tune my heart to sing Thy praise

Just a little time each day to tune our hearts to the Father’s is all we need to move forward. “Come, Thou Fount of every blessing, Tune my heart to sing Thy grace;
Streams of mercy, never ceasing, Call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet, Sung by flaming tongues above.
Praise the mount, I’m fixed upon it, Mount of Thy redeeming love.” – https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_Thou_Fount_of_Every_Blessing