Showing posts with label grace. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grace. Show all posts

Saturday, March 3, 2012

Asbellarts: Saturday's Grace Notes

Asbellarts: Saturday's  Grace Notes
Having the privilege to empty my dishwasher even if only from my wheelchair to empty my dishwasher, hey Steve, your fig plants, orchids, bottlebrush bushes and astromaris are blooming!  The cleaning team that I've had for years cleaning my house in high gear over an hour that I paid for in shear kindness.  They actually lost $ on me that day.  Just knew that I needed help,  the lushnessnes of a fresh peach and a slice of pineapple, with my eyes closed the wind in the tall pine trees almost sound like the wind at the beach and having about 20 ducks fly over my head in my neighborhood and wondering why all of the busy people don't even notice,

Monday, February 13, 2012

Moses Had An Aaron I had a Michele

Moses Had An Aaron I had a Michele
Michele and I were born 15 months apart. I was HER baby sister.  End of story. I had a disabling speech impediment. Often only she would know what I was trying to say.
God called Moses to lead His people. But God, I stutter!  So God gave Moses his brother Aaron. Moses soon found out that he could lead God's people all along.
As for me, I have learned that even I can become a motivational speaker for Epilepsy, strokes, Lupus, art/music marketing and positive living.  Moses, me, you...  God knows that we had it in us all along.
Celebrate the day!

Friday, December 30, 2011

Friday's Grace Notes

Friday's Grace Notes
Choosing to wake up in a good mood heading for my morning coffee,  daybreak,  showing my paintings at Perdue Jacksonville for the month of January,  New Years resolutions- they are great if I make them fun!  Chipping at my procrastination list,  lowering my steroids and being less hungry,  making my 'to do' list then knocking off 1/2 of them and "free shipping".
Celebrate the day!
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Thursday, December 22, 2011

Your Name Here

Nancy
I know the plans I have for you
plans to prosper you
and not to harm you
plans to give you hope
and a future.

love
Jesus

Jeremiah 29;11

Now replace my name
with yours.

Celebrate the day!

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Tuesday's Grace Notes

Tuesday's Grace Notes
Embracing change when it's God's will... He is the potter, I am the clay, a sunny glass of orange juice,  sometimes "good enough" IS good enough,  extended injunctions,  quiet time first thing in the morning so that I can be nice the rest of the day,  getting over my sweet self,  and pounding out Jingle Bells on the piano.
Celebrate the day!
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Friday, December 16, 2011

Friday's Grace Notes

Friday's Grace Notes
Everything pulling together,  not asking "why" and letting God be God...  He's better at it than me,  being taken to get groceries,  God taking the ordinary and making the extraordinary,  mailboxes decorated for Christmas,  sharing the neighborhood with Blue Herons, Snake Birds, Egrets, Red Tail Hawks and Mallard Ducks,  and my son, though low on gas and time turning left instead of right to show his Mom the Christmas lights,
Celebrate the day!

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Hot Off The Easel!

Hot Off The Easel
"Love Came Down At Christmas"
Pen, ink and colored pencil

Sunday's Grace Notes

Sunday's Grace Notes
Not becoming complacent with my miracles....  My legs may not work well... but I'm out of a sling,  My body is broken, deformed and bloated... but my soul still has a body to live in,  I may not be cutting CD's and performing this year... but I can still hold a guitar, play the piano and sing a song,   I may rarely get to leave my house... but I am no longer in a nursing home...  and I may not have much hair but I get to wear a lot of pretty wigs....  all in "flame darling". 
Celebrate the day!  I am!

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Saturday's Grace Notes

Saturday's Grace Notes
Sweater weather in Florida, taking the risk of trusting others and asking for help, not fast forwarding the DVR and watching the Christmas commercials, the sanctuary within me, Florida Horizons pen and inks, an open easel, a hot shower  and  the gentle  nuances of gray.
Celebrate the day!

Monday, November 7, 2011

Monday's Grace Notes

Monday's Grace Notes
Trying to practice simple kindness, trying to view my adult life of responsibilities as a four year old "now which toy shall I play with next", feeding people, if only in my own home, trying not to demand so much from myself... it's exhausting!, and resting in the arms of Jesus... sometimes it's the only way to go.
Celebrate the day!

I am alive!

I am alive!
I am alive to celebrate another Christmas.  Another celebration of our savior's birth, another December to love and to be loved.  Another chance to live a New Year. My doctors, family, even myself, didn't fully expect me to be alive today, but Jesus did. December is not enough month to rejoice.  This year, for me, Christmas begins on November 15th. I have already cheated...  I have broken out my first Christmas mug.
Celebrate the day!

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Wednesday's Grace Notes

Wednesday's Grace Notes
The movie The Color Purple, starting the day with Beth Moore, a mantle with lots of twisted fresh gourds, making new friends and cherishing the old, new cinnamon candles,a hot bratwurst eaten outside in the cold with a cold soda... reminded me of living in Germany, and Joyce Meyers new book Living Beyond Your Feelings.
Celebrate the day!

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Sunday"s Grace Notes

Sunday's Grace Notes
Cornmeal pancakes with fresh caramel apples, one creative act leading into another, de-cluttering... if it doesn't give me pleasure then "bye bye", creating several "bliss stations" in my home, turning a large electric outside lamp into a candelabra  for the back porch, talking to my sister Bonnie on the phone and the season of fall.... perfect to nest, cook, read, plan...
Celebrate the day!


Saturday, October 15, 2011

Saturday's Grace Notes

Saturday's Grace Notes
Learning to edit myself, "nothing ventured nothing gained", a bright orange begonia in a large blue and white porcelain bowl, cinnamon scented pine cones, being one of a kind, reading happy feel good books, and spaghetti squash.
Celebrate the day!

Friday, October 14, 2011

Friday's Grace Notes

Tuesday's Grace Notes
Every day being a Friday!, reading outside until the failing light and singing crickets tell me it's time to go inside, cinnamon broomsticks, a grocery basket full of fresh produce, the new show "The Chew"... fun, having my own home to truly live in, every room being a 'living room' w/ fresh flowers, cuttings or plants, surrounding myself with beauty and my new 12 year old voice student... you should hear her sing "Pocahontas"!  Love my job.
Celebrate the day!

Sunday, June 12, 2011

God Wink

God Wink
I looked up at the pines gracing the Florida skys and prayed aloud "Lord I submit to you"... and he sent me a hummingbird!  Now how cool is that?