Jesus is talking: ” Now you are clean through the word which I have spoken to you…As the Father God has loved me, so have I loved you: continue in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, even as I have kept my Father God’s commandments, and abide in His love.” John 15:3,9,10 (All the verses between are lovely.)
While in the garden yesterday, I came across a broken pot I had worked with last year, 2023.
Not wanting to break the clay pot further, I had turned it onto its broken side and in a little dirt placed a few branches of sedum reflexum / Jenny’s stonecrop. It has been like this for at least a year and the plant has grown, not thickly and well, but it does show far more than a few branches.
Looking at it, there was something more that caught my attention…
A tortured willow leaf.
The two colours were beautiful.
I spent time painting it. An impression of what I saw. They say this particular sedum is blue-grey to grey but ranges to light greens and yellows. I had all those colours on the brush. It was great to spend time with it. I haven’t caught the twist of the plant. Next time.
The day had been so sunny after the rain that I then decided to capture the memory of it in this:
I have a trick, which doesn’t always work as it didn’t with this.
I then followed the word clay pottery for some sayings.
No man/person ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
Plutarch
The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery . If God had consulted me in the matter, I should have advised Him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning out of clay.🤣🤣
Martin Luther ( He also said : ” Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.)
It was hard to leave Martin Luther’s sayings, so here are a couple more:
Every person must do two things alone; they must do their own believing and their own dying.
Pray and let God worry.
Martin Luther
a mix of sticky weed, sweet woodruff, and the perennial succulent,
sedum reflexum.
The sedum will take over for summer once the sweet woodruff dies down.
It was another lovely day. I hope all is well.
Sandy 🙂
I’ve been removing sedum from my little garden for years. It’s a groundcover that is difficult to contain once planted.
Ah, it is a ground cover but clearly not for a small garden. Take care!