Know that LORD he is God: He has made us, and not us making ourselves, we are His, like sheep in a pasture… Be thankful to Him.
From psalm 100. A psalm of praise.
We are home and welcomed by pink chrysanthemums with bright yellow centres. Their stems are longer this year and all the buckets of water carried twice a week have given a wonderful display.
Here are two photographs: one of them in the garden and another of my arrangement in a pitcher. I want a few inside to cheer us up as we are expected to have sudden low temperatures soon, due to the polar vortex winds collapsing at their earliest date ever recorded.
In the garden.
…and in the pitcher with purple salvia and autumn leaves from the self seeded elderflower shrub/ tree.
Here are some thoughts about gratitude:
‘ Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.’
Melody Beattie
‘ Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Denis Waitley
And here was something said to me that made me think a lot:
You don’t sell a painting by telling someone everything about it ie talking a lot. You watch them enjoy it so much that they start asking themselves where they can see it more often. So much of ‘much’ is just like that! A kind of gratitude or am I confused.
Get ready to keep warm and safe.
Sandy 🙂
Sandyroybess.