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Granny has been declining over the last couple of weeks. I think in the absence of Mavis (who has gone to the Transkei on holiday), she has had her routine completely put out and hasn’t adjusted well! At times she has been muddled and confused but there are always two things which cheer her up. The first is good food! The second are flowers or plants. Today after Mike & I got back from the nursery, she so enjoyed sitting out on the patio (which is beginning to look like a nursery) among all the new plants. Here she is enjoying a pot of mint…
We bought a few more plants today, including this one…
Mike also put up a ledge for seedlings…
Since taking the above photo, Mike gathered all the available empty pots and filled them all with potting soil and compost ready for seeds! Now he’s just needing me to go outside and get on with it!
I cooked a late chicken lunch, so I won’t be cooking this evening. I also made enough for tomorrow! YaY! I’m resisting an afternoon nap because I want to get to bed early this evening, as I’m back to getting up early tomorrow morning for work. So I’m getting my blog done early and then I’m going to read a bit and do show prep!
When I was in my teens, I discovered this Bible verse:
Proverbs 16:3 says Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and your plans will succeed.
I regularly said to the Lord “Lord you’ve told me to commit my work to you, so here it is…this test or that assignment, so that my plans will succeed and that I will pass.” I used to pray through my plans – the ones that I wanted to succeed and they always did. Crazy things happened. I remember being a student nurse and being faced with a series of very stringent practicals. If I didn’t finish them, I would be told I couldn’t continue with the registered nurse’s course but would drop a level to do the staff nurse course. There were two of us who had got behind with our practicals. I went to the head matron and emphatically told her she had nothing to worry about. I would finish them. She said ‘no problem’. The other student nurse had a conversation with the head matron that pretty much sent the message ‘do whatever you like.’ That nurse got dropped out of the registered nurse’s course and today, 29 years later, she is still a staff nurse. What a shame! This year, commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans will succeed.
God bless you loads!
In His Grip,
Helga xx 🙂
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