Multitude Monday

Always more moments in life to be filled with gratitude, always more beautiful moments to notice:

#534~ clear water with ice cubes, plunked

#535~ husband-made spaghetti

#536~ A new family read-aloud, just begun

#537~ Smooch, all snuggled in

#538~ first week of school, over

#539~ a child-made firepole under a canopy of grapes

#540~ childhood innovation

#541~ a garden, still green

#542~ tomatoes, more. lots more. (This IS a good thing, right?)

#543~ the sharp points of newly sharpened pencils

#544~ the smell of mulch

#545~ scrap pans for pigs. Absolutely NO waste on this place.

#546~ the smell of these lovelies when you walk into the front room. Way better than YANKEE.


#547~blue eyes turning brown

#548~ hot showers

#549~ baby breathing

#550~ the little blonde waif running about

#551~ the last Rose of summer, a surprise gift



#552~ little fingers that wrap around my own without even knowing it

#553~ elastic waistbands, thank goodness!!

#554~ sun rays splotched through cloud shadows

#555~ hours, lined up on a shelf



#556~ shelves to line hours ON

#557~ bananagram lunches

#558~ homemade bruschetta, oh.so.good

#559~ a visit with Gram, introductions


#560~ a day of Baptism, Judah's

#561~ crisply ironed clothes, laying flat on Saturday night. Preparing for the Sabbath.


# 562~ washing with water

# 563~ He who calls himself the Bread of Life and the True Vine

#564~ feasting on His bread and His wine each week

#565~ a wee girl who spreads her skirt wide and waits to partake of the bread, patiently staring at it as if it will run away.

#566~ a boy whose happy face is a scowl

#533 ~ #566 bits of my amazingly beautiful life. Thank you, Father.