Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Gifts from God

A day off school to spend outside with my children.



Yellow flowers to brighten my yard and my desk.


A nice metaphor for Lent - a promise of new life springing out of winter ground.


Buttercups, more fruit of my grandparents planting labors. Bulb by bulb they built a beautiful retirement place.


Grape hyacinth peeking through the leaves. Lord, help me to stop and see the beauty in all the busyness of my days - especially the days I don't have off from work.


Thank you, Lord, for the idea to start listing my gifts.

6 comments:

  1. lovely photos of even more lovely flowers!

    you have daffodils already?

    *sigh*

    it just snowed here again today. ah well. and so it goes...

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  2. Monica, the pictures are lovely! And I love the metaphor for Lent!
    May God strengthen us all on this journey!

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  3. Beautiful, especially the first photo!

    Another name for Daffodils is Lent Lilies, I LOVE that.

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  4. The pictures are just beautifu!!! I can't wait for the weather to get nicer here so we can go outside to play too!

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  5. While cleaning up the leaves in the yard, I noticed that the bulbs are coming up here, too. Just a tiny bit though, no blooms for a while I'm sure.

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  6. We're still 'doing' the winter snow thing here. Snow is called for tomorrow evening and Sunday....How I wish we have daffs poking up from the ground.

    Oh well, maybe in a couple more weeks...

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