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The Olive Grove |
Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine in the very heart of your house, your children like olive plants all around your table. ~Psalm 128:3
Monday 23 March 2009 - Happy Birthday, Toodles!
I hope you had a good day. I am so glad that you were born seven years ago today, and I am thrilled that I get to be your mama. You truly are my spring baby. You are butterflies and flowers and fairies. I like it that you still don't mind being my "little girl." So, enjoy your Polly Pocket and your paints; tomorrow we will read one of the Flower Fairy stories together.
I love you!
"Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and
put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in
which your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in
the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge
both the living and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal;
through him who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one
God, now and for ever."
~Amen.
Do You See What I See?
A Devotional Seek-and-Find Book for ADVENT
"And this our life,
exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees,
books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones,
and good in every thing."
~William Shakespeare: As You Like It, II, 1
"A man should hear a little music,
read a little poetry,
and see a fine picture every day of his life,
in order that worldly cares may not obliterate
the sense of the beautiful which God
has implanted in the human soul."
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."
~C.S. Lewis
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
~Galileo Galilei
"A room without books
is like a body without a soul."
~Cicero
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
~Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
~Charles W. Eliot