Joy

Two years ago I dug up a tiny piece of this pretty roadside flower and took it home leaving plenty of the flower behind. This month I drew it in my journal. The longer I studied it the more I wondered why it couldn't be a particular flower I had wanted to grow but had never seen. I looked in my wildflower guide and realized it was the sought after flower.

God know's how to send each one of us happiness. "For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and JOY." Eccles.2:26 The Jerusalem Artichoke is a native flower of Ontario and it is now growing in my yard scattering happiness like star dust to my daughter and I.

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Thankful

This is my desk in my cabin. I sit here when I draw, paint, design tapestries and often when I'm mending. Creating is a very important part of finding solace in my very long journey in grieving loss.
I am thankful to God for his great blessing in bringing my daughter and I here to this wild space. I feel like I deserve nothing, but God has overwhelmed me with his gifts. And that leads to the second part of my observation and that is no matter how down I feel to remember my blessings. "Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits." Psalm 103:2 ESV

Leaves

"and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations." Rev22:2 I wonder about these miracle leaves. What do they look like? What do they taste like?
When we moved here from PEI I brought along a tiny, native high bush cranberry shrub. What I didn't know at the time was that this shrub grew wild around the forested edge of my yard. What a surprise I had the first spring! The blooms are ornamental, the fall leaves red and the berries delicious. Each fall my daughter and I try to pick them before the grouse and other forest animals consume them. Interestingly this berry doesn't mold. When the berries are picked before fully ripe they continue to ripen when left out of the fridge.
As much as I admire this earthly shrub my heart is drawn to the celestial country where all pain no matter its source will be healed forevermore.
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