Dancing in HIS love

3 gifts YELLOW...

My favourite colour!
So HAPPY!!!
As a child, my favourite flower was the buttercup...growing wild
Later I would write a song... about buttercups dancing before our King



Sang it to my children.
Still one of creative daughter's favourites

A desire deep, to dance in the light of HIS mighty love

I'm learning to dance...
some days bold
other days fragile steps

HE leads with gifts
I follow with thanks
HE returns joy
I overflow yellow... happiness

A beautiful dance with the One who has my heart.

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"1000 gifts"...

#182  Sunlight coming across floor

#183  Exciting night producing with creative daughter... she's clever!

#184  New yellow pegs

#185  Middle son made his famous pancakes for lunch...indulgence!

#186  The hard sweat of breaking new ground

#187  Love that carries us through

#188  Daughter cooking dinner and doing dishes as well

#189  Time with HIM and the guitar

#190  The weekends when my darling & I can talk more on the phone

#191  Creativity

3 GIFTS FOUND IN LIGHT

To be found: 3 gifts in light.

I love light!  In science we have played with light as we marveled at it's abilities. The colours of the rainbow being a spectrum of light from the sun reflecting off droplets of moisture on the earth. Have you ever closely examined all the colours in a single drop of water?...it's magnificent! And then to try and capture them on paper...it sends my senses into artistic heaven. With delight in His wonderful creation brimming from us, we grabbed our cameras and were happily mesmerized.

So, come delight and ponder with me...


"And God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light" Genesis1:3


God made light.

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All of the life that He created needs that light to exist. Even the things that live in absence of light require food that was made in the light.
Nourishment...warmth...vision...happy feelings...Light Life gifts from a God who cares.

Light pierces the darkness. Light exposes.
His light exposes the issues of my heart.


"The Lord is my light and my salvation" Psalm 27:1 "Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, "I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life." John 8:12




I become light when I receive His light.

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Reflections...

3 GIFTS YOU BECAME TODAY IN SERVING

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'servant' is not really on my list :( It's not that I don't do things for others, but rather the attitude I see when I look into my heart.

It's on my darling's list. I've watched his example for many close-up married years...felt threatened and in awe all at the same time. Keep putting it back in the 'not today' box.
But today's '3 Gifts You Became Today In Serving' makes me bring it out and begin to unpack this unusual gift.
What is serving? What do I become? And there's the problem!...
I see fear in my heart of becoming a doormat... of loosing significance... It's the 'What about me?!' Syndrome.
But Jesus calls me to be a servant to everyone...to be the lowest... the last. It's that whole 'upside-down' Kingdom thing.
It's in loosing myself that He is found
It's in becoming insignificant that He is seen
It's either Him or me.

It's in my humbleness that He is made bigger
It's in showing His love to others that He is exalted.
It's in time absorbing His love that I have the capacity to love.
It's in being grateful for the opportunity to serve that I find joy

Now to begin putting it into practice...

3 GIFTS FULL

Ah. today is easy...my heart is FULL!

Eucharisteo - giving thanks - one week of the joydare and my heart is full to overflowing with JOY! Viewing things from this eucharisteo perspective is giving me a platform to acknowledge the wonderful gifts in my world.

Cleaning out old boxes and I found the box of all the baby 'stuff'. Very outdated in fashion, but FULL of memories PAST...

My 'To Do' list is always FULL. Comes with having family PRESENT...


My outlook for the FUTURE is FULL. That gives me hope.







Prov. 14:4 "Where no oxen are, the trough is clean; but much increase comes by the strength of an ox" I used to quote this to myself when the children were small and I felt forever in a mess and disarray. Would you rather have a clean and perfect house, Lynda, or a home FULL of love and relationships? They are no longer small, and I still often feel in that same whirlwind of activity and mess, but I love my heart FULL of memories. I love the relationships we've built and continue daily to build. I love the hope for the future.
Relationships built with love, make for a heart FILLED with JOY.

John 15: 9 - 12 quotes Jesus' famous words...
"As the Father loved ME, I also have loved you; abide in My love.
If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love.
These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.
This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you."

My aloe plant is FULL. Feels a bit like our family ..all so tall and spreading their wings. As they each move on to fulfill their destinies, may the lessons in love go with them, may the God of Love abide in them, and may His joy fill the hearts of them and theirs. ...HOPEFULL!

3 GIFTS THAT MADE YOU REALLY SMILE

I do not know their name, but after a day of rain these beautiful flowers just spring up seemingly overnight. I love it! I feel such delight when I see them showing their pure white faces, even though they are as short-lived as the time it takes for them to form.

Today, I felt like I had bunches and bunches of them blooming in my heart.

The book "One Thousand Gifts" is helping to connect so many dots. I just love it! In fact, I can only read so much before I can't read any more for the tears clouding my vision. But for all the tears on the outside, my heart on the inside is so overjoyed...yes, it does feel like overjoyed - too much joy to be able to contain it. I have to put it down and savour the new ideas. Yet, it's not  long before I find myself wanting to read more and am finding a quiet corner again so I can see what comes next.

I have had to keep my Bible close, as I've found myself saying "Really, does it say that?" and have gone to have a look. For 50 years I've heard these stories, yet these little points that are so full of meaning have previously gone unnoticed. I feel like it's a new book that I should go and read again. I am excited!

In between my readings I have phoned my darling to share with him the joy of what I've just read. Having someone to share your journey with is such a blessing. It helps me to have to verbalise and put it into my own words. I love that he is always so positive and affirming towards my revelations. A true friend.

Today was a day with lots more than just 3gifts that made me really smile. What a gracious God!

Joy Dare

JOY...I want it! I've yearned for it, struggled for it, felt it's elusiveness...

As I've exhausted each place I think it might be, I find I've been on a journey back to His feet.
Joy is found in Him!!!

He gives me so many gifts...My Daddy has made me a special, 'just-for-me' treasure hunt each and every day.

 A wagtail making the most of the garden sprinkler













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A fun game of volleyball over the passionfruit vine with friends

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 The joy of giving and receiving gifts









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