Rabbit Trails

This is Zephyr. She is the most discontent, unhappy cat I've ever seen in my life. She is selfish plain and simple. All she can think about is HER belly. This is not done in silence. When I get up (early), she's been up for hours wasting away. She's died of starvation 8 times. Don't be like Zephyr. The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment by Jeremiah Burroughs   "Who are the men who are most discontented?  but idle persons-- for they lie around and find fault with everything."   (page 50-51) Zephyr is an unhappy cat. Not a happy camper.   How about you? IDLE lazy, slothful, work-shy (ha ha) shiftless, inactive, sluggish (like a bad drain) without purpose DISCONTENT dissatisfaction with circumstances displeasure Have you no weeds to pull? No list to make or finish? No bread to bake? Nothing to mend or fix? No corner to clean? Nothing to learn? No letter to write? No project to fin...

Go to the ant thou sluggard.... Proverbs 6:6   Sluggard: inactive, lounger, layabout, do nothing, idler, loafer, good for nothing.... *habitual*   There is a great difference between resting, and being lazy. There's nothing wrong with sitting on your porch (if you have one) with a glass of lemonade.  There's nothing wrong with taking your work boots off and falling asleep in your chair. There's nothing wrong with taking a nap once in a while because of early hours and late nights. You dug holes all morning in the clay soil? Then rest in the lawn chair and listen to the radio.   If you have a mind to stay busy, then you will find something to do.  Hopefully it is productive. If you have a mind to be inactive, you will find ways to please yourself.   I don't know about a hundred years ago, I wasn't here, but I do know about today. We're all about leisure.   Take a load off of your feet.   ...

  There's a million things to do. There are a million things to learn. A million things to see. To say you are bored, could mean, that you think you have learned it all, and seen it all, and done it all. If you can't bring yourself to work, or do something spiritual..... read something. Make something. Do something for somebody else. Write a letter. Call somebody.  "Days Are JUST Packed"  "There's Treasure Everywhere!"   Don't be bored. Just don't be it.     

  (if you can't read the picture.....click on it and it will enlarge)    This is why I don't really like New Year's Resolutions..... it's kind of like waiting to do things right. I'm just gonna do what I want for a couple of months or so, then on January 1st I'll straighten up. It won't usually happen. How serious can you be about the very important things if you are willing to wait a month, a week, or a day to get it right? When the Lord speaks to you about something in your life that needs attention, do you really think He wants you to wait until the   *NEW YEAR*   What happens if you should happen to know something needs to be changed in your life....say, in April? Shall we all wait until January 1 to make those changes?   There's nothing wrong with taking stock, examining our hearts, lives, actions.....having goals.... there's just something wrong with seeing a change that needs to be made,,,,,a...

  REALLY? (go here) Name A Star     REALLY?   This place lets you name a star, for the Autumn price of $54. If you're in a hurry, you can get it for $33. It can be viewed with Google Sky. On the site, you can see recently named stars. It's even touted to be the  #1 gift for 2014.   (ask ME what the #1 gift for 2014 is)   This is wrong on so many levels. First of all, who owns the stars? Who has the right to sell them, and to name them? If you don't own it, you can't sell it.     I'm POSITIVE that stars are one of those things, that you can enjoy, without owning them. Just go outside, look up, for free.    Unlike a purple  Dodge Charger.     For me, I'd have to own this to enjoy it. I'm pretty sure. It's fun to look at, but I'd rather drive it and stuff.   But stars? They're all mine. And they're all name...

So, this book I'm reading has a chapter on camping.  The author had what he called a *perceptive* friend tell him about his week-end.  He said he kept hearing himself say these sorts of things....."I can't wait to get to the mountains......I can't wait till camp is set up......I can't wait till the fire is roaring.....I can't wait till the food is ready....Can't wait till we get in our sleeping bags....Can't wait for morning!" His friend realized he spent the whole camp-out waiting and anticipating for other things to happen.....while losing all the joy of the experience.......it's an attitude of discontentment. While we may not come out and say it where others can hear it....if we have this attitude, we will miss the day, the hour, the minute that we could be enjoying....enjoying the present. I can't wait to get there.........why don't we just enjoy the drive? I can't wait for *pink* blue-bonnets to bloom.....enjoy th...

The wisest man I have ever known once said to me, "Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance"; and I have found his words true.  Frank Swinnerton

One day at the beach, it wasn't so pretty.  We don't go *all* the time, so when we do, I kind of look forward to pretty sand, a few rocks and lots of shells. This particular day was not such a great day to go.  We literally could NOT get to the water.  Mounds and mounds of seaweed stood between us and the ocean.  More was floating in.  It was really kind of strange. The seaweed was stopping the water at a point.  At a point I had never seen before. We always find ourselves talking about how the people in the mountains would like to live by the ocean, people in Kansas might like to live in a bustling city, people in a bustling city might want to live in a little rural town, people in a little rural town wish they lived in California.  There is beauty wherever you live.  Find it. Take pictures of it.  Enjoy it.  It's O.K. to like mountains if you live on flat prairie land.......but don't let it make you restless and unhapp...

If you don't want anybody to know something, then don't tell anybody. Sin and failure to repent causes a close walk with God to be far, far away. We can know about God and forget about Him at the same time. Instead of complaining of your lot, use that energy to be closer to the Lord. Do you have trouble keeping the main thing, the main thing? You are the world's #1 expert on what the Lord has done for you. Deny your flesh, it wants you in the dark. Reprove! Rebuke! Exhort! 2/3 negative.  

I deserved this.  I saw a nickel on the ledge of a window on a busy shopping street in Galveston....tried to pick it up and found out that it was glued to the wood. I remember my dad used to nail or screw little cars and trucks to fence posts.....and little boys would just have to look.......and not play.   Do any of you know what Dave Ramsey says when somebunny asks how he is doing?

Because of no rain, this has been the summer of NO WEEDS.  I was doing the Side Garden the other afternoon and was hot and worn out........and a hummingbird came a flying right around me.  It wasn't like the ones I normally see.  I was standing right in front of the empty hummingbird feeder........I felt really bad.  I fixed it up and hope the hummers will forgive me. The other day I left a comment on a blog saying I'd like it to rain....and that I'd like to see a hummingbird in my garden. It's obvious that I can't make it rain...........but I could at least keep the hummer feeder filled up. I wanted a sweet little hummer to fly through my garden, but there was nothing in my garden to attract one.  You want a lower electricity bill, but keep your A.C. on 65.  You want a flower garden but plant no seeds.  You want line dried sheets to sleep on, but you don't have a clothes line.  You want sweet peace in your home.....but all you do i...

The Lord can do great things through those who don't care who gets the credit.

nobody will ever thank you for: unsolicited advice criticism in public loaded questions a button pushing session blunt questions pointing out inconsistencies

If you ever feel bored, go out on the  street and do one good deed ten times. Carrie Catt 1859-1947

Do NOT announce your spirituality. Servants need no fanfare or parades.

How to Have a Drama-Filled Wedding C. Havig Get married very young.  (The drama we had came mostly from those who objected to Challice’s age in getting married– and who erroneously assumed that she was pregnant.) Have friends who insist that they know what you want.  (This works best if they are wrong.) Allow (or fail to succeed in preventing) these friends to take over the wedding planning.  (This is most successful the younger the bride is.  She’s usually not used to having to assert herself with the degree of force necessary to ward off unwanted input.) Be unprepared to deal with the objections of extended family– cousins, sisters, brothers, aunts, grandmothers.  After all, the fact that they think you should have pink rather than mauve is absolutely their call– or so they think. Allow the cry of, “It’s YOUR day” to override your common sense and provoke selfishness in you.  (This works best if you are usually not a selfish person.) Guys,...

Today is: GET OVER IT DAY did somebody do something to you 10 years ago? yesterday? Get over it, today. Go ON. How long are you going to let it eat your lunch?

My Granny had a high back sink in her kitchen. I didn't think much of it when I was a kid. I also didn't think much about the daisies outside her back door, which happened to be a screen door. OR, that the daises were under a clothes-line. I probably even thought that my Granny would always be in her chair, in the corner, ripping up old shirts to make rag rugs, watching Joker's Wild, telling me I could get some Juicy Fruit gum from her can, or telling me I could play with her glass wot-nots, and her scarves and jewelery, and the powder in her bathroom. She sometimes had lavendar hair, ate red jello and angel food cake and drove funny cars. She had lots of pillows and pens. If you still have your Granny give her a hug. She won't always be there.

Watch where you're going.

LAUGHTER is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.