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My good-lookin’ cowboy and cowgirl 💛🤠
Yesterday. Snow! #snowbunnies #tasmania #winterfun
This was inspired by an artwork by Adelaide (swipe for the original 👉🏼). I often admire her perspective, her free strokes and simple lines in drawing. So I copied this one 🙊☺️ by Adelaide + Mummy! #kiddyart #mumlife #watercolour #buddingartist #framed
Project cowgirl costume for a party on the weekend! This was so much fun. Swipe for the end result 💛 #painting #fashionista #ididntletherhelp #mumlife
I promised myself that, on completing the Psalms, I would have a go at writing one myself. And I know it’s been weeks and weeks since I finished my Psalm-a-day thing. Forgive me! But, I AM a finisher. A late-finisher is better than a never-finisher, right? Here’s my Psalm. The third or forth attempt. And far from the lyrical beauty of the Biblical Psalms. But it feels good and right to end my Psalm season this way. To respond to creative expression with creative expression. If you’ve followed the Psalms with me, maybe you’d like to do likewise and end by writing a Psalm of your own to our mighty, amazing, gracious, all-knowing, intensely loving God. I’d love to read it! (Swipe for the full text 👉🏼) #psalmaday #psalms #biblejournaling #jesus #poetry #journaling #blogger #godisgood
Cherishing days with this sweet thing before she is in full time school next year 💛 #mumlife #lovehersomuch #blessed
Here’s a protea for you ☺️ Sorry I’ve been quiet. Taking a wee break from social media. Back soon 😉💛
PSALM 150 We have a magnolia tree in our front yard. It’s some kind of ornamental variety. I never tire of watching it through the seasons, but particularly right now as it’s furry buds burst open with flowers the colour of a kitten’s ear. Petals like silken skirts, rippling in the faintest whisper of a breeze. I take a lot of photos of these blooms! Today is our last Psalm. What a bittersweet thing that is. And it drips with praise, “Praise him” each verse says, ending in verse six, “Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.” It’s not a new Psalms topic. In fact, it’s repetitive in the extreme. But there’s nothing wrong with repetition when it comes to praise. Like my magnolia. It keeps bringing forth beauty and I will keep watching it in pleasure and wonder. Our God will keep bringing forth beauty and we can choose to keep praising His name. A friend shared this with me: PESSIMIST: glass half empty. OPTIMIST: glass half full. PSALMIST: “my cup overflows...” (Psalm 23:5) Let’s be Psalmists! If there’s one thing - one word even - to take from this Psalm-a-day journey, it’s “overflow”. Thank you for keeping me company, and I hope you’ve been as blessed as I have to journey the Psalms and enlarge my heart for Jesus 🙌🏼💛 “Praise the Lord!” . . . #flampsalmaday #apsalmaday #dailypsalm #biblereading #joinme #psalms #godisgood #shareyourthoughts #blogger #jesus #psalm150 #thatsawrap #thankyou #praisethelord
PSALM 149 “For the Lord takes delight in his people; he crowns the humble with salvation.” v4 (NIV) Humility is to faith as rice is to paella. It just doesn’t work without it. And it’s not a ‘pinch’ ingredient. It’s something we need lots of, all the time! But it blows my mere mortal mind when I consider that my big, mighty God not only requires my humility, but He demonstrated it. Jesus. Fully God and fully human, humbled for our salvation. Quite a humbling thought, hey! We should take joy in humbling ourselves before our Father God, who delights in us. I wonder what it will look like, the humbling of me today... perhaps it will be to sacrifice plans in order to follow God’s prompting. Or to seek forgiveness. Or to speak boldly of Jesus. Whatever it is, Lord, I am ready! . . . (I’m reading a psalm each weekday - feel free to join me and share your own learnings 😊) #flampsalmaday #apsalmaday #dailypsalm #biblereading #joinme #psalms #godisgood #shareyourthoughts #blogger #jesus #psalm149 #humility #secondlast

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