Here in Wisconsin it is a good time to think of warmer days…
Fairytale Water Dance
It's the wave!
Just enjoying the water.
Nothing like a little sunshine and water to bring the best out in a person. Spring count-down on its way.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Indulge
Posted by wolfsrosebud on February 24, 2012
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Zoo Days
Maybe I should wear a wig?
Went to the Milwaukee Zoo today. First time this year. Some of the critters were busy getting ready for spring!
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Posted by wolfsrosebud on February 22, 2012
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Teething, a Hard Thing
Baby Grand came for his visit yesterday. Nine months old, no teeth, over twenty pounds, and still refusing to crawl. He loves to stand and bump up and down. Once he starts walk, it’ll be an aerobic workout caring for him.
Yesterday, he did something I’ve never seen him do before. He pivoted around, and around, and around on his butt while sitting clutching his teething toy. It was the cutest thing. I chuckled to myself watching him spin like an old record on a phonograph. (You know those big, black CD discs with holes in the middle.)
This morning when I woke up and greeted the Lord, I started thinking about my Nana-time with Baby Grand yesterday. He seemed content enough going in circles. Am I like that when it comes to sin in my life? Things I struggle with like trusting God and worry about things which are out of my control, but not His. I’m too big to look cute like Baby Grand. The lessons God shows us can come from the simple things of daily life.
In reflecting on Baby Grand’s actions, there was a point in time he did something rather unusual. About an arm’s length away was a child’s plastic chair. The teething toy he had been grasping, with all his might, slipped from his hands and tumbled underneath the chair. Now what? I watched him eye it up. I think he was waiting for me to help him. But I waited. Remember this child does not crawl. Finally, I saw him carefully scoot a little closer to the chair; still sitting on his butt. He picked the chair up and moved it to another place. (Guess we don’t need to worry about his arm muscles.) Then he gently fell to the floor and reached for his prized teething toy. Rolling around on his back, he indulged in the art of teething. I sat in amazement. Even at his young age, his determination clearly shining through the difficulties which loomed before him.
What a spiritual example I can learn from my Baby Grand as I grind my teeth. I need not struggle with worldly temptations. I just need to move them aside and take hold of my prize; which is a life being lived with Christ.
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Posted by wolfsrosebud on February 22, 2012
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Skyward
Luminous sky! That I could soar your height;
gathered as babe in cosmic clouds above
and spectator, with endless strength and full might.
Creation’s constancy cast with love;
the rousing winds, with unseen spirit grand.
Of virgin origin about man’s door
or peer across bruised, battered, blemished land.
Hushed hills, vacant vales, lost lakes are no more;
now – no longer steadfast, forever changed.
My heart deep within my weary, worn chest?
To suffer earth vastly rearranged;
alert from skies within my soul unrest.
Its length, its width unfathomable breadth
and now live – or watch its demise and death.
Spun after reading John Keats Bright Star; check out other poets at dVerse
Posted by wolfsrosebud on February 21, 2012
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Scribbling Spiritual Sand, Feb 20
“Does not wisdom cry out, and understanding lift up her voice? She takes her stand on the top of the high hill, beside the way, where the paths meet.” Proverbs 8:2
Winding Path
An empty winding path
I gazed at where it led;
down shaded sunken stone.
Gazed at its endless shore;
ever leading, ever ending course.
Then deep within I stood
encompassed by deep wood.
Where wisdom wins, weakness wails
surrounds my shallow soul;
where voices echo woodland still.
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Posted by wolfsrosebud on February 20, 2012
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Down
What’s down there? Oh, a wiggle worm!
Goldie Grand and I were feeling down one late March day as the rain was coming down. We put on our warm coats and pulled out the umbrella. After the smile below, I wasn’t feeling down anymore!
A merry heart does good, like medicine… Proverbs 17:22
Posted by wolfsrosebud on February 17, 2012
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Kids Icons
She wears a cape;
this marvelous icon.
No figure-eight figure
nor long flowing tresses.
Battle skills are lacking;
even the costume seems
a bit out-of-date!
Yet day-after-day,
my Goldie Grand
wants to be entertained;
by this animated film hero.
A conqueror, champion who
captures the mind of a 4-year-old.
Have you guessed, Word Girl!
Perhaps a poet Goldie Grand will be, having built her vocabulary early in life?
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Posted by wolfsrosebud on February 16, 2012
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Mosaic Monday, Think Spring!
I know, I know… it’s Thursday already, but I just found this photo link-up and it looked like fun!
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Winter’s almost dead,
And spring is all new!
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Posted by wolfsrosebud on February 16, 2012
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I will love you forever, Nana
“When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child…” “…but the greatest of these is love.” I Corinthians 13:11; 13:13
Valentine’s Day 2012 will linger in sweet whispers spoken from Goldie Grand, age four, upon her arrival to my house for the day.
“I will love you forever Nana,” smiles stretched wide across her impish face, “even when you’re in heaven!” A warm hug, a spin, and off she went content to leave me a verbal valentine I won’t soon forget.
It all started about a week ago. Goldie Grand decided what type of wedding cake she would have one day; as we drove home from lunch at Dairy Queen. I assume the pretty ice cream cakes lined up nicely in the glass door refrigerators had something to do with her sudden interest.
“I want those “things” in your drawer on top of my cake,” she announced.
I had no idea of what “things” she was talking about. It was then I announced that as much as I wanted to attend her wedding one day; I might not be there. Random thoughts of where I’d been in 20+ years filtered through my mind and only one of them was appealing to me.
Looking in the rear-view mirror; I saw a puzzled look on Goldie Grand’s face. “Why not, Nana?”
“Well, I just might be in heaven by then. You know with Jesus…” I tried to keep it as up-beat as possible.
There was a length of silence and then I added, “But I’d love to be at your wedding someday. I’d even like to help. It’ll be a lot of fun.”
So just a week later, Goldie Grand must have pondered future possibilities, she resigned to the fact that her love will pass through Heaven’s gates to me. How sweet is that!
I treasure the fact that Goldie Grand’s understanding is so simple and she feels at ease to speak her mind. I cherish the deep love she has in her heart for not only me, but also for Jesus.
By the way, the “things” on top of Goldie Grand’s wedding cake will be candy canes. Not a bad idea, since they can make a heart shape and the lovely story behind the candy cane. See http://www.kidtokid.org/candycanestory.html for that tale.
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Posted by wolfsrosebud on February 15, 2012
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A Little Cabin Fever
Hey… what you looking at? Can you get me outta here?
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Posted by wolfsrosebud on February 15, 2012
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