Dear Reader:

With our ‘Winnie the Pooh Blustery Day‘ yesterday I couldn’t help but think of all the joys and blessings that must be flying around us bringing delight to so many. These blessings definitely helped us get through ‘the storm’ Wednesday night with minimum negative effects.

The lowcountry (and especially the Summerville area) really lucked up with the severe thunderstorms that came through Wednesday evening. They were much more severe for my Columbia Ya’s (Libby and Jackson) who kept Brooke and I informed (through texts during the day) on what was happening.

I moved all the hanging baskets in the garage, as well as deck furniture for safety. I rolled the wheelbarrow fairy garden into the garage also. I was prepared and praying no trees or large branches would fall on the house.

Instead…I was pleasantly surprised by the time I heard the first booms of thunder and witnessed the bright streaks of lightning. It was definitely a thunderstorm, but nothing like what others before us earlier in the day, had experienced. It must have lost some “umpfh” before reaching us. In fact the most wind we got out of it all wasn’t from the storm but the blustery gales that came through yesterday.

*I texted Anne to see how she and Nala were holding up (Wednesday evening) and they were just “chilling” listening to the rain come down. I told her it sounded just like a “gardener’s lullaby”…exactly what the garden has been needing…a sustained rainfall.*Nala made a ‘puppy blanket’ on Anne during the storm.

We were very blessed to get mostly the “good” part of the storm, the rain, without the tornadoes, rotations, trees down, flooding, and problems other areas sustained!

Like the title card says:”Scatter joy and may it all come back to you.”

To receive blessings, happiness, and joy…we first must put it out there for others…and then, unexpectedly, one day, it comes back home to roost.

We never know when…but the more kindness and caring that goes out..(like a bountiful boomerang)….the better chances of love returning God-fold.

Even though math was never my favorite subject in school…I understood the meaning  “two-fold” and “three-fold”…but I don’t think there is a mathematician alive that can place a precise number on God-fold. It is infinite.

I imagine that God’s blessings are like stars…too numerous to count….just floating out there in the universe…bouncing from star to star. Since we are made of stardust…my reasoning “deducts”  that we are made from blessings also.

The goal in life is to keep bouncing those blessing from person to person…. (like the stars)…As soon as one goes out…another comes in.

So until tomorrow…Let us always share the bounty of blessings. Blessings don’t spread without us, as God’s messengers, helping with the distribution.

“Today is my favorite day”  Winnie the Pooh

I found this picture of “Big Red” taken two Easters ago. It was the same year that it had gotten frost-bitten earlier in January and I had removed every pitiful dead branch except the one main stem. By Easter it was already coming back….and now look at “Big Red” this Easter…blooms and so many buds it is hard to count. So far, at its most, I have had twelve blooms at the same time. God-fold of blessings!

Easter 2015

Easter 2017