Do you ever feel woefully inadequate? Is everyone around excelling while you have a hard time finding matching shoes? Perhaps you visit their spacious and beautifully decorated homes and wonder why your own setting is not so lovely. And oh how you long for perfect eyebrows… like Sela Ward.
I noticed these last week at the back of my mom-in-law’s yard. As David and I cut muscadine vines and hauled the trimmings to the woods, daffodils danced in the breeze to a backdrop of gray lifelessness.
I think they are especially pretty right where they are; maybe because they’re a nice break in the dull landscape.Sometimes a less than perfect setting allows something beautiful to really stand out.
Go ahead! Open up your home to others. It doesn’t have to be perfect. I find that my imperfections [and they are legion] just make true friends feel at home.
And they hardly ever laugh at my funky eyebrows.
The Writing Sisters shared this quote. It’s my new motto and is similar, but much more inspiring than my old motto “All we can do… is all we can do.”
“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say,
‘I used everything You gave me.’” -Erma Bombeck
I think this gray world could use a bunch more daffodils…
and Ermas!
You are such an encouragement to the “ordinary” ones like me! Thanks lady!
Love ya!
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You are FAR from ordinary sweet Sandy! So thankful for your latest awesome ministry to the “least of these!”
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Thanks
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Love me some Erma Bombeck!
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One of your talents is to point out the beauty in the everyday. Thank you for sharing that! I needed it!
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Boy, do I ever feel totally inadequate? You hit the nail on the head. Spoke with someone today who was telling me about her new things and her newly painted house while I looked around my house which is well past the need for a new coat of paint. It will probably be a LONG time before I will be able to get it painted if ever. However, I also looked around and saw beauty in my house, especially pictures of those I love so dearly. They are better than any painted house. Thanks so much for the reminder to look for beauty in small things!
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Exactly right Karen! Precious memories.
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It’s good to be thankful…like when Able’s physical therapist said it was good my floors were so slanted, it helped the baby roll over easier 😉
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Now THAT’S looking on the bright side!
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As always, encouraging. I plan to share Erma’s quote. I love it!!
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