I want to be like Erma

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.

Dancing Daffodils

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!