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Good morning Ladies


Posted by Cheryl P.WA on January 26, 2009 at 12:12:52:
Good morning ladies
Thank you Father for this beautiful…beautiful morning, how can I find so much beauty is just a few hours is amazing to me but I love it. Though it’s still dark when I awake the day is still beautiful as night turns into day and the freshness of it beginning is just overwhelming. Sometimes I get up and go into Paris and lay on the bed and just watched the night sky and the rooftops chimney smoke venture out into the night air I flick on the light switch for a moment so I can watch the glow of the star in the light fixture that lights up the room. I read somewhere that unless we go in each room in our home everyday we are not a complete person the soul of the home sits alone and waits for the footsteps, I love going in each room every day and letting home nurture my soul giving each window a look out of and letting it know that I am truly home. I love just peeping in sometimes or just laying across the bed or just standing with folded arms and smiling. It’s not the material things that make a home it’s the spiritual energy that comes from us that makes it home, have you ever wondered why you can enter some homes that are gorgeous and so cold and some that are plain and simple and you never want to leave, because the home has a soul. We don’t have to pack up and move every 3 or 4 years we just need to allow our homes to have a soul and what it gives back in return is a home full of love and life. We hate our homes when something goes wrong or it doesn’t’ belong to or if an apartment or not big enough or, the roof leaks or the septic backs up or we want a new kitchen or bathroom, not ever realizing that our homes listens to what we say and it knows and soul leaves it. I love my home in the morning when I wake, I love if it were and apartment or a trailer or a tent, I love it when the roof leaks or the pipes bust , or if the sun doesn’t shine thru the windows, I will never tell it I hate it or tired of it or abuse it for I know the life it has given to me and hospitality it has shared with others. A home can only put out what it gets and of you give it love all the time that’s what it gives back. Heaven truly is here on earth if just open ours eyes to see it.
Get up and let home know you only have love for it and watch how love flows into. Have a wonderful day ladies and remember give love and receive it and see how it makes someone smile.
Love Cheryl

Every spirit builds itself a house, and beyond its house, a world, and beyond its world, a heaven. Know then that world exist for you. Ralph Waldo

 

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Good morning Ladies


Posted by Cheryl P.WA on January 29, 2009 at 12:03:58:

Good morning ladies,

Thank you! Father I am so grateful for this day, so grateful for your mercy, so thankful for your love and grace abiding. I want to thank you for the trials and tests I go and others go thru for they have taken us one step closer to you, to go thru and come thru to other side only then will we have story to tell. I know that with out fire there is no refining or no relief with out pain. I take each day as it comes, I don’t dwell on the what if doesn’t mean they are there, I just choose not to dwell on them and life becomes so much simpler. I love where this path is leading and when I stray sometimes I know faith will put me back on it and let your hand guide my footsteps. Thank you Father for breath and seeing eyes thru a seeing heart, you woke me up again to one more day of life and I just have so much love and praise for you. The sound of music playing a song called Morning breeze reminding me of what your breath feels like when it’s up on us opening our eyes and seeing thru our hearts. What I feel this day is pure and simple the abundance of life a God given life right now this moment. I thank you for yesterday for a glimpse of pure beauty a sliver of a moon so low and that beautiful star above it as if it could just fall it to the cradle of the moon and be rock to sleep by it. I love your gifts to us the way you share with all they are the best gifts a Father can give….A beautiful morning sunrise, a mountain top full of snow, a lake shimmering under the fog, a rainfall that makes you want to run thru it a forest of giant trees that speak to you. Father you have given me an understanding that only you could give an understanding to see all people in myself to love all people as you love us, it’s so simple and so beautiful. I want to thank you Father for being able to speak when not spoken to even when one speaks to another right next to you and can’t see you, for I have enough love in my heart toward those who have not love in their own hearts to say hello or good morning and for having enough faith that one day they will. I say Good morning too all this beautiful day and send some of the love of Jesus your way. Be the change you want to see.

Love Cheryl

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Matthew 6:21

 

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Good morning Ladies

Posted by CherylpWa on February 01, 2009 at 00:33:31:
Good night ladies,

Thank you Father in Jesus name for this day, a special day for someone special, some whose life you have purpose for I thank you for another day of life for that special someone. The day could not have been more beautiful for such a pleasure it has been for me to dwell in it and I can only say my heart is full of gratitude and so peaceful. The day has ended and night sky is so clear with the moon following closely behind I am told the planet Venus going down in the east, so picturesque and a stillness that makes you cry. My heart is filled with so much joy on this day and life is such a blessing. I sit here listening to the sound of the dishwasher going and feel the warmth of the fire and the music rings beauty to my ears. A cup of tea steeps for a bit more and the thought of ice cream arises in the mist of it all. A good waits for me to pick it up and read a few pages before I fall asleep, the ice cream will have to wait another day for the tea has beat it out for this night. I am loving my exercise class I attend body flow class it’s so feminine and a quiet peace and so relaxing today they had candles, hot lavender towels for our faces and the music is so hauntingly beautiful another part of they day that made it so wonderful. I am just grateful for all that you do Father , the little graces from a squirrel stepping right in front of my with is cache of food in his paws, seeing runners running around the lake early in the morning, to a visit to let someone know that God cares about him and has a purpose for his life. I wont’ complain of this day for this day has been on of pure joy.

Have a wonderful night ladies and sweet dreams.

Love Cheryl

Be still and know that I am God.

 

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Good morning Ladies

Posted by Cheryl P.WA on February 04, 2009 at 12:17:19:
Good morning ladies,
Good morning Father, I just want to say thank you for another day of pure loveliness I could not help but step outside in the darkness look up at the stars and take a deep breath and say a prayer for gratitude for all you do. I just can’t imagine nor would I want to not seeing the beauty and being surrounded by the serenity it brings. The season are here for out enjoyment they teach us how to patience to live and bring balance into our lives and what have we learned but to complain and winter still does what it does. Winter brought in a beautiful red/ pink sunrise this morning that delighted my senses I would look out the windows in different rooms just to see it and made me even more filled with gratitude Thank you Father for winter is but beautiful in my soul seeing eyes. What else did winter bring a glance back as I drove out of town, a mountain basking the in glory of that magnificent sunrise, layers of heaven enveloping the landscape mingling with warmth of roof top smoke. It brought with it pockets of heaven so beautiful that lingered so low in places stretching across the landscape a picturesque beauty that only God can give and so peaceful you could lay in it. I thank you Father for this gift to see your beauty, to inhale your fragrance, to bask in the softness of what is so lovely, pure and so feminine. To those of you who witness the beauty that surrounds you how does it make you, does it stir something inside, and those who don’t what is it that you can’t see that makes you miss it.
Have a wonderful day ladies and remember to make someone smile.
Love Cheryl
If the sight of blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things in nature have a message you understand, Rejoice, for your soul is alive. Eleanora Duse

 

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Good morning Ladies

Posted by Cheryl P.WA on February 11, 2009 at 12:26:00:
Good morning ladies,
I know it’s been a while since writing, but my eyes have not stopped seeing what is beautiful, my heart hasn’t skipped a beat giving love, my soul has not stopped aching with gratitude. I just become more and more entwined with the Love of God thru Jesus Christ and all that He does. This day is just gorgeous and I can’t not write about it, even thought it’s only 8:30 am, He woke me up spoke his word put my feet on floor and gave me the most beautiful morning ride to work. What I saw beautiful this day; the ground still covered with a dusting of snow, the sun coming up behind and thru the trees as I leave home, I go around the bend and see the full moon only for a fleeting moment before is disappears behind the clouds, so big and lovely. There is music playing so soft and lingering as I glance back and I see the sun just above the tree line an amber glow, next to it the mountain so majestic and full of grace watching over the little hills, the tiny town enveloped in a slumber of heaven weaving a tapestry of what love should look like connecting the town together the way we are all meant to be. I search for the moon but it’s hidden behind the clouds going down and the landscape itself becomes one with God, the snow reaching out, and the ribbons of heaven blanketing the ground like a protective Mother laying her babies to sleep. I can’t believe how beautiful it is and I am mesmerized by it, I want others to see it, to feel it, to embrace it to fall in love with it. How can something so beautiful be so bad to some and so lovely to others, I give my time to the Lord in all things, not just some things but all things and my love of his excellent nature is something I hope I never tired of. I wish you could experience it ladies for no amount of riches could ever give you this experience, let it be etched on your hearts to let you know that heaven is here on earth and all we have to do is open our eyes to see it. Don’t wait on life to come to you, you go after it “carpe diem” seize the day. Some will read this and I hope they find their own “peace” of what heaven and living life really is and some will read and it will just be a passing thought maybe one to resurface at another time.
Have a wonderful day ladies and remember to seize the day and make someone smile in doing so.
Love Cheryl
God wants us to present where we are. He invites us to see and hear what is around us and through it all, to discern the footprints of the Holy. Richard J. Foster

 

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Good morning Ladies


Posted by Cheryl P.WA on February 13, 2009 at 14:42:49:
Good morning ladies,
Thank you Father for this day, I am so very grateful for another day of life, thank you for putting my feet on the floor and for all you do. Thank you, Father for the love in my heart and others to have love and compassion to forgive those who trespass against us and us against them to love them as you love us. Last night at our ladies group meeting our chaplain read from 1 Corinthians 13: She read it so eloquently the words just flowed and reached our hearts and touched our very souls. The way of love …4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. To walk in love is to walk upright for you are carrying the love the world needs and what an honor to carry the love of God. As I get ready for the 40 days of love I am so excited just to be a part of it and if I am the only one there then I shall be even more excited for I know that I am truly never alone. Sometimes in life the simplest of pleasures is all we need, a word coming from the right person, a morning of spring flowers, a negative thought we let go of and just focus on the positive it all comes thru the simplest of things when we have LOVE in our hearts, when we love like God loves. Is that the love you want in your life, I know it’s the love I want in mine.
Have a wonderful day ladies and remember to show your love and make someone smile.
Love Cheryl
“The love that others show to you is a reflection of the love you have shown to others”.

 

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Good afternoon Ladies

Posted by Cheryl P.WA on February 20, 2009 at 16:11:35:
Good afternoon ladies,
Thank you Father for another day of life, it’s such a pleasure just to be in such great company and the beauty of your glory that took my breath away this morning. Beauty is the essence of God, nature speaks to us and shows us just how beautiful God is, it captivates ours senses and leaves us in awe, we as women are also part of his beauty, we are his most beautiful creation for we are created in your own image. I thank you Father for the beauty that bestows my life each day, a little peace of heaven that speaks your grace whether it be a scarlet sunset or a field of lavender to a layer of heaven that makes the landscape so ethereal that you know heaven on earth is here always. Beauty puts us to rest brings us such a wonderful peace that most so desire, all we need do is gaze at the beauty that surrounds us. Beauty speaks and invites us to drink it all in to gaze up on it and let it captivate our heart and we can feel the peace in our souls and we can breathe for our lives have slowed down. I am feeling my feminine spirit a little more this day and basking in the glory of God I hope to fill the world with beauty of God, for God’s beauty is everywhere for this day just by my own thoughts and prayers that I send out to everyone. What I saw beautiful this day, a rising sunrise of color among the frost on the grass, rooftops with the warmth of smoke entwined with the layers of heaven. A ride out of town and a glance back at God’s beauty of the mountains the sun smiling next to it, next came the picturesque view of that layers of heaven that lies in the distant and as you get closer you see the true beauty of it those layers of heaven that weave a beauty beyond belief among the almost barren landscape before the forest the heaven that’s low to the ground and just high enough to see the tops of the trees and weaves an mystery about it as well as beauty that just leaves you in awe that is beyond words. This day I so appreciate and dwell in the beauty and glory of God, how about you.
Have a wonderful afternoon ladies and remember make someone smile.
Love Cheryl
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable---if anything is excellent or praiseworthy think about such things. Philippians 4:8

 

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Good morning ladies,

It’s beautiful day ladies filled with the peace of heaven all around us, a perfect little snow fall last night to a bright blue sky full of sunshine reflecting off the pureness of the fresh snow making it a lovely picture of God’s perfect transcending beauty. Waking up after a wonderful night’s sleep that was much needed to a winter landscape that just took my breath away and when I breathe in the aroma of God’s breath it tasted so sweet and fell so good. Last night I drove to a little place and parked my car and just had a wonderful conversation with God, I sat there in the rain and music playing ever so softly, speaking to Him, thanking Him, listening to him, the beauty that surrounded me I took it all in, a slope of grass, the shape of the trees even the gravel by my car, to the lights of the city in the not to far distance, people on their way home stopping at the store or gym or leaving the Dr’s office, I watched and talked, listened and felt such peace. Sometimes we have to slow down to hear his voice, in my 40 days of love Busyness is a love killer, hurriedness is the death of kindness, if fear is in our lives love goes out the window for we cannot live with both. Reverence in our lives gives us perfect peace in the moment we become one with our body and soul with heaven and earth we have the perfect peace of God. Busyness and hurried lifestyles takes so much a way from our lives that we rarely find the perfect peace not even for a moment. Some women only think about making it thru the day, some think like I do about the imprint of what their lives are about by paying attention to the smallest of details, this morning paying attention to the sound of my own breath, the scriptures that start your day, the detail of the snow outside to the daisies on the tea cup I drank from, a morning wave to a neighbor, to the sun’s reflection on the whiteness of the snow for God is in the details always. When people tell me they love my home it’s brings me joy because it’s all in the smallest of details that they speak about, comfort, coziness, the love that permeates thru it that touches everything about it, when folks tell you they could sleep on the hallway floor you know God is in the details. Take the time to slow down and listen to your own heart and then only can you listen to others, life is not meant to be hurried or made busy all the time, it meant to be lived and shared with others, to love and help to love thy neighbor as we love thyself.

Have a wonderful day ladies and remember to make someone smile for God is in the details always.

Love Cheryl

Seek not outside yourself, heaven is within. Mary Lou Cook

 

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Good morning ladies,

Thank you Father for this day, I am so very grateful for another day of your grace and peace which brings to me more gratitude, simplicity, order, harmony, beauty and joy into my life which in return helps me to help others. Our spiritual awaking takes us to a higher level, for we see when we help others we are not just being a shoulder to lean on or a inviting a friend for dinner but feeding their souls and giving them the nourishment they so need to be in that place of God’s peace. I sit here listening to sweet music that soothes my own soul, looking out the window surrounded by God’s peace and beauty and know that I can write about it and pass it down to someone who so desperately needs to see beauty in their own lives. We know God gives us gifts, but sometimes we are to busy to use them to help others find their own gifts. Last night we had a power outage and most know I love it when the power is out and though it didn’t stay out for long it was enough for me to see millions of stars so bright in the sky with no man made light to deter them. What a treat it was for me almost felt like I could reach up and take capture one just pluck it from the heavens and hold it in my hand. It’s lunch time and I am reading a book called Teaching the Trees; lessons from the forest by Joan Maloof… A beautiful little book about what so many American have forgotten about the forest… the air and how healing it is especially the old growth forest. It‘s funny I am planning a trip to the redwood forest this summer to breath in the present of God among all those old trees cure whatever ails me, the Japanese call it Shinrin-yoku wood air bathing. When living naturally the forest plays a big part in our lives yet most don’t know it, I have always been drawn to the forest I have always felt it pull even as a child maybe that’s why Washington has always played a part of where I wanted to live. This has been a good morning ladies now good afternoon ladies bit of babble about beautiful things.

Have a wonderful afternoon ladies and remember make someone smile and remember to breathe deep and long.

Love Cheryl

His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through the full knowledge of the one who called us by his own glory and excellence.

 

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Good morning ladies in God's rainbow

Monday 03/02/09 9:30 am

Wow Thank you Father, what a beautiful day it is today, one of those days with a little bit of everything to start the day. An amber glow from the rainfall as when out to start my car just so beautiful from the sun peaking from behind the clouds, everything just glistening from the rain making it so beautiful to look at. The rain coming down just so and just enough sunlight to create a double rainbow over the town and God was in the house For He has set his rainbow in the clouds, and will be the sign of the covenant between Him and the earth. When ever the rainbow appears in the clouds, He will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between Himself (God) and all living creatures of every kind on the earth…from the book of Genesis. A weekend filled with simple pleasures and joy, a precious visit to a beautiful son, reminiscing on things of the past stories about my Mom from long ago. A lovely visit from a beautiful friend who claims me as her Mom, as I her and her daughter along with two little grandkids who takes over my bed when they come, so I give it to them. A wonderful book about Lessons from the trees and a movie about bees, scoops of ice cream, candles glowing and a fire to keep us warm. A little side trip to a little shop where you can smell the fragrant soaps, learn about weddings, how to pick wines or organic things to clean with. A globe waiting to be spun or a card to be read, candles ready to be lit all beautiful things just to look at or add to home a magical place where you feel like just browsing because it’s so beautiful. Beauty soothes the soul and brings peace in your heart for it allows you to focus on one thing at a time. By focusing on one thing we accomplish more and have more time serenity in our lives and experience the grace of God in our lives. I can’t imagine a living a life without having time to experience beauty in my life to let it linger in my mind and bring me joy to turn the mundane into the life itself. The pleasure of eating and enjoying each and every bite, the breath of your sleeping child watching the body gently rise and exhale to the softness of their skin as you kiss their cheeks. I am going there again to that place of beauty in my heart and I will keep going there because I can’t imagine living a life with out beauty.

Have a wonderful day ladies and remember to make someone smile and let love in your heart today.

Love Cheryl

Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others’ love to us. Thomas Traherne.

 

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Good morning ladies,

02/09/09 9:13 am

It’s been a while since I last wrote, kind of been under the weather this last week and need to stay balance sometimes doing too much with and for others throws us out of balance, I want to thank you Father for bringing me thru and my time spend with you, the peace and quiet and serenity these last few days. A wonderful Saturday spent watching movies with a girlfriend eating Taco’s and sometimes entwined with beautiful conversations, I have fallen in love all over again with Under the Tuscan Sun and a new love for Bottle shock a cute little movie about the Napa Valley wineries and a beautiful peace about movie The Valley of Light. I enjoyed the peace and quiet of the rain and sometimes snow, the blue skies and the clouds days of almost every little thing about the weather changing so fast. Sunday I went to church and enjoyed a beautiful sermon on 40 days of love and I am so loving being apart of this event, I stopped in and visited my son for a bit and came on home to more serenity and love. A Sunday evening spent like this as I wrote in my journal: I sit here on my magic loveseat in the warm of home, a window filled with moonlight, a kettle full of water for tea. The glow of the fire blazes before me and the smell of orange blossoms fill the air reminding me of being outdoors in the sunshine somewhere far away and exotic. The softness of the music plays making me feel good and I know it all comes from your Father for all things are possible thru you and to hear and feel the music to smell the fragrance as it can only be smelled or heard thru the soul. My soul delights in your beauty and wisdom that guides me ever so gentle more and more in your presence. The snow is back and just as beautiful as ever though not a much but enough to make it a winter wonderland maybe just for the day; I see the patches of blue out the window and know the sun is just waiting for its entrance. I hope you find the beauty in your lives ladies as I have found mine thru faith in the Jesus knowing that thru Him I can do and see all things, will I ever let go of it, no I don’t think so why would I let go of something so beautiful to let the ugly back in.

Have a wonderful day ladies and remember to make someone smile.

Love Cheryl

God’s peace…is far more wonderful than the human mind can understand. His peace will keep your thoughts and your hearts quiet and at rest. Philippians 4:7

 

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Good morning ladies,

03/10/09 9:22 am

Giving you a big Thank you Father for this day, it’s beautiful out and I could not help but sense your presence this morning when I stepped outside to start my car. I could feel you everywhere, from the snow covered tree limbs to the clouds in the sky and I felt your embrace all around me that ethereal embrace of just knowing. The snow can last night again, falling so beautiful outside the window covering the front porch and all that sat on it leaving its imprint upon the night. As we focus on 40 days of love about forgiveness I could not help but have love for the beauty that fell in front of me the softness of the each snowflake gently making its way to the ground. When I think of Forgiveness it always makes me think the Amish people who forgave and though they didn’t forget they were able to go on with life the way is supposed to go on, they didn’t become like so many of us become, filled with anger, hate revenge they gave it to God and left it there. I am loving this journey I am on and my heart is filled with love, it was said when we look at how life is the one true thing really missing is love and if God is love and we have his spirit then we should be nothing but love also. It’s the love that’s truly missing from our lives that agape love the love that evades so many us. A girl friend called my last night and she was supposed to come a visit in April, I was trying to put it off and she said, I want to come see you, I want to see how you live I want to wake up and see what you see, I want to see your life, I want to spend time with you we don’t have to go anywhere I just want to let you know how much I care about you and our friendship I want to just hug you. I thought how beautiful and it was really something I needed to hear to have someone experience how I live regardless of what that maybe, I have always said that to others but to have it said to me is simply beautiful. I sit here at work listening to music, looking out the window at nature a story book that says so much with so little.

Have a wonderful day ladies and remember to make someone smile.

Love Cheryl

Love and beauty is part of my life and always will be…Cheryl

 

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GOOD MORNING LADIES

Good morning ladies,

03/13/09 8:48 AM

As I reflect on the past week I am thankful that all that needed to be done was done, Monday 40 days of love group a special night where friends come together and learn a little bit more on loving one another. Tuesday an evening of picking out special things for others, and the joy of going to Body-flow to help take the day away, where stretching and relaxation and dwelling in God’s peace soothe the day away. Wednesday, a nice retirement party for a lovely friend whose contribution to the Girl Scouts leaves me in awe and a night to make Mac and Cheese for a Bridal shower for someone else special. Thursday a night with my ladies group filled with good food, fun and laughter and a little pooch that was just adorable and the start of our new year together for those who were there were meant to be there. Today the start of the day is just beautiful a cool 26 degrees on a clear day, I watched as the sun was coming up from behind the mountain and thought I could not see it the brightness from behind it left me mesmerized and fill with joy, the moon just as beautiful going down in the west just so perfectly clear against the blue sky and tree lines as if you could touch it. My perfect picture window of God’s beauty leaves me in Awe and as I accept myself as I am this day I know genuine love flows thru me for I know I am a beautiful creation of The Lord our God. Yesterday as I talked with a dear friend she made me smile and feel so loved, I see how her life has changed how she has grown to fall in love with herself just the way she is, how she accepts the place where she is in the moment. She is in a place where at one time was the furtherest thing from her mind and now she is just blooming with love and life and sharing it every step of the way, when she read this she will know who she is and I am just letting her know I got nothing but love in my heart for her. She is appreciating the beauty that surrounds her letting it dwell deep in her heart, she is feeling it and loving it and I so love it when she calls and shares it with me. When we live for today life becomes beautiful and we embrace where we are and how delicate we are in God’s eyes for he sees in our hearts and he loves it when we embrace our God given femininity and beauty that graces our lives for it also graces others.

Have a wonderful day ladies and remember make someone smile, embrace who you are let beauty dazzle your senses and wake you up.

Love Cheryl

I am what I am and what I am is wonderful…Sarah Ban Breathnach