Lifetime of Chances

One of the porches at Second Chances Barn
in Fallbrook, CA.  Wonderful venue, super
friendly people, be prepared to be surprised. 
Make room in your vehicle.

²⁶ Brothers and sisters, think of what you were 
when you were called. Not many of you were 
wise by human standards; not many were influential; 
not many were of noble birth. ²⁷ But God chose the 
foolish things of the world to shame the wise; 
God chose the weak things of the world to shame 
the strong. ²⁸ God chose the lowly things of this 
world and the despised things—and the things 
that are not—to nullify the things that are, ²⁹  
so that no one may boast before him.
                             NIV 1 Corinthians 1:26-29 

My entire life I have prayed on my calling. 
It's been a slow pathetic attempt.
 
Many tears and disappointments.  I know 
my call and given the opportunity I will 
walk through the door.  

My Angels in Vista, CA

Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers,
for by so doing some people have shown
hospitality to angels without knowing it.

                                  NIV  Hebrew 13:2

It's common for me to feel goosebumps 
while I pray.  I love the feeling, I imagine 
I am in the presence of God.  It's like having a chill
and then warming up in the bright sunlight.  
The goosebumps are encouragement 
to press on in contemplative 
prayer.  

There is  a great need to pray. 
 

Any religion that professes to be concerned with
the souls of men and is not concerned with the
slums that damn them, the economic conditions
that strangle them, and the social conditions
that cripple them is a dry-as-dust religion.

                                Martin Luther King, Jr. 

Livermore's Paris Flea Market.

Papa's Chair

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry,

and narrow-mindedness, many of our

people need it sorely on these accounts.

Broad, wholesome, charitable 

views of men and things cannot be acquired

by vegetating in one little corner of the earth

all one's lifetime.

                                        Mark Twain

Seeking a Papa Bear chair like this one.
Mr. Lee is enjoying the comfort of
Ink Spell Books in Half Moon Bay.

The bookstore is housed in half the
original Sam's Mercantile building
where I used to shop as a little girl.

Late Bloomers

Every evening I arrive at the
Live Your Purpose freeway sign.

As I stare at the sign, I sigh...Is it relief,
comfort or fear?  I think to myself,
if fear or money weren't factors, what would
I be doing?

Unlike early bloomers, its taken my entire
lifetime to excavate my purpose.  It's been
a journey of discovery.  Some times painful.
Five years ago, the journey was experienced as
a severe period of pruning. A period of darkness.

As a gardener, I recognized the cutting back
was intended for my fruitfulness.
Change can be uncomfortable and scary.

Today, I take the first step in answering my
God sized call.

Making a Saturday 3

Do you know what it feels like to
find your tribe in strangers?
Every day, baby.  Sometimes the moment is
so intense it can bring tears of joy.

The Creativity Caravan follow their blog
or follow them on Instagram.
You will not be sorry.

We each made a tiny book at the show.
Some times a tiny thing
can be an adventure.

Making a Saturday 2

I say to the moment:
Stay now! You are so beautiful.

                Johann Wolfgang von Geothe

 Miceli's since 1949 Hollywood.  Tasty, authentic, and the Get
Along will return.