"YOU WILL BLOOM AGAIN"

I LOVE BEAUTIFUL POTS. THEY DO NOT HAVE TO BE BRAND NEW. I LOVE

POTS WITH PATINA. BIG POTS...LITTLE POTS...BRIGHT COLORED POTS...AND NO

COLOR POTS. THE GREEN POT IN THE ABOVE PICTURE IS MY FAVORITE POT. IN OCTOBER

2008 WE SET THE MOST ADORABLE PUMPKIN IN THE POT AND I PUT FALL LEAVES AROUND

THE PUMPKIN VERSES PLANTING MUMS. (I LOVE FALL AND WHEN I DECORATE FOR HALLOWEEN

OR "HAPPY HARVEST" AS I CALL IT, I DECORATE SO EVERYTHING CAN BE LEFT UP FOR

THANKSGIVING.)

HALLOWEEN CAME AND WENT...THANKSGIVING CAME AND WENT...CHRISTMAS

CAME AND WENT....AND THE WINTER WINDS HOWLED AND THE SNOW CAME AND WENT

OVER AND OVER, SURPRISING EVERYBODY WHEN IT CAME FOR ONE FINAL HURRAH IN

APRIL.

EVERY TIME WE LEFT THE HOUSE I TOLD MY DH WE NEEDED TO THROW

THAT PUMPKIN OUT. THE PUMPKIN REMAINED, SLOWLY SLUMPING INTO MY GREEN

POT AS IF IT WAS A SNOWMAN EVER SO SLOWLY MELTING.

THIS IS ACTUALLY PICTURE NUMBER 3 AND THE PICTURE BELOW SHOULD BE PICTURE

NUMBER 2 BUT I COULD NOT GET THE PICTURES CHANGED....SO YOU GET TO SEE THE ENDING

OF THIS POST FIRST. I WILL KEEP YOU UP TO DATE ON HOW MY PUMPKIN DOES......NOW I WILL

CONTINUE THE STORY IN PICTURE NUMBER 2 BELOW.

MY HUSBAND IN MAY, FINALLY DECIDED TO TAKE OUR PUMPKIN TO THE TRASH.

WHEN HE WENT TO PICK THE PUMPKIN UP THERE WERE PUMPKIN SEEDS SPROUTING

ALL OVER UNDER THE SHELL OF THE PUMPKIN. AND IT HAS CONTINUED TO GROW AND

GROW AND IT HAS BEAUTIFUL LITTLE ARMS REACHING OUT AND I DID NOT GET A

PICTURE TODAY BUT IT HAS BLOOMS. IT IS SUCH A PRETTY PLANT AND SUCH A

CONVERSATION STARTER...EVERYONE IS AMAZED...THAT A PUMPKIN LEFT OUT ALL

WINTER IN A POT JUST MAY PRODUCE SOME PUMPKINS.

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IT MADE ME THINK OF HOW MANY OF US ARE IN SITUATIONS THAT IT SEEMS WE

ARE DORMANT...WHETHER IT BE A LOSS OF A JOB AND YOU FEEL LIKE YOU ARE MELTING

INTO A POT WITH NO ANSWERS OR HOPE OR YOU MIGHT BE QUITE ILL AND IT

SEEMS LIKE YOUR BODY IS JUST WEARY AND YOU FEEL LIKE YOU JUST WON'T

BLOOM AGAIN.........

MY DEAR FRIEND "YOU WILL BLOOM AGAIN!"

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EACH MAN WILL BE LIKE A SHELTER FROM THE WIND

AND A REFUGE FROM THE STORM,

LIKE STREAMS OF WATER IN THE DESERT

AND THE SHADOWS OF A GREAT ROCK IN A

THIRSTY LAND.

~ISAIAH 32: 2

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THE DESERT AND THE PARCHED LAND WILL BE GLAD: THE WILDERNESS

WILL REJOICE AND BLOSSOM. LIKE THE CROCUS, IT WILL BURST INTO BLOOM:

IT WILL REJOICE GREATLY AND SHOUT FOR JOY. THE GLORY OF LEBANON

WILL BE GIVEN TO IT, THE SPLENDOR OF CARMEL AND SHARON: THEY WILL

SEE THE GLORY OF THE LORD, THE SPLENDOR OF OUR GOD.

STRENGTHEN THE FEEBLE HANDS, STEADY THE KNEES THAT GIVE WAY: SAY TO

THOSE WITH FEARFUL HEARTS, "BE STRONG, DO NOT FEAR; YOUR GOD WILL COME,

HE WILL COME WITH VENGEANCE; WITH DIVINE RETRIBUTION HE WILL COME

TO SAVE YOU." THEN WILL THE EYES OF THE BLIND BE OPENED AND THE EARS OF

THE DEAF UNSTOPPED. THEN WILL THE LAME LEAP LIKE A DEER, AND THE MUTE

TONGUE SHOUT FOR JOY. WATER WILL GUSH FORTH IN THE WILDERNESS

AND STREAMS IN THE DESERT. THE BURNING SAND WILL BECOME A POOL,

THE THIRSTY GROUND BUBBLING SPRINGS. IN THE HAUNTS WHERE JACKALS

ONCE LAY, GRASS AND REEDS AND PAPYRUS WILL GROW.

~ISAIAH 35: 1-7

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THANK YOU FOR JOINING ME TODAY AND REMEMBERING THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE

IN PRAYER:

JAMIE WHO IS SERVING IN IRAQ AND ALL OUR OTHER MILITARY MEN, WOMEN,

AND THEIR FAMILY. AMY, LEILA, ROY AND ELISABETH, SALLY, DEENA, KELLY,

LISA'S COUSIN'S 10 MONTH OLD BABY, DANNY, JONAH, JOHNATHAN, PATRICIA

SUZANNE, JAY, RICHARD, BOBBY, JEAN, SPENCER, GLORIA, MOLLY'S HUSBAND,

DONNA, CLIFFORD, XAVIER'S BROTHER AND PARENTS, SHERRY, THE PEOPLE IN

DALLAS/FORT WORTH WHO WERE AFFECTED BY THE STORM AND FLOODING,

JOY, LADY PENNIWIGS SON, CONNOR, DORIS AND RICHARD, TAWNA AND MIKE,

THOR, KRISTEN, NOAH, TERRY, MO'S SON WHO IS A POLICE OFFICER, WES AND

CHRIS WHO ARE POLICE OFFICERS AND ALL THE OTHER MEN AND WOMEN WHO

SERVE AS POLICE OFFICERS, FIREMEN AND WOMEN, MEDICS, EVERY ONE WHO

HELPS THEIR FELLOW MAN---MAY THEY WALK IN PROTECTION AS WELL AS OUR

CANINE POLICE OFFICERS.

A BRIEF PRAYER SAID FOR SOME ONE IN NEED IS "PRICELESS"

YOU ARE EACH UNIQUE AND SO SPECIAL.

YOU HAVE SEEDS OF TALENT, HEALING, AND WISDOM SPROUTING WITHIN

YOU.

BLESSINGS AND HUGS

debbie