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Sunday, May 6, 2012

"MARIE'S CHAIR" BESIDE MY POST CARD WINDOW

I sit in "Marie's Chair" every morning 
and spend time in God's Word.


It belonged to my friend and mother of my son-in-law,
Jim Williams.
Marie was a saint.
And she's sitting right now upon a
special chair in
the presence of God.

The chair swivels so I can turn and see the pond ....
which is my reminder to take my coffee out to the deck when I'm finished
conversing and listening to God,
and have a bubbly conversation with
"White Eyes" and her school of  .... oh about 35 goldfish.
It's rather difficult to count goldfish.
They scoot and scurry about so quickly that
I count a few more than once.
There's no doubt White Eyes is the
Alpha Fish.
Where she leads they will follow.
Water is life for a goldfish.
They breed and deposit  head-of-a-pin size eggs on water plants in the pond.,
Once born, they are in stealth mode to survive (goldfish are cannibals and will eat their eggs and.... gulp
young,)  They're called "fry."
 I'm drawn daily into their world from "Marie's Chair".
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Water .... "life sustainer," as this 
young military man's Baptism in a war zone illustrates.

He didn't spend much time in his
"pond",
but the moment he was immersed,
and  came up out of that puddle, 
he was a new man.

Water as rain,
in south central Oregon,
is so welcome the local residents
express silly giggles and
and aahhhhh's during the brief showers.
The automatic watering system I had installed
for the gardens inside the rail fence
provides a life-sustaining drenching
to the flowers 
as summer progresses.

Speaking of flowers ........
My granddaughter, Naomi,
(a gifted photographer) took this photo of the
first colors of Spring.



Bring on the sunshine,
bring on the rain,
but make it fast
before it snows again!
Have a lovely
tulip-filled day!