bsmiles and sunny days

So many happy things happening right now... I just cleaned my shower. It's been awhile. I was scrapping the tile for hours. It's so sparkly clean, I can't wait to take a bath!!  Also, I initiated quiet reading time for one hour during nap time today. I'm alone in a quiet room, uninterrupted. This is what I need every day. Exercise, vitamins, gobs of water, fruits and veggies, as magical and healthful as they are, can never tend to my soul like a few quiet moments of alone time. I need it so desperately I can't even fully articulated it. Thank you, God! I have a self-cleaning oven that has never cleaned itself. It's doing it right now. It smells awful and Leila's pretty sure the house will burn down, but it's going to be so clean that I will want to cook something in it!!  By the way, people are preparing meals in mason jars and putting them in their dishwashers along with dirty dishes, to be cooked while the washer runs. What?! Wait... What? Are you tell

...love... Words speak Stories paint pictures I have found the most beautiful merging of the three. Hinds Feet on High Places. I have seen the title a hundred times on my mama's bookshelf, but I never even considered reading it... until the words of Habakkuk breathed hope into me. I can't not share this excerpt that I read today. It filled my dark places with color. And then-in the dawn I saw him,  He whom my heart loveth so.  I found him, held him, and told him  I never could let him go. Cant. 3:1-5 Much-Afraid ceased trembling and said to herself, "I will go to the trysting-place, and see if he is waiting for me there." With scarcely a word to the watchmen she turned and hurried southward over the field where Craven Fear had met her toward the sheep pool. Almost forgetting that she was lame, she sped toward the distant trees which fringed the pool. Just as the sky turned red above the mountains, the joyous babbling sound of cascading water reached her