I adopted this pretty box of yellow roses especially for you.

Last, but not least............

Boy, day #8 already, it sure is going by fast. Hope you like these bears and ponies I adopted for you.................

These cute little ponies and the beautiful mama and baby horse is from Starluck's Sweetwater

Hugs

It's wondrous what a hug can do.
A hug can cheer you when you're blue.
A hug can say, "I love You so"
Or, "I hate to see you go."
A hug is "Welcome back again,"
And "Great to see you! Where've you been?"
A hug can soothe a small child's pain,
And bring a rainbow after rain.
The hug, there's just no doubt about it---
We scarcely could survive without it!
A hug delights and warms and charms,
It must be why God Gave us arms.

DAY #9

Imagine yourself as a living house.
God comes in to rebuild that house.
At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing.
He is getting the drains right
and stopping the leaks in the roof
and so on: you knew that those jobs
needed doing and so you are not surprised.

But presently, he starts knocking the house
about in a way that hurts abominably and does not
seem to make sense. What on earth is He up to?
The explanation is that He is building quite a
different house from the one you thought of..
throwing out a new wing here,
putting on an extra floor there,
running up towers, making courtyards.
You thought you were going to be
made into a decent little cottage:
but He is building a palace."
~~C.S. Lewis~~

This is one of my favorite Bible verses:

"Fear not, I am with you;
be not dismayed; I am your God.
I will strengthen you, and help you,
and uphold you with my right hand
of justice. (Isaiah 41:10 NAB)