Amy's Place ... Poetry and Potpourri ... April, May and June 2015

April 1, 2015 | JustAmy; St.Louie1; MamaBear; Billie; Meg33, Friends

[JustAmy]

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Many thanks for stopping by. : )

[TheConservativeParty]

Hooray for your answered prayers!

Thanks for posting the Scripture too, a very good reminder for me.

[fish hawk]

He has always been my favorite artist. Many many years ago the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco had a giant show of his paintings. I was lucky enough to get to see it. I still have the catalog of paintings that came with the entry ticket.

[TheConservativeParty]

Re: Vincent Van Gogh,,,I love Don McLean’s song “Starry Starry Night”. I have it in piano sheet music. The times I hear it on the radio are always special.

[TheConservativeParty]

Hi Potlatch! I have been absent a couple of days. Thanks for the Smiley Face ping!

[JustAmy]

Hi, Fish Hawk.

Wonderful that your had the opportunity to see Van Gogh’s paintings. Also the catalog is a great reminder of your time at the museum. I’m thankful that you have these memories.

I will try to find and post your poem of your grandmother later today.

We have some wonderful graphics and poems.

I thank all of our artists.

[JustAmy]

Yes!!

That is a beautiful song.

[MEG33]

Happy Poetry Month

I'm thankful for our poets

[MEG33]

I love birds and watching them...
;o)

[MEG33]

So happy for your nephew!

[NicknamedBob]

"Thanks for the poems, Amy. CG is my age, I see."

Hah! I noticed that, ten years ago. Still waiting for you to fetch me a beer, sonny.

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

praise God!

[JustAmy]

Great graphic, Meg. Thanks.

[JustAmy]

;~}

[TheConservativeParty]

Me too. I have always enjoyed bird watching. Such a treat when bluebirds have a party in my birdbath. I was treated to vibrant yellow finches today at the tube feeder.

Have a good evening, I’m off to sleepy land now.

[JustAmy]

I can’t find the graphic and poem for the painting of your grandmother. Did you save the link?

I will try to find it on PhotoBucket, but things are not easy to find there.

[Kitty Mittens]

Thank you for the Pings, Dear FRiends.
(((((Goodnight, and God Bless)))))

[The Mayor]

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Correct Gently

May 1, 2015

Put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; bearing with one another. —Colossians 3:12-13

At the end of a conference in Nairobi, Kenya, our group traveled from the conference center to a guesthouse to prepare to fly back home the next morning. When we arrived, one person in our group reported that she had forgotten her luggage back at the conference center. After she left to retrieve it, our group leader (always meticulous on detail) criticized her sharply to us in her absence.

The next morning when we arrived at the airport, the leader discovered to his dismay that he too had left his luggage behind. It and his passport were back at the guesthouse. It was now going to cost us even more to go for his baggage. Later, he apologized and said to all of us, “I’ll never criticize so harshly again!”

Because we all have faults and weaknesses, we should bear with one another and forgive each other when things go wrong (Col. 3:13). We need to be constructive in our criticism and “clothe [our]selves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience” (v.12 niv).

When correction is necessary, it should be done with kindness and love. In that way we become imitators of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Dear God, You know that there are times when I just don’t feel patient and humble and gentle. Those days in my life, the fruit of Your Spirit seems in short supply. Please enable me to love others today.

The keys to effective relationships are gentleness and humility.

INSIGHT: Paul’s admonition in verse 16—that we are to allow “the word of Christ [to] dwell in [us] richly in all wisdom”—parallels Ephesians 5:18-19, where we are challenged to be under the control of the Holy Spirit. This results in worship, thanksgiving, and maintaining appropriate relationships with others.

[JustAmy]

Ahhhh ... a couple of cuties.

Thanks, Kitty.

[JustAmy]

Amen.

Thank you, Mayor.

[JustAmy]

Graphic by MamaBear

MAY

The wind is tossing the lilacs,
The new leaves laugh in the sun,
And the petals fall on the orchard wall,
But for me the spring is done.

Beneath the apple blossoms
I go a wintry way,
For love that smiled in April
Is false to me in May.

~ Sara Teasdale ~


Happy May Day.
Poor Sara.