Amy's Place .. Poetry and Potpourri .. August 30-31, 2004

8-30-04 | JustAmy, St.Louie1, MamaBear and Billie

[JustAmy]

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8-30-04
Graphic by MamaBear

Flower Angel

There's a tiny little Angel
In charge of all the flowers
She checks each fragile petal
Then sprinkles them with showers.

She makes them smell so fragrant
With her wrist she gives a flick
She checks them with her tiny nose
It's a flower Angel's trick.

So when you pick a posie
And place it to your nose
Remember all the work she's done
So you can smell that rose!

~ Charlotte Anselmo ~
Submitted by Dubya

[JustAmy]

[JustAmy]

MamaBear .... thank you for this lovely rose graphic.

Dubya .... thank you for providing the link to this beautiful poem.

[JustAmy]

[JustAmy]

[JustAmy]

Graphic and Comments from St.Louie

"To invite someone is to take charge of his happiness
during the time he spends under your roof."
Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

[JustAmy]

[JustAmy]

I wonder if the cabbage knows
He is less lovely than the Rose;
Or does he squat in smug content,
A source of noble nourishment;

Or if he pities for her sins
The Rose who has no vitamins;
Or if the one thing his green heart knows --
That self-same fire that warms the Rose?

Anonymous

[JustAmy]

Give me champagne
I won't complain.
If that's the best you can do.

But if you've got class
Fill my glass
With Oklahoma homebrew.

Tom T. Hall

[The Mayor]

August 30, 2004

Ground Squirrels

Read: Romans 8:27-39

I was at ease, but He has shattered me. —Job 16:12

Bible In One Year: Psalms 129-131; 1 Corinthians 11:1-16

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Ground squirrels hibernate near our home during the winter, and they reappear when the snow melts in the spring. My wife Carolyn and I enjoy watching them scurry back and forth from one hole to another, while others stand like tiny sentries watching for predators.

In mid-May, a man from a nearby golf course arrives on a little green tractor with a tank loaded with lethal gas. The groundskeeper tells us that these little critters have to be eliminated because they dig holes in the fairways. Some survive, but most do not. It always makes us a little sad to see the tractor arrive.

If I could, I'd chase the little animals away. I'd destroy their holes and force them to settle someplace else. I'm sure they would resent my interference, but my actions would be solely for their good.

So it is with God. He may break up our comfortable nests now and then, but behind every difficult change lies His love and eternal purpose. He is not cruel or capricious; He is working for our ultimate good (Romans 8:28). He wants us to be "conformed to the image of His Son" (v.29) and to give us glorious enjoyment in heaven forever. How then can we fear change when it comes from Someone whose love for us never changes? (vv.38-39). —David Roper

What tenderness the Father shows
To sinners in their pain!
He grants to them His strength to bear
The hurt that brings them gain. —D. De Haan

God's love can seem harsh until we view it with hindsight.

[KangarooJacqui]

Nice idea.

Now. If only it'd sink through this agnostic's head.

Actually, I feel a bit like one of those ground squirrels - curled up and waiting for death to take me.

[NicknamedBob]

Hi, Jacqui.

Do I dare tell you a joke?

I just made it up, so it's probably not as funny as I think it is.

[KangarooJacqui]

Do I dare tell you a joke?

By all means. Just don't expect me to laugh. Not much Pretty much nothing at all makes me laugh right now. Sorry.

[NicknamedBob]

Didja hear about the earthworm with bi-polar disorder?

It couldn't get rid of the terrible taste in its mouth -- until it reversed direction!!

[KangarooJacqui]

That was almost as bad as my one about the computer with a wooden hard drive, a wooden CD-rom, and a wooden motherboard...

What was wrong with it, you ask? Simple. It wooden go.

[NicknamedBob]

You must have been board.

[NicknamedBob]

Bad pun, I know.

Buy hey! It's Punday in Australia. You know, Sunday, Monday, Punday ... (c.f. Spider Robinson)

[KangarooJacqui]

It's actually late Monday night here. I should be studying.

But naturally, I'm not.

By the time I get my qualifications, all the Info. Tech. jobs will have moved to Mumbai or New Delhi or wherever.

I knew I should have studied hairdressing.

[Terabitten]

Corn joke ping lol...