Amy's Place .. Poetry and Potpourri .. June 24-25-26, 2005

6-24-05 | JustAmy, St.Louie1, MamaBear, Billie

[JustAmy]

Welcome To....


'Amy's Place' welcomes all poets
and those who enjoy poetry. 'Amy's Place' is more than just about poetry.
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Never Forget!





Bad Penny



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the always charming, lovable, huggable,
LouieWolf




Many thanks for stopping by. : )

[DollyCali]

FOOTPRINTS...A New Version


Imagine you and the Lord Jesus are walking down the road together. For much of the way, the Lord's footprints go along steadily, consistently, rarely varying the pace.

But your footprints are a disorganized stream of zigzags, starts, stops, turnarounds, circles, departures, and returns.

For much of the way, it seems to go like this, but gradually your footprints come more in line with the Lord's, soon paralleling His consistently.

You and Jesus are walking as true friends!

This seems perfect, but then an interesting thing happens: Your footprints that once etched the sand next to Jesus' are now walking precisely in His steps.

Inside His larger footprints are your smaller ones, you and Jesus are becoming one.

This goes on for many miles, but gradually you notice another change. The footprints inside the large footprints seem to grow larger.

Eventually they disappear altogether. There is only one set of footprints they have become one. This goes on for a long time, but suddenly the second set of footprints is back. This time it seems even worse! Zigzags all over the place. Stops. Starts. Gashes in the sand. A variable mess of prints.

You are amazed and shocked. Your dream ends. Now you pray: "Lord, I understand the first scene, with zigzags and fits. I was a new Christian; I was just learning. But You walked on through the storm and helped me learn to walk with You."

"That is correct."

"And when the smaller footprints were inside of Yours, I was actually learning to walk in Your steps, following You very closely."

"Very good.. You have understood everything so far."

When the smaller footprints grew and filled in Yours, I suppose that I was becoming like You in every way."

"Precisely."

"So, Lord, was there a regression or some-thing? The footprints separated, and this time it was worse than at first."

There is a pause as the Lord answers, with a smile in His voice.

"You didn't know? It was then that we danced!"

To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven: A time to weep, a time to laugh, A time to mourn, and a time to dance. Ecclesiastes 3:1,4.

[alwaysconservative]

Beautiful! Thanks for the ping!

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

This MUST be bogus! No one ranches sheep and cattle together!

[snugs]

Sorry I have not been around much at Amy's place recently but I have been busy and also I am posting the dose twice a week so when I would normally drop in 2 days a week I am preparing the dose.

Will try to rectify this over the weekend with some more posts

[OESY]

It was a mad cow: She didn't know where she was.

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

There was only one cow amongst all those sheep? Sounds like a token cow.

[warsaw44]

To all you good folks at ' Amy's Place ' - Happy Swim Day!~

1944 P-38 Lightning Pilot " Curly " Cleverdon enjoying a beach on the pacific. Quite a fashion statement with his home made bullet swim suit!

C. 1890 Ready for the beach - or dinner.

C. 1880 Friends enjoying the beach, Long Beach CA

Ditto

Ditto

C. 1918 Girl friends enjoying the beach

C. 1890 Girl friends ready for the beach

C. 1925 Friends at the beach, Tampa Bay Florida

[jtill]

Thanks for the ping Dolly. I love that version of Footprints.

And, Ecclesiastes 3:1,4 was one of the last things I said to my son John.

[OESY]

"Who you callin' a token? Don't make me come down there and whip your ... cream."

[snugs]

Here is another one

[DollyCali]

wowsie.. simply wonderful photos.. thank you. Triggered a thought of a story my mom's family shares. They were very poor during depression & mom's dad died when she was 11 leaving 7 children. Sharing was the word on toys, skates, bike etc.

and even THE BATHING SUIT. Boys & girls shared one bathing suit & they would yell at each other to hurry up it was MY turn etc. can you imagine? our kids are a little spoiled? and me? I have close to 30 bathing suits. Wear them all the time in good weather. go out, put shorts/shirt etc atop.

[DollyCali]

Swim Day.. how special. A day honoring Teddy "the swimmer" Kennedy.. (gag)..well, I guess that would be "swimmer day" wouldn't it?

[warsaw44]

30 bathing suits!? Yikes!

The older bathing suits for ladies ( c. 1890 ) look as if they would weigh a ton when wet. I think the modesty for at the time was charming. However - I doubt few of the ladies did once their suits were soaking wet and covered with sand.

[lysie]

Oh my!! I remember pictures like that...my gram and gramp...

Wonderful!!

Dolly, sharing in families...something that should be done....naturally.

Thank your for sharing....;-)

[DollyCali]

I get most of my clothing at the second hand shops.. things go thru washer & I love them & prolly have paid less for all these bathing suits combined than I used to pay for ONE suit years ago when I had a fairly substantial income.

Leaving for evening.. ya'll play nice!!!

[JustAmy]

Sorry that I didn't get back to you.

I shut down for what I thought would be a short time. When I tried to get back online, I could not get an internet connection.

I'm on dial up now so it may take me awhile to get anything posted.

Thank you for keeping the thread alive and interesting while I was unavailable.

[JustAmy]

Wonderful .... that is a beautiful new version of Footprints. Thank you, Dolly.

Hope you had a good Friday.

[JustAmy]

I understand .... I enjoy the Dose and the Finest but don't spend as much time either place as I would like.

We enjoy your visits whenever you come by. We all love seeing pictures of our President and our Vice President. You have a wonderful collection.

[JustAmy]

Oh ..... Thank you, Warsaw44. These pictures are wonderful. I love looking at old pictures. They are precious.

Welcome to Amy's Place. I hope you come back again with or without pictures. :)

Hope you had a good Friday and are having a wonderful weekend.

[JustAmy]

Cute ...... thanks, Snugs.