We chose a Common Spotted Orchid as our calendar picture for June - a COMMON Spotted Orchid. Hyacinth Bucket - sorry Bouquet - would not have given our calendar house room this year.
Saturday was a very stormy day, wonderful waves, Sunday was sunny but not warm. I pixellated myself to the Kingdom Hall on Sunday morning, even though Col was at home - no detecting, on either Saturday or Sunday!
He would have been able to help me dress and chauffeur me, but my right foot was so swollen and painful I could hardly walk, let alone get it into a shoe. It was a comforting meeting, reminding us that we can be strong and endure IF we rely on Jehovah to give us the strength.
And this is a phrase from the public talk I want to hold on to. The speaker pointed out that whatever problems and stresses we are going through, it is "only a single page in our life story".
Yes. If we inherit the earth, and live forever upon it, and are to be joyful forever, it does put whatever we are going through now into its right perspective. Our lives, even at best, are so short now, so quickly gone.
Col was a bee of busyness making his chutney, which he does about once a year. As I have probably said before, when he made it in Saudi, we could go out and pick fresh dates to go in it. Which was not something I had ever expected to be doing.
A pair of pigeons are trying to build a nest in the downpipe on our balcony - which will be a disaster if we don't stop them. Col has filled it up with wire again, and we had the balcony door open for a while to deter them. They clearly need to find somewhere soon, and I can only hope they will.
Oh for the time when God's Kingdom is ruling over the earth and we can help all the little creatures on it to find safe and secure nests in which to bring up their families. There will be such happiness in being able to care for the earthly creation properly.
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