Words Have Escaped Me!

Sometimes I am amazed that words flow so easily from my brain to paper and then there are times like lately where the mind seems to have gone blank. Maybe it is on summer vacation as well. I wonder where have they gone? Blank....My mind has gone blank. Which leads to no blog posts but then I thought does anyone really read this anyway? Does anyone really care if I have words or not? I am not sure I am looking for an answer...just letting this thought flow out to the void. It is not like many stop for tea and maybe that is not the point of the blog...hmmm. Food for thought!!! Well as you can see I have written about absolutely nothing. So if you made it this far, I hope you have a great day until our teacups meet again.

Blessings as always,
Tammy

Happy Fourth of July

Happy 4th of July to all of my dear friends and family. May we take time to reflect on the men and women who are fighting for our freedom today. May we be thankful and not take for granted the many freedoms we have. Without our men and women who sacrificed for our country we would not be where we are today. Thank you for all you do and to your families who sacrifice so much for us. Until our teacups meet again, may you be with family and friends today and celebrating our freedom with joy and love.

Blessings as always,
Tammy

My Thought Closet

I can hardly believe that it is July. Would you believe I saw a commercial for back to school. I was aghast at that thought. Being a teacher I am not ready to go down that road just yet. Now onto my thoughts here. I have been doing the summer bible study over at the LPM blog. It is a study by Jennifer Rochschild called Me, Myself and Lies. As we progress through this study we are making a makeover of our thoughts. I must say my closet definitely needs a makeover. As I have dug into this study I have found myself surprised by some of the thoughts that make up my closet. Let us just say they do not all reflect Christ. As I learned today we need to make our thoughts reflect Jesus and not let the enemy put sticky labels that are not truth become part of our wardrobe. Something that really struck me today was when Jennifer said our life's wardrobe is directly affected by what is in our thought closets. So we have to renew and tidy them up so they focusing on things above not worldly things. This led me to a verse that I want pressed on my heart so I have decided to make it one of my verses to memorize this month.

May the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart

be pleasing in your sight O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer.

Psalm 19:14

Talk about hitting the nail on the head. This verse did and it has come back to me many times this week. God wants us to have thoughts of His truth and pleasing. It is easy to get caught up in what the world thinks and putting it in our thought closets. They tend to become "truth" but in reality they are lies and not what God thinks at all. That was a real eye opener for me this week. So as I meditate on my words and thoughts I want them to be pleasing to my loving Father above and when they are not, I want to acknowledge that and ask for His help. Did you know that women have around 51,000 thoughts go through their heads daily? Talk about a crowded mind sometimes. Made me wonder how many of them are God's way of thinking? Just a bit of food for thought. Until our teacups meet again, I pray you have a wonderful day.

Blessings as always,

Tammy

Another Quilt To Delight

It is hard to believe I have finished another quilt. I am usually one of those artists who dilly-dallies with it for a while. This quilt was easy to do and lots of fun. It went to my granddaughter Jaden who has a thing for purple like me. I smile at that. The girl is after my heart. Until our teacups meet again I hope your day has been blessed.

Blessings as always,
Tammy

Life's Moments

I am simply amazed at how God works sometimes. I have had a day of butterfly moments. I love that. Sometimes I think God is not really getting what I am praying about and then He shows me just how well He does listen. I am amazed at how fellow people who don't know us offer to help when in need. I am amazed at how the very person I was thinking I had not talked to in a while, picked up the phone and said I was thinking of you. I am like wow!! God often answers in His gentle way and definitely in His time. I love how He lets me know He has been along side all the time. So today I have had a few butterfly moments that I will treasure in my heart. Some will never truly know how much they made my day, but that is ok. I hope to return the favor to them sometime when they are in need. You never know how God is going to use you and I have come to the conclusion I need to be on better alert so I don't miss out on that opportunity. I was blessed so it only seems fitting that I would get the chance to pass that same kindness on to someone. It makes a difference to that person but I think even more to the one who extended their heart in kindness and gave a butterfly moment. If I could hug the wonderful siestas who made my day today, I certainly would. But for now I will hope they have on glittering butterfly wings and shine for Jesus. Until our teacups meet again, I hope you have had a butterfly moment for your heart.

Blessings as always,
Tammy