Blackberries - sweet, wonderful fruit found on extremely thorny vines.
Blessings - sweet, wonderful, undeserved, and random awesomeness found both in the good moments and the thorny moments of our lives.
Blessings (some of the Blackberry variety):
1. On October 30th, Christine Tyler will host a piece of my grandmother's story, "The Horse in the Well". She picked a handful of authors to interview or host at her blog during Sparkfest, and being picked for that encouraged me and wowed me at just the right moment. Thanks Christine! Sparkfest Interviewees
2. Anticipating my poem "here or there" being published on-line at Every Day Poets on October 5th.
3. Just received an e-mail acceptance yesterday from Susan May James who is publishing my story "Bridge Snap" in the Sunday Snaps: The Stories anthology.
4. We watched our daughters dance at the fair on Friday night. They did great! And I think it is their last time tap dancing with a tricycle and jumpropes.
5. We enjoyed hanging out with dance friends at the fair, eating curly fries (cooked in the right oil for us), drinking all fruit smoothies, eating baked potatoes and cotton candy. My husband had a piroshky. Five girls rode on the Tilt-A-Whirl together. My family went on the big wooden roller coaster twice. We packed tons of fun in just 6 hours.
6. Our friends’ daughter had a day out from the walls of the hospital with her family yesterday. They didn’t get to go very far, but they were able to be someplace different, in the sunshine, together.
7. We visited with them yesterday, and the girls played a highly competitive game of Sorry.
8. Time together as a family, at home and out and about.
9. The last of the blackberries at the turn of the seasons.
10. The book of Hebrews.
Have you eaten any blackberries lately? Experienced any blackberry blessings?
Scripture Blessings:
“We must pay more careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away. For if the message spoken by angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment, how shall we escape if we ignore such great salvation?” Hebrews 2:1-3a
“But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.” Hebrews 2:9
“For this reason he had to be made like his brothers in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people. Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.” Hebrews 2:17-18
5 comments:
A friend of mine just gave us a jar of FRESH blackberry jam. So yummy and flavorful. I made biscuits just for the occasion, so I could use it on those. Delish.
Sounds like you had FUN at the fair. :) And woo!--congrats for your story being accepted into the anthology! Thanks for sharing your blessings about your life and in Hebrews. We ARE blessed.
Carol - Blackberry jam is super yummy! We are saving ours until October 1st, but we test-tasted it the day we made it . . . so my kids have tried to open it early twice now . . .
Thanks for sharing your blessings too!!!
Those are all wonderful blessings! And even though I don't own one, when I saw the word blackberry I thought of phone instead of food. Yeah, just a little too mired in tech...
Alex - LOL - too mired in tech - I admit when I think of blackberry in the singular instead of plural I think of the phone. Thanks!!!
I haven't visited in a while, but it is wonderful to see you are still listing your blessings! Neat that you have blessings from your writing, also with your family, and finally from the Word of God!
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