Hope in Spring

Today is a warm sunny day or at least it appears so. As spring comes around and Easter is next week I encourage you to reach out to others. It is a time of Hope it is a time of giving but it is a time when many are without jobs many going through desperate times. We need to understand that Spring means to give new life to those who's hearts are heavy. In truth that surely is what Christ did for all of us. I know in encouraging others I find hope. In seeing a yellow Daffodil and laughing as a child chase a balloon in all these things there is Hope. Hope is in things truly we cannot see. It is in reaching down to the depths of our desperation and saying with God we are nothing but in Him we are everything.So where ever you are today send some Hope to someone else you will not only brighten their day but also yours.
Wishing you lots of tasty English Delights.

Easter blessings.

If you are buying flowers in a pot this Easter how about putting a plastic bag around the flowers at the bottom and then put sweets/candies or Easter eggs around the base of them. It sure would be a sweet idea with a double blessing for spring with the sweets.
Another idea is buy a flower pot put something at the bottom to fill up the hole like cookies or cut out a plastic circle out of a milk container so that you can put that in the base of the flower pot. Then crush up some cookies whatever you want, now you can either fill this with ice cream or you can fill it up with pudding then put more cookies on top. Then plant lollies in the pot or you can plant one big lolly in it. The pot should be painted. You can paint names on the pots and use these at a party or you can fill the pots with sweets and give them at Easter.
The flower pots can be as big as you want these can go into a hospital or be given to a friend.
Well enjoy be creative.
Wishing you lots of tasty English Delights.

Notes of kindness.

My girls are with their dad this weekend, I will spend Mothers Day alone. I decided I know who I am I will be my girls mother always I don't have to a special day for that nor a photo around my neck to know how much my children mean to me. The girls left notes around the house and a friend sent me a card. It made me laugh, cry and remind me how fortunate I am.
If you have a few moments call or email or write a note or say some words of kindness. The road I am on is very tough but every word of Hope helps me to push on.
Be encouraged and encourage others.
Wishing you lots of tasty English Delights.

Herbs of joy

Well spring is finally coming. The Little Herb house of Holland Church Road in Raleigh will open this Saturday March 13th. Lisa Treadaway the owner will open it for another year her wonderful charming smile and her love for herbs overflows. But the truth is Lisa lives a life where God shines through. There are few people that i know that live a life where what they say they do. Lisa and her husband have found the balance of giving and also sharing what God has blessed them with. I encourage you to go and visit her this year. You will find her heart warming smile a pleasure and a restorer to any bleak day. I also encourage you to think how your life could shine a part of Christ through. Maybe it is in simply sharing a cup of tea or simply reading a book to an older friend whatever it is this coming year give with a cheerful heart you will find blessing and find a new you in doing that.
Wishing you lots of tasty English Delights.

Friends of hope

This weekend was the first weekend my girls stayed with their dad. I went and stayed with some friends. It is amazing how God works both had flannel sheets for the beds,both offered inviting movies and both offered a hug and tea. Memories of days in my childhood flooded in. The warm sheets the warm home the pots of flowers that I use to draw perhaps a part of me was reawakening from the sleep of time. Perhaps a new dawn was been birthed in me.
Whatever you are going through there is a door that leads to find you and loving who you will become. As I put on cornfielddreams I am reading a book about Psalm 27 take a moment to read it too. Perhaps it will encourage you. I hope so.
Wishing you lots of tasty English Delights.

Good friends and a meal shared.

A new friend mine came by and had supper with us yesterday. It was so nice to sit with a friend and go for a walk, we played cards and laughed. She shared her broccoli and we shared our home. How fun this all was in a time of my life when normality seams so far from my reach. It was lovely to take a walk hug one of my dogs and laugh a long the way. We promised to do it again.
It is amazing how a simple yes you can come over to my house can open up a friendship how often we never ask in fear of been rejected but in truth if we opened up our homes we may find a new friendship. I don't know how long I will be in this home but I do know that while I am here it is a home where I want people to laugh in and be themselves.
So where ever you are today take a moment to think of someone you could reach out to that person may become a new friend all you can do is try.
Wishing you lots of tasty English Delights.

Cup of kindness

I have a friend who has this amazing drink machine it makes an awesome cup of drinking chocolate we sit by the fire and enjoy each others company. But in truth they have many friends and their home is open up with many cups of kindness. It has taught me that even in my own life that seams a mess a cup of kindness costs nothing. Sit on a bench or by a fire enjoy a drink whatever it is and just listen. It is amazing how much a person learns about giving even when their life is crashing down a simple smile can bring healing a simple hug ,simply listening and a simple just been there for another can change how life is for both people and in truth they become closer maybe for life.
Wishing you lots of tasty English Delights.