‘tis hard to believe that today is Wednesday the 27^th of April, in the year 2016 seems only yesterday that we were celebrating the arrival of the new year – the year 2000!

Today the weather is mild, and windy.  Carla is still busy transplanting and is keeping me busy with cutting up milk bottles.

The oldest date I happened to notice on the cartons was July 12, 2015.  We usually drink about 4-6 half gallons of milk a week and that coupled with orange juice coming in the same size container she saves about 300 +/- a year.  We have used them all plus some given back to her.

It is not inexpensive, but it is not all that expensive either – and it gives her great pleasure to ‘play in the dirt’ and watch the plants grow.  Not to mention giving them away – as we will also do with extra tomatoes during the growing season.

Her lettuce, potatoes and peas also seem to be doing well – then of course her flowers are also starting to peek out of the soil and/or produce the flowers.  She has Dahlias, Roses, Fuchsias, Begonias, and a bunch of others.

She is barely staying a head of the bees.....

1 Kings 3:5-7 n Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.

⁶ And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.

⁷ And now, O Lord my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.

King David.  In all his imperfections, David loved God.  He sinned, often with very serious consequences; yet, He came back to God and asked His forgiveness.

Even though he submitted to satan’s temptations over and over again, he was never far from God’s heart, and he was forgiven his inequities.

In David we have the example of God’s great love and willingness to lead man in His ways.  Even though David sinned, even though he was a flawed man, he understood his weaknesses and yielded to God.  His heart’s ambition was to serve God, even from a young age.

In Jewish history (and ours) he is listed with the great leaders of the Old Testament, Abraham, Moses, Noah, Daniel among them.

These men were human, subject to the same passions and fears we have.  They were tempted and sometimes yielded to those temptations, yet, they were quick to understand they had sinned and were forgiven.

Luke 22:60-61  And Peter said, Man, I know not what thou sayest. And immediately, while he yet spake, the cock crew.

⁶¹ And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.

Mark 16:7  But go your way, tell his disciples and Peter that he goeth before you into Galilee: there shall ye see him, as he said unto you.

The stalwart of the Church was Peter.  He had denied Christ and as such he knew what that meant. 

Mathew 10:32-34 Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.

³³ But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.

Peter, who had boldly boasted that he would never forsake Jesus denied Him and was in danger of losing his salvation.

But once again, God forgave the foibles of a man and Peter became the truly great leader of the Church.

I think, often, of these two men.  I relate with their weaknesses, their falling away from God.

But I have great hope that as they were forgiven and used by God, He will do the same for me.

Later, Art :-)