It is gonna get hot this week, several days of 97 degrees, which actually translates to over 100 degrees up here – and another ten to fifteen degrees hotter in the garden.

Plants, thus far are doing okay, but will need a lot of water.  Got the bill for last month’s usage and it was more than double what it was the month before.

Fresh vegetables, without a lot of chemicals, that taste amazingly good is our reward.  AND besides I don’t know what I would do with Carla if she couldn’t have a garden.

It is inbred in her to have flowers and vegetables grown by her own hands – it makes her very happy.

And as I get reminded, often, by Wendy, happy wife, happy life!

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Philippians 1:6  KJV  “Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:”

There are days I wonder if I can ever live up to God’s expectations of me.

I know I have failed Him in so many ways, my potential at 19, when I accepted Him, seems to never have come close to fruition.

I know it is a process, but I feel so inadequate at times, so tied into this world and the physical/mental needs that I have that serving Him sometimes takes a back seat.

It shouldn’t, I know that, but it does.

Yet, there is this promise.  One I can go back to over and over again, to remind myself that He never gives up, if we don’t.

“Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:”

I am so thankful for His patience and mercy, without them I would have been cast aside many years ago.

Indeed, I would have cast me aside if I had been Him.

But from the start of that first night at the altar where I gave my heart to Him He began a good work in me. 

“Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:”

While I have slipped and slid, He has always been there.

Each day is a new day, one that allows me to grow even closer to Him; which allows me to be directed by the Holy Spirit.

Where “Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:”

I will continue to grow.

Later, Art (-: