Weblog of Gwendolyn

I feel as if I have lost this year. End of winter tomorrow - Spring again, the blossoms are coming out on the ornamentals - beautiful. Dear God, We desperately need buckets of rain to make Spring worthwhile.

A week since Bob had his knee surgery - he is doing well.

The girls have been working in the office with us 2 years now!

Nine beautiful grand children, Jessica Lea says Nan! Nan! Nan! all the time, she is so gorgeous. What a blessing children are, and then the grand children. Harley is seven on Thursday. Julian one on 19/10; Hayden one 9/11 and Jessica Lea 25/11 with Shannon turning eight, same day. Thats only the end of year birthdays.!!How gloriously special.!! Heaven sent children who will develop heaven centred hearts.

It is so difficult to grasp that one year has almost past since we welcomed all the babies, now we will be watching them start walking, then running. All too soon there will be no more tiny tots to watch with credulous smiles of appreciation of baby development. Then the precious wonder as we witness them becoming little chatter boxes with opinions of their own. Heaps of questions for which truth must be provided. Life is too too short!! The joys pass so fast only to become prismic memories.

Have thought a lot  the last couple of days about Peter who just discovered he has a huge tumor in his throat - it feeds off an artery and will cause him to choke any day. Death so fast so unexpected - no health warning. In control of a trucking business one day and death sentenced the next.

Makes one realize that every day is so important. No time for anger, resentment. No time not to forgive anyone for some miserable misunderstanding. Every minute must be filled with genuine love, compassion and concern for all around. Family is everything. Looking into your chuildren's eyes and telling them how much they mean to you; in your heart there is a special section just for each of them. The great pride , we feel as parents, for their accomplishments. The value they have brought into our existence. The powerful joy we share as we all laugh together at work!! (We all work together in the same office- how grand is that?)

Remembering to tell our parents, elderly though they be, just how precious they are. We appreciate the wealth of knowledge and experience they have to share.

I am so blest! I have fantastic Health, a very precious and wonderful husband, five beautiful children to whom I gave birth and two gorgeous adult children we adopted. Nine delightful grand children.  

Dear God, thank you for the Everest of blessings I behold every day!!

From the moment the hearing of the foetus within the Mother's Womb can denote sound and words - those words begin to have a profound influence on that unborn child. All through our lives what we read and what we think and speak makes us who we are. That which we see and hear has a double impact. 

Language - the use of words colour and paint pictures for our imaginations all day long!! Words and their use are the most powerful instrument - to be used to enhance and enrich, to educate, uplift, encourage or to deflate, discourage, debase and deliver to depression Just like music "WORDS" can influence our emotions and our ambitions, indeed our very lives.

The Wise man once said, "As a man thinketh in His heart - so is he."

Words can develop great beauty and eloquence, paint the most glorious of pictures or bring the mind to a heavenly plain in which one can temporarily lose oneself. On the other hand, words can arouse rage, anger and the intent to murder.

All words should be truthful but regretfully we live in an age where lies lead the popularity ratings. We are constantly fed untruths by the media and by most with whom we associate.  Covering up the truth is the one way we humans tend to preserve SELF. Then during the course of preservation of self, the whole truth is usually lost and only the lies are left. During the precess our  characters are formed as liars. As we think, speak and act - we are.

How wonderful it is that we can live by the TRUTH, and become worthy citizens of the Community. To value oneself sufficiently to choose to live by a code of TRUTH. To acknowledge those with whom we associate enough to care for their hearing and knowledge that they only receive truth.

To raise our children to have values of honour, truth and compassion.

All this occurs through the lowly use of words. RIGHT WORDS. Beautiful words, soft and tender caressing  and encouraging WORDS.

Take the challenge today to use pure unadulterated Truthful words and build a gorgeous character that shows an aura of glorious beauty.

Having just opened my Blog and scanned a few sites and read alittle, it seems to me the World and its inhabitants are desperate for real LOVE and true compassion. Pain, suffering and loneliness appear to be the lot of most. The majority are apparently empty vessels not realizing they are empty and needing to be filled. How tragic!! 

Selfish demands and a desire to control seem to possess some. This leads to break down and fracture of the relationships and then the heartbreak of children being without one or maybe even two parents.

Hasn't the world become fully the devil's oyster and the occupants his slimy pearls not fit for anything.