http://www.blogigo.co.uk/BlueLadyMiriam That's the world from my perspective - with a free weblog from blogigo. en BlueLadyMiriam BlueLadyMiriam Fri, 15 Sep 2006 11:47:00 +0200 daily 1 To catch a rainbow, to catch a moment, to carch the essence of Sprintime.!!   The awakening of life from the frozen cold soil with such colours only a Heavenly Artist could supply. As the sap begins to flow again through the trees and shrubs bringing forth the blossoms of the wattle, ornamental plum, peach, jasmin and all the fruit trees. Daffodils, snowdrops and jonquils  all dancing in the breeze releasing their fragrance to delight  the senses. The heady perfumes ride the wind drifts causing a sweet second, a delicious moment captured and grasped with a hunger for the energizing of the warmth  of a caressing sunshine, that confirms the re emergence of life. How rapidly has our September slipped through our grasp. If only we could catch time and hold on to  these glorious days of spring.   Such a special time of year!! Watching new birth, so awe inspiring and wonderful.  It fills the heart with a humbling gratitude for God given life.  Without God there is no life!!  It is through... Fri, 15 Sep 2006 11:47:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/BlueLadyMiriam/Slippery-Springtime-September/19/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/BlueLadyMiriam/Slippery-Springtime-September/19/ Today could have been almost considered springtime  but a little wind erased that possibility. Pleaseant indoors away from that breeze. Not too long now until all the glory of spring breaks forth with new life rising out of the frozen earth.  We do need rain to bring about this delightful transformation though.  Scarsely did we have time to hover in July and August has burst upon us reminding us that winter is passing quickly just like our very days. Who has ever experienced such a vanishing year? I took out some old photographs this morning and gazed in wonder at how we have progressed through the years ulmost unaware that time has elapsed with a soundless rush. I have enjoyed a very secure marriage for 37 years and when starring at a photograph taken of my husband and I before we were married - we are just so very young in appearance. Had to digest the fact  that it really was us! We have matured faster than a block of camembert. To be fair, we have also developed around us a gorgeous... Sat, 12 Aug 2006 08:18:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/BlueLadyMiriam/Aureate-August-Sunny-Windy-Dry/18/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/BlueLadyMiriam/Aureate-August-Sunny-Windy-Dry/18/ July will surely endeavour to outdo June.  Her icy tentacles constantly wrapped around us, chilling to the very bones. Blasts of freezing winds encouraging the desire to remain indoors. Not that we have snow here, but the  southerlies and westerlies have been sweeping around those snowy slopes before swooping in around us.  Severe frosts have ensured that all the grass crackles underfoot. What the drought did not kill off the winter's cold has everything brown and lifeless.  Trees and shrubs tingle with cold and thirst - so cold the frost almost freezes the leaves. This year the frosts have been very possessive, hanging on long after the sun has arisen, glaring down instructions to depart.  Frosty lingers on, Sun has warming influence, melt comes, allowing prisms to flash here and there, as the thaw proceeds. Sunshine always sends frost scampering off eventually. We had a small grey kangaroo snacking in our top house paddock most of the afternoon. Not that... Sat, 01 Jul 2006 12:29:48 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/BlueLadyMiriam/July-s-jaunty-wintery-Jogs/17/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/BlueLadyMiriam/July-s-jaunty-wintery-Jogs/17/ Today has been a real true bleak winter offering. It tried desperately to rain, but what a huge disappointment. So few showers of any benefit. The ground so parched, the shrubs dropping leaves in an effort to just hang in there till the rain.  God knows our needs and will supply when He knows it is the precise moment. I will trust in His care. The frosts have been so icy, so today was a change from that scene. Apparently southerly winds will slice across our faces tomorrow confirming winter's grip.  We just purchased new rugs for our horses and managed to get them dressed up last night, before the slight showers drizzled silently upon the rooftop. That, I think is what is soo.... very disappointing. The hard rain on an iron roof is such a splendid lullaby. Such an assurance that all is OK. Rain brings life!!  It lays the dust, washes all the leaves on the trees and sparkles on branches naked of foliage. Bathes the native and bush animals returning their dignity. Birds just love a shower... Sat, 10 Jun 2006 09:38:26 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/BlueLadyMiriam/June-s-Journey-into-Winter-s-Depths/16/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/BlueLadyMiriam/June-s-Journey-into-Winter-s-Depths/16/ Beginning of May saw me really quite ill, so  May 7, my precious husband drove me to a Health Retreat at Kin Kin, a very mountainous part of Queensland's Sunshine Coast Hinterland. Very Green! Actually a very pretty spot. At my arrival I felt so dreadful, tummy so upset, the journey had been difficult, all 4 and 1 half hours of it.  There were twenty-four other Guests with two Carers accompanying two MS Suffers. After the welcoming lunch, I retreated to a couch, having serious dizzy spells. During that first afternoon I had a consultation with the Naturapath. Monday the cleansing programme started seriously for all.  I realized some of the folk had really major problems. I did too, but a lot of mine had been created by entertaining negative thought processes. By Tuesday I was so weak, I pleaded to have food rather than continue to fast.(Had been on a fast for 6 weeks previously, anyhow, because my digestive system was completely sick, could scarcely eat what a sparrow would... Sat, 20 May 2006 07:50:40 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/BlueLadyMiriam/May-s-Marvelous-Moments/15/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/BlueLadyMiriam/May-s-Marvelous-Moments/15/ After near drought ended March, heavenly rain ushered in our stunning April. The earth was washed clean and bright. The rain took all the dust off the flora and fauna!! Now, what gorgeous days, so picture perfect. During March the leaves began falling all too soon because of the deathly dry, so we see naked trees with their spindly branches swaying in the gentle breezes.  Pre autumn leaves scattered endlessly across the yard promoting thoughts of a huge, necessary clean-up but no enthusiam can be raised for such a task. Lets delegate that to nature's broom  - the wind. Sure to be back any day now!   Since my last posting have had a wonderful blessing in health matters. One of the medicines that I had to swallow tasted so bad! A massive dose of self analysis forced me to see my lack of belief in God's promises was one of the causes of my desperate anxiety. Fear can truly make one so sick!! We are told men's hearts will fail for fear of those things which will come upon the... Mon, 03 Apr 2006 14:43:53 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/BlueLadyMiriam/April-s-Awesome-Autumn-Annotations/14/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/BlueLadyMiriam/April-s-Awesome-Autumn-Annotations/14/ At point of writing I am struggling with another bout of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Have been on this battle ground since early December. Thought I was enjoying a victory however, the enemy reared his ugly head and down I am with a weakness I am stunned by.  My heart pounds with palpitations so weird and scary, so very tired, no energy and suffering such dreadful insomnia. Some mornings I do not want to rise out of bed because when I do my heart will start to go crazy. Then anxiety arises and I feel like I need to empty and already empty stomack. Fear is an enemy we all encounter frequently. But to my shame, I should know better because the Best Book tells me that perfect love casteth out fear. Where is my perfect love and devotion to the Provider of this miracle love? I am physically ill, my body tells me "I cannot go on". But is the basis of my fatigue due to a battle for possession of my heart and Soul? I am forced to focus on this issue and plead mercy. I am aware that there are two powers who... Mon, 06 Mar 2006 11:23:08 +0100 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/BlueLadyMiriam/March-s-Musings/13/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/BlueLadyMiriam/March-s-Musings/13/ Just recently our neice who was five months into her first pregnancy had to suffer a termination due to some very sad abnormalities. No one can fathom the reasons for these terrible trials. What words should be said? How do we handle smashed dreams and hopes? Emotions so raw, pain so deep - it is almost inexpressible!! The grief that struggles up out of the wounded heart is so intense it is like a volcano that rumbles with such pent up seismic power -it just has to explode. Even after the expression of the internal turmoil is over the pain lingers on and an emptiness leaves one in a stupifying numbness. In times like these we have only one source of comfort and He is the Eternal Physician. The One who actually shares our grief and pain. He understands the loss and the emptiness of the soul and arms. The torn and bleeding heart that seeks rest and consolation. For it is said, "In all their affliction, He was afflicted, and the Angel of His presence saved them, in His love and in His pity He... Tue, 07 Feb 2006 13:48:49 +0100 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/BlueLadyMiriam/February-s-Flounderings-and-Findings/12/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/BlueLadyMiriam/February-s-Flounderings-and-Findings/12/ January how fast you hit me! Just enjoying those few days of year end break and wow! you smashed into my thoughts and December just escaped your thundering entrance.  I do not set goals or resolutions because like most, my failings scream at me all too soon. But I have high hopes, to use my time more wisely!! Take more family time, sharing meals - all twenty-one of us together. Give more praise to all my children for their just being ours. More hugs! Definitely less time devoted to work, I wish!! But the Everest of papers that always occupy my desk do not know of my inner plans to work less. The snowcapped paper pile grows at a stready pace and even though I chop away at the base, I seem to lack Hilary's skills and I certainly lack a Sherpa!! January, only nine days in and we have had one birthday and one family luncheon. We are doing so well already!! Great excitement with the arrival of another horse for the girls to work so the owner can feel more comfortable with him. It is not the horse... Mon, 09 Jan 2006 14:01:01 +0100 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/BlueLadyMiriam/January-Jottings/11/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/BlueLadyMiriam/January-Jottings/11/ December brings the Big Christmas thing when everyone supposedly celebrates the birth of Christ but really for most its an excuse to over eat and become totally intoxicated with alcohol or some other mind blowing liquid or substance.  There are so few who know the truth about Christ and when he was born. The world has been led by the nose by the usual method. "False Religion" For those who have studied this issue, christmas is a non event. December ushers out one year and allows all the aspirations for the new to be listed. A time to reflect on the past years experiences, the joys, the achievements, the personal development, the losses which all add up to make the continuing growth of the inner self.  Where did I fail this year and how did I overcome and achieve a greater understanding in various areas that made me a better person. Watching all the children grow, becoming little people with personalities and ideas which make them all so very special. (Grand children are a very precious... Sat, 10 Dec 2005 08:30:46 +0100 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/BlueLadyMiriam/December-s-Desires/10/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/BlueLadyMiriam/December-s-Desires/10/ Listened to a very interesting Lecture on Revelation 13 & 17 yesterday. Wow! are we in the last of the last days. This new and present Pope is the last one before the final appearance of the prince of darkness  who will reveal himself as christ. The greatest deception awaits earth's millions. The majority have sold their souls to perdition anyhow!! Deceived by their churches and mislead by error all their lives. What a day that will be!! But for the seeking soul; we know that prayer from the sin tormented broken hearted soul cause the harps of heaven to thrill with music, the tears of the contrite are caught by God and treasured in the Heavenly lachrymatory. God notes those whispered, agonizing and sorrowful utterings in the registry of His memory, He puts our prayers, like rose petals between the pages of His Book of remembrance, and when the volume is finally opened, there shall be a precious fragrance springing up therefrom. Prayer gains audience with heaven in the dead of night or in... Sun, 06 Nov 2005 08:39:53 +0100 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/BlueLadyMiriam/November-s-Notations/9/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/BlueLadyMiriam/November-s-Notations/9/ Birthdays everywhere this month. Special family luncheon tomorrow we are celebrating Dell's 17th birthday, Daddy's we won't say, Julian is one on 19th, cousin Nathan celebrates on the 20th and on it goes. Mud cake with marsipan icing!  Most of the immediate family will be with us. So will be great for a lovely family get together. Fabulous rain tonight with gentle showers through the afternoon. Praise God! How we need these showers. Nice quiet day today. Stayed in bed a litle longer this morning resting after my not so well week. heading into Cronic Fatigue Syndrome again I think. So started into naturpathic drops again and the same routine that helped me last time. It is pretty scary how this thing can sneak up. So unexpectedly! I did not think I was stressed, but then I guess we never do! Its all just the rush of life. And what for?? To pay more tax to Johnny boy and all his fat cats. Bureaucracy gone mad with too many administrators bleeding the coffers and producing nothing other than shiny... Sat, 15 Oct 2005 13:24:30 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/BlueLadyMiriam/October-Offerings/8/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/BlueLadyMiriam/October-Offerings/8/ Firstly - thank you to the visitors who have taken a quick look at my diary notations. I am honoured! So interesting to observe the subtle changes that take place in our lives! Our values, religious beliefs, moral standards, manners or lack thereof, use of language. Once upon a time, all religious bodies had very high moral standards and acceptable behaviour codes, which over time have deteriorated;  now anything goes as long as they get the numbers in the door. Young people can: abuse alcohol, swear, be promiscuous, dishonour their parents, one way or another, but wow! doesn't matter, if you want to rock to their band, come on in, even the music, so called "Sacred" can rock and roll as long as it has the word "Jesus", its good!! It's all so amazing, twill be very interesting to observe the Final Judgement  Day too. Everyone who felt safe in his church and surely saved just may come unstuck!! The devil will laugh as his drains out the GLUE that should have kept it all together!!... Mon, 26 Sep 2005 13:54:31 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/BlueLadyMiriam/Life-Review-demoralizing/7/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/BlueLadyMiriam/Life-Review-demoralizing/7/ So thankful for Friday - closing another work week and bringing blessed rest on the morrow. Looking back over the days - really busy!! A pleasant work week with not too many complaining clients. Today had a real spring air about it. Summer will be hot!! Sent emails to the Writers and Scribblers group to make submission for our next writer's activity - to write an article/story using the words:- Hubristic, Intrigue, Embarrassment, Pilosity, Pragmatic, Dregs. (Good challenge) Any reader/Writer out there have a go and send a submission to me. One of the members of the Writer's Group has quit! Very sad. Wonder why!! Politically this week - noted that the majority of world leaders have a serious disease - Liars Syndrome. It affects them in a distinct manner.  The populations of  these countries suffer too. Never know the truth!! Our menu has been rotten bread for so long none of us knows the flavour of sweet bread. Most of these countries are is debt to the World Bank! So who owns who??... Fri, 09 Sep 2005 13:18:32 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/BlueLadyMiriam/Friday-Bliss-and-new-Writer-s-Challenge/6/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/BlueLadyMiriam/Friday-Bliss-and-new-Writer-s-Challenge/6/ Watched 60 Minutes tonight about global warming. Scientists are seriously worried. Then the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans etc. It does not take the mind of a rocket scientist to recognize that the world is jettisoned on a death roll from which there is no return. God save His people!!It is not only the warming with much hotter winters and far worse summers, the terrible water shortages. There is a major shortfall in the wet seasons now there ever before in history. Isn't it amazing that people in general do not stop to think about these facts. It is so true the public  have become so full of apathy and the politicians more corrupted. No one knows what is truth and even fewer bother to find out the truth. Dell is sick with chicken pox we think, and the poor dear is really suffering a serious bout. Because her symptoms did not match my medical reference  encyclopaedia I was thrown by the variations. Thank God for herbal therapy. It is helping tremendously. Praise God... Sun, 04 Sep 2005 14:26:06 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/BlueLadyMiriam/A-Dying-Earth/5/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/BlueLadyMiriam/A-Dying-Earth/5/ 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... Tue, 30 Aug 2005 14:27:14 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/BlueLadyMiriam/The-Evaporation-of-Time/4/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/BlueLadyMiriam/The-Evaporation-of-Time/4/ 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... Wed, 24 Aug 2005 13:51:25 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/BlueLadyMiriam/Life-Really-Does-Take-Strange-Turns/3/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/BlueLadyMiriam/Life-Really-Does-Take-Strange-Turns/3/ 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... Sun, 21 Aug 2005 08:34:50 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/BlueLadyMiriam/Exposition-Words-The-Power-the-Written-Spoken-Word/2/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/BlueLadyMiriam/Exposition-Words-The-Power-the-Written-Spoken-Word/2/ 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. Sat, 20 Aug 2005 13:16:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/BlueLadyMiriam/A-World-that-needs-LOVE-Charity/1/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/BlueLadyMiriam/A-World-that-needs-LOVE-Charity/1/