Vintage – me! 50 years / half a century

Thank you to my husband and stepchildren for the time and effort afforded me in the preparations of my birthday party.  The beautiful dinner set and the lovely gift of ‘Opium perfume’.  My favourite fragrance of spice and fruit together with a touch of Sandal wood.  The fragrance lingers on my skin for a long time giving me the confidence and feel of femininity.  Hmm thank you for the gifts and time.

Thank you to my son Jean for the beautiful bouquet of flowers, it brightens up my day. 

Thank you to my son Jacques, Marizca and Gizel for the beautiful bouquet of fine bath salts, creams and lady lovely fragrances luxury bathing.  Thank you also for the beautiful status of the two cats and not forgetting the ‘Benjamin’.

Thank you to my daughter Odette, Johan and Anabelle for the lovely perfume, J’adore, the fragrance I really wanted and the smell of Ylang-Ylang essence, this exotic perfume smells great and makes me feel like a million dollars.  Not forgetting the lekker chocolate!

Andus and Yvette

Zelda, Mommy and Yvette

Thank you to my sister and her children for the beautiful bracelets and decorations for my party.  Really lovely and something I would remember always.  

Thank you to my mom and oom Frik for the lovely perfume ‘Moon drops’ this fragrance is almost the same as that of J’adore with the same ‘notes’ to it but a more vintage fragrance in the 1970’s super cool thank you mommy!

Thank you to my boss for sending me beautiful flowers – Barberton daisies – Carnations hmm really lovely in a beautiful tea cup! 

Thank you to my neighbour for the lovely bouquet of flowers.  Just stunning.

Most of all thank you to all my loved ones for making the time available to come and spend the day with me.  I had an awesome day with loads of fun and laughter.  You really mean the world to me and if I forgot anybody, thank you to you too.

With the glad comes the sad, thinking of my dad it made me realise that life is so short and that we should cherish each and every moment we have with our family and friends.  We don’t always get along but none of us are perfect.  My life could be over in a blink of an eye, but I thank the Lord my God for another year and hopefully a year filled with abundance of love, laughter, joy, happiness, kindness.

Blessing or Curses?

Gen 12: 3 ‘I will bless those who bless you.’

On reading this message today it struck me that I have been professing these words in my own life for as long as I can remember.

One thing is for sure people think they can judge one on your reputation and what they think of us; but praise God for judging us on our character, as He sees us from within.

Armed with this message I face today, I will thank the Lord my God for a beautiful day, filled with great opportunities.  I will look at the people that treat me with distain and disrespect and pray the Lord to heal their broken jealous hearts.  I will thank the Lord my God for untold blessings and supernatural favour, reaching the heavens.  With a spark in my eyes I can look the world in the face and know that this is the day that the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad in it.  Yummy some breakfast and then off to work I go. 

Grave ... ?

As I stand in a 6 foot grave looking up to my husband who was shovelling sand over me, I keep calling out to him, ‘please babe, let me come out of this grave.’  He just kept on shovelling the sand over me.  On waking up on Sunday morning I spoke to my husband and told him about my dream.  We discussed it and he felt that I was suppressing something or some feelings, or perhaps that I felt that someone was miss treating me.

Early this morning, I received a call from my daughter, just to let me know that her grandfather has passed away early this morning.

My question to you is, did I get a foreboding or was this just a coincidence? 

Life truly is short, and we need to keep our loved one’s close to us.

Stop taking live so seriously ....

^{Isaiah 66: 12} 

¹² This is what the Lord says:
“I will give Jerusalem a river of peace and prosperity.
    The wealth of the nations will flow to her.

New rules for my life starting from this very moment, I am going to stop taking life so seriously, no one leaves it alive now do they.  It is certain we all are travelling the same road at some stage in our lives we will meet our Maker.  This morning while I lay listening to the rain pouring outside, it struck me that I have so much to be grateful for.

This morning as I walk through the house I start by pleading the blood of Jesus Christ over each and every object in my house.  I dedicate my house back into the hands of the Lord Jesus Christ and pray over each bedroom, passage, bathroom, kitchen, lounge, dining room, stoeps, study and laundry.  I pray the Lord Jesus to send the Holy Spirit throughout my house and fill it with His presence.

My husband told me to lighten up and when I feel a negative thought plaguing my mind to replace it with something positive.  This morning I started, I prayed and ask the Lord to help me decide on my attitude of being happy and facing the day with a new strength and knowledge that God is in control over my life and I don’t have to worry about today, God knows best.

I walk to my car and as I sit listening to the radio, Angus was speaking and he posed the question of do you have a purpose in your life?  It struck me, I have lost mine.  What now? 

Humbly I come before the Lord and pray Lord please help me find out what my purpose is in this life of mine.

My God is an awesome God!!

Psalm 145: 18

The LORD is near to all who call upon Him, to all who call upon Him in truth. 

As I started my day, I realised again that it is really difficult to go out into the work place if I don’t have back-up.  I seem to be more afraid and more reserved than ever before.  Everything I attempt seems to be super difficult.  It seems I need strength for basic stuff, courage to face each day.  As I sit here and think of the day ahead of me all I can do is pray a prayer asking the Lord Himself to be with me as I seem to be so frail and scared.  

Lord God I will praise You for the help of Your countenance.  Lord Jesus I will trust in You with all my heart and lean not on my own understanding; in all I do today I will submit to YOU, and Lord You will make my paths straight.

Reminding myself to Bless the LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless YOUR Holy name!  Bless the LORD O my soul, and forget not all HIS benefits.

My the love of the Lord Jesus fill your hearts and minds today and take courage and know that God is the same today, yesterday and tomorrow.!!

Have an awesome day honey!