Island of Spice - Grenada

Grenada – Island of Spice

Looking at my blog stats I have noticed that someone in Grenada is reading my blog.  How awesome is that!  As far as I know Grenada is an island of spice and it most probably is a beautiful place to live. 

 The people living in Grenada are probably on holiday 24/7.  I am sure they live their lives of peace, love, happiness, kindness, honesty, enthusiasm; they must be open-minded and spontaneous.   Passionate about life!

I wonder what kinds of jobs if any would people in Grenada be doing?  Growing some kind of spice?  I wonder what their religion would be and would they also believe in Jesus Christ or not?   

I suppose there must be very wealthy people living there with big ships in the harbour.  Hmmm what do you say?  Would you let me know how wonderful it is to live in your country?

Rubbish in Rubbish out . . . . God in ... God out!

Psalm 145: 20 ‘He protects everyone who loves him, but he will destroy the wicked.’ 

Starting my day I went out to drop off a jumping castle to a crèche.  As we drove up to the school I noticed that the black dustbin bags were lying outside the gate.  One of the bags has been opened and rubbish was strewn around the gate.

Both I and my step daughter looked at it and though that perhaps they could have gotten another bag and picked up the rubbish.  Obviously it doesn’t bother them. 

It seems life has truly changed to such an extent that most people are too busy to clean up around them.  They don’t mind a little mess; someone else will clean up after them.  Hmm

It is my prayer that the Lord will protect me, I love Him and I really want to please Him.  I don’t want the wicked to be destroyed but that they may be saved.   The truth of the matter is they don’t care about God and all this stuff, they will still live as they have because they don’t think it’s wrong.

Silver and Gold

‘All the silver and gold of the world is mine.’ Hag. 2: 8

As I started my day I walked into my study and prayed Lord please give me a word for today.  I like to receive a promise out of the Lords little box of promises which I keep on my desk.  I opened the lid of this little green box and took a card out and this was the promise.

‘All the silver and gold of the world is mine.’  How awesome is that!  It is because that means when God wants to He can give to whom He feels like.

Be grateful for your ‘silver and gold’ you never know when God can stop the flow of it.

Thank You Lord for the ‘silver and gold’ You give into my life.  Amen

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.