Sunday, December 14, 2025

365 lesson 307

 



My life is in knots, so is my brain. each day has its own difficulty. My To Do list is long and filled with things I do not want to tackle. I put them off, go through the list and do the NEEDS and then the ones I can do easily, leaving the ones that make me anxious until another day. Phone calls, I have 4 on a list, involving health issues and insurance, and those are the ones that create worry and fears.

Lesson 307 in the book above is
OVERCOME THE BONDS OF PROCRASTINATION

If you do nothing in a difficult time, your strength is limited. Proverbs 24:10 

If we are tied in knots, with fear, anxiety,worry, our challenge is to confront the fears and overcome them. Overcome the bonds that tie us. If that will be unpleasant, know that if we do nothing, our fears will continue. Make that appointment you dread. Fight that fight for insurance coverage.
If unpleasant work needs to be done, do it sooner than later.

The sooner we begin working to resolve our fears, the sooner our life will be better.

Don't wait, Do not procrastinate.
Do the worst, and do it first.  
I wrote this little rhyme to help push myself to do what I do not want to do.

The prayer for lesson 307 is
Lord, today is a new day. Help me tackle the important tasks first, even if they are unpleasant. don't let me put off until tomorrow what I can and should do today. Amen
Below is a prayer I found several years back and is today From the past.

The Knots Prayer


Dear god:


Please untie the Knots


that are in my mind,


my heart and my life.


Remove the have-nots,


the can-nots and the do nots


that I have in my mind.


Erase the will nots,may-nots,might nots 


that may find a home in my heart.


Release me from the could nots,


would nots and


should nots that obstruct my life


and most of all,


Dear God,


I ask that you remove from my mind,

my heart and my life all of the "am nots"

especially the thought that I am not good enough.

Amen.  Author known only to God.


the color red for Christmas Past 2025


Saturday, December 13, 2025

Copy Cat Copy Cat

 


Each day, Ann from SnapEditSnap sketches in her sketchbook.
I pick the ones that inspire me and these tree turned into 
THIS

and my own photo of my fake poinsettias sitting in the sun beams



inspired 



Friday, December 12, 2025

Nature Friday Back Yard Christmas Past

 


In the distant past, before the drought,
if you had taken a walkabout, 
to see our backyard holidays splendor,
you would have found 5 different hibiscus in the month of December,



The weather was perfect, they love cooler air,
if you wanted flowers for Christmas they were always there.
You would have seen, 3 dwarf Poinciana trees,
so very beautiful, they would bring you to your knees.


In our back yard way back when, 
no matter which holiday you were in,
you could skip the decorations, there was no Need
Because Bobby Appleseed had planted enough seed
to give you the best decorations, indeed.
Christmas Past, and something red, and A Santa Claus or TWO
2008 Sandra Claus and Santa Bob