Month: April 2022

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His Grip

It’s not my grip on him that matters but his grip on me. And his grip is sure. So is his presence in my life. God is always near us. Always for us. Always in us. We may forget him, but God will never forget us. We’re forever on his mind and in his plans. He called himself “‘Immanuel’ (which means ‘God with us’).” Matthew 1:23 NRSV

Oswald Chambers

My hands are getting weaker the older I become. God is not worried. He has me in His grasp.

Even when I was a very young Christian and did not understand much of His Word, He had His grip on me. Now that I am aging, I am still within His grip.

I love that quote that my grip on Him does not matter – but His grip on me.

He is able to keep all that the Father has given Him.

Everyone the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never cast out.  For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.  This is the will of him who sent me: that I should lose none of those he has given me but should raise them up on the last day.  For this is the will of my Father: that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him will have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.

John 6:35-40 CSB

But I am not ashamed, for I know the One in whom I have put my trust, and I am sure that He is able to guard until that day what I have entrusted to Him

2 Timothy 1:12-12 NRSV

I can commit my life and my all to Him. He is able to keep me until the Day of His glorious coming again.

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Snow on the Snowballs

Is it snowball viburnum or snowball hydrangea?

A hydrangea can grow up to 3 to 5 feet tall and wide. Its branches grow in a loose and widely spaced-out form.

It has toothed leaves and shallow veins. It blooms from June through September, and its flowers have different colors.

Whereas a snowball bush is famous for its large white flowers. Initially, the color of the flower is apple-green, then it changes to white and then eventually into rose color.

https://www.beangrowing.com/snowball-bush-vs-hydrangea/

My mother (lover of all things flowering) always thought “Snowball” bushes were the best, though I never remember her growing one. She loved how people could add acid and change their colors, “Hydrangeas grown in soil with a pH of 5.5 and lower produce blue flowers, while 6.5 and higher produce pink flowers.”

Before we get too far away from snowfalls I wanted to share a humorous experience from when we went away to the northern part of Ohio in early March.

The morning we were due to depart we awoke to a light snowfall. We were amazed at the difference in the landscape over night. As I was getting into the car I noticed this treasure in plain sight!

Viburnum or Hydrangea this made me smile

Wonder what mom would think of snowballs with snow on them?

I also wanted to report I saw my first dandelion March 9. That is certainly a harbinger of spring! This week we have some temps in the 20s and then spring weather is supposed to break on our scene for weeks to come!

Do you remember this childhood rhyme?

Spring is sprung
the grass is green
I wonder where 
the birdies been?

More importantly, the Scripture!

Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad;
Let the sea roar, and all its fullness;
Let the field be joyful, and all that is in it.
Then all the trees of the woods will rejoice
before the Lord.
For He is coming, for He is coming to judge the earth.
He shall judge the world with righteousness,
And the peoples with His truth.

Psalm 96:11-13 NKJV