Painting

 This morn's painting is entitled Silver...

(no my dear fellow-friends, not gray;-)

 And yes, the sun still exists even if it's missed us for two weeks!

Sweep the vale with silver mist

Brush hushed dale with amethyst

Paint heaven soft-indigo

Wash walkways with stars of snow

Help us, as we look, to find

Masterpieces of the mind

Drench the dawn with yawning sky

Smooth to gray frayed lullaby

Sketch new day and etch blue night

With highlights of fetching white

Teach us, as we gaze to see

More than just a place to be

Skim earth’s brim of dust with pink

Stir the heart of us to drink

Splash landscapes with hills and brooks

Art made for long second looks

Draw each face like shadows where

Human race has paused to stare

Hang upon yon walls of space

Scrawl of sapling Jack Frost laced

Move us to be wooed and awed

From a palette held by God

Then, as we look, help us hear

Pictures of Him everywhere

© Janet Martin

If our moment is looking *mostly ordinary maybe we should look again just in case we’ve missed something!

 

...and if you're still not convinced maybe looking longer indoors is more your style!

Like this...sneak-peek here 

Recipe here..Best Banana Bread

 Delicious!

 (Mine suffered a few baking challenges, like being doughy in the middle but black on the bottom. Not sure if its my oven temp. or the pan, but it disappears in spite of its 'roastiness'.)

'*mostly ordinary' being such a best-blessed life! 

Psalm 73: 21-28

 When my heart was grieved

    and my spirit embittered, 

 I was senseless and ignorant;

    I was a brute beast before you.

  Yet I am always with you;
    you hold me by my right hand.

You guide me with your counsel,
    and afterward you will take me into glory. 

 Whom have I in heaven but you?
    And earth has nothing I desire besides you. 

 My flesh and my heart may fail,
    but God is the strength of my heart
    and my portion forever.

  Those who are far from you will perish;
    you destroy all who are unfaithful to you. 

 But as for me, it is good to be near God.
    I have made the Sovereign Lord my refuge;
    I will tell of all your deeds.