May 24, 2007

• IF I EVER MOVE AGAIN

   

  January - 2002 -  We moved from a 17 room house to a 7 room house 376 miles away. The tears I shed as I left the old home place and as I crossed the Snake River can not be counted.  Against my will, I began to fall in love with Idaho. One thing bothered me, although we moved in a nice house, it was small, but it had flowers of every kind and roses, roses, roses.  If I knew company was coming, in the summertime I could have a bouquet of roses in every room in the house,  with still hundreds left on bushes in the flower bed.

  We had been there about 3 1/2 years, when we got a call.  The seed company next to us had built a big office, but needed more land,  therefore the call to see if we would be willing to sell our place.  After a few months we settled on a price of $117,000.00 more than we had paid for it.  We began house hunting again,  I don't like to move but I love to look at houses.

  October 2005 - We moved about 12 miles.  The only problem is, I didn't have everything unpacked from the last move.  And I don't have 1 flower, but I have a nicer house, and it enough bigger that I can fit in all the rooms. 

  May 2007 - 1 1/2 years later Pop and I began a project.   We started to unpack the boxes, some had been packed for 5 years some 1 1/2 years.  ( My SIL would clean house and put things she wasn't using in boxes, if she didn't need anything out of the boxes for 1 year, she would give the boxes to Good-Will without opening them.  The more I open boxes, the smarter I think she was.)

  Boxes of Photo magazines and lenses and filters and stuff.  Boxes of scrapbook items, like paper, pencils, templates and stuff. Boxes of china ("I wonder where that came from, O that piece was my moms, I don't dare throw it away"), and stuff.  Catering things that would be enough to open a business.  Cake decorating items, plates, pillars, tips and triangles, and stuff.  Birding magazines and binoculars.  Things to embroider , embroidery thread, patters and material enough to fill a small fabric store (Hmmmm, I wonder do I have too many hobbies?)  But someday....... In the old home place I had 3 different offices and I only have 1 to furnish now, that must be why I have 3 of everything an office needs.  300 pens 100 marking pens and dozens of high lighters.  O, I forgot I had an office in the motor home that I cleaned out this spring, that means 4 of everything an office needs. Plus 1,000's of photos and more 1,000's slides  and stuff and stuff. Did I say I had lots of stuff.  "For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much"  Ex. 36:7 nkj

  Some of the stuff was interesting to find and it took a long time since I had scrapbooks I had to look through, since I hadn't seen them in a looong time.

      My mother loved poetry as much as I do and I found a couple scrap books full of poems that she had collected, also candid comments liked  the following one  "No wonder I can't save money these days  -   The neighbor are always buying things I can't afford."

  Another one, ( to the people that don't like jokes about husbands or wives, forgive me.)  but I thought this was kind of good... "Having trouble? Well take it like a man, --blame your wife"

   although the above don't sound like it, my mom was more of a serious person.  and most of her collection of poems are about living for Christ.

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  PERFECT TIMING

  God's help is always sure,

  His methods seldom guessed;

  Delay will make our pleasure pure,

  Surprise will give it zest.

  His wisdom is sublime,

  His heart profoundly kind:

  God is never before his time,

  And never is behind.

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  An angel paused in His down-ward flight

  With a seed of truth and love and light:

  And he said "Where must this seed be sown

  To bring most fruit when it's grown?"

  The Master heard, and he said, and smiled,

  "Go plant it for me ...

  in the heart of a child."

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  WHAT IS MAN

  He cannot put one little star in motion,

  He cannot shape one single forest leaf,

  Nor fling a mountain up, nor sink an ocean,

  Presumptuous man, large with unbelief!

  We cannot bring one dawn of regal splendor,

  Nor bid the day to shadowy twilight fall,

  Nor send the pale moon forth with radiance tender:

  How dare we doubt the God who does it all?

   

  Well there's more stuff to go through tomorrow, so I'd better get to bed I'm honestly praying for wisdom to know what to keep and what to toss.  Like Pop said "When we lived in the big house, no matter what we would bring in, it would get swallowed up in the house and was never noticed"  That was the case with furniture or another photo or a shopping spree at Wal-Mart.   In this house, we bring in a box and, the walls just become a little closer.

   

  BE STRONG AND OF A GOOD COURAGE: BE NOT AFRAID, NIETHER BE THOU DISMAYED: FOR THE LORD THY GOD IS WITH THEE WHITHERSOEVER (whatsoever) THOU GOEST (do-est)   Joshua 1: 9 nkj  (  ) mine.

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