Pickle Relish from NC-a gift

Debi Chaves, the taster

Summer delights with fresh fruits! Fresh vegetables from our gardens whether we grow them or buy them.

Then the serious gardeners show off their skill be hobby for sharing with family and friends; or food for the cold winter months when at times might be very needful!

I have a Birthday in July and it’s such fun. Family and friends indulge me for the month with gifts that may only be found in this special hot summer month.

My son and DIL just dropped off a box of Georgia peaches. WOW they are ready for eating and we will enjoy!

For my Birthday , friend and one of our Daily Lily writers, Tammy Holton surprised me with a heavy box in the mail.

Showing in our video, the gift from Tammy, a quart of homemade relish from NC. It is unique for us in our location as far as we know.

It is delicious. I thought I should “show and tell” and share my gift with a gardener, friend and local co-writer of our blog, Debi Chaves. I think watching our video will tell the story of how excited with this relish from Edenton NC we are. I’m not sure who or how it was made but it’s a winner!

2 Corinthians 9:8

“And God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.”

Thanks to ALL that grow gardens, share and care for one another and others in the heat and beauty of summer!

Bless you Abundantly!

The Lord’s Prayer

Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one.

(Matthew 6-9-13, NIV).

“Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven”…

Have you paused to contemplate how your daily life may be His will being done on earth as it is in heaven? WOW! Awesome thought isn’t it?

“Jesus called out to them, “Come, follow me, and I will show you how to fish for people!”(Matthew 4:19)

A Squirrel and their stash

Finding a sweet pepper treasure

My son sent me this little video of the little sweet garden they had helped their daughter design on their balcony. They  had the idea their sweet pepper plant would be safe on their second floor deck. 

But, our nature friend came knocking and found comfort in their dinner sweet peppers. They even stored a few for those long cold winter months. 

Joy watching the little thief? But, I got corrected on that thought. I was told they need food, too!

(Matthew 6:19-21 TLV) “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in or steal.”

“Treasures in heaven” are things of worth in God’s coming kingdom, such as justice, opportunity for everyone to be productive, provision for everyone’s needs, and respect for the dignity of every person.”

God’s Goodness for all! 🙌

You are LOVED!

I see your face

“Our sacrifices and our choices remind us that we are all image-bearers, and every relationship is holy. On whomever I focus my attention, I have the chance to see the face of Christ.” Today’s Reflection, This Life That Is Ours by Lauren Burdette

”So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.“
‭‭(1 Corinthians‬ ‭10‬:‭31‬ ‭NIV‬‬)

Happy, Blessed Day to All! God loves you and so do we!

“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.  Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.  In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.  In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.  Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.  No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.” (1 John 4:7-21 ESV)

Grumpy, the Squirrel

Grumpy, the squirrel

My four year old G-daughter has been beyond excited to be a beginner ‘patio/deck gardener’. She had been testing her skill a bit with ‘yard gardening’ only to realized nature has a way of ‘force sharing’ when beautiful singing birds find your tiny green strawberries before you find one shiny red one.

The next level would be trying your vegetables, that might mean to her a tomatoe plant with a pepper or two on your upper deck right outside your kitchen view.

In trying to explain, yes, squirrels can climb steps and even the deck post faster that one can try and race up those steps to protect their garden. Racing with a squirrel, rabbit and birds for a fresh treat can be both exasperating and exhilarating at the same time!

I thought how one’s soul often thirist for water in a dry and thirsty land. How to find water where one’s soul will thirist no more!

The Psalmist seem to understand. ”You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water. I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory. Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands. I will be fully satisfied as with the richest of foods; with singing lips my mouth will praise you.“ (‭‭Psalms‬ ‭63‬:‭1‬-‭5‬)

“As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?“‭‭Psalms‬ ‭42‬:‭1‬-‭2‬ ‭

John 4 records a beautiful analogy of; “exasperating and exhilarating at the same time!

John 4;13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14)but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

WOW! What a beautiful story of promise to share with children and ourselves alike!