Sounds of Heaven Memoirs: I Know Why A Hummingbird Came To Greet Me Yesterday Morning By My Bedroom Window. Not Located Anywhere Near A Hummingbird Feeder.

A hummingbird came right up to my bedroom window yesterday morning while I was sitting in a chair with the blinds drawn open to greet me. It was announcing to me that I was going to have a God encounter day and evening too. I knew the game plan Holy Spirit showed me for yesterday. I searched for a soup recipe using brussel sprouts and watched the video how to make it. A vegetable soup which incorporated brussel sprouts. I knew I had to get some fresh celery and cabbage that day as ingredients in the soup. I woke that morning from a dream I had in which one of my friends was in the dream. I usually do not dream about my friends per say but prophetic dreams about the church mainly. I sought Holy Spirit and confirmed it was from Him. Next piece of the puzzle was to research a place about 99 miles away where this friend suggested we go on one of our day trips we like to take. I then contacted another friend and suggested maybe we all should go there since I had the dream about one of our friends. The friend that suggested this road trip.

I knew to go to Dirt Cheap first stop yesterday. Wow, incredible savings (blessings is the better word to describe it) were the hidden treasures waiting for me to find. The designer purses were now reduced to 90% off of the ticketed price but better yet, they were each only 16.00 each. I really searched the few that were left. Vera Bradley with a 100.00 ticket price on it; 2 Vince Camuto's with 1 price tag 148.00 and the other 168.00. 416.00 ticketed price total purchased for 48.00, I told you there were hidden treasures waiting for me to find. I do not just buy things for the sake of buying but I shop with purpose. Then I really scoured over what was left of a buyout from maybe QVC and Lowe's too in the Christmas section. Just reduced to 80%. I found about 100.00 in value items with tax and all I paid a little over 9.00.

Then I went to find the ingredients I needed to make the soup. I spoke with my one friend and she and her mother wanted to stop by sometime to drop off something to me they bought for me. They have never seen my apartment yet. I said I would call them when I got home from doing errands. As I was driving home, I felt this unction to invite them over for dinner since I was making soup. We set a time and now I was home doing what people generally speaking do on Saturdays, tidying up and cleaning.

I just knew to get the Vera Bradley purse even though it was really not my style but just maybe someone would like it and so I bought it. Turns out, my friends 91-year-old mother uses Vera Bradley, so she was given a purse for her to enjoy. There is something so endearing gathering with friends around the dinner table. I love it and probably should do it more often. I told them they would recognize my apartment by the flowers on or near my patio. They guessed right away it was my unit. When they left to go home, I was on the patio and asked if they wanted one of my carnations I grew and I snipped one off for them to take home with them.

They wanted to see the portrait of my father, so I showed it to them. When I think he resembled Tony Curtis my friend said she thought he resembled Michael W. Smith. I didn't see the likeness until she pulled up a google search kind of picture of him and yes, I do tend to agree except my dad had brown eyes and the picture she pulled up I think he has blue eyes.

They told me they love my style of decorating and I shared with them that some items I had from back in Ohio when I lived there. I take them with me where I move and position them to fit in my new location. I take some things for granted until someone else notices nice little decorator touches you do. For example, I found pretty light switch plates way back in Ohio. I also found some nice one's at Hobby Lobby too. This is what I do ... I take off the plastic type of light switch plates and replace them with mine until I move. Then I put back on theirs. I store them in the meantime. When they were on the patio one of the hummingbirds came to greet them as it perched in the crape myrtle tree that they were able to see. I had a few of the mini patio eggplants I grew so I sent them home with them too. I filled up a container with soup for her husband and also sent with them the rest of the Croatian flatbread I thawed out from the freezer. A portion was served with hummus and shared with soup too. I even sent home with them some oyster crackers in case they got hungry on the way home and to go with the soup also.

My night still was not finished when they left to go home. They brought me a loaf of cinnamon swirl bread from The Great Harvest. I cannot eat all of that, so I went to visit neighbors and asked them if they wanted to try the soup I made. They said yes so, I also told them about the cinnamon bread they said sure. Oh my gosh when I cut off a chunk for them, I tried it, and it was outstanding. So, the rest of the soup went to them and as I was visiting, I thought wouldn't that make great French toast for tehm to make for breakfast. Then they asked me if I like butter. I said yes, I buy it and store it in the freezer for when I need it and for baking too. They blessed me with Kerrygold Pure Irish Butter. I then had some caramel pumpkin regular coffee I packed up for them to brew to have with their breakfast.

I had oatmeal today and I cut a piece of the cinnamon bread and toasted it in my air fryer and then spread the butter on that and it melted. Along with a cup of flavored decaf coffee. That is my life. I tend to live a simple type of life in which I find and enjoy the blessings of the day in my very life, do you?

Can you guess which one I am going to keep for me? The other is all leather and a gift waiting to be given to whomever Holy Spirit has me give it to. Uh oh, I think I just gave it away in regard to which purse I am keeping, silly me.