Yesterday Brought Me To Visit A Friend's Mom In Nashville. She Is My Friend Also.

I was up early yesterday morning 7/22/2023 and honored a commitment I made. Then I went and did a few errands prior to heading to Nashville. I was on a mission to get a wedding gift to drop off for a couple getting married out of town and gather a few items to take to my friend and her family. You may say what odd items you bought but not so quickly in judging okay. Let's see, fresh apples, Amish cheese bar (green onion) Amish fresh corn on the cob and a plate of their oatmeal raisin cookies, a package of Duke's sausages, that sums it about up and then I did find an air plant in the cutest slice of watermelon ceramic holder with a smiley face on it. I was going to visit my friend's mom at a place where she is residing now short term that is. I must admit when I walked through the doors of this facility it brought back memories of me visiting my mom after she had her stroke. For some reason it was as if I was walking down the hall to visit my mom. Maybe it is a bit still fresh in me but you know what, life goes on and there are others to see and visit and bless them with your smile and encouragement. I say go on living and don't look back. It is in the looking back moments that just may keep you from moving ahead in your life and God's divine perfect destiny in your very life. Choose life for time really is precious, don't let go of time to hang onto yesterday past okay. I am being honest with you all of how tender it may be a bit inside of me especially with it coming up on my mother's birthday 8/5. A year ago, I was with her on her birthday when we all painted a canvass picture together where she resided at independent living and now a year later there is no visit for me to make to see her on it would have been her 94th birthday. Treasure memories but still be open to creating new and loving memories for today okay.

I started a picture I am working on now. I am using markers, and so far, colored pencils. I only see a starting image I place on the paper and then it grows from that. I am curious to see how this one finishes. I plan on staying local today and maybe working on that picture some and maybe making salmon patties with a fresh red pepper I picked from my patio deck garden. Yesterday I found a praying mantis hanging around in a plant not far from the hummingbird feeder. My mission was to not let this one harm my hummingbirds. Google search to see how they wickedly prey on hummingbirds and then you will see my point. I would see this praying mantis and flick it off of my plants it was hiding in. Yesterday I was able to deal with it before it attempted to harm the hummingbirds. The hummingbirds bring such joy to me when I see them, I wonder why that is?

After visiting with my friend, I was not far from a Trader Joe's, so I stopped in there for fresh flowers. I was walking to the back of the store, and I noticed this strikingly handsome older gentleman who had on the nicest soft lavender (very faintly patterned) it appeared to be a crisp, starched type of shirt. I noticed him connecting with me eye contact wise that is. I kept on going to the back of the store to use the restroom. When I came out there, he was again. You know when you walk past someone and there seems to be like an instant type of connection, that is what I would call it. Hum, maybe I should have commented on how I liked his shirt he was wearing? This appeared to be a man of fine dressing or the stature of a man that is established monetary wise dare I say. See, maybe it was one of those divine connections I missed for ministry but held back because this man was handsome. I don't know because I never pursued striking up a conversation. I am so comfortable striking up a conversation if it is a woman, I keep running into at a grocery store but why am I a bit shy when it comes to the same situation but this time it was a strikingly handsome male? Holy Spirit forgive me if I missed an opportunity you tried to set up for me yesterday. No matter how handsome a man may be I cannot let that deter me from stepping out in faith. I wonder what that was all about. I was not dressed up in some sort of fancy type of outfit yesterday. Oh, maybe it was the anointing covering me because I just came from a ministry visit in the form of visiting with friends? I hear from ministers how the anointing becomes attractive to people when the anointing is upon them. Hum, I guess I will have to wonder because there's no going back to re-create that situation again. I know Holy Spirit, He will setup another opportunity for me and that time I will not be intimidated to speak forth.