Noting Thankfulness…

This is the post I meant to write today! 😀

Yesterday we went shopping, and outside the shop, past the checkouts, there was a stand of flowers. There were bunches of bright yellow/orange narcissi (the shop called them jonquils), so I breathed in their wonderful scent. They made me smile….
When I first went to England, and I started to get regular pay, I would go down to the precinct on a Friday (when I got paid) to stock up on flowers…. it was Spring, when my favourite flowers bloomed. We were on a tight budget, but I could get bunches of daffodils and narcissi for a couple of pounds, and they brightened up the flat for days. Sometimes, if I was feeling flush 😀 I could get some irises, or, more rarely, tulips or freesia. Sometimes, in the early Spring, there would even be snowdrops. The fragrance of the narcissi brought back that time, with all its excitement and newness…

What else has made me smile the last couple of days?

Coffee! (Yeah!)

Time to chill out on the verandah.. drinking coffee 😀

My dearly loved family…

Being able to search through the Psalms with a couple of lovely friends, and talk about God!

Knowing I have other wonderful friends, dotted about the globe (you know who you are!)

Knowing that, despite everything, I am extravagantly and abundantly blessed!

There are so many more things throughout my days, the fleeting moments that make me catch my breath in wonder, or the recognition of miracles already there, but often unnoticed…

….but – how about you? What made you smile today? 😀