“With my lips I declare all the rules of your mouth”
Psalm 119:13
“No sky contains, no doubt restrains, all You are, the greatness of our God.
I spend my life to know, and I’m far from close
To all You are, the greatness of our God”
Jason Ingram, Reuben Morgan, Stuart Garrard
“In the way of your testimonies I delight as much as in all riches
I will meditate on your precepts and fix my eyes on your ways.
“Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines…
…yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation.
God, the Lord, is my strength; He makes my feet like the deer’s, He makes me tread on my high places”
Habbakuk 3:17a, 18-19
As a child, all I knew about figs was the infamous Fig Newton cookie…or I guess I should say the fig paste rolled into their pastry! And while those were a great little snack, it pales in comparison to a fresh fig picked straight from the tree! My first real introduction to figs was as a young bride…
Butch’s grandparents had fig trees in their yard and that is when I had my first taste of a fresh fig…and let me tell you, it was love at first bite! Nannie made old-fashioned fig preserves served on her delicious home-made biscuits with butter! It was food bliss!
Nannie’s fig trees have long been gone, but my love of figs remains! I make sure to find fresh figs every summer, and this past Sunday evening, Katy hand-delivered figs she had just picked. Figs have an extremely short shelf life and have to be prepared almost immediately, so I got busy!
“But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”
1 Corinthians 2:9
It is birthday time once again at our house! You all know how much we love to celebrate birthdays in our family, and our beautiful daughter-in-love turned 28 yesterday! She loves the beach and since she is a new Mommy and hasn’t been able to get there this summer, I decided to do the next best thing…bring the beach to her! I set the table outside on the patio this weekend, but the possibility of rain tonight when we celebrate called for an inside bash…we won’t let it rain on this party! We will enjoy good food and birthday cake, but most of all each other!
White sand and shells remind us of our gorgeous Alabama beaches!
