Oh, Happy Day

February 11, 2009 by Debbie.

Love doesn’t make the world go round - it makes it worth the ride!! I saw that on a Valentine’s card yesterday and had to borrow it since I was too cheap to buy the card.

I have spring fever. It’s been close to 70 the last couple of days and we had a springish rain yesterday with a beautiful stormy looking sky. The storms were severe further north of us into OK and KS but were mild here comparatively. We got some much needed rain. Now I have no excuse to putting those seed potatoes and onions in the awaiting garden soil. Except for laziness.

As an old movie fans we watch mostly black & white movies and one of our favorites is Jimmy Stewart’s You Can’t Take It With You. There’s a line in there where the dance instructor says “I feel so alive, just like squirrels running in circles inside of me” (paraphrased). That’s how I feel. I’ve always been squirrely so it’s fitting but I feel like fireworks going off inside of me and I jump from idea to idea to project to project, completing some and at least making good progress on most. Today I have 3 new quilts I want to start, two I want to finish, a new quilt pattern to try and Dorothy of Yards of Fun Quilt Shop sent home a bunch of fabric for the Foster Kids Quilts. I want to do ALL of it RIGHT NOW! I’m enjoying myself so much I can’t even feel too guilty the house is messy.

I started the morning listening to the Gaither’s Colorado Red Rocks Homecoming video with my favorite song, Back Home Again (John Denver’s song).  Then I heard Conway Twitty’s Hello Darlin’ coming home from Bonham and to finish out the morning songfest, was Alabama’s If I Had You as I drove up the long driveway. It don’t get much better than that. Worship music to my soul. Let God out of his box and listen to If I Had You and tell me you don’t feel drawn to God when you listen with your heart.

Speaking of listening with your heart, if you get close to Bonham in Fannin County, stop by Yards of Fun Quilt shop - the name says it’s a quilt shop but the heart says it’s a healing place where ministry happens without any grandstand production although Dorothy & I offered to sing Diana a duet before I headed home. Wonder why she turned us down???????????

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