The kittens have been
showered with love for two days from some 4 year old fans.  It
amazes me how they can get schlepped all over like they don’t have a
bone in their bodies!

Of course they were tuckered out afterwards:

New to the farm since last weekend are three ducklings:

There is absolutely nothing cuter than a baby duck.

I have never seen so many
fireflies in my life!  Driving home across country roads tonight
it was an amazing spectacle – acres and acres of fields with millions
of fireflies doing their slow, blinking dance as far as you could see
-  little lights rising slowly in the still air.  I’ve seen
fields of fireflies before but nothing on this magnitude; the sheer
numbers were staggering.  A once-in-a-lifetime
experience.   It stirred my wonder.

Several times a day I find
myself stopping in the barn just to watch the kittens.  Even a few
minutes spent with them is guaranteed to relax me and make me laugh -
cheap therapy!  They scamper all over the barn and my biggest
worry is that they don’t watch out for Ivy’s hooves.  One misstep
and she’d make a kitty-pancake out of them.

Basking in the morning sun

Ozzie in mid-air

Tippy stalking the chicks

Prairie sunset

For the past 10 weeks (and 2
to go) I have been part of a group of women studying different aspects
of the character of God.  It has been so refreshing to soak in
Scripture in which God tells us about Himself and describes Himself to
us. 

One of the traits we were studying this week was God as My
Satisfier.  There are some amazing verses in the Psalms about how
God “satisfies the desire of every living thing”, “satisfies your years with good things”,  “satisfies
the thirsty soul”.  I was doing some background study on these
verses and ran across some thoughts that were eye-opening.  Here’s
one little nugget:  In Psalm 103:5 where it says He satisfies your
years “with good things” it could also read “He satisfies your years
‘so that it gets its cheeks full’!”  Being a visual person, the
mental picture this brings me is worth more than a thousand
words.  God longs to fill my cheeks!

In another place (Psalm 36:8) it says “They drink their fill of the
abundance of Your house and you give them to drink of the river of Your
delights.”  Keil & Delitzsch expand on this to say the river
of delights is “the abundant, pleasant and powerful gifts and goods and
recreations with which God entertains those who are His”.  I have
to think about that some more – being entertained by the abundant, pleasant and powerful recreations of God…!!!

Here’s wishing you chubby cheeks…