I feel like a champion...albeit, a tired one!

I've spent the past two days listening to international motivational speaker Buddy Bell tell us how "helps" is a ministry mandated in the Bible. Serving coffee to people has as much impact on a person's life as the big jobs seen around most churches. The gifts of prophecy, healing, etc....are all fine but the mandate of the gift of helps is also a calling for each of us. We all can do something to help our fellow man or woman. We all can do something from something as simple as a smile to a hug, to a prayer to fixing a meal, to visiting in the hospital, to dropping a "I'm thinking of you card"....to make someone's life richer and better. This is what life is about. Helping. What do you all think?

Todays little surprise

A tiny, and I mean TINY mini-iris bloomed out by my front tree. What a deelight! The iris is my favorite flower and something that I collect. There are irises all over my home. I may try to press this wonderful little beauty and put it between pieces of glass to hang on my wall. My 2007 first iris of the year. I also have Virginia Creeper blooming in my back yard, inspite of my galloping dogs...my two BIG Doberman pinschers. Today, I look at my very cluttered office and know I really need to clean and organize and throw away junk and file the important stuff. I also need to hose off my back porch....a fine covering of reddish brown dust from the dirt stirred up by the dogs playing. And yet, I am in a book that calls me too. I think I'll go read for a little while then when enegized after lunch, will attempt to wash off the porch. Later today, I'll start on the office...God I hate doing stuff like that, but so love the finished product. I'm reading Night Ride Home, an excellent book. Yesterday, I sent out my short story, "Three In One" for a contest sponsored by Arts & Letters. I can't write until I rid myself of all of this clutter....so, I HAVE to face the inevitible soon.