Vero Lake: Living in the Country here in Florida

                                                 We need to count our blessings at all times! Always! Today so many are so unhappy. They are negative, hateful, and live in misery. It is sad to see. We need to pray for them, teach them the joy of Jesus and gratitude. We see so much aggression today by some people, also unhappy people, this is not normal, we need to live with love, being kind, loving, and patient. We have some nice pineapples growing in our backyard, a lot of them, but two have babies coming soon, new fruit. I am blessed to have the beach, pond, and lake close by to go to, walk, pray, and enjoy. I sure enjoyed all this week. We even had a bad incident where someone backed into my car, at the Wabasso Beach he did minor damage to my door wall, a little dent. the guy sped off instead of assuming responsibility, but then he returned and paid me a small ...

                      You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you. ~Romans 8:9-11  Beach and lake/woods blessed, letting God's Spirit dwell in me! It has been a blessed week. I am enjoying my woods, pond, and lake around where I live and the beach close by. God is so good to me. I am so blessed by God. Plus enjoying my retirement so much too! I have started walking again, listening to my news and walking by the lake, pond, and woods by my house. I just love nature! I am so happy where we live now to enjoy al...

  We dodged another hurricane! While it was bad and scary, we prayed, and it helped. Not too much damage or anything. I think both went almost over us, so it helped to not have as much damage of the winds. God's covenant with us, rainbows, He is so good to us, and seeing this made me happy this afternoon right by our house. God is great! He really looks out for us! He is a blessing and miracle in times of storms and troubles. Thank God for our great God! Grateful we faired well from this storm! 

I love seeing all the wildlife around my house. Each day I see turtles, cardinals, blue jays, squirrels, etc. Yesterday I saw the pair of sand hill cranes again. They make a very loud screeching noise. They are very graceful creatures! The other day I saw this turtle again, I see him often, he goes in the road and all, a guy on the bike was screaming and cussing about the overbuilding here, as they are building new houses down the road and doing a lot of backhoe work, he feels bad for the turtles being displaced as do I. It is sad. I have seen so many eagles and owls here, but they keep cutting down more of their habitat and where will they be able to live soon?  While it is nice to live in the country, it is worrisome to see so much of the woods and animal habitat being taking down to build more houses, too bad they wouldn't put a moratorium on it for a while. We really are enjoying all the wildlife here and are grateful to God for all the visits from all of God's creatures ea...

  Almost daily I am visited by some of God's creatures here where we live! What a blessing from our Lord! I love seeing all the birds, blue jays, cardinals, sand hill cranes, ibis, redheaded woodpeckers, mockingbirds, squirrels, bunnies, owls, eagles, turtles, etc.  Even I see a nice black snake often, and lots of butterflies, dragonflies, and bees. I love seeing all of these critters out and about! It reminds me God is all around us and is blessing us with his creations to enjoy, like a beautiful flower!  God has really made Heaven here on Earth for us, but unfortunately, man ruins that by their greed, corruption, fraud, selfishness, mediocrity, ego, hate, over development, and destruction. All we can do is pray for a wonderful world and for each other that we all turn to God and live by His laws and love. Maybe then we can restore and have Heaven here on Earth again! Thank you God for all your blessed creatures and their visits!