2013 October 9

Grandma would have been 98 today.  It's been over a year since her death.  Here is an interesting testimony to life - a sunflower sprouting from the stalk of the main sunflower:

The mild frost has not killed off the sunflower yet.  We harvested the main head last Saturday.  Three other Russian mammoth sunflowers in a pot are still going strong (I take them into the garage every evening).

The stalks of last year's two sunflower's are still in the pot.  Last year's flowers provided a feast for a red winged blackbird this past spring.  Some of the seeds that scattered into the pot eventually sprouted these three flowers.

I've been very preoccupied with Dodie Osteen's story of healing the past month and I finally watched all of a dvd, Healing School with Gloria Copeland.  How much treasure is given in God's word.  The first Bible I ever received (1977 July 10 from the Canadian Bible Society at a Citizenship Ceremony) had words printed on the front to the effect "the most precious thing in the world".  How true indeed!