In my new community, everyone seems to keep a cozy back porch. Some of them are so inviting that I just want to sit there for awhile and enjoy the great outdoors. On sunny days, many people to sit outside enjoying life. It reminds me of the old neighborhoods where you knew everyone and kids hung around together and played.
Most of the porches have comfy seats and little tables. Many of them have beautiful plants in full bloom either hanging or sitting along the edge of the concrete slab. Some have the solar lights all around so that at night you can still see the pretty places. One place in particular has wicker over-sized chairs, old wooden stools, so many plants that they form walls around the porch, a bird feeder, a milk can painted with flowers, and baskets filled with an assortment of odds and ends.
It makes you think you have found a summer cabin where you can put your feet up and relax. So inviting. Even Sugar makes a beeline for this porch and sniffs all around as if looking for a long lost companion. I imagine God's house must have such a wonderful porch, a place where we can just be together, enjoying each other's company, watching the sun set and listening to the birds call - sparrows, robins, mourning doves, and even the blue jays.
I'd like to enable my porch to be so inviting. I'll have to work on it. I don't spend a lot of time outdoors when I am home, but maybe if I made my porch a nest I would sit there more often. As long as I don't sit there alone like I see so many neighbors doing. Working on it.
Most of the porches have comfy seats and little tables. Many of them have beautiful plants in full bloom either hanging or sitting along the edge of the concrete slab. Some have the solar lights all around so that at night you can still see the pretty places. One place in particular has wicker over-sized chairs, old wooden stools, so many plants that they form walls around the porch, a bird feeder, a milk can painted with flowers, and baskets filled with an assortment of odds and ends.
It makes you think you have found a summer cabin where you can put your feet up and relax. So inviting. Even Sugar makes a beeline for this porch and sniffs all around as if looking for a long lost companion. I imagine God's house must have such a wonderful porch, a place where we can just be together, enjoying each other's company, watching the sun set and listening to the birds call - sparrows, robins, mourning doves, and even the blue jays.
I'd like to enable my porch to be so inviting. I'll have to work on it. I don't spend a lot of time outdoors when I am home, but maybe if I made my porch a nest I would sit there more often. As long as I don't sit there alone like I see so many neighbors doing. Working on it.
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