The Good Stuff

 I don't like country music but I think cowboys can be eye candy.  I think it is the hat and the five day beard and the tight jeans.  So, evey once in awhile I hear a country music song and it makes cry and think and pray.  Not necessarily in that order.  Yesterday I was roaming around my favorite antique shops and I heard two songs that just spoke to me.  I have always wondered where shop keepers get there playlist from.  Some are really good and clever.  I always hear in antique stores, Mick Jagger singing "You might get what you want but if try sometimes, you might just get what you need'"  Appropriate for shopping, don't you think?  I wanted a large wide mouth jar to serve lemonade but I got a terrarium that will serve the same purpose.  And I heard this song The Good Stuff while I was in my favorite Ideas store.  It made me cry and pray and buy a cool old lime green frame with chicken wire for my party. And every time I hear John Maier sing "Say what you mean to say",  I remember a time when that did not work out so well for me. But I love the song.   
And so today was a good stuff day...remembering when we kissed so long on our sixth date....holding hands and eating lunch outside...hotdogs from Bill and Leahs...weeding our garden with the tiller and I swear a saw a snake curled up under my squash and now I be afraid the rest of the summer.   Talking about all the funny business trip things.   The smile on my face when he told me his boss has stained glassed windows and pottery on her wall and distressed signs with messages.  I was tickled he noticed and talked about me.  Big hugs from Davis.   Sitting outside in our tent enjoying the weather.  Painting furniture.  Dancing with Davis in the yard.  Watching hummingbirds and  all manner of winged foul.  Looking in your husbands face.  Kissing your son's nose.  Fresh squash from the garden.  Steaks from the grill.   Sunlight streaming in the bedroom.   Planning a vintage party for beautiful bride  The good stuff is in the simple things.  Snuggling under an old chenille bedspread for a nap.  Minty lotion all our feet.  Knowing we are loved.   Saying you sorry.  That is the good stuff.  Simplicity doesn’t mean we will live uncomplicated lives. Simplicity is a matter of Focus — the grace to focus our lives simply on Christ. ann voskamp

Dinners al fresco under candlelight, great glass of wine, the smell of charcoal.   Talking to your son for the afternoon.  That is the good stuff.   Snuggling in bed with your husband after his return.   Saying you are sorry to someone you hurt really bad from the past...that is the good stuff.  Reading your bible when nothing but tears fall...yeah man, that's the good stuff....Sitting in the back yard listening to the birds and singing holy, holy, holy...that's the good stuff....

all is grace...the good stuff...and say what you mean to say

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