A Trio of Tea Cups

      Today I'm displaying a trio of teacups I came across at an estate sale last weekend. I liked the pink roses and yellow flowers on each of them. The vase is a teapot I picked up at the second-hand store really cheap because it was missing its lid. How sad I thought...until I got an idea. What could be more special than serving tea? - Holding flowers! So it has been repurposed.

Have you ever been like this teapot and been repurposed?

      There have been times in my life I thought I was to do a particular thing, and found out God had a different plan. He sometimes repurposes us...from what we thought we where to what He wants us to be. A change of job or relocation, can all be a way for God to use us to hold flowers instead of pour tea - like the teapot. When God takes something away from us, He always gives us something better. We may not see or understand completely what He's doing, but we can trust Him to know best.

"God loved the flowers and invented soil.
Man loved the flowers and invented vases."

~ Jacques Deval

      I brought my tea things out front today by the porch. Sitting out here is only cool enough in the early morning or late afternoon when the sun has passed by. This morning I noticed how lovely the Zinnias look in the barrels next to my chair and hope you don't mind me showing them to you.

"To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat."

~ Beverly Nichols

      This next one is not a Zinnia but I didn't want to leave it out because it's lovely also. It is a Cosmos.

      Cosmos' are a new flower for me. I don't know why I haven't planted any before, I think they are lovely.

      I had to share my chair with the Morning Glories when I sat down. They stretched out their little tenticles during the night and peeked out through the openings in  the chair this morning. Each bloom only shows its glory for one day and then it is gone:(

      I included this sign in my tea post today because I like how it reminders us that gardening is a lot of work. To have a lovely garden requires working in the hot sun sometimes when we want to be lying in the shade. Yet, there are times when one should sit in the shade and just enjoy it. Times like this when pretty tea cups adorn our hands and lovely flowers adorn our tables - time to be still and be thankful.

To enjoy the beauty around us and within us.

"He has made everything beautiful in its time."

Ecclesiastes 3:11

A time to be still and know He is God.

"Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth."

Psalm 46:10

A time to water one's self.

And eat blueberry scones.

Joining this garden party on Friday...