my life on the lane

Sunday, April 11, 2010

gold...

nature's first green is gold,
her hardest hue to hold.

her early leaf's a flower;
but only so an hour. (robert frost)

such...
is spring on the lane.

love and God's blessings,
dani xx

Monday, April 5, 2010

he was back nearly to his same old self
but with a new sense of purpose...

which God had bestowed upon him.

~@~@~@~@~@~

John 3 (niv)

Jesus Teaches Nicodemus

1Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish ruling council. 2He came to Jesus at night and said, "Rabbi, we know you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs you are doing if God were not with him."

3In reply Jesus declared, "I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again."

4"How can a man be born when he is old?" Nicodemus asked. "Surely he cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb to be born!"

5Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. 6Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. 7You should not be surprised at my saying, 'You must be born again.' 8The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit."

9"How can this be?" Nicodemus asked.

10"You are Israel's teacher," said Jesus, "and do you not understand these things? 11I tell you the truth, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept our testimony. 12I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things? 13No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven—the Son of Man. 14Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, 15that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.

16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son. 19This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."

~@~@~@~@~@~

mosses never spoke again of the time he spent with God. but, his actions, both big and small, spoke volumes...

Spirit gave birth to spirit.

when he was strong enough to start eating at the dinner table, each day before lunch mosses began to have jean read a chapters from his family bible, which she did then marked her place for the next day. i believe the words she read, words he had once read for himself, filled a hunger in him that had never been quenched prior to his recent Spiritual birth... a hunger food alone never filled.

Light came into his world.

mosses also took on a couple of projects that were very close to his heart. he decided to patronize projects at both his and mrs. moss' childhood churches, zion baptist church and niagara united methodist church, respectively.

it was plain that
what had been done to mosses
had been done through God.

love and God's blessings,
dani xx

Sunday, April 4, 2010

on easter...

john 20:18
mary magdalene went to the disciples with the news: "i have seen the Lord!"

i have seen Him, too!!!

but, i tell you the truth;
you must believe to see...

have a blessed easter, my loves.

love and God's blessings,
dani xx

Friday, April 2, 2010

remember...

i don't know what a cross says to you.

however, a cross says to me, "remember".

john 16:4 "I have told you this, so that when the time comes you will remember..."

so, on this good friday, may you remember.

love and God's blessings,

dani xx

Monday, March 22, 2010

mosses monday XLIII...

"mosses, are you talking about God???
did you talk to God???"

"yes," he replied, "i asked Him two times if i could return.
but, golly-muggins, the third time was a charm..."

~@~@~@~@~@~

mosses had been a man with a death sentence...
set to expire in just a matter of hours...
according to what the doctor had told us
just two evenings earlier.

however...

God stepped in and granted him a reprieve.
mosses wasn't ready yet.
he knew it.
i knew it.
and, most importantly, God knew it!

~@~@~@~@~@~

mosses' road to recovery was not an easy one. after a few weeks of rehabilitation, the hospital released him. still, he was very weak and needed a totally different level of care than that which he had been receiving from his sitters prior to his hospitalization.

it was a period of adjustment for all involved.

~@~@~@~@~@~

before his set-back, mosses (at the age of 90, crippled with arthritis, and battling parkinson's disease and macular degeneration) arose every morning, drank a cup of coffee, ate a bowl of cereal, bathed and shaved himself, read the local newspaper, took care of his business, and ran his errands. every afternoon, he ate a big lunch and lounged in his leather recliner watching the comings and goings on the ohio river... and caught a catnap here and there. every evening, he watched as the bell rang marking the closing day on wall street, ate a bowl of soup and a sandwhich, watered his flowers and garden, and readied for bed...
ON HIS OWN!

after his set back, he did exactly the same things...
in exactly the same order...
but needed help doing much of it...

~@~@~@~@~@~

it was hard on him.
it was difficult for the sitters who'd basically been used to
only driving and cooking for him.

however, it seemed to work.
and...
little-by-little mosses' strength returned.

it wasn't long before he was doing well...

REALLY WELL!!!

he was back nearly to his same old self
but with a new sense of purpose...

which God had bestowed upon him.

love and God's blessings,
dani xxx

ps you will find earlier entries in ascending order on my side bar entitled, "our love story":)

Monday, March 15, 2010

reasons...

i haven't been blogging regularly...

seasons 1-6.5 of grey's anatomy... this topic probably deserves a whole post of it's own or maybe even a book, ha! but, i'll just say that john gave me season 1 for Christmas. hooked, i have since purchased all the available seasons! (katherine and i have now watched 111 episodes.)

~@~@~@~

Dani Drury Berrong

Create Your Badge

facebook... i have fb'ed for a long time (during which time i continued to blog religiously... at first). now that many of my blogger friends have also started fb'ing, this is how i have chosen to keep up with them.:/(i'm being lazy!)~@~@~@~

mario... yep, super mario bros. for the wii was another of my Christmas presents. (lol, this also deserves its very own post.) my name is dani, and i am a nerd; i have always been!!!

(for those of you who are also nerds, i am 5 coins and one level away from totally beating the game and saving peach;)

love and God's blessings,
dani xx
ps. the reason i need to start blogging again is because when i began blogging it was not about me... rather, it was about having a place for katherine and future generations to come and read about my life on the lane!!!

Monday, March 8, 2010

grandmommie

"happy birthday!!!"
up to where you are.

coffee... 2 teaspoons of sugar and a heaping teaspoon of coffee-mate.

an apron with big pockets... full of clothes-pins.

the smell of estee lauder
(light from body-powder not heavy from perfume).

peter pan, creamy peanut butter...

solitaire.

snow days and summer days.

the glider.

summer breeze.

photo albums.

a red address book.

a laundry chute and a coal bin.

sweet tea.

stories...

me over thee.

church.

soft night-gowns.

crisp sheets.

northerners.

crocheted afghans.

home.

adeste fideles.

an infectious laugh.

general hospital.

sweet cakes with chocolate sauce.

love!

love and God's blessings,

dani xx

Monday, February 22, 2010

finishing your thoughts...

with mine...

(expounding upon my friends' 10 most recently updated blog titles)
1. Life on The Ohio River In Henderson Kentucky -MM 803.9
"Dropbox- an Alternative to a Thumb Drive"

(computer lingo was not what first came to my mind.)

2. The Far Side Of Complexity
"A Ringlet Tutorial"

(wash and let dry)

3. Cakerwakers
"Motherhood is grand"

(a portrait is worth a thousand words)

4. lindanjake
"Monday Miscellany"

(thinking of gary today)
if you would like to watch and listen,you may pause my music.

5. Sixteen Going on Seventy...
"Something"

(my new one should be arriving within the hour:)

6. The DeCoursey Project
"My food tonight"

(the "other white meat" is thawing)

7. peek-a-boo prints
"long lost feeling"

(the soft touch of my grandmothers' hands...and so, so much more)

8. Luv Ur Kids
"Quote I found"

2 Corinthians 12:9 (New International Version)
But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me.(and, since, i've not been the same...)

9. Sheye Rosemeyer
"days in melbourne."