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Today we are journeying down memory lane to share some special times together…

I have brewed a strawberry tea & today’s treat my own homemade Gf banana muffin, warmed & spread with lashings of Lf butter which is slowly melting upon its deliciousness…

On sipping the tea, it is a refreshingly sweet peppery blend which is mellowed by a mouthful of the banana muffin, a very satisfying combination! A ‘mmmmm’ is heard as it involuntary leaves my lips…

Shall we walk down memory lane together now…

Several years ago my youngest daughter invited me for afternoon tea on Mother’s day. When I arrived my grandchildren met me at the door very excited.

As I walked into the house I could see why…a beautiful setting was set before me, my daughter had prepared a delicious High Tea, there were two double tiered servers laden with delicious treats! Mini quiches, petite triangle sandwiches, mini cupcakes, cookies & piklets with homemade strawberry jam.

There were several choices of tea, beautiful antique cups, saucers, teapots, sugar bowl, milk jug & bunches of my favorite flowers placed on the table. She had gone to a great deal of effort freshly baking all the treats herself, bought & borrowed serving items & planned this special surprise for weeks…

We all enjoyed this special tea time with its delicious treats, mutual chatter & laughter over funny family memories. I felt so blessed that she had planned this out & had done all this work to specifically honor me on Mother’s day.

When I finally said my goodbyes to travel home, my heart was so full of joy & gladness…

I enjoyed it so much….I thought I would do the same for my friend….You meet her in Heart matters!…as a 60th birthday gift.

I prepared all her favorite treats…I set the table in our front garden under our pergola with my best linen, antique crockery & silverware…All was set & looked amazing! I was so excited to finally have all the planning & preparation done!

She arrived….we started this special birthday luncheon…but things didn’t go as planned…it was a really hot Summer’s day & our neighbors had decided to locate their compost bin right beside our front outdoor seating area!

We ended up having to transfer everything indoors because of the offensive odor & the plague of flies that were attracted to it…it actually was cooler indoors & we continued our time together feeling less harassed by the heat & the flies…

After my friend left… I sat….feeling rather disappointed at the chain of events that had unfolded that morning, feeling that it had not been the special gift I had envisaged & planned to give to my dear friend on her birthday…

While I was sitting there reflecting,  I heard a message come in on my phone, it was from my friend…thanking me for the time spent in creating the High Tea luncheon, stating that she felt so honored that I had made her birthday special & how much she had enjoyed it!

Sometimes things don’t go as we planned…do they…no matter how much planning, organization, effort, desire, passion or prayer we have put into it…Life just doesn’t go as we had hoped…

We can get understandably disappointed at the outcome or we can choose to see it through different eyes…You see, my friend had not known what plans I had had for the experience…apart from the smell of the compost…she didn’t know it had not gone as I had envisaged!

But viewing it through her eyes it had been an absolutely enjoyable gift & success!

We can’t control the world around us, but we can control our actions, reactions, attitudes & behaviors to every & any situation in our lives…it’s all in the way we view it!

I pray that the eyes of your heart will be enlightened, so you may know His calling…

Ephesians 1:18-19

Until next time….

Jennifer

 

 

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