Here they are – my 39 things at the start of a wintery-crisp week in the southern hemisphere. As our days here get shorter, north of the equator God is breathing Hopkins-type ‘dearest freshness deep down things’ and life is surging through snow again because the ‘world is charged with the grandeur of God.’
Where have you seen the splendour this week in a tough-beautiful world of ebb and flow? Stark branches littering their red-gold iridescence in cold dusk? Vivid new green of spring warmth?
781 Murray coming home from Sani2C
782 Sitting in Der Zuckerbäcker behind big windows high up
783 Parking spaces where you can ride through to the other side so there’s no reversing of the 7-seater necessary at all
784 Singing
785 Thrill of a busy day gathering traction
786 When people come over and there are little bodies sleeping on all the beds in our house
787 Weird sad excitement when you know there’s change in the air
788 Picture Cam drew for me of planets, comets and stars
789 Kist full of gift bags and ribbons for wrapping
790 Retweets and replies
791 Casting my burdens
792 Aunty Joy calling the ducks so we could feed them
793 ‘O Lord my God, you have performed many wonders for us. Your plans for us are too numerous to list. You have no equal.’ Psalm 40:5
794 Discovering a beautiful, quiet park with friends
795 Quiet evening – early to bed – to knit and watch a Sandra Bullock chick flick
796 Petrol price drop
797 Huge old knobbly tree trunks
798 Sitting on green grass
799 Knitting again – first time in at least two decades
800 St Alban’s old boys all grown up
801 Miraculous restraint during a Scott-tantrum preventing me from killing him
802 Holy Spirit promptings to phone or text people
803 Finding lost things
804 Working out harmonies for kiddies’ songs in the car – embarrassing but so real to me in this season
805 HCS speech festival
806 I’ve never had my car stolen
807 Spam filters
808 Mother’s Day tea in Cam’s classroom
809 Grace and commonground between moms
810 No matter how tough a day has been, eventually it’s bedtime
811 Cam and Scott painting food on paper placemats
812 Rubbish removal
813 Energy-saver bulbs
814 Murray’s grandparents – married for 60 years this week
815 Placecol products
816 Friends who talk life and big concepts
817 God hearing my every breath-prayer
818 Vicarious glimpses of other worlds through the experiences of others
819 Simplicity
Dalene Reyburn 
