My Next Project: I am not afraid

I found this silver charm on Etsy today. I think I have to have it to make my next bracelet!

The notation said it was from Joan of Ark so I looked it up:

As Joan of Arc was leaving Vaucouleurs to begin her mission to save France she was asked by a women: "How can you make such a journey when on all sides are soldiers?" to which Joan responded: 

"I do not fear the soldiers, for my road is made open to me; and if the soldiers come, I have God, my Lord, who will know how to clear the route that leads to messire the Dauphin. It was for this that I was born!" 

The original in French is: "Je n'ai pas peur des soldats, car ma route m' a été ouverte, et si les soldats viennent, j'ai Dieu, mon Seigneur, qui saura comment libérer la route qui mène à Sieur le Dauphin. C'est pour cela que je fus nais." 

From the website Maid of Heaven

America, America God Shed His Grace On Thee

The best song ever sung for our country by the great Ray Charles...please listen and be inspired

ray charles america

Counted in the Stars

It is a great sadness that we have lost many many people around the world from 
the 2020 virus. 

We don't know the whole story yet...we are still living in quarantine. These are not really happy times, but they are making us think of bigger things than cars and vacations and future plans.

I am reading the Little Prince 
and the Bible these days.



“In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night…”

Antoine Saint-Exupéry, "The Little Prince"




"Then God took Abram outside and said, 
"look up at the sky and count the stars - if indeed you can count them...So shall your offspring be."