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The View from Sunflower Gardens
By Marilyn Bentley
Last Updated: September 07, 2017

Remembering how we are all blessed

Among the dear hearts and gentle people here, we like our Monday coffee chats at Sunflower. Then Tuesday we share Bible study. We have game nights, potluck dinners and music concerts.

In “Drinking from my Saucer," George McPhee writes about how blessed we are:

“I've never made a fortune, and it's probably too late now. I'm happy anyhow.

“As I go along life's way, I'm reaping better than I sowed.

“I'm drinking from my saucer, because my cup has overflowed.

“I haven't got a lot of riches and sometimes the going's tough. But there are caring folks around me and that make me rich enough.

“I thank God for his blessings, and the mercies he's bestowed.

“I'm drinking from my saucer because my cup has overflowed.

“If God gives me strength and courage when the going gets steep and rough, I'll not ask for other blessings. I'm already blessed enough.

“And may I never be too busy to help others bear their loads.

“With them I'll share my saucer, because my cup has overflowed.

Give thanks for our own breed of Kansas cowboys.

Pray for all our troops and their families.

School has started again. We pray for all the schoolteachers and kids. Watch for kids on bikes.

Buckle up. It's the law.

Verse of the week: “Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor. For we are members one of another." (Ephesians 4:25)

The free public library is an old institution. Like free public schools, it started in New England. The public library brings books to all to read then return to our local library.

We enjoy reading books in our own Sunflower Gardens library. Many of us read several books a week.

Some of us also are fond of poetry. We learned early of Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Burns, Mark Twain, Emerson and great British poets.

“All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a twin." — Lord Byron

Indians called the full moon of August the sturgeon moon because the fish were extra plentiful then.

Every Thursday morning at the Valley Center Christian Church (on the hill) quilters gather for a craft day get-together. Some of our friends do excellent crochet or embroidery work. Quilting has become a new popular craft of an old-time skill. Some of our people make charity quilts and quilts of valor for veterans.

“Be kind, anyway." — Mother Teresa




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