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Yesterday was Mother’s Day 2021. I decided last week to take my own mother out on Thursday and spend the entire day with her and take her to all of her favorite places and to beat the crowds and also enjoy the warmest day predicted for the week.

I picked her up around 8:30am as storms were predicted later in the afternoon and we planned on getting back home before the weather changed. It was a beautiful, sunshiny day and the first place that we headed was to a garden center in Cookeville about 18 miles from our homes. We looked at everything there and loaded up on garden veggies and a few flowers. The 2 things that I was personally looking for was red onion sets and a burro tail succulent. I found the red onion sets there and also an eggplant but no burro tail.

We left the garden center and headed on to a sandwich place which we both love and we split a meal there. It was a little early for lunch but Mom had not eaten breakfast and I had eaten very early and was starting to get a headache which I do sometimes if stormy weather is moving into our area. We finished up our meal and headed out to the makeup store. Mom was out of everything! The store was huge but the very first girl that waited on us was amazing! She knew where all the good stuff was and the right colors and the brands that we loved. She made shopping there such a joy and we couldn’t have done all of that without her. Plus everything in the store is guaranteed even if you use out of the bottles and decide you don’t care for the product you can return it all. This was such a blessing especially with us older folks that don’t wear so much makeup and are not up on all the products like the younger girls are. We had so much fun!

Next we went to the new soap making store that I had heard so much about and that was another joy in itself. So many colors and smells to choose from. We made a purchase there and stopped to deliver a Mother’s Day gift to someone and then we headed back to Livingston.

We traveled up the road here to another garden center and looked around for another long while. Mom found some more goodies and I was still in search of that burro tail succulent but they were not at that garden center either.

I had had a burro tail on my front porch last year and I fell in love with the little plant. It grew and grew and as you can see in the picture above it makes a very special looking plant. When I brought the plant in for the winter I accidentally killed it by giving it too much water before we left on vacation and by the time we got back it was dead. I was heartbroken!

I have led up to what happened at church yesterday. A couple in our church buy all the mothers a little gift on Mother’s Day ever since both of their own mothers have passed away and give each of us a gift in memory of their mothers. The lady spoke up yesterday and said that she was unable to find the gifts that she meant to give us so she settled for these little individual cups of little succulent plants. My heart skipped a beat in my chest at just the thought of looking over those little succulents! We were told to come up after church and pick out the little succulent that we wanted and that there was plenty there for everyone.

By the time church was over I made a bee line to adjust the thermostats and blow out the candles and turn off the light over the pulpit. By the time I got around to remembering to get my little succulent, the plants had all been picked over. There were large plants and teeny tiny plants and all were different varieties of succulents. In the back row I spotted a tiny pot and inside low and behold was a burro tail succulent! I could have cried with joy! I snatched it up and smiled as if I had won the grand prize! No one but me and God knew what was going on!

Here is my little plant:

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If you don’t think that God cares about our little everyday desires then you got another think coming. I haven’t written a lot lately as my plate is so full and words don’t come easy to a soul that is always buzzing around. I have always been a Martha personality and that is one of my greatest assets but also one of my greatest downfalls. Thus for this reason is the Title of my blog …….Peace Be Still by Anna

I have to remind myself all the time to settle down, be still, stay calm, and let God work in my life!

Here is what I learned yesterday after the lesson of the little succulent:

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I do delight in my Lord but I fail Him all the time. Evidently He loves me anyway!

I pray that ” Just a Little Succulent” causes you to smile today as it did me yesterday!