“May your blessings outnumber the shamrocks that grow, and may trouble avoid you wherever you go.”
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1. St. Patrick’s Day lands on March 17th. Do you believe in luck? Are there things you do thinking they’ll bring good luck or things you avoid because they’re considered bad luck?
Nyet, nyet, nyet. 🙂
I believe in the sovereignty and providence of God. This is a deep subject.
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Here is a quote (Daily Doctrine pg. 97, Providence, DeYoung) that sheds some light on this belief;
“If sovereignty is God’s power to do whatever he pleases, providence is the wonderful good news that this power is pro-us. “Providence is the almighty and ever present power of God by which he upholds, as with his hand, heaven and earth and all creatures, and so rules them that leaf and blade, rain and drought, fruitful and lean years, food and drink, health and sickness, prosperity and poverty–all things, in fact, come to us not by chance but from the fatherly hand.” Therefore, we can be patient when things go against us, thankful when things go well, and have confidence for the future that nothing will separate us from God’s love (Heidelberg Catechism Q/A 27,28).
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2. Forest-lime-sage-mint-olive-emerald…what’s your favorite shade of green?
Of these shades sage is my favorites. I really enjoy the combination of pink and green.
Purple/lavender and green is a lovely combo, too.
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3. In Ireland the meal on this day is often a hearty beef or lamb stew served with colcannon (mashed potato mixed with cabbage and leeks). In the US corned beef and cabbage is the more typical St. Patty’s Day meal. Will you/did you mark the day with one of these dishes? Baked-fried-roasted-mashed…what’s your favorite way to eat a potato?
We have enjoyed corned beef and cabbage on this day and other days, too.
On Monday, because my creative energy levels are at minus something, I bought a package deal for a slow cooker corned beef and cabbage meal. I just have to open the package and put all the ingredients in the slow cooker. Everything is washed and ready to go, corned beef, carrots, potatoes and cabbage with a spice packet, too. On Tuesday morning I put all the ingredients in the slow cooker and let it prepare itself. The aroma was wonderful during the day. We enjoyed the meal when it was ready to eat.
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4. What color of the rainbow best represents your personality/mood today? Tell us why.
I’m going with a lighter answer here after my deep one in question one!
Yellow is the color I’ll go with, as in daffodils and sunshine. I like to smile and share the light. Daffodils and sunshine make me smile and tell me Spring is on the way. The photo is of my sisters in a sea of daffodils, in the glorious sunshine from 2016 in Mount Vernon, Washington State!
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5. Which ‘lucky’ quote resonates with you. Elaborate.
‘Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.’ E.B. White
‘Diligence is the mother of good luck.” Benjamin Franklin
‘Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.’ Seneca
‘Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.’ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I’ll go with ‘Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.‘
We are just back from 16 days abroad and many good things culminated in the research that we made before we landed in all the places we visited. The preparation made the opportunities more meaningful and enjoyable.
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6. Insert your own random thought here.
An Old Celtic Blessing
May the blessing of light be on you –
light without and light within.
May the blessed sunlight shine on you
and warm your heart
till it glows like a great peat fire.
The Happy Wonderer ~ ellen b. 