{What You Know}

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A wise person once said:
"Write what you know."

In a cyber world containing millions of bloggers, authors, and activists, I am but one small iota. 

A blip on the screen.

I cannot compete with writers who have thousands of followers that come day after day to read their words.  The writers that suck you in and leave you waiting for their next dose of thoughts to ponder throughout the day.   They are gifted, and I am thankful I get to be one of the thousands that reads those words, because God uses that to encourage my life and point my focus to Him.  

I am not them and that is not my gift.

But I can write what I know, and that is who I will be.

So, what is it that I do know?

I know life.

Love.  Cooking.  Laughter.

Simple joys.  Beauty.  Home.

I will write about the simplicity of my surroundings because that is what I know and have come to love. 

Some people have asked about the title of my blog, Bibelot. 

A trinket or bauble.  Small item of curiosity, beauty, or rarity.

That is who I am; it is what I know.

From Under the Leaves

Spring thawed the frozen ground and from within my garden bed grew tufts of green & brown foliage.  I had no recollection of what this odd looking plant might become.  I snapped a picture and sent it off to my mother for a diagnosis. 

Peonies. 

She was so excited!  "Just watch," she said. 

So I watched, and captured the amazing transformation.

Bloom

I will never pretend to be a fluent or prolific writer. I have friends who make words flow together as gracefully as a water fall, but as much as I have yearned in times past to be a weaver of words and teller of tales, I have accepted that God has given me a limitation in that regard. I must be content and ‘bloom where I am planted’, being okay with the fact my words will never be read by more than a dozen people, at best. And in all honesty, I’m fine with that.

My life is a small one, but I absolutely love where God has called me to be. I spent much of my younger years wishing for the days that were yet to come, dreaming away the present and hoping the future would be bigger and more exciting than the here-and-now. But the ‘present’ is now, and the ‘someday’ that seemed so far away is now my daily existence. And it’s wonderful. Each day is filled with something different; some with joys, some with hardships, but each brimming with the marvelous grace of God, and a peace and joy in my heart that is deeper and dearer than anything imaginable. My past is forgiven, my present makes sense, and my future is secure.

I feel like I am truly blooming where I’m planted. I am no longer looking for something bigger and better, wishing ‘tomorrow’ would come a little sooner. I am content. Yes, there are questions I wish I had answers for, and there are always ‘uncertainties’ that arise in life, but these do not rule my world. God does, and His promises are my hope.

My little corner of Michigan might not be anything spectacular, but it’s where I’m blooming because this is where God has me at present. And I couldn’t be happier.