Archive | October 2021

If You’re Happy and You Know It

Oct31

If You’re Happy and You Know It

If you’re happy and you know it,
Clap your hands.
If you’re happy and you know it,
Clap your hands.
If you’re happy and you know it,
And you really want to show it,
If you’re happy and you know it,
Clap your hands.

Other verses
If you’re happy and you know it,
Stomp your feet.
(stomp, stomp)

If you’re happy and you know it,
Praise the Lord
(Praise God)

If you’re happy and you know it,
Say, “Amen“.
(Amen)

If you’re happy and you know it,
Do all four.
(clap, clap; stomp, stomp; Praise God; Amen.)

Classic Children’s Chorus – author unknwn
Photo Courtesy of Krissy Bilger

grand

Oct26

The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many…. September is dressing herself in showy dahlias and splendid marigolds and starry zinnias. October, the extravagant sister, has ordered an immense amount of the most gorgeous forest tapestry for her grand reception. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

Photo by Mark Wood

pumpkin season

Oct25

Oh how we love pumpkin season. You did know this gourd-ish squash has its own season, right? Winter, Spring, Summer, Pumpkin… We anxiously anticipate it every year.

~Trader Joe’s, Fearless Flyer, October 2010

Photo by Marge McCoy

Come and Rejoice With Me

Oct24

Come and Rejoice With Me

Come and rejoice with me!
For once my heart was poor,
And I have found a treasury
Of love, a boundless store.

Come and rejoice with me!
I, once so sick at heart,
Have met with One who knows my case,
And knows the healing art.

Come and rejoice with me!
For I was wearied sore,
And I have found a mighty arm
Which holds me evermore.

Come and rejoice with me!
My feet so wide did roam,
And One has brought me from afar,
To find in Him my home.

Come and rejoice with me!
For I have found a Friend
Who knows my heart’s most secret depths,
Yet loves me without end.

I knew not of His love;
And He had loved so long,
With love so faithful and so deep,
So tender and so strong.

And now I know it all,
Have heard and known His voice,
And hear it still from day to day.
Can I enough rejoice?

Lyrics: Elizabeth Rundle Charles (1828-1896)
Music: Robert Jackson (1842-1914)
Photo: Bob McCoy