God Works in Mysterious Ways

Although I spiritual in my personal life, I don't typically bring that influence here at Coupon Mama Massachusetts. I try to respect my readers and to be honest, I am fearful of offending some. I hate political correctness, but I'd rather be politically correct and have people enjoy my blog than ignore it entirely and be blogging for no one other than myself.

Today, however, I am putting political correctness aside for a moment.

God works in the most mysterious ways. I live in Dighton, MA, and it seems that it falls into this pit of coldness. When it is sunny and 90 at my parents' house 14 miles away, it is windy and 65 here. When my in-laws' house is just barely touched by snow, we've got 2 feet and counting.

The temperature dropped into the 30s the other night, blackening the basil plant my mom gave me last week. She had managed to keep it alive outdoors up until this point. My vegetable garden froze a few weeks ago, except for a few stalks of sad looking broccoli.

Yet, despite the fact that most of my trees have no leaves yet and many of my plants have succumbed to frost, this pretty little Easter Lily decided to bloom. These typically bloom much, much, MUCH earlier.... like spring time... actually, Easter time, hence the name.

 

 

It must be confused. It's certainly not Easter time. 

 

 

 

 

But I won't complain. It made me smile.

 

 

And while we're talking about God working in mysterious ways.... he also has an odd sense of humor. Now I've got all sorts of mushrooms growing in our yard. We live near a big ol' pile of woods and our yard tends to be very damp. As a result, there is lots of fungus among us. :-)

 

But these eye sores are invading my front flower bed. Right. Next. To. My. Front. Door.

 

 

These are the ones I torn out of my garden. They stand upright.... they are... errhh.. quite phallic. I really can't describe them any other way. And I swear to you, these are real mushrooms. And I haven't found them anywhere else on our property. Except near the front door. The Fedex man is gonna start to think I'm running some sort of sex shop!

 

 

Now the above photo doesn't do these atrocities any justice.... nor does the photo below. This is what it looks like 3 days after being pulled up. I just haven't gotten around to throwing them away as my arthritic back calls the shots lately.

 

 

I won't complain about God's mysteriousness.... at least it makes me smile... and gives me a giggle too.



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-Coupon Mama Massachusetts