May you have a restful day (I will - after the plumbing and assisting a friend!), and fun along with it. Be kind and gentle with your self and others and smile😁 a lot to let your light shine through!😎 Peace and joy be the theme for the day...😊💕🌹🌳🌻🌵☕🫖🎼🎵🎶

Frank Lloyd Wright toured a brand new Houston hotel in 1949 and reportedly summed up his entire opinion in one word: why.
The hotel was the Shamrock, built by a wildcat oilman named Glenn McCarthy who had already been told twice in his life that he was a fool, once when he went into the oil business in 1933, and again when he announced he was building an eighteen story, eleven hundred room resort three miles south of downtown Houston, in the middle of nothing. McCarthy's answer to the doubters was simple: he'd been called a fool before, and he'd made himself a millionaire by the age of twenty six anyway.
The Shamrock opened on St. Patrick's Day, 1949, with fifty thousand people crowding the streets outside just to watch the celebrities arrive. Every public room inside was decorated in one of sixty three different shades of green. The pool out back was big enough to host waterskiing exhibitions and Olympic diving trials, one hundred sixty five feet long, holding a hundred and seventy seven ...

“I am not what I ought to be. I am not what I want to be. But by the grace of God, I am not what I once was.”
Those words were not written by a man with a spotless past.
They were written by John Newton, a former slave ship captain whose life became one of history’s most powerful examples of repentance, transformation, and the mercy of God.
The quote in this image is not shallow encouragement about becoming a slightly better person.
It is the confession of a man who knew exactly how far he had fallen, and how much grace it took to change him.
Before Newton became a respected pastor, he was a rebellious sailor, a deserter, a blasphemer, and an active participant in the Atlantic slave trade.
Born in London in 1725, Newton lost his mother while still a child and went to sea at a young age. His early life was marked by anger, recklessness, and open contempt for God.
Then, on March 21, 1748, everything began to change.
Newton’s ship was caught in a violent storm and appeared close to sinking. ...