MOTHERS CELEBRATE - day 26 HOD sh b’NETZACH

PSALMS OF MY SOUL
ספירת העומר

Kabbalistic Sephirat HaOmer

Hod sh b'Netzach - day 26, 3 full weeks and 5 days of 7 Omer weeks

Mother’s Day today ~ Celebrate in Glory and Success

photos and collage © Joy Krauthammer 

HOD sh b'NETZACH

Splendor of going forward in Hod/Gratitude and Appreciation, and preparing on schedule with Netzach/Determination, a celebration greeting card for mothers. My inner strength comes from the Divine, as does my acknowledgment of Gratitude, for all I have and endure.

Photographing pretty flowers and birds, and with a challenge to create in ways I have not done before: melding photos without defined borders, and enhancing and embellishing images to give joy to recipients (and to me). 

I didn’t know how to digitally do what I desired with photo collage, so learned with computer tutorial, and gratefully embraced a joyous teacher for assistance. (Thank you dear Stephanie. My Hod feels the Gratitude. It is so much fun to digitally blur edges to prettify borders.) 

It is my inner strength that allows me to pursue with passion and depth, and not give up, even making a greeting card, until I succeed at my desires.

To achieve photos of birds, I needed patience and vision. For many years I had driven past a little lake, and finally the Chatsworth lake was made public, days ago, for only one day. I went to the nature preserve and caught the shot of bird, a white egret. The dove I believe is nesting around my property as pairs of doves have done in the past. May the doves succeed in hatching their eggs, becoming parents, and have baby birds fly to maturity. May the Black Phoebe aka Tuxedo birds nesting in my porch, also reach a happy mother's day.

I wish all those I know a Happy Mother's Day. Those who have or have had mothers, and those who are mothers, and those who are mothers to something important in their life- animals, plants, trees, programs, and those who are honorary mother's, to even adults like me. 

What are the obstacles in my path in order to succeed, and then to reach a state of splendor and gratitude?
Does trying, and succeeding help me purify myself, my qualities, toward preparing for Shavuot?
How can I best show gratitude for all that I have, and have endured to achieve success?

I know that challenges are to be spiritually seen as blesSings, but only when the blesSings are revealed do I understand that.

I humbly know that the splendor I experience comes from the Divine, as does my inner strength to endure experiences, and for determination to reach goals. Baruch Hashem.

- Joy Krauthammer

Another Joy card, © Joy Krauthammer  

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

The orchids images here are the flowers that my sister 'mothers'.

Can you see the shades of pink in the little heart apostrophe?

I created the card out of nothing and added fonts and colors and frames and flowers!

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