New Year—New Color!

My favorite color has ALWAYS been blue. I love blue. I never saw blue as sad or cold. Blue has always been the color of heaven to me! I’ve been told that blue is a good color for me to wear. I’ve also been told that I have a blue personality. My daughter gave me her color code book and yes, I would say I am a “blue”— almost entirely true blue. So why is my house yellow? Because it was that color when we bought it nearly twenty-two years ago, but with brown trim. I thought it was ghastly and couldn’t wait to change it, and gradually we did.

We knocked down the faux rock pillars, and reused them for the garden wall. Then we added the porch which I wasn’t about to paint brown! So, we painted all the brown trim white. The house was growing on me. Then the next year when we could afford to paint the rest of the house, we thought we chose a pale peach to match the rock, but it turned out to be yellow. Since we had five gallons, we had to paint the house yellow again! But . . . it has grown on us through the years. In fact I think, if I ever get to build my dream house, I might just paint it yellow with a white porch and white trim! Oh my. Yellow has grown on me. Maybe that’s why I painted my kitchen yellow. And now— bless my soul— out of all the blog backgrounds I designed, I like the yellow rose. (It’s a photo I took of a rose from Becky’s huge rose bush.) Yellow is nice. Yellow is bright. Yellow is the color of the sun! The Son of God dwells in the heavens, and gives life and light to all. Indeed all things do testify of Christ! In my scripture markings I use yellow for sharing the gospel, and I use green for faith and for Jesus Christ. I think, for me, yellow has also become the color of hope. I think I like yellow!