What a wonderful day! The sun is shining, the birds are singing and we are trying to get our garden started. We painted a couple of rooms in our house. Amazing what fresh paint does to a room!!!!
When we listen to God, things go so much smoother even in the littlest details. I went to mail boxes of seatbelt pillows to cancer centers. I felt a strong urge from the Holy Spirit to pray over them before mailing them.
Our prayer group met that morning at the church, so I took them with me. Afterwards, one of the ladies gave me an offering to help with the postage. God always said He would supply my needs for this ministry and His promise is true. I just have to listen to HIM............
Had I not listened and gone to the post office anyway, I might have missed a blessing!!!!!!
Listen and let Him be in control!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! of everything.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Medical City, TX
I went to Dallas, TX for my doctor's appointment and took seatbelt pillows to the Medical City Cancer Resource Center there. They were so kind and so happy to get them. They said they had been waiting for these!!!That made my heart soar. When I returned to Florence, the ladies at Montreat started working harder knowing their work was not in vain, they are truly appreciated.
All of you ladies are a God-sent!!!
I love you all!!!!!
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Times Passes Quickly
My husband, while serving in the Army, was stationed in Germany when Desert Storm broke out. His unit was one of the first sent in and his unit spent several months in the desert while the world watched for the first time on CNN and other news station the realms of war as it happened.
That has been 19 years ago. I didn't realize how much time had gone by until some of the men from my husband's unit started finding each other on facebook in order to get a reunion organized.
So much has happened since that time.
Sometimes you don't stop and think about the past and all that has happened in it until something like a reunion triggers all the memories. (Good and bad) When thinking back, the good memories you enjoy with a smile, a chuckle or just an outright laugh. The bad memories you relish with hope and encouragement that you learned or grew from them.
I just know that everyone else grew older in those pictures in 20 years, but I still look the same when I look in the mirror!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ha-Ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That has been 19 years ago. I didn't realize how much time had gone by until some of the men from my husband's unit started finding each other on facebook in order to get a reunion organized.
So much has happened since that time.
Sometimes you don't stop and think about the past and all that has happened in it until something like a reunion triggers all the memories. (Good and bad) When thinking back, the good memories you enjoy with a smile, a chuckle or just an outright laugh. The bad memories you relish with hope and encouragement that you learned or grew from them.
I just know that everyone else grew older in those pictures in 20 years, but I still look the same when I look in the mirror!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ha-Ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Monday, February 15, 2010
Race is Over
Many people in our country right are battling cancer. It is a disease that is not prejudice over sex, color, age, nationality, single, married or widowed. It does not care if you are democrat, republican or independent, Jewish, Muslim, Christian or aethist. It does not care if you have a family of four or twenty-four that love you or if you are just trying to find yourself in this world. It does not care if you have a Ph D or MBA or MD behind your name, your name does not even matter to this disease. It inflicts everyone it can whether you are a famous entertainer or a homeless person.
What does matter, is how the battle is fought. Sometimes we say when someone passes away, they lost the battle with cancer. My childhood friend, Susan, fought an awesome battle with cancer.
Through it all she walked with God. Though many, many people will miss her, myself included, and her family mourns deeply, I cannot say she lost the battle.
Paul says in 2Tim 4:7-8 "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Finally there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have love His appearing."
I believe Susan fought a great fight, finished the race and has now received her crown.
Congratulations, Susan. I love you and miss you.
What does matter, is how the battle is fought. Sometimes we say when someone passes away, they lost the battle with cancer. My childhood friend, Susan, fought an awesome battle with cancer.
Through it all she walked with God. Though many, many people will miss her, myself included, and her family mourns deeply, I cannot say she lost the battle.
Paul says in 2Tim 4:7-8 "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Finally there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have love His appearing."
I believe Susan fought a great fight, finished the race and has now received her crown.
Congratulations, Susan. I love you and miss you.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
God has a plan
God is the creator and He is still in control of everything, regardless of what some people think or say.
I have a childhood friend whom I love very much and fighting breast cancer. It is very hard to see the plan in all of this but I continue to pray and not lose hope that, God willing, miracle is right around the corner.
I am reminded of the song by the Crabb Family, "Through the Fire." He never said that the cross would never get heavy..... He will take you through the fire again.
It is so true.
Jesus is always there besides giving us strength, courage, and most of all LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
God is the creator and He is still in control of everything, regardless of what some people think or say.
I have a childhood friend whom I love very much and fighting breast cancer. It is very hard to see the plan in all of this but I continue to pray and not lose hope that, God willing, miracle is right around the corner.
I am reminded of the song by the Crabb Family, "Through the Fire." He never said that the cross would never get heavy..... He will take you through the fire again.
It is so true.
Jesus is always there besides giving us strength, courage, and most of all LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Friday, February 5, 2010
New Beginnings
Hello World of 2010!!!
My wonderful ladies that help me sew pillows each week have generously finished about 10
lap quilts which I donated to my church to be sent to Haiti. These ladies are so giving and
loving.
They are now working on pillowcases also for the homeless shelter. They are all senior citizens, ranging from different ages and different ailments. Some days their bodies try to tell them because of their ailments they are limited to what they can do for themselves or other people.
But on craft day, they do not take "no" for an answer. They work hard and lovingly with hands that are crippled with arthritis, eyes that do not see very well, and bones that just plain ache. The finished product is beautiful to me, because I know the sacrifice these women have taken just to be there and the love behind each stitch.
If you get one of our pillows, you are truly, truly blessed. I am sorry for the reason you have
received it, but the love that went in it is powerful. I guarantee it.
My wonderful ladies that help me sew pillows each week have generously finished about 10
lap quilts which I donated to my church to be sent to Haiti. These ladies are so giving and
loving.
They are now working on pillowcases also for the homeless shelter. They are all senior citizens, ranging from different ages and different ailments. Some days their bodies try to tell them because of their ailments they are limited to what they can do for themselves or other people.
But on craft day, they do not take "no" for an answer. They work hard and lovingly with hands that are crippled with arthritis, eyes that do not see very well, and bones that just plain ache. The finished product is beautiful to me, because I know the sacrifice these women have taken just to be there and the love behind each stitch.
If you get one of our pillows, you are truly, truly blessed. I am sorry for the reason you have
received it, but the love that went in it is powerful. I guarantee it.
Monday, November 2, 2009
The trees look beautiful with their array of different colors. I love the fall with the crispness
in the air, the fall colors and the feel of everyone getting ready to settle down to hibernate for winter.
The winter was designed by God to gives us all rest, not just the plants and the animals. It is a time when we are to refrain from working hard in the fields in the spring and summer. We have
gotten away from that because of the industrial age and now the technology age. We no longer "labor" as we once did. Or I should say many of us do not.
Our summers and winters all run together. There is nothing to separate the seasons in our life and that is why so many of us get confused.
In Ecclesiaste 3:1-8
There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under heaven:
God says there is a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to keep and a time to throw away.
If you are "out of balance" maybe you are spending time on things you need to throw away rather than keep or visa versa. Or maybe you are mourning when you should be dancing.
Think about it.
Jesus loves you and I do too. Have a great day.
in the air, the fall colors and the feel of everyone getting ready to settle down to hibernate for winter.
The winter was designed by God to gives us all rest, not just the plants and the animals. It is a time when we are to refrain from working hard in the fields in the spring and summer. We have
gotten away from that because of the industrial age and now the technology age. We no longer "labor" as we once did. Or I should say many of us do not.
Our summers and winters all run together. There is nothing to separate the seasons in our life and that is why so many of us get confused.
In Ecclesiaste 3:1-8
There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under heaven:
2 a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
3 a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
4 a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain,
6 a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
7 a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
8 a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.
God says there is a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to keep and a time to throw away.
If you are "out of balance" maybe you are spending time on things you need to throw away rather than keep or visa versa. Or maybe you are mourning when you should be dancing.
Think about it.
Jesus loves you and I do too. Have a great day.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)