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Personal Pink Saturday this n' that

Doesn't life just get BUSY sometimes? No craft projects to share today, so I'll share a little of my life that has kept me hopping.

Here is my Once-a Marine -always-a Marine husband showing his more tender side...wearing the pink shirt his wife picked out for him, and sorting out donated shoes for orphans. I love the pink shoes he has in his hands too. Shoes for Orphan Souls is a wonderful charity and shoes are distributed locally as well as internationally to children in great need.

James 1:27 says: "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world."  I fall so short in living out this principle, but continue pray for eyes to truly see the needs around me and then to DO WHAT I CAN!

School activities keep us busy around here, and so just watch me work this into my Pink Saturday post. Do you see the pink in my jacket? I actually found that jacket at an antique store. I am assuming it was vintage 70's, and I really enjoy wearing it. My family can spot me from a mile away. Here I am with my wonderful daughter, Daisy...the picture says it all. I'm a proud Mama. (I have told Daisy if they had an honor roll for creative students...I think I could have made that list!)

Happy Pink Saturday to everyone. Please visit Beverly at How Sweet the Sound. You might also like to check out this pink participant: The Charmed Life   

Need a Hankie?

A huge part of my life has been the privilege of teaching an adult sunday school class for the last twenty years or so. They have seen me through births, the comings and goings of over fifty foster children, the graduations and marriages of three of my kids, the adoption of two of my children, the death of my first husband, my marriage to the second.... you get the picture. They've been there with me through the ecstacy and agonies of life. I just can't imagine not having a group of friends who meet together each week to pray for one another, love one another, and worship the God we love so much.

 

We also just have a lot of fun together. Most of our women work outside the home, but there are a few of us who work from home, are retired, or who have jobs with flexible schedules. We met for a fun day together. One of the girls even brought her mama along and we acted silly and had so much fun. Jennifer and Nancy modeled vintage hats in the antique store.

Here are two of my crazy friends at Twinkles in Gladewater, Texas shopping off the $5.00 sale rack. They are being over-dramatic about the good bargain they found!

 
  My friend, Gina, found a box of handkerchiefs still in their original box with the stickers and asked if I would do something a little special with it. She will be giving it as a door prize at a women's Bible study get together. It is also my Pink Saturday show and tell today. I printed off the scripture from Isaiah 25:8 about God wiping away our tears and added some little touches and a bow. I think it turned out very sweet.

Here are a few of the girls from our group. I love them dearly. I pray that each one of you reading this, not only knows the Lord, but as He so desires for you...has sweet friends to walk through life's ups and downs with you and help carry the load!  

 
Happy Pink Saturday to you! Please visit Beverly at How Sweet the Sound to meet a lot of other ladies that love a touch or two of pink in their life!  

 

His Story in the Making

(I am a devotional writer for my church, and will occasionally post one to my site.)

Scrapbooking. I was determined NOT to catch the fever. Surely it would be one of those craft trends which faded out and was soon forgotten-like paper roses, and crocheted purses with the bottoms made out of butter bowls. ( I actually would like to try my hand at one of these. Click here for more info!)

Scrapbooking seems here to stay. The gorgeous papers can now be found not just at the craft stores, but even at the dollar store. You can purchase beautiful boxes to store your beautiful papers, and specialty tools to cut the beautiful papers into beautiful shapes. The displays of family pictures are artfully displayed with stamps, buttons, glitter, cut-outs, stickers, ribbons, and jewels. I think anybody's history could look, well, beautiful!

Why is scrapbooking here to stay? I believe we all have a need to know and document our history and this trend filled a niche and brought inspiration. There is great comfort to know from where and whom we have come. There is something within us that wants to share this information with our children, so they can pass it on to their children. I am in total awe of any family that doesn't store their family pictures in a clothes basket in the back of the closet. I am in a puddle of total humble adoration for anyone who has a record of their family history resting in cute albums which have been stamped, glittered, and bedazzled.

But wait! Don't we all, as children of the same Father, have an album of our family history? It is lovingly put together by God Himself.

2 Timothy 3:16 says, "All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness..."

If you want to be inspired by your family history, then get God's album off the shelf and turn to Hebrews 11. Read about the faith of those who came before us and be inspired by their life, and by our loving Heavenly Father who knew we needed to know these relatives of ours. In reading this chapter, how are you taught, rebuked, corrected and trained? When you read this chapter, who reaches out to you through the pages to encourage you and inspire you?

Mobberly Baptist Church, Longview TX

It is my understanding you will be presenting the children with a history of Mobberly this Sunday. What a wonderful way to let them know they are a part of a story, not just the story of the Mobberly family, but God's family. Their history is rich and overflowing with kinfolks who demonstrated, by God's power, boldness, sacrifice, and faith. Don't we want them to know they, too, have a purpose, a page of their own, designed by God to continue on with the family story?

Proud owner of many scrapbooking supplies,

Melony ********************************************************************************************************** ©Melony Ralph 2008