Be A Blessing

"Be a Blessing" has been the theme to my week. Our new ministry launch team talked last Sunday about asking God how we can be a blessing to people who don't know him. The next day, our church's monthly newsletter arrived in my mailbox and there was a blurb about an event that I was trying to get off the ground before the Christmas season. I had not even remembered that I titled it, "Be a Blessing." The idea behind the event is to make greeting cards (with an enormous collection of papercrafting supplies donated by Jill Gabrielson!) for people to use to encourage others. It was inspired, mainly, by the fact that there are a handful of people who do just that...send out birthday cards, notes to soldiers, thank you notes to people behind-the-scenes. I've spent the last few days making some samples so that people can have some ideas in front of them. I giggled as I looked at my effort...a little overboard!

Out of Date Already

I know that Halloween is over (thank goodness!), but I had to share because I thought these turned out cute. Someone posted their take on goodie bags with these cute faces on the Close to My Heart consultants website and I couldn't find it when I wanted to copy it. Thankfully, there was something similar on Splitcoast Stampers. So, here were the little treat bags we did for some of our neighbor friends (since we would all be out trick-or-treating!)

Kids on Politics

I have my voting plan...know where the precinct polling location is, plan to go after I drop the little one at preschool...the only thing is that I'm not certain for whom I'll vote. Jeez, it is election day. TODAY. And I'm still an undecided voter.

Heck, my kids have even voted already (in their mock "Scholastic" election at school.) Katie did want to verify with me, though, if it was true that McCain was for rich people and Obama was for poor people. I overheard a six year-old at Panera last night asking if "Barack was still ahead?" I would love to be a fly on the school bus window...what the heck are the kids talking about these days? I would have guessed Pokemon and Hannah Montana, not McCain and Obama.

The Message

Eugene Peterson has written a contemporary paraphrase of the Bible and I thought that reading it might freshen up my heart for the scriptures.


Today I read a few chapters in Galatians and this passage "wowed" me.

from Galatians 3: 11-12
The person who lives in right relationship with God does it by embracing what God arranges for him. Doing things for God is the opposite of entering into what God does for you.