Hello Ladies! I pray that everyone is having a great week and that your mountains have become your molehills. If that makes sense to anyone but me...LOL. Thank you for submitting some new ideas for me to use. I got this idea from Pat and her beautiful daughter-in-love, Jenny in an email about two weeks ago, so I decided to use it first. I quoted her email here to give the directions.
"what if you took Jennys idea about showers of blessings and if we all told about a time God showered us with a blessing and how we paid it forward to bless someone else or how we had done something for another and in turn were blessed." Share a verse or worship song that touches your heart for this assignment.
Here's mine:
I will be very upfront about this assignment. I love it and think it's a wonderful idea to pass along the blessings, but I DO NOT like being recognized for doing anything to help someone. I do LOVE being blessed enough to help someone, moreover, helping anyone gives me so much joy in life. I feel so strongly about that, that I have to reveal that my life would not be worth living if I didn't have the love and compassion for helping others. My husband had to help me out with this because I am so humbled by it. Years ago when we lost our home and had nothing, not even a place to be a home, we decided that whenever God decided to bless us, that we would never hesitate to turn that blessings around and make it multiply for others. We had the opportunity to help a local family by taking care of their farm when they went out of town for a much needed vacation. That family told us to keep or sell whatever eggs their chickens put out for the week they were gone...we're not talking about peanuts here, we're talking 160-170 eggs a DAY!!! So we started giving them to our neighbor who is an elderly woman and has a very ill son who cannot work and provide for them. She was/still is sooo happy to have those eggs. We also passed some along to our Pastor who is no longer publicly employed and the joy just keeps on giving back to us. We have also been going to a warehouse for fresh and organic produce where we can buy tons of fruit and produce that we have shared with the neighbor lady and our Pastor as well. We've also canned most of what was left from those trips. Okay, sorry this is getting too long. I chose to share this song, "To God Be the Glory" since we give God all the Glory and Honor for what we do have. Thank you Pat and Jenny! To God Be the Glory
How can I say thanks
for the things you have done for me
Things so undeserved
Yet you give to prove your love for me
The voices of a million angels
Cannot express my gratitude
All that I am or ever hope to be
I owe it all to Thee
(Chorus)
To God be the glory
To God be the glory
To God be the glory
For the things He has done
With His blood, He has saved me
By His power, He has raised me.
To God be the glory
For the things he has done
(Bridge)
Just let me live my life
And let it be pleasing, Lord to Thee
And should I gain any praise,
Let it go to Calvary.
With His blood, He has saved me
By His power, He has raised me.
To God be the glory
For the things he has done.
I do think it is importnat to share our blessings and what we do with them! I know it helps me learn new ways I can bless others! Thank you for this weeks assignment.
Be blessed!
Terri Sue
Oh I love giving away eggs. There's something wonderful about being able to hand over such wholesome food. My chickens are completely free. I don't feed them, they scavenge for food, meaning they're constantly eating lots of green and bugs etc.. and that makes for lovely orange yolks!
Great assignment - I think we need to encourage each other to do these sorts of things, too many of us live as Islands in our homes, we need to remember there's a whole world out there that needs a little something.. sometimes a dozen eggs makes a HUGE difference in someones life!
A few weeks ago my family and I had $100 that we had lost and we had very very little groceries in the house. This was very unexpected. Well my in-laws gave us $100 to go get groceries and not expecting anything back in return. It was such a blessing. Well we were able to pay it forward back to them here recently. It was nothing like what they did for us but they underwent an unexpected family emergency and they have an elderly lady there who is nearly bedridden but is still able to get in a wheelchair and allow someone to push her. well its my grandmother in law. She is also a diabetic. Anyways, my mother in law was unable to go anywhere at the time because her vehicle wasnt at home and she hadnt been able to go grocery shopping yet and didnt have anything to eat for her. So my hubby and I were able to cook her some food and take it over there and feed them a meal. and they were able to feed her. I know it was something so small but we were so grateful just to be able to do that little thing for them. they do so much for us that we were just thrilled to pay it forward back to them. My song that I chose that touches my heart is called "God Loves You"
God Loves You
Hope, like a flower will push through the smallest crack in your broken heart
And out of the deep darkest night will shine the brightest burning star
Oh its there like a half remembered song
the thing thats so familiar but have known all along
God loves you and He wants you to know
He is with you You are not alone
HE will see you through. God Loves you
Tears are just water and salt but a thimble full can make oceans wide
But trust that just one gentle wind can sail you to the other side
Oh its there like a whisper on the breeze
the truth thats so familiar but so hard to believe
I've been out of the loop lately. Just wanted to stop by to encourage you, Nancy. You are doing such a great job. Even though I don't have time to participate right now, it's still fun to read everyone else's assignment. I loved your story. Lord bless you!
Wow - that's a lot of eggs!!!!! This was a great assignment, even though it took a couple days for me to get it done. Reminded me of the old Scott Wesley Brown song "we are blessed to be a blessing"
I made a little change with my Friends List. It's on the left side and to open it just click on the word "Friends" and it pops out! Neat, huh! To close it click on it again! Thank you
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Seven Steps to Raising Godly Children
Principle - Impart God's word on your children and live in a way that you are their greatest example of what a Christ-abiding parent should be.
Pattern - Teach your children a pattern of prayer; when to pray, how to pray, and why prayer is important.
Persistence - Don't ever give up...teach your children to always have faith and not to give up when things get hard.
Participation - Our children crave our attention! The way our children see us is the way they'll see God in thier lives.
Praise - Encourage children, praise them when they do something right and help them when they have a hard time.
Prayer - Teach your children to pray and then to TRUST God for the outcome.
Priority - Make God the Head and Heart of your home and let them live with God's desire coming first in your lives.
