God is calling...

I have been pondering the idea of starting a faithbooking ministry for quite some time but haven't had the kick in the behind to get me moving on it until now. With The Angel Company closing this week, I have found myself without a home business to have over me as I do my creative endevours. So, on the way to church today, I was thinking of the faithbooking ministry again and wondering if I could possibly turn it into a bible study that goes along with the sermon series bible studies my church began doing this year. It's such a great concept to take the sermon and get in groups and discuss further and dig more into it the scripture but I have been thinking of trying to take it to the hands-on creative level and utilize scrapbooking about the passage for the week. It is a challenge I am going to put myself to in this next sermon series on my own to see what scrapbook pages I come up with and how easy or difficult it is or might be for others who will hopefully join me in doing this in the future sermon series. So, I started off by as usual taking notes during the sermon. I thought of some ideas on the way home and knew I had to get them written down or they would be gone and I would be back at square one. So, I summarized the bible story in my own words and wrote some more notes on what the pastor said about this story. I figured out an analogy of the main points the pastor made about this story by using something in my own life. It started with the phrase purify my heart from one of the songs we sang today and a picture of the awesome waterfall we hiked to and saw in Glenwood Springs at Hanging Lake came to mind. I have the pictures now in mind to use in the scrapbook page and a way that it has connected to my life. Will I remember it more? I hope it will ground in me more but the good news is I will have the scrapbook page to look to and share with other and hand down to my children so they to can learn from it. So, it begins. I will be back with a picture of it and of course be back next Sunday with the next installment of Project Faithbooking.

God Really Does Take Care of Everything We Need

So, this concept of God taking care of our every need has been on my mind lately since I got the word about my one and only scrapbook customer whom I have been making 10 pages a month for is ready to do her scrapbook pages herself. Ouch, there goes $150 a month. I knew going into it that it wouldn't last forever and thankfully lasted over 2 years but now I am back to thinking how is that going to effect the budget. Thankfully, my first next thought is that God will take care of everything so I will just "deal". It has made me think of the scripture that says that if God takes care of the trees, grass and flowers how much more will he take care of you? So, I look out the kitchen window a day ago and see in the corner where I planted 3 rose bushes a few years ago and haven't touched them since. Yeah, my thumb isn't all that green and my extra time goes elsewhere so what is so darn awesome is that dispite my lack of care for these rose bushes, I am pleansantly surprised every year to see at least one of them out there with a big beautiful blossom on it. Gotta get out there and take a photo this time!!! So, what's even funnier is that I bought about $20 of annuals this year on a shopping trip with Faith and they never got planted. They all died within a day or so and we didn't get around to planting or watering them. Sad... But, I just was leaving for work yesterday and saw in one of the pots a flower growing and it is not a weed! Again, God is giving me flowers even when I can't seem to get my act together help with their care. Thank you God for the gift of the flowers and for showing me again and again how much you are caring for our every need.

Let Go and Let God Guide

That has been in my head since yesterday when I read my Daily Word for Women devotional. Why do things always seem easy but they are more challenging when you try to do them. The good news is it's a new day and I can start all over again and try to just let God guide me through my day. What does that look like to me? I think letting go of the worries, fears and wonder what will happens and also looking to God for all decisions even the small stuff but we are so use to going it alone and doing it our way that it is hard to always ever time being looking to my one and only everything for guidance. Try, try, try and keeping trying is all we can do. So, off I go to try to let God guide me through my day.