tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91970648271078198862024-03-05T05:19:32.753-08:00Enjoying The MomentsChristinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17096389196788427153noreply@blogger.comBlogger533125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9197064827107819886.post-7791827197182430692020-09-21T21:45:00.002-07:002020-09-21T21:45:36.989-07:00Crown of Thorns Journal<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwXNC9id_21e9A39FANZp8pep97PoWFIAtnAVF-3a6U5Ndt8rTx7MyyZxTRzvfQuCorHpqpER7DGU7at_KQWb6KuXEH7vUf1g-elGbuK8SX2qPQ-Q9aHnji_SvlA9s01DyZJcLqNvFwQ/s2048/AB156C3E-5ABB-46DF-8E51-7524B9CDDDB8.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwXNC9id_21e9A39FANZp8pep97PoWFIAtnAVF-3a6U5Ndt8rTx7MyyZxTRzvfQuCorHpqpER7DGU7at_KQWb6KuXEH7vUf1g-elGbuK8SX2qPQ-Q9aHnji_SvlA9s01DyZJcLqNvFwQ/s320/AB156C3E-5ABB-46DF-8E51-7524B9CDDDB8.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(15, 17, 17); color: #0f1111; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></p><p><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(15, 17, 17); color: #0f1111; font-size: 16px;">Crown Of Thorns 52 Week Sermon Journal is a great tool for keeping your sermon notes together. Each day has ample space for note taking, doodling, writing out a memory verse, and gratitude. Located near the back there are several pages for writing prayers, answered prayers, and extra pages for notes. We teamed up with an artist to give you three illustrations to color.The size of this journal is easy to tote around alongside your Bible whether you are able to go to church or are attending church at home via online services.</span></p>Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17096389196788427153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9197064827107819886.post-69135195694232656862020-09-16T22:18:00.001-07:002020-09-16T22:18:30.372-07:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgro44CkEqBMSwfrC7XIlRcEGLm8iYCCaaKoY7mBF7XuXHIZaeqnKCRA924ppYzazDX-MnArec-vG2LCi8ElNdaL6zJOHDLs2sqxeJTjlI4v8Ne6YlQKuc3euEnfx8q_U5Vb-rjBskHyg/s1076/119156341_1758098500994944_6075434594091769139_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1076" data-original-width="1075" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgro44CkEqBMSwfrC7XIlRcEGLm8iYCCaaKoY7mBF7XuXHIZaeqnKCRA924ppYzazDX-MnArec-vG2LCi8ElNdaL6zJOHDLs2sqxeJTjlI4v8Ne6YlQKuc3euEnfx8q_U5Vb-rjBskHyg/s320/119156341_1758098500994944_6075434594091769139_o.jpg" /></a></div><br /> So if you are looking for a good prayer journal:<div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Crown of Thorns A Prayer Journal is an engaging journal that guides you through nine weeks of prayer, gratitude, three devotionals, and provided scriptures to write. Each week has one day for "Sabbath" which has space for sermon notes, prayers, answered prayers, gratitude, and an extra page for overflow "Notes & Doodles." The remaining pages throughout the week have space for a memory verse, a guided verse to write, gratitude and prayers, and more pages for "Notes & Doodles." We hope this journal will be a valuable tool to strengthen your relationship with God.</span><p></p><div><br /></div></div>Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17096389196788427153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9197064827107819886.post-24576823765266087252019-02-24T22:11:00.001-08:002019-02-24T22:11:31.977-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sunday morning church...I slept through it all and husband was faithful</div>
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Drive over to West Seattle again to help daughter and her hubby</div>
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back over to the old place for last few items</div>
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Happy for this daughter and her hubby and their new adventures</div>
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Oh and a great bar-b-q place right down the street from them...bonus points</div>
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we will be back... < snicker ></div>
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I think today is going to be a slow catch-up kind of day. </div>
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Starting this day out with some JOY just thinking of the fun weekend with this family. </div>
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Happy Monday blessings...</div>
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How great Thou art, how great Thou art! ..♪♫♬</div>
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Sometimes my mind wanders,</div>
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all over the place . . .</div>
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but, it always comes back</div>
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to God’s amazing grace.</div>
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Some days I try to make it,</div>
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on my very own . . .</div>
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but, I’m always lead back</div>
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to God’s loving throne.</div>
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Sometimes my faith,</div>
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begins to doubt and waiver</div>
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but, I’m always brought back</div>
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to God’s abundant favor.</div>
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Sometimes for my wrongs,</div>
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I still feel I am guilty</div>
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but, it always comes around</div>
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to God’s tender mercy.</div>
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Sometimes my feet roam,</div>
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as I run the faithful race . . .</div>
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but, they always return</div>
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to God’s mercy, love and grace!</div>
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</span></span>Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17096389196788427153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9197064827107819886.post-11123600612646526672017-06-23T05:00:00.000-07:002017-06-23T05:00:15.266-07:00Star of the Show<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest. He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do?' </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Luke 12:16-17</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">This past year my garden was prolific. At the peak of its output of beans, squash, peppers, tomatoes, and more, we could not eat and preserve the produce fast enough. Secretly I took pride in the fruits of my hard work. And, strangely, the more I did that, the more possessive I b</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">ecame.<br /><br />My father-in-law, who taught me most of what I know about gardening, has always been a wonderful corrective to my pride and perverse possessiveness. From time to time, he will say something like “You have good dirt.”<br /><br />The parable told by Jesus about greed has an even greater impact. Did you notice that “the ground” is the star of the show? The ground of an already rich man “yielded an abundant harvest.” This is a humbling reminder for all farmers and gardeners.<br /><br />An abundant harvest depends on good ground and so much more. Blinded by pride in our own efforts, we lose sight of God, others, and the delight of being generous with God’s gifts. In a word, we become fools in the sight of God, the good and perfect giver of life and of all that is needed for our lives. The person who is “rich toward God” is ever learning to be grateful and generous with the produce from God’s garden. --Don Byker</span>Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17096389196788427153noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9197064827107819886.post-11573886832079817372017-06-22T05:00:00.000-07:002017-06-22T05:00:04.524-07:00Deeper Prayer Life<br />
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<br />Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17096389196788427153noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9197064827107819886.post-36600174713134724932017-06-19T13:24:00.000-07:002017-06-19T13:24:09.454-07:00Strawberry Avocado Spinach Salad with Chicken<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Walk the grand-doggy and then this for lunch with a girlfriend</span></div>
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(found recipe on foodie crush blog)</div>
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Monday is one of my favorite days of the week, as it is my alone time with God day along with catching up with loose ends around the house and office day. Although today I went out for a long walk with one of my best friends and the grand doggy. We topped off the walk with this salad on the back deck.<br />
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Now for the rest of my afternoon, I am working on a winter quilt that I have been meaning to get to for some time now along with a wool applique project I started this past weekend. Everything is lined up on the ironing board waiting for my attention. <br />
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My wonderful husband and I found a darling little fabric shop in Anacortes during the weekend while driving around and exploring the area together. It was in an ideal location as there was a farmers market right behind the fabric shop and a quaint little coffee shop right next door. As I loaded up on the most beautiful fabrics my fun loving husband stocked up on all sorts of fresh produce and then we met up next door for some croissants and coffee. Score!<br />
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So, back to the ironing board, I go.<br />
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Happy Blessings to all who pass through here. <br />
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Here is the recipe for this amazing salad (picture above is not mine)<br />
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~enjoy the moments<br />
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<br />Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17096389196788427153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9197064827107819886.post-16764827562377615662017-06-18T05:00:00.000-07:002017-06-18T05:00:46.740-07:00 Threads of JOY! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Thank you, LORD, for everything.Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17096389196788427153noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9197064827107819886.post-67137216055657543652017-06-17T05:00:00.000-07:002017-06-17T14:03:42.732-07:00Weekend wanderings...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Friday evening dinners out together seem to set our weekends on just the right note. </div>
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Thankful for a husband that loves fun, yet relaxing, adventures. </div>
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We are both truly enjoying this season of life together to the fullest.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I can’t help but think that since my mom was a stay at home that she may have (unknowingly) planted a little seed in my heart to be a homemaker, mom and wife who loves living and working with in the four walls of our home. I just always remember my mom making home life look like my kind of fun and that one day, I truly wanted her job.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Well I now know how much work it really is to run a home, be a good wife and raise three children and that it isn't always easy, but it truly was the desire of my heart and still is.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I’m not sure but I think that I to have (unknowingly) passed this little seed off to my daughter as well. She once made a comment a while back that I have never forgotten and that was, that she wanted my job but with no kids. Ha! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A husband who shares your vision, Lord, of the importance of moms in homes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A mom and dad who showed us what committed marriages, good and bad looked like<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You, Lord, knocking on my window with the sound of your homemade rain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So many fun things to do inside the four walls of this home, that you so lovingly, share with us<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am challenging myself to make one square a day so that by the end of August I will have enough squares to finish an afghan. Each week I am selecting one verse from the Bible to memorize and reflect on as I work on my squares as well. Today marks my ninth day of my self-challenge. I am calling this my personal granny square scripture afghan. The colors I am using this time around are a little darker than I usually go with but as I was going through some old pictures I came across and old picture of my grandma's house with my daughter sitting on her couch with this style afghan resting over the back of the couch. When I was younger I remember my grandma and grandpa driving all the way to Washington in their motor home from Montana. My grandma used to knit and crochet all the way to our house and then all the way back home to Montana again. I don't ever recall her sitting without some type of project that she was working on in her lap. I actually have memories of her working on that particular afghan as a child and thought I would recreate my own. I have some other afghans I am working on for my children and their spouse that I will post at a later date. But for now, I am enjoying my quiet moments soaking in Gods word and creating some new memories of my own, for my sweet family here that God has richly blessed me with.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Week #1 Verse <span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px;">“Long ago, even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. His unchanging plan has always been to adopt us </span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-size: 14px;">into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. And this gave him great pleasure. So we praise God for the wonderful kindness he has poured out on us because we belong to his dearly loved Son. He is so rich in kindness that he purchased our freedom through the blood of his Son, and our sins are forgiven. He has showered his kindness on us, along with all wisdom and understanding.” Ephesians 1:4-9</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> I usually show up each year extremely tired and worn thin from the business of the world but after this Be Still time with God, I come home so refreshed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This picture is at the top of the bluff where we rent a house together off the Oregon coast. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I am truly thankful to God for connecting me to these beautiful women that value time with the LORD. </span></div>
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He says, “Be still, and know that I am God;</div>
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God never intends for us to spin our wheels, waste our days, trying to make others happy who can never be happy. Because in reality, it doesn’t depend on us. It’s not up to you. They may want you to think it does, as if you possess the power to improve the value of their existence, but that’s not a burden meant for you to carry.</div>
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God’s greatest desire is to set us free. And sometimes what propels that change is for some brave soul to be willing to say, “Stop, no more.” One who will choose what is better, and learn to set boundaries that will protect and limit the control an unhealthy person might be placing on another’s life. </div>
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Enjoying this season to the fullest.</div>
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The family Pug is now 12 years old and having a difficult time with walking. Just bought him this a few months back and it has truly opened a new door in his little life. Tail wagging and happy smile on his little smashed in Pug-face. If you have a pet that struggles with walking we highly recommend this doggy wheel chair. </div>
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Thoroughly enjoying this season of life. </div>
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