Gift Sets

Here are a few gift sets... Cards and post it holders.

Paper:  K&Company, SU (cardstock)
Stamps: TAC

Scripture Word Challenge: TEMPTATION

Hard to say if it's the little gleam in her eye, or the mischevious smile.. this picture seemed pretty appropriate for the word challenge.  This picture of my daughter was taken 2 years ago, and just seconds before that snowball hit ME!  I think her face says it all: most days I GLEEFULLY prance towards temptation with little thought of consequences.

I have to be honest... I wasn't crazy about thinking about this word.  I'd rather ignore the fact that it's a problem for me.  LOVED these verses the most:

For we do not have a high priest

who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses,

but we have one who has been tempted in every way,

just as we are, yet was without sin.

Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence,

so that we may receive mercy and find grace

to help us in our time of need.

Hebrews 4:15,16

Even though the actual words are not on my image, I love the aspect that Christ gets what we are going through, by experience.  His experience.  I wanted to focus on these 2 parts of these verses:

1. we have a high priest who can sympathize,

2. what to do about tempation... go to God (with confidence!) for help!

Might not have loved the word, but taking the time to search and think about God's word really made a difference to me in the past couple of days, and I really am thankful for this challenge... it's been good for me:)

New Challenges for 2010

I have come across a Challenge on another blog that I have decided to "Play along" with this year... it seemed like a great resolution, and "spoke" to me.  If you have read our family blog, then you know that I love to make new blog headers, especially with bible verses on them that are "speaking" to me at the time.  When my niece introduced me to http://www.picnik.com/, I'm sure she had NO IDEA the monster she was creating! 

Anyways, the challenge can be found by following this link HERE and you can see Patter's first entry, as well, HERE.  For me personally, it was GREAT to look for verses and spend some time thinking about what it REALLY meant to me. 

I decided to NOT make scrapbook pages of the word (my family has heard enough about my issues with scrapbooking lately!) or a card!  But a digital image that I can get printed and put wherever.. I am thinking they will make great magnets for my refrigerator! 

Oh!  and this is no random photo, either! (shocking, I'm sure!) I'm not sure they will ALWAYS be this appropriate, but this picture was taken last week while we were in Michigan.  It's my mailbox where I used to send letters to Ryan every day when he was home on summer break.  The mailbox where HE sent out letters to me everyday (those were Pre-Email days!)  A box filled with HOPE.  I knew there would be letters.  My mailman in Massachusetts KNEW there would be letters.  In fact, he always KNEW when Ryan was actually visiting because there were NO letters!

Ok, that's Jack. The mailman. That picture is from our summer vacation 2007, when Ryan and I drove by my old house (keep in mind my parents hadn't lived there for over 5 years at the time!) in Southbridge, Massachusetts.  I couldn't believe he was out delivering mail still!  (yes, I had just gotten finished telling Ryan how much I REALLY wanted to see Jack!) He said he was retiring in 3 months and seeing us again made his day!  Hope. 

If you aren't inspired to take on this challenge, I HOPE you will at least be inspired to take a minute to think about what YOU are hoping for today.