Everyday Blessings of the FiveDees: March 2012

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

A Haven For Vee ~ Note Card Party!

It's a Note Card Party! Sponsored by Vee at A Haven For Vee.

Vee wondered if you were going to create a set of note cards from those photographs used on your blog, which four would you choose?

Here are the four photographs I would choose to create note cards.

I think these are great reminders of Spring!

Want to see some more beautiful photographs that other bloggers would turn into note cards? Visit the linky party at A Haven For Vee!

Monday, March 19, 2012

Where does Joy come from? A new dress, a home, something new to put in your house, a date, a job, a perfect back hand spring? All these things make us happy, but they don't bring true joy. What brings us true joy is a heart that is His, A heart that is broken, contrite, a heart that seeks Him daily.

Lately I have been full. Not full of food but full of gratefulness. Grateful for the path that He is leading me on. Two years ago, I was sad.

Sad , that my world had been ripped up, pulled apart and torn away.

Did I sin? Did I bring Him honor?
I kept asking myself those questions.

Where had I gone wrong, how could I have missed His leading.
I didn't want that life and I didn't want this life either. All I could think about was ending my life. I became so depressed and that overshadowed everything in me. My world became dark, I was helpless, I sought Him harder and looked deeper, I searched everywhere; Books, radio, my church, my husband, but I didn't find Him in any of those things. However, over time He has healed me. I stand here a changed person. A person that is more ready to listen, a person that is less of me,

less of what I have and a person that NEEDS HIM.

How did He change me? In that still small voice of love.Through His word. He changed me through a small group of women that loved me when I came to Bible study every week, desperate. He changed me through a sweet lady that listened to me pour out my heart week after week. He changed me by giving me the worst boss imaginable. He changed Me by taking away my home, the quietness of a gentle life

and made me learn to be quiet in the situation that I was in.

I didn't find Him in a book, in a movie, in an outfit, in a meal, in a perfect relationship with my family, but holey and completely becoming His. He gave me a new outlook on life, a New perspective.

Did it hurt those around me? Yes. Did I scare my kids to death? yes.

Did they see me being real? yes. Did I mess up? yes.

But just like David when He was caught in sin, and tried to cover it up, He was broken and then confessed and then became more dependent on God, everyday.

What about tomorrow? Only He knows. What about today? Only He knows.

So, I search for Him. I want to know Him more.

I want to love Him more.