Cutesy-Fun

I have been following an incredibly innovative gal's blog and I became encouraged/challenged to do some creating of my own. Therefore, I went to the magazines. Cutting things out of magazines are one of my secret joys (not so secret anymore). I love cutting little words out, cute pictures, etc... and put them on say a binder. Well, I have decided to take it a little further and make some greeting cards. The only goal for this is to give myself a little something fun to do and an opportunity to write more cards to others. *Spreading the joy*

Here is my first round at this little hobby...

This little lovely is quite simple, but speaks for itself. This is a beautiful image that had the word beautiful above it. Cut it out put some paper behind it and glued it. On the inside I used a pink paper that I cut into a funny shaped quadrilateral.

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Another simple one. Found a picture of beautiful flowers and put some truth on it. Certainly encouraging and I am hoping it would speak volumes to another.

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This last one is my FAVORITE for the night. I cut out a skirt and turned it into a flower. =) Simple, but fun.

I haven't a clue if this is going to pick up for me, but it is worth a shot. It is fun having little hobbies. I personally love making things and giving them to others. I feel like I am giving the best little gift I could give. =) Yay for gift giving.

Re-Adjusting

These past few weeks I have been adjusting back to school life. It is quite comical to me how hard it is to adjust sometimes. Why must we be so difficult? Hmm..

Last night as I was doing my reading for Jeremiah and the commentary we are reading from by R.K. Harrison said "Spiritual values can never be compromised with impurity." After reading that I thought how simply true that statement was, but how often do we allow perverse things into our lives by compromising a spiritual value. I am speaking as a person who has an immense amount of perverse things in my life, how do I allow those perverse things into my heart and head? Just like Paul, we all have a some sort of thorn in our flesh to remind us of the fact that God's power is made perfect in weakness. While that is true it does not permit us to have those perverse things in our lives. When Paul realized the thorn in his flesh he begged God to take it from him and God said that his grace is sufficient. When Paul was tormented by the thorn he fell to his knees before the Lord. That is how Paul dealt with the thorn, he gave it over to God.

The perverse things I allow in my life and possibly the perverse things you allow in yours are a thorn in our flesh. In other words, something Satan is using to torment us in our walk with God. As simple as it may sound we need to follow one of the greatests apostles of all time example, we need to fall on our knees before the Lord, beg for his help, and give it over to Him. Surrender.