My oh my, what a beautiful day....
there is just straight up not enough hours in the day....there's just so much to see, to do, and to write! I wanna take more pictures with my camera, plant more flowers, listen to more music, cook more gourmet meals, clean out more cupboards, scrapbook more, send more cards, read the Bible more, have coffee with friends more often, watch more tv, sit in the hottub more, take more bubblebaths, watch clouds, go on Pintrest more often, make and decorate more cupcakes, swing and go down slides more and continue to work on my bucketlist! my list of I wanna could go on for days, so I'm not even sure where to start! LOL...did I say I wanna blog more??? I wanna blog and share with you...
*places I would love to live...
*my favorite parks...
*sweet & simple luscious berry desserts...
*11 states in 11 days...
*my favorite places to eat...
*scrapbook thoughts...
*Life as a hobo in Italy for 3 weeks...
*the bravest things I have ever done...
*my favorite present I ever received..
*what takes my breath away....
*what are my biggest pet peeves..
*a room with a view...
*dear pizza man...
*the road turned and...
*a lightbulb went on and...
*10 songs I will listen to for the rest of my life...
*motto in life....
anyways, you probably get it...I have many, many blog topics that I just don't seem to have time for! yet, its so good for me to write, to put the pen to the paper, so gonna put it at the top of my list of things I wanna do!
Lately, it seems like my blog topics have kinda been heavy, yes heavy on my heart, things that I felt important to share with you, maybe it would touch someone's heart or help someone realize they are not the only ones struggling with something....you see some of the biggest reasons I started blogging, started opening up and sharing some of my inner-most feelings and thoughts, shared my brothers death with you, my drug addiction and recovery, my moms ongoing battle with cancer and her great strength, courage and love for God, my daddy's daily dialysis, my me-ma's alzihmiers progressing disease, my first great nephew and his mama and daddy's journey in the army, ( you may notice, I don't blog too much about my kids, they tend to lead alittle more private lifes and prefer me to keep it that way). Tonight, I decided to keep it fairly light-hearted and simple and share with you one of the best gifts I ever received......of coarse Mike and Renee are the most precious gifts, and the grace of God is the most awesome gift, but several years ago, I received a gift that wasn't a person of that type of gift, this gift is tangible, yet filled with every emotion imaginable! Ok, its a toss up...I have 2 gifts!
The first one...."a deck of Kanasta cards". not just a deck of cards....but a deck of cards that was purchased in 1958. My mama and daddy were merely 18 years young....belonged to the US Army, stationed in Maryland or Virginia Beach, only knew 2 people ( some of their best life long friends today)...it was a Friday night, and they broke open their piggy-bank and bought a half gallon of ice cream and a deck of Kanasta cards.
Wow...if cards could talk....I can just wish. They traveled with them all over the place, were in the hands of many, won some and lost some. They made lots of natural Kanastas and dirty Kanastas, made many points and even went into the hole and had to catch up. This deck of cards still has their color to them, even though slightly faded, corners bent, and slightly stained. So, an over 50 year old deck of cards was so perfectly kept in their original container, tissue paper gently wrapped around them and placed in my Christmas stocking....talk about emotions and happiness and yes a tear or two to my eyes, this is definetly a gift that I will treasure forever.....
One little side story real quick...for many years, I have heard the story of the soldier in church and he pulled out his deck of cards, because he didn't have a Bible. A Sergeant saw the cards and said "soldier, put away those cards" Once the soldier was able to explain his reasoning....(I've never forgotten it)
*the Ace...reminds me that there is but one God.
*the 2....reminds me that the Bible is divided into 2 parts, old and new Testaments
* the 3... I think of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost
*the 4..the 4 Evangelists who preached the Gospel; Matthew, Mark, Luke & John
*the 5...five wise virgins who trimmed their lamps
*the 6...reminds me that in six days, God made this great heaven and earth
*the 7...reminds me that on the seventh day, God rested from His great work
*the 8..think of the eight righteous people God saved when He destroyed this earth; there was Noah, his wife, their sons and their wives
*the 9...the lepers our Savior cleansed and nine out of the ten didn't even thank Him
*the 10... I think of the 10 commandments God handed down to Moses on a table of stone
* the king... it reminds me that there is but one Kind of Heaven, God Almighty
*the queen...think of the Blessed Virgin Mary
* the Jack... the devil
Anyways, my mama and daddys deck of cards is absolutely priceless to me...a gift that no amount of money is able to buy. ( Oh wait, I did say I had two gifts huh? the second one is my brothers baseball mitt. ). all of this is...
because of His Amazing Grace
*what takes my breath away....
*what are my biggest pet peeves..
*a room with a view...
*dear pizza man...
*the road turned and...
*a lightbulb went on and...
*10 songs I will listen to for the rest of my life...
*motto in life....
anyways, you probably get it...I have many, many blog topics that I just don't seem to have time for! yet, its so good for me to write, to put the pen to the paper, so gonna put it at the top of my list of things I wanna do!
Lately, it seems like my blog topics have kinda been heavy, yes heavy on my heart, things that I felt important to share with you, maybe it would touch someone's heart or help someone realize they are not the only ones struggling with something....you see some of the biggest reasons I started blogging, started opening up and sharing some of my inner-most feelings and thoughts, shared my brothers death with you, my drug addiction and recovery, my moms ongoing battle with cancer and her great strength, courage and love for God, my daddy's daily dialysis, my me-ma's alzihmiers progressing disease, my first great nephew and his mama and daddy's journey in the army, ( you may notice, I don't blog too much about my kids, they tend to lead alittle more private lifes and prefer me to keep it that way). Tonight, I decided to keep it fairly light-hearted and simple and share with you one of the best gifts I ever received......of coarse Mike and Renee are the most precious gifts, and the grace of God is the most awesome gift, but several years ago, I received a gift that wasn't a person of that type of gift, this gift is tangible, yet filled with every emotion imaginable! Ok, its a toss up...I have 2 gifts!
The first one...."a deck of Kanasta cards". not just a deck of cards....but a deck of cards that was purchased in 1958. My mama and daddy were merely 18 years young....belonged to the US Army, stationed in Maryland or Virginia Beach, only knew 2 people ( some of their best life long friends today)...it was a Friday night, and they broke open their piggy-bank and bought a half gallon of ice cream and a deck of Kanasta cards.
Wow...if cards could talk....I can just wish. They traveled with them all over the place, were in the hands of many, won some and lost some. They made lots of natural Kanastas and dirty Kanastas, made many points and even went into the hole and had to catch up. This deck of cards still has their color to them, even though slightly faded, corners bent, and slightly stained. So, an over 50 year old deck of cards was so perfectly kept in their original container, tissue paper gently wrapped around them and placed in my Christmas stocking....talk about emotions and happiness and yes a tear or two to my eyes, this is definetly a gift that I will treasure forever.....
One little side story real quick...for many years, I have heard the story of the soldier in church and he pulled out his deck of cards, because he didn't have a Bible. A Sergeant saw the cards and said "soldier, put away those cards" Once the soldier was able to explain his reasoning....(I've never forgotten it)
*the Ace...reminds me that there is but one God.
*the 2....reminds me that the Bible is divided into 2 parts, old and new Testaments
* the 3... I think of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost
*the 4..the 4 Evangelists who preached the Gospel; Matthew, Mark, Luke & John
*the 5...five wise virgins who trimmed their lamps
*the 6...reminds me that in six days, God made this great heaven and earth
*the 7...reminds me that on the seventh day, God rested from His great work
*the 8..think of the eight righteous people God saved when He destroyed this earth; there was Noah, his wife, their sons and their wives
*the 9...the lepers our Savior cleansed and nine out of the ten didn't even thank Him
*the 10... I think of the 10 commandments God handed down to Moses on a table of stone
* the king... it reminds me that there is but one Kind of Heaven, God Almighty
*the queen...think of the Blessed Virgin Mary
* the Jack... the devil
Anyways, my mama and daddys deck of cards is absolutely priceless to me...a gift that no amount of money is able to buy. ( Oh wait, I did say I had two gifts huh? the second one is my brothers baseball mitt. ). all of this is...
because of His Amazing Grace
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