I feel so blessed to be living this life. I so often take for granted all the "little" blessings and I am frequently 'too busy' to take note of all the precious moments with my kids that are slipping by so quickly. One of my goals for the new year is to spend more time doing the things that really matter and taking time to count my blessings. That is another reason for this blog. When I stop to write about what is going on here on the hill it helps me think a little more about all of the blessings the Lord has bestowed on me through my children and otherwise. In my quiet time I am starting through a guided prayer journal. I have been through this one before but I really like it so I am going to use it again and just use a different notebook to journal in. It is called The Busy Mom's Guide to Prayer by Lisa Whelchel (who by the way played "Blair" on the tv show The Facts of Life). It includes 20 days each with 6 categories-praise, self, husband, children, personal influences, and reaching beyond. Each category begins with a scripture inspiration and a section for praying The Word and then prayer prompts that just give you an example of a prayer that helps to get you going. Once I get through the 20 days I just start over at the beginning again. It works because your prayers for each of the categories will be different each time even though you are given the same prompts because the circumstances of your life change every month (or mine do anyway). Below is an excerpt from today's prayer guide for "Self"-Prayer Focus-Role as a mother
Scripture Inspiration-"You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise." (Deuteronomy 6:7)
Praying the Word-Dear heavenly Father, write Your Word on my heart so that Your wisdom simply flows from my mouth throughout the day that I might teach my children Your ways.
Prayer Prompt- Thank you for the privilege of being a mother and for the precious gifts You've entrusted to me. Let me begin by giving them back to You; they are safer in Your strong and loving hands. Anoint me to teach, train, and love my children beyond my human capabilities. Make me the mother You've specifically created me to be for these particular children.
I will probably share more excerpts as a particular one touches me. Now...about the pictures above...don't you just love them!! We had our family picture taken this fall an I am finally getting them framed and put up.
Jill Steward http://www.thejpeg.com/ took them and we are very happy with the way they turned out! If you are looking for a photographer definitely give her a call!
Now on another matter. All of the Christmas decorations are down now (yeah!) and I am displaying 3-8x10's (1 of each of the kids) on top of my entertainment center. I bought three new black frames-because the pictures are black and white and I like the way the black frames look with the pictures but I don't like the way the 'setting'-(if you will) looks-i.e. I don't like the way the top of my entertainment center looks right now. It just needs something, maybe one of those berry garland thingies (I really think it would look better if the living room were painted a different color-just kidding hunny-just had to put that in there for my hubby-yes he does read this-yes I really would like to paint the living room in the future but looking for a quicker and cheaper fix right now) I just don't know what it needs, so I am asking for help. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Below is a picture of the 'setting' then a close up of the three kids pictures just so you can see how cute they are {wink}!! So please send your ideas my way! Thanks! Again, sorry this was so long!
Abbey
2 comments:
I like the idea of a berry wreath- here is another i dea that i am doing. I have a shelf that has old door handles on it as hooks and it is a shallow shle so the shlef itself doesn't hold much. But i am using some pretty ribbon on three knobs and arraage the picutres as if they were hanging from the ribbon. Then you could do the berry garland and it would not cover any of the pictures.
Good luck with it- and the pictures are sooo cute!
Priscilla
Thanks for the suggestion Priscilla! Your shelf sounds cute. I will have to check it out sometime. My friend Margie also emailed me a suggestion of a runner and she like the berry garland idea too. So maybe I will get something done one of these days! Thanks again!
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