Counting to 2000 – almost there…
I am continuing to count the blessings of each day and linking to A Holy Experience on Mondays. Based on Ann Voskamp’s book One Thousand Gifts.
- I stepped out of my “shell” like Tadeo and went into my first bookstore to ask about carrying my book
- bought Jesus Calling (leather bound) for $12.99 (50% off)
- met a wonderful encouraging man, Sam, the manager at Berean Christian Books
- felt a real closeness to God
- received my first press release for Tadeo Turtle
- great community of Haliburton, Ontario
- great art class – God inspires me to paint
- a new tap dance step called the Tony Curtis
- Wayne and I put up the creche and the hark the herald angel, shining bright for all to see in Arizona
- encouragement from others especially my sister
- great Bible Babes group in Arizona
- peace – by listening to the quiet
- #liveWonderstruck – words to find joy
- Made-In-Haliburton site (and store) by Marie Gage
- The Art Hive – where my book will be for sale
- The Haliburton Arts Council
- the privilege of prayer
- new title for this website He Cares for You – 1 Peter 5:7
- #1971 – my memory of the year 1971 – Wayne and I were married
- God needs to work through me – not me work for God
- “not by might, nor by power but by my Holy Spirit,” says the LORD ~ Zechariah 4:6
- “it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD” ~ Lamentations 3:26
- #1975 – memory of the year of my first born son, Steven
- slow down
- #1977 – memory of the year of my second child, Sarah
- great night at Red Mountain Community Church ~ women’s night, invited by a friend from Bible Babes
- Christmas tree at Red Mountain
- picture commissioned for the Women’s night – Celebrate Jesus – It’s True – stunning (the world, the stuff that affects us, the Light of Christ)
- a new picture called “Tadeo Comes into the Light” – painted before I saw the picture above.
- singing Ten Thousand Reasons by Matt Redman in church on Sunday