A Rainbow of Faithfulness
I’d like to share a word from a customer and admirer. I think she got a taste of the emotional and exciting experience I had in creating this piece.
Lori…I had to tell you that I literally had tears in my eyes over that necklace. Our 25 year anniversary is coming and I think that would be a wonderful thing for us to do. We were not saved when we married….I am going to be praying and see what the Lord does (find a way financially
Keep doing a good work sister. Your Lord is well pleased.
In Him,
I Love it & would be so honored to make such a special keep sake for you!
Discovery
I loved rediscovering the true beauty behind the rainbow — The Perfect LOVE.
“Your love, O LORD, reaches to the heavens,
your faithfulness to the skies.” Psalm 36:5
The Story, the Colors, The Promise. They are all powerful. Discover for yourself that He is Faithful! Get the whole story here!
Faithfulness Necklace Set
The “Big” events in life are memorable and often easy to be grateful for. It is easy to be thankful for the majors in our life like our children, our family, our homes, our faith, our nation… But today I’m thinking about the little blessings in life. Today I want to be thankful for the random little things that make my life a little brighter. My list is totally RANDOM, and smack off the top of my head… in no particular order… 
Top 20 of the Day
Indoor plumbing
Hot Chocolate
Dark Chocolate
Sees Candies
Cake
A warm, cozy, comfy bed
Puffy white clouds
Rain
Cell Phones
The smell of warm pine needles
Fuzzy socks
Lipstick and chapstick
Lotion and deodorant (Amen, and amen!)
Shampoo and toothpaste
DVR’s, computers and digital cameras
A warm fire
A tall glass of ice water
Paper cutters
My own postal scale & PayPal shipping
What “little” things are you thankful for? Share them with me!
Every year of my life seems to have a special purpose in my growth as a person. The year I got married I practiced being a wife. The year I turned thirty I worked on my relationships with my friends. Last year I practiced looking for God’s hand and direction in my life. This year my plan is to work on refocusing my priorities.
Resolutions/Goals/Plans/Prayer
Many of us make resolutions at the beginning of the year to help us get on track towards those goals or purposes we have made for the year. Others start the year off by prayer and fasting. This year I have decided on the later. I am fasting something sort of unusual, but appropriate for my purposes.
Ask Yourself…
This morning I went to the first Women’s Bible Study for the year 2010. This month they plan on talking about prayer. Margaret Deemer started us out by talking about hindrances to prayer and keys to effective prayer, including the power of agreement, alignment with God’s will and Word, and the importance of having your prayers targeted and with specific purpose. Then Margaret finished off with a key list to fasting; questions to ask yourself when you decide to do a fast. I thought the list was so great I should share it with you all. So, ask yourself:
- What is the specific purpose of my fast. “Why am I doing this?”
- Is there a particular answer or resolve I am looking for?
- Have I set aside time to hear from God?
- What scriptures will I study and meditate on? What is that word saying to me?
- How long do I intend to fast?
- What is my motivation for the fast?
We should not be fasting to loose a couple of pounds, or to give God an ultimatum. Fasting is about getting clarity and focus, channeling our hunger into a drive to seek God’s will and purpose for our life.
“Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen:
to loose the chains of injustice
and untie the cords of the yoke,
to set the oppressed free
and break every yoke?” Isaiah 58:6“”Even now,” declares the LORD, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.” Joel 2:12
I’d love to hear about your plans, resolutions, goals, prayers… for this year. Share them with me!
On day two I shared a little about some of my fun, and sometimes not so fun travel experiences. Sometimes rustic, sometimes glamorous, but all times I am thankful for.
Just talking with my husband last night, I realized that the reason we ended up at the motel with the coin operated vibrating beds… still makes me crack up… was because we had air plane tickets for Salt Lake City scheduled for 9/13/2001. Well, no airplanes ended up going anywhere that day, so we decided to drive. Oh, what a long and not so exciting drive that is!
Today I want to continue on that theme, a little more memory lane of some of the diverse experiences I have had that I am so very thankful for. And since yesterday was Thanksgiving day, I’m going down a little Holiday Memory Lane.
- Growing up I spent every Christmas Eve in my prettiest dress, toasting champagne from crystal glasses, eating a huge roast off fine china at a candle lit table. The tree was elaborately and perfectly decorated, the gifts were always generous and exciting, with another pretty dress, a fantastic new toy, a cashmere sweater, or a piece of Waterford crystal, with a nice and healthy check on the side. Soft Christmas music played in the background as Grandpa wore a fancy velvet Santa hat and red suspenders with his Christmas tie.
A Gould Christmas. Los Altos, CA.
- I spent every Christmas Day tromping around a ranch in the mud, playing hide and go seek amongst the barns filled with hay, cows and a ranch dog named Pokey, with random litters of kittens hidden in the hay. Dinner was a boisterous meal with everyone crammed around one big table, piled with food. The tree was very ‘Charlie Brown-ish,’ always crocked, rarely very green, with a couple of token ornaments thrown on so you could call it a Christmas tree. The gifts were usually modest, guaranteed a stocking for each Grandchild usually filled with a pair a colorful socks, a pretty little tin of fruity candies, and a $1 or $5 bill. Laughter echoed in the house until the wee hours of the morning as everyone played cards and Grandpa continued to announce, “Well, I’m going to bed.”
A Mahacek Christmas in the 'big house'. Fulton, CA
Each home was so very different, but filled with love and memories I will cherish until the day I die.
Yesterday I celebrated Thanksgiving with some of my family. Everyone was jovial, the food was outstanding (I am surrounded by awesome cooks!), the weather superb… my Aunt is healthy after a bone marrow transplant, my husband’s ankle is on the mend and I believe is completely healed from his kidney disease, his Mom was with us, 15 years after her kidney transplant, … I am just so thankful.
We made a ‘Thanksgiving Tree’ with hand print ornaments made from construction paper, glue, glitter and yarn. They were imprinted with some of the things each of us was thankful for.
Our 'Thanksgiving Tree'
My son, Cooper's hand.
I am so thankful for all of the wonderful family holiday celebrations, traditions old and new… watching fireworks all over the San Francisco bay area from my Grandparent’s porch, ’stair pictures’ of all the grand and great-grandkids on Christmas Eve, picnics with Easter egg hunts… and Thanksgiving trees.
A Delisle 'Stair' Picture
The 4th of July Parade in Morgan Hill, CA
Happy Thanksgiving!
One thing I have been very conscious of in my life is my diversity of experiences. I am very grateful for the variety I have had in my life because it has shaped my creative gifts, my eye, my tastes, my attitudes, my heart, my ideas about people and life. The highs and the lows, the fancy and not so fancy have all made me who I am.
So today I am going to try to write down some of those diverse experiences, starting with my travels.
Off roading in Cozumel
- I have CAMPED in my backyard, in a playhouse, under the stars, in a tent, in an RV, in a car, on a porch, and in a cabin. I have camped in the redwoods, on the beach, in the desert, on the Rhine River at the base of a castle, in the heart of Paris, along the Berlin wall with gun fire in the distance, on a hillside over looking Florence Italy, at the base of the Swiss Alps, in the Yosemite Valley, in Grand Tetons and Yellowstone Natl parks.
Biking in Lake Tahoe with Jayden in tow
- I have traveled by dune buggy, 4 wheel ATV, Volkswagon beetle and Volkswagon van, sedan, station wagon, minivan, box truck, light rail, city bus, school bus, Bart, train, boat, cruise ship, and airplane. While traveling I have ridden on bicycles, horses, wagons, wave runners, speed boats, golf carts, paddle boats, water skiis, snow skiis, a kayak, snow mobile, ski lifts, sky trails, zip lines, a Mercedes ‘tank/truck’, water taxis, jeep, gigantic slides and elevators inside mines, subway trains, taxis, funiclars, gondola lifts, catamarans, horse and carriage, a white water raft, and a submarine.
A Submarine in St. Thomas
- I have slept at cheap motels with lumpy matresses and bed vibrators (LOL!) and in luxury penthouse suites with balconies bigger than my house. I have been flooded out of a tent, camped in mud, and been in an intense thunder & lightning rain storm on a boat in the Siene river. I have been rushed to the hospital in Prague in a freezing cold ‘ambulance’ while the drivers smoked cigarettes.
Black Tie Dinner with my Honey
- I have watched the sunset from the Eiffel Tower, shopped in occupied East Berlin and stood in a subway station surrounded by guards with machine guns, been in the ovens at Auschwitz, walked inside a glacier, swam in the Mediterranean, explored catacombs and mines, seen Old Faithful, swam with dolphins and with gigantic sting rays, seen my Great-Great-G?-Uncle’s artwork in the castle in Prague, nursed my son in the West Wing of the White house and waved to the President of the United States as he lifted off in a helicopter from the back lawn, learned how to sew seed beads by an American Indian, listened to a Venetian Orchestra inside an old church in Venice, seen the Swiss Alps from the top, had a beer in the Hofbrauhaus in Munchen at the age of 15, hiked to the top of Mt. Lassen, gone off roading in a jeep on the beach in Cozumel, and been the literal butt of a ventriloquist’s dummy’s joke.
Being SUPER embarrassed by the dummy. 
The most exciting thing about experiences is that they come every day. I have traveled many places, but I have a long list of places I still want to visit, people and places I still want to see, and that I am thankful for too. It gives me many things to look forward to.
Standing in front of a dream in Key West
Happy Dreaming, Traveling, Journaling, and Grateful Living,
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