A Mile in My Shoes: Gifts

Quotes

“Our Master has never promised us success. He demands obedience. He expects faithfulness. Results are His concern, not ours. And our reputation is of no consequence at all.”
~ Amy Carmichael ~
“Faith isn’t the ability to believe long and far into the misty future. It’s simply taking God at His word and taking the next step.”
~ Joni Eareckson Tada ~
“Write it over all your difficulties. Pen it across all your disappointments. Inscribe it on all your fears. Post it over all your troubles: ‘God is able.’”
~ Hudson Taylor ~
“Earth is crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God; but only he who sees takes off his shoes. The rest sit around it and pluck blackberries.”
~ Elizabeth Barret Browning ~
“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.”
~ G. K. Chesterton ~
“Four things to learn in life; To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.”
~ Helen Keller ~
“He who restrains his anger overcomes his greatest enemy.”
~ Roman Proverb~

Other Stuff

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Only 4 more paydays until Christmas....

We get paid twice a month, you might have a few more paydays than we do. Anyway, my point is this:

Like us, you are probably gathering Christmas lists. Are you as bewildered as I am at the thought of buying one more toy for your kids?

I am. Seriously. They have a toy room.

A room.

Just for toys.

How many children in the world, right now as I type, would like to have a room to sleep in? Never mind a change of clothes or a bed.

Maybe a little food in their bellies?

"When you happen on someone who's in trouble or needs help
among your people with whom you live in this land that God, your God, is giving you,
don't look the other way pretending you don't see him.
Don't keep a tight grip on your purse.

No.

Look at him, open your purse, lend whatever and as much as he needs.

Don't count the cost."
~Deuteronomy 15:7-9

"When a poor person dies of hunger,
it has not happened
because God did not take care of him or her.

It has happened
because neither you nor I wanted to give that person
what he or she needed."
~Mother Teresa

What is our response?

Your response will be up to you. But can I encourage you to reach? Reach out. Reach far. Be as generous as your current circumstances allow. Then maybe you can think of ways to change your circumstances to give more.

How are you going to celebrate Jesus' birthday? What are you giving Him for a gift? After all, why should we give ourselves presents? It's not our birthday....

Thank you Ann. For reminding me.

We are starting here:

And here:

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Who's Amy Lu?

Let me introduce myself! I'm a 30-something stay-at-home home-schooling Mother of two (one by adoption, one by birth). I love to craft, I love to cook, I love to knit, and I can't keep my house clean to save my life. I've been married to my college sweet-heart since 1995. I've lived in the Midwest all my life and just in case you didn't know, Lake Michigan is my lake.

July 2008