A Rosary Give Away

Two wonderful moms are hosting a Rosary Give away!!! Go on over to Lacy's blog, Catholic Icing, and enter to win a Rosary from Sarah at The Clay Rosary Girl. Sarah's rosaries are beautiful. If you don't win you'll probably want to purchase one! I'd love to win the Red Rose Rosary with Immaculate Hearts. If I don't win I'm putting it on my Christmas List! Enjoy your visits with Lacy and Sarah. You'll be glad you visited them.

Check out this awesome give away!

You'll be glad when you visit the Etsy Rosary Guild Team blog! They have lovely rosary beads for sale and they are having a give away. Entry by August 15th and you could win this lovely rosary donated by donated by Debbie of 15 Promises Heritage Rosaries.

You can find more about the give away here!

This is so Beautiful!

Watch this video. It brought tears to my eyes!

Beautiful!

Just had to share this video. The group is called Il Divo. I saw the advertisement for their CD on TV and looked them up on the Internet. This is one of my favorite hymns. They do an excellent job. The bagpipes are great!

Fireproof - Go see it!

Friday night Lori and I went a saw the new movie starring Kirk Cameron called Fireproof. I highly recommend the movie. The theater was packed and it was a mixture of older and younger people. It was just like a church crowd. I heard a few Amens doing the movie and when it ended we all clapped. That doesn't happen too often. It's nice to see a good movie come out. A movie you can take your daughter to and not worry about the content. The Samuel Goldwyn Films were involved with the film. They were also involved with the movie Amazing Grace which I wrote about here. Fireproof is from the creators of Facing the Giants. Another good movie. Other companies involved are Affirm films and Sherwood Pictures.


Fireproof - Never leave your partner behind!



The movie has a great soundtrack as well. One of the songs from the movie is titled Love is not a Fight by Warren Barfield. You can watch the video here.

The official website for the movie is here.

Find out more about Kirk and his ministry here.

From The Internet Movie Database:

Lt. Caleb Holt lives by the old firefighter's adage: Never leave your partner behind. Inside burning buildings, it's his natural instinct. In the cooling embers of his marriage, it's another story.

After a decade of marriage, Caleb and Catherine Holt have drifted so far apart that they are ready to move on without each other. Yet as they prepare to enter divorce proceedings, Caleb's dad asks his son to try an experiment: The Love Dare.

While hoping The Love Dare has nothing to do with his parents' newfound faith, Caleb commits to the challenge. But can he attempt to love his wife while avoiding God's love for him? Will he be able to demonstrate love over and over again to a person that's no longer receptive to his love? Or is this just another marriage destined to go up in smoke?

Peace for Anxious Days by Max Lucado

Have you ever had a day or a week where you weren't sure where you should be or what you should be doing? I've had that today and part of last week at my work. I've wondered for the past week how I could change things in my life to get out of a place I don't want to be in right now but then I'm reminded by a simple email that I don't have to worry about changing things because God will take care of me and any situation I'm facing. Here is what was in my email box from Max Lucado just when I needed to hear it.

Peace for Anxious Days
by Max Lucado

When my daughters were single-digit ages—two, five, and seven—I wowed them with a miracle. I told them the story of Moses and the manna and invited them to follow me on a wilderness trek through the house.

“Who knows,” I suggested, “manna may fall from the sky again.”

We dressed in sheets and sandals and did our best Bedouin hike through the bedrooms. The girls, on my instruction, complained to me, Moses, of hunger and demanded I take them back to Egypt, or at least to the kitchen. When we entered the den, I urged them to play up their parts: groan, moan, and beg for food.

“Look up,” I urged. “Manna might fall any minute.”

Two-year-old Sara obliged with no questions, but Jenna and Andrea had their doubts. How can manna fall from a ceiling?

Just like the Hebrews. “How can God feed us in the wilderness?”

Just like you? You look at tomorrow’s demands, next week’s bills, next month’s silent calendar. Your future looks as barren as the Sinai Desert. “How can I face my future?” God tells you what I told my daughters: “Look up.”

When my daughters did, manna fell! Well, not manna, but vanilla wafers dropped from the ceiling and landed on the carpet. Sara squealed with delight and started munching. Jenna and Andrea were old enough to request an explanation.

My answer was simple. I knew the itinerary. I knew we would enter this room. Vanilla wafers fit safely on the topside of the ceiling-fan blades. I had placed them there in advance. When they groaned and moaned, I turned on the switch.

God’s answer to the Hebrews was similar. Did he know their itinerary? Did he know they would grow hungry? Yes and yes. And at the right time, he tilted the manna basket toward earth.

And what about you? God knows what you need and where you’ll be. Any chance he has some vanilla wafers on tomorrow’s ceiling fans? Trust him. “Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don’t get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes” (Matthew 6:33-34).

From Every Day Deserves a Chance
Copyright (Thomas Nelson, Inc., 2007) Max Lucado


That last paragragh was what I needed to hear. God will help me deal with whatever comes along. I don't have to worry or be afraid. If you liked this inspirational message from Max check out his website. You can sign up to get his "Every Day" emails every weekday from May 14-June 8, for free.

Here is a piece of art work that I did several months ago that sums up my feelings at this moment! All Glory be to Him!

Easter Blessings!

He has risen!

Good Friday

I'm a little late in posting my Good Friday blessings! We had a very moving Good Friday Service at my church. This service always blesses me and prepares me for the Glory of Easter morning! One of our members always sings the song Watch the Lamb each year! It is a powerful song.

Here is the link for You Tube. I couldn't get it to copy to my blog. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZglfbdjrH0

Palm Sunday Blessings!

Matthew 21: 8-11

And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way; others cut down branches from the trees, and strawed them in the way. And the mulitudes that went before, and the followed cried saying Hosanna to the son of David. Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest. And when he was come into Jerusalem all the city was moved saying Who is this? And the multitude said. This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee.

Mark 19: 38

Saying blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.