"Gotta have Faith" (boom-pa-boomp...George Micheal)

I have to pass on a short lil' thought from my day, the other day. To set the scene: I was running errands with my mother in law, Sally Jane, and we went to the library to return some of her books. She is brilliant and quite the avid reader. It was on Sunday therefore the library was closed so I just pulled up next to the drop off behind another car along side the sidewalk. Sally got out to put her returns in the box. While she was getting out there was this sweet elderly lady that had just returned her materials and was walking back to her car where her husband was waiting. She looked up at Sally wanting to make eye contact and give her a smile, but Sally was looking the other direction. You could slowly see the smile disappear from the elderly lady's face as she realized her moment had passed. All the while I sat in my car, in the drivers seat just hoping that she would look my way so I could smile back at her. This was a brief moment, but one that for some reason haunted me all day long! My thoughts drifted to how a second can truly make or possibly brake someones day. Anyways, several hours later we were on our way back to Sally's house and we had to stop at Walgreen's, across town from the library, I ran in to grab what we needed and low and behold I came across that same lady coming out of the store. I smiled as big as I could and she smiled back; I then said how are you and her response was "Thank you..." (with a small sigh of relief), she smiled back and said I'm good, and you? I moved out of her way of the path to her car and said I'm wonderful! We smiled and went on our way.... Wow! My thoughts were at peace finally!

This long thought is just to prove that God works in all things. He knew that I was bothered and he produced a situation for me to seize the moment. Thank you lord for those brief moments of inspiration. We all have the potential to be the very best we can be. Devin and I have visited about this for hours. It mostly comes down to making sure you're directing your faith in the right place. Sometimes in the hectics of daily routine my direction or our direction can be altered so easily. We find ourselves putting more faith in other places, such as friends or family. Which is good to believe in people, but our Faith never needs to leave the cross. Our faith always needs to be in the direction of our Savior and that's something that can't be beaten out by people. That's what I mean by that. I know I'm rambling, but I was put in a situation where I put entirely too much faith in a "best friend" and I don't think most people can handle that much. It can cause a breaking point especially if they aren't Christan's. I thought I could pull her up and in the end I don't feel that happened. I wasn't pulled down, but I feel that I was made to have grown through the situation. Growing in Christ, which is an amazing journey, is also difficult at times to see the big picture. For weeks this has been on my heart, I still really don't know how exactly to express all that I am feeling and my thoughts but this is a start I suppose. Keep shining and know that you are in my prayers. I thank God for you; continue to be strong and have faith!

That is why we always pray for you, asking our God to help you live the kind of life he called you to live. We pray that with his power God will help you do the good things you want and perform the the works that come from your faith. We pray all this so that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ will have glory in you, and you will have glory in him. That glory comes from the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ. 2 THESSALONIANS 1:11-12

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Bah Hum Bug...

Okay so the weather outside is frightful and our fire is so delightful, but our two year old computer has died. It really is a sad time at the Brewster Home because I had kept everything in the world on there... pictures, songs, books, programs, projects, etc... I'm so bummed. The Geek Squad might be able to save my stuff but they said they won't be able to save the computer. If I had of known this I would have just kept everything on my seven year old gateway! Anyways, the upside is that I may be enjoying a new Mac for Christmas, but until then its slowly moving along on this old bag of bones gateway. Tee Hee!!!

I hope you are all well and enjoying the Christmas Season!

My Mode Design

Here are some of my newest lil' treasures on my online shop. I've been painting and printing like a crazy person. I so enjoy doing this kind of stuff. Most of my stuff is customized, but I have holiday photo cards, gift stickers, kids furniture, frames and then stationary or invitation stuff. I recently had three custom frame orders and now I'm working on doing two wedding invitation sets, plus some party invites for another lady in Iowa. Who would have thought! Anyways, I hope all is well with everyone and the shopping isn't driving you mad.... yet!!!

www.ModeDesign.etsy.com

Etsy is an amazing place to find some really fabulous gifts or stuff for yourself. Everything is either handmade or vintage (20 yrs plus). There are so many talented people out there, this is a fun place to see their creations.

Happy Shopping!

Fast and Furious

Can you believe it's already December? I mean hello, where did this year go? Anyways, things around here have been a little bit crazy, to say the least. My dad has been in the hospital for eleven days and counting... he went in for day surgery and low and behold he's still there. I wish I could explain whats going on, but I myself don't really know. He fell several months ago and hurt his knee, I took him in then to get it checked out at the doctor. Then a couple of weeks later my lil' brother, Ira, took him back in to have it looked at again. They kept telling us that it was just bruised and it would only heal with time. Well, after too much time had gone by we had someone else look at it and right away they said he had some kind of bacteria infection and had torn something else.... very undetailed on the whole thing. Anyways, that was three days before Thanksgiving and they scheduled day surgery for the Friday morning after.... well he's still there and since then he has had three surgeries! Somedays the nurses act like its something very threatening other days they act as if things are fine and this sort of thing happens all the time. Not only that but now he has staph infection. They say he needs to be there for another two weeks and then they are moving him to a nursing home for six weeks in order to keep him on the strong meds and I V. I mean come on... what's the deal? We still really don't know, that's the kicker! So I ask for your prayers for my dear dad. I feel he's spent the last fifteen years in a hospital like setting, I know he's strong but goodness. He is in pain, but the morphine, muscle relaxers, hydrocodine, and whatever else are trying to control it or pain managing it. Anyways, he is himself through and through! He's either rubbing the nurses hands or feet or he's asking them if they believe in Jesus. This is his time to continually shine for our Lord and Savior. The fact alone that he's been through so much and still maintains his positive outlook isn't enough for him, he adds to the Kingdom by speaking the Word to everyone he comes in contact with. He is an amazing man! And God has many, many, many treasures stored for him in Heaven.