mother's day gifts and more

I am grateful

 

956. Love You More Than Chalkboard from TX daughter

and singer daughter 

 

957. Scarf all the way for Afghanistan from the littlest

 

958. Prana backpack from the oldest and new kitchen towels

from the golfer

 

 

959. a year 52 weeks of gratitude notes to be sent once a week

for a year from the oldest

 

 

960. homemade all the way from TX

 

961. bathtub enjoyment from the only son and daughter-in-law

 

962. the gift of family celebrating together in person and by phone on Mother's day; priceless

 

 

 

Linking up here today ...

 

http://www.aholyexperience.com/

 

 

 

 

You are a gift!

5 minutes giving it all I got with not edits ...

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It was a gift to spend time with my good friend Ginny yesterday. We walked, getting the exercise I need and we talked, about the things that matter most to us. We chatted about Real Women, we went on to talk about excess, and rich in generosity. I know we could talk for hours. We laughed and we shared lunch together. It is a gift to spend time with her and I love that we find ourselves talking about the gifts we have received from the Lord.

It seems there is nothing quite like the gift of a girlfriend who shares her faith in conversation.

It's a GIFT to spend time, recalling the GIFTS from His hand, through the GIFT of conversation with the GIFT of my good friend Ginny. I love you my friend way more!

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Home Again (day 29)

9/26/2010 Who would have thought that it would take me a 3-month period to follow through with my goal of 30 days of writing but it has ... and I am totally OK with this, today, being day 29!

I have been home since Monday, December 13 but am just now sitting down to blog for the first time. The trip to Liberia was amazing! For now I would like to share just two quick stories to go with the above pictures in this post ....

On the 3rd and 4th day in country the team from New Hope Church facilitated a conference on Reconciliation and Evangelism. I was a facilitator for 2 of the workshops on Evangelism. The first conference day there was a women named Rebecca who participated in the one of the workshops I presented. At the end of the workshop I told of how I had come to Christ in January of 1977. I gave everyone an opportunity to pray to receive Christ. After the workshop was over Rebecca came and asked me for my mailing information and said that she had received Christ that day! I was thrilled but of course God was more thrilled. This past Monday I sent a Bible to Rebecca and to another individual who received Christ! I will now continue to pray for Rebecca and for her growth in Christ.

On one of our final days we traveled to one of the villages where we gave out the gifts provided by the kids from the NHC children's prayer team, Hopewatchers. The gifts were school supplies. Pictured here is one of the girls using a crayon for the first time. Each child was given one crayon from the box of 24 crayons. What wonder to see and appreciate this act of giving from the kids in MN to the kids in Liberia. As a teacher this was especially meaningful as many of these children did not have school supplies or even know how to use them. So many things we just take for granted in the United States!

I am every so grateful to each of you who "gave and sent" me to Liberia to be the hands and feet of Christ.

We make a great team! In His Arms, Beth

Shhhhhh, my Husband's Birthday is Tomorrow!

July 26, 2010
Monday Evening Pages

OK, so tomorrow is my husband's birthday. He is eight years older than me but if you don't know how old I am than you really don't know how old he will be tomorrow. He is the kind of guy that has everything he would like in the line of stuff, therefore I am not intending to buy him anything, but I am excited to give him a gift this year. I think I am more excited about this gift than any other gift I have given him. I have been thinking about the gift for over a month but I am glad I have another week to prepare my gift for him. You see, since 3 birthdays all happen between July 27-August 9, our family gathers for one big birthday bash for Ashley, Kelley, and Terry. That celebration will happen next Tuesday evening at our home. So the secrets yet another week away, but once the day has come and gone the secret will be posted. So .... come on back next week!

Christmas Day 2008

Even though this photo display took some time to enter into the blog I know it is well worth it for Carrie and Jacob and of course our sweet Annika to see ....

We miss you more this Christmas and we love you more this Christmas ... Wishing you were here.

"How does one photoshop those cousins who were not with us into this photo anyway?"

"It always begins with Luke Chapter Two."

"Leg Warmers, Yeah ... I love them!"

"Voted, Best Gift ESV Bible to Adam from Ashley"

"Do you really have to wake me up just to open gifts?"

"OK so I'm not in the PGA but I will be dry on my way to and from work!"

"How does this work anyway?"

The Envelope on the Tree

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

morning pages

Some of you may be waiting for the end of the story.

I woke up on Christmas Day to the rattling of the newspaper being read by Terry who had come back to bed returning from his early morning (3 am) route. As Terry quickly fell back to sleep I enjoyed a time that I rarely take to read the morning newspaper in bed. I was drawn to an article entitled Small donors, big hearts by Neal St. Anthony. It was about Brownie Troop 1957 who had stepped up to help the family of an African immigrant who was badly burned in a house fire. St. Anthony wrote, "We're just living by the grace of God," Gippleh said the other night at a party thrown for his kids at Hennepin county Medical Center. "My children are so grateful for this. Life is not easy right now, but I have hope." One evening in July, Roosevelt said good night to family members and walked to the attached garage to start his old junker and drive to work. The engine caught fire and Gippleh couldn't douse it. He ran inside to awaken the family, call 911 and evacuate the house, before returning to the garage, he walked into a fiery explosion that engulfed him in flames, severely burning 75 percent of his body. Neighbors pulled him from the garage and rolled him on the ground to smother the flames. Doctors doubted that he would live. After 10 weeks in a coma, Gippleh started to come around. Today, he is a walking survivor of numerous skin-grafts, living at home and doing therapy four hours a day at HCMC. His health insurer, Cigna, has paid the $842,000 tab so far for doctors and hospitalization, HCMC officials said. However, Gippleh was laid off last summer from his job. The family was iving on $220 weekly short-term disability payments that have expired. There home in Brooklyn Center is now in foreclosure due to the fact that they have been unable to make the mortgage payments for several months. Many people have helped, their neighbors, their Liberian friends, their friends from Bridgewood Community Church and yes now us. We have chosen to give the gift of the envelope on the tree to this family. Will this small gift help? Only God knows!

If you want to help ...

Gippleh's pastor has started a fund for the family at

Bridgewood Community Church

11670 Lexington Ave NE

Blaine, MN 55449

Putting the Gippleh Family In His Arms, Beth