Mon, May 5th - 4:02PM

HUMAN STATUE OF LIBERTY

Sat, May 3rd - 12:14AM

THANKS-giving All Year Long...

As Women's Ministry Director for our church ladies group, it was my responsibility to create a program each month. One month I had a brilliant idea! I went outside and broke off a bare tree limb, stuck it in a jar that I had wrapped tin foil around, typed a sign saying, The "Thanks" Giving Gift Tree under which I put little packages of potpourri I had made with brief prayers attached. Then, hanging from the branches I put "gifts of thanksgiving" (Scripture verses about the fruit of the Spirit, which I had typed out, rolled into scrolls, and tied up with various colored yarn -- looked neat! Each lady got to pick their own "gift of thanks giving" and a potpourri gift.)

The morning of the program a few days later, I woke up at 7:00a.m. I wanted to be at the church at 10:30 to decorate before the program at 1:00p.m., when the Lord very plainly said, "Make gifts."

I hollered, "MAKE GIFTS? THERE ISN'T TIME!"

Again He said, "Make gifts."

I stayed in bed thinking, "What gifts? There isn't time! Lord, don't You know there isn't time! And I don't have a clue what to make!"

I was trying not to panic, when suddenly a little poem verse came to me, "This gift isn't worth much, not a dime or a nickel. It's only worth pennies, but might buy you a pickle!" I had no idea what crazy thing the Lord was trying to tell me; when all of a sudden two more silly rhymes came into my head. So, I jumped out of bed, turned on my computer and started typing them so I wouldn't forget them. Ten more verses came to me! AFTER I got them typed and printed out, I went around the house looking for something to match each verse, and found something for every one of them! (The "pickle" one was 21 pennies -- all that I had at the time!) So, I wrapped those gifts in various colored tissued paper I happened to have handy -- some were silly, like the pennies, and some were nice, and some were cute. After our games when I handed out those "prizes", the ladies laughed and loved them!

To think that I might have missed giving blessings as well as receiving them if I had not been obedient to the Lord's voice... He ALWAYS knows what He's doing...and He always knows what we CAN do!