Today I want to share our latest acquisition with you. It’s our first one in a long while, actually, but when I found it, I felt peaceful and blessed and had to have it.
So, I brought it home and Tom and I searched out the best place to hang it in our home. We decided over the doorway between our dining room and kitchen. Unlike most people we know, we use our dining room often. And like just about everyone we know, we are always in the kitchen.
Whether by ourselves or with guests and family over, everyone hangs out there. You know. Close to the food. The cooking, the camaraderie, the laughter spill over into the breakfast area and living room. The open doorway between the kitchen and dining room is a busy traffic way.
Another major consideration for where it hangs is that you can see it from the front door as you enter our home. Just outside our front door to the right hangs a fall welcome sign, “Autumn Blessings.” So it seems fitting that upon entering, you will see “With Grace Surround Us.” A prayer for special graces. Always.
I reflect often on those words and ponder them. I have asked for and received from God before what I consider to be special graces so I could serve Him by serving others in times of need. The two most important that come to mind are when I spent time with my dad and mom before, and as, he died and after. The other was when Tom’s daughter Kim died and through Tom’s endless months of deep grief following. It is an ongoing ministry.
Today, I ask each of you to pray with me and for me for special graces once again. My family is deeply troubled.
I know you will do so. You always do and are always of great encouragement to me. I pray that God’s grace surround each of you today and that you will be well until I can meet here with you again. I will not have my email addresses with me for the next few days, so if you wish to contact me and have me write back, please leave a comment here or email me, so that I can respond.
Dee
Have a safe trip. I hope Rebecca recovers and is well soon. Will be praying.
Safe journey Dee and may you be an instrument of healing and peace for your daughter.
Have been praying for you and will continue to do so.
Peace to you and my prayers continue on behalf of you, Rebecca and all of your family. Keep us posted as you have opportunity.
PS I did take all the pictures on my blog except the first one, Most of our keets didn’t make it and I wanted my readers to be able to see how cute they are.
Praying for you, and for Rebecca, as well as for the family situation. He is a God of mercy and healing………in all aspects of life. Safe journey. Love, Judy.
You got it Dee. May the God of Comfort comfort all of you.
Any updates, Dee?