A note of encouragement

My brother and sister in law

have been dealing with a hard

situation for a long time now.  I'm

really proud of them for keeping their

marriage strong through it and also

their faith in God.  Every so often 

I like to send them cards just to

let them know I'm thinking about

them and praying for them.

I'm hoping the situation will ease

up before long, but life doesn't

always work that way.  Until that

time they are relying on God and

each other to deal with it.

That is so hard to do.  I was praying

this morning and telling God it's

hard enough to rely on someone

when you can see, touch, hear

them.  Harder still for us to

trust God when all we have is faith.

Sometimes that faith wavers.

At least it does in me.  Every once

in a while I hear that voice that says,

"yeah, but what if God is just a 

nice story?"  I know that's Satan

whispering in my ear and I know

it's not true.  But it's hard sometimes.

I know I'm not the only one who

goes through that.  Even though they've

probably had the same feelings at some

point throughout this trial, I know

they also believe and trust that

God will see them through this safely.

I stamped a musical score on white

vellum and then embossed the flower.

I really need to find fine detail gold embossing

powder.  I can't find embossing powder 

anywhere around here, actually.  I think hobby

lobby has a couple colours.  I will probably

have to order it online but I keep forgetting.

Other than that I think it turned out OK.

More fun with the distress ink.  I also

stamped some script in the top and 

bottom corners, used an octagon stencil

and some splatters.  I love how it

turned out.  I added the feathers to

make it look a little more manly!

This morning I'm practicing signing the
songs for Sunday with a friend and then

going to our usual Friday lunch with

Dianne.  We're going to a place that

has one of my favourite salads.  It's a

regular salad with chicken, but they

toss the salad in hot sauce!  I would

never have thought of that, but it is

so good!!!  My mouth waters just 

thinking about it.  I've seen a commercial

about Reeces Peanut butter cups that

says your mouth isn't watering, it's crying

tears of joy.  Maybe that's what's going

on with me.  I don't like reeces, but I do

love this salad!