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I Hope You Join Me


On Tuesday I am hosting CWO’s In Other Word meme. I have picked a quote by my favorite pastor who was considered a rebel in his time, Dr. Martin Luther, reformist of the 16th century:

“They gave our Master a crown of thorns. Why do we hope for a crown of roses?”

When I came across this quote last week, I immediately thought of the following Scripture passages:

“More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.” ~ Romans 5:3-5 (ESV)

I pray and hope you have time to join me this up-coming Tuesday to share your thoughts with us…

Be blessed today and as always…

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Holding Fast

“Do all things without grumbling or questioning, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.” ~ Philippians 2:14-16 (ESV)

If you have time today, please visit the Internet Cafe to my thoughts on the above passage.

Blessings on your day and as always…

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Its Official!

Laced with Grace has moved to its own URL. We are happy to announce that the devotional blog was moved late last night to Lacedwithgrace.com. If you are linking from your blog to the devotional team blog, please change the address. For right now, the old blog is redirecting you to the new address, but only until September 8th.

I want to thank the team for all the support they have given me and you dear readers, for your prayers. We hope to see you all at the new address 😛 . Now I just have to move Sting my Heart to the new server/hosting company – oh my…I am glad I started with LWG.

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Also, the September issue for CWO is out — check for my interview with Crystal 😛 .

Blessings on your Labor Day weekend and as always…

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Thankful Thursday ~ Mercy

“Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me, for in you my soul takes refuge; in the shadow of your wings I will take refuge, till the storms of destruction pass by.”
~ Psalm 57:1 (ESV – emphasis mine)

Have ever felt like everyone/everything is against you no matter what you do? Well, one of those weeks is behind me…Starting with server issues on Wednesday (all my emails where gone – like 6,000 of them), going through the weekend, all I could do is have my LWG team pray and trying to pick up the pieces as good as I could…I am wondering if ‘someone’ does not want me or the LWG team publish Christian blogs. So, here is my thankful list for this week:

  • I am thankful that no matter what — He is there. He will give me refuge under His wings until the path of destruction passes over me…

  • I am thankful for Casting Crowns latest CD “The Altar and the Door” that was just released. Just love the song “East To West“. Hope you have a minute to listen to it on their site 🙂 …

  • I am thankful that Darlene allowed me to interview Crystal for the CWO September issue 🙂 .

  • I am thankful that you, my dear Thankful Thursdayers, are here today. That means that you did not receive any *nasty* emails that ‘apparently’ yours truly has sent out. I am really wondering why hackers find it funny to hack blogger emails…

  • I am thankful that because of all these on-line issues, Laced with Grace will finally get its own URL. Please stay tunned; the team will publish the new URL as soon as I have everything transferred to a different hosting company this weekend. Sting my Heart will be moving too, but I think I will keep the URL, since I already paid for it for the next two years…

  • I am thankful that an awesome Christian scrapping designer has accepted my application to create LO from her designs. Thank you Michelle 🙂 …

  • And of course I am thankful that my vacation is only 3 weeks away — Hallelujah!!!!

What are you thankful for today? Please leave your link below. As your time permits, please visit other participants.

Would you keep me in your prayers as I am attempting to move blogs this weekend. I just hope I don’t loose anything. But then again, my life verse is Philippians 4:13 and I certainly cling to that right now. BTW – if you have eph2810@eph2810.com in your email address book, delete it – it no longer works…

Thank you for stopping by today — be blessed today and as always,

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Thankful Thursday Participants

1. Laurel Wreath
2. Lynn
3. Deidre
4. To Know Him
5. Millie
6. ellen b
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9. Liza’s Eyeview
10. Mary
11. Emmyrose
12. Lisa @ The Preacher’s Wife
13. SharonB
14. Devildogwife
15. Susan
16. Diana aka Forgetfulone
17. Sharon@S.W.M.A
18. Crystal@God is in Control
19. Training Hearts
20. Denise
21. Prayerful Mom
22. maiylah’s snippets
23. Patty
24. Terri @ in His hands
25. Lisa@Casa de Alvarado
26. Kim – So Loved
27. Dana
28. NspiredByFaith
29. In Light of the Truth
30. Sheri@PurelyHis
31. Andie @ ProchnowBlessings		 32. Janet
33. AmyD
34. Alycia @ Where Your Treasures Are
35. Kay in PA
36. AniqueAnik
37. Lori ~ Simple Life at Home
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39. Lynn~Somewhere In The Sun
40. Angie
41. Cyndi@ One Day More
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53. samibear
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55. Lisa Kay
56. Amber @ Trust in the Lord
57. Irene (The Green Greek)
58. Susie
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60. Lori
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62. Karen ~Georgia Angel		 63. Jen@Scrap&Snippets
64. Tami@The Next Step
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68. Kim
69. Tina @ A Woman’s Journey Home
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77. Angela at refresh my soul
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