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Mother’s Day Winner Announced

Good evening all,

I hope you all had a fabulous Mother’s Day. I apologize for announcing the winner so late, but I tried out a new low-sodium dish. I have to say: It was yummy and my beloved enjoyed it greatly. I will post it later this week.

But I am digressing…I used Random.Org to draw the winner for the Mother’s Day giveaway:

The winner of the Wall-Art by Holley Gerth and Dee Kasberger is commenter number 4 – Lori from All You Have to Give. Congratulations, Lori. I will contact you via email to get your snail-mail address.

Have a blessed Sunday evening and a beautiful week.

Love & peace,
Iris

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Thankful from the bottom of my Heart

“Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.” ~ Colossians 3:16 (ESV)

I am inching myself back into the blogging world. Yes, I have been absent for a while — I needed to regroup and figure out what is truly important in life and to me…

So, why I am I writing a thankful post today? I have two wonderful things to share with the blogging community (although one thing is bitter-sweet)…

  • Some of you know that I had a ‘Silent Auction‘ last week on this blog. Although I didn’t get many bids for the print, the ‘winning’ bid is extra special (and bitter-sweet). I want to thank Marsha and CWO for bidding on the print. The ‘winning’ bid was submitted by CWO.
    Here is the very cool part: Darlene placed the bid in the name of all Christian Women around the globe — so in essence – you placed the bid too 🙂 . Since the bid was from the community of Christian women, Darlene requested that the print is not shipped to Canada, but to sweet little Gentry Rose.
    This is the bitter part: July is the last month that CWO is being published. I have known CWO (and Darlene) from the beginning. I truly believe that I would have not made that many connections around the world if it had not been for Darlene following His lead…Darlene, you always will have a special place in my heart…I thank God for you and your commitment over the past 4 years ~ I love you, girl…

  • The other thing that I am truly thankful for is: God gave me a dream and is making it in little pieces reality. I only have shared this with a few of my closest friends, but now I am ready to share with you all. I am trying to build a portrait business. The only part that is hard to have the energy after an 8 hour work day to take portraits and promote my business. But I know that I can dream big with God…If you have time, check out my ‘business’ website: Iris Nelson Portraits…Let me know what you think 😛 …

Thank you for taking time to stop by today. Remember: No dream is to outrages if God is leading the way 🙂 …

Visit my dear friend Lynn at Spiritually Unequal Marriage, to visit other Thankful Thursday participants.
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