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A Coast Guard helicopter crashed Tuesday night in Mobile, AL.  

My husband is a Coast Guard pilot and when anything like this happens it hits way too close to home.

This is something I fear every time he goes to work.  The Coast Guard and especially the aviation community within the Coast Guard is so small, we all know each other and that makes it so difficult when things like this happen.  

Three of the four crew have been recovered, deceased.  The search continues for the fourth.

They were training.  Training to do the mission their fellow Coasties are doing right now to find them.

What I have been reminded, though the week has been very difficult, is that God is good.  

No matter what.

May God Bless and Keep them and their families.

Blessings,

Daphne

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I read this scripture last night and it spoke volumes to me - our house went on the market yesterday!

So so much going on around here.  We've had a great visit with my folks this week, they head back tomorrow.  Then more house stuff/getting ready to move, I suppose.

I was a bit over-ambitious when I promised sewing news the other day - sorry!  I did get something sewn but it's not quite finished yet.  Monday, maybe?

Have a wonderful weekend friends!!

Blessings,

Daphne

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More on hospitality soon, but first, something I have needed to remember lately.  Just been in a little bit of a funk - not exactly sure why, but part of it could be this:

Yes, it was the toilet and no it hasn't shown any signs of recovery yet (we're going on a day and a half now)

Phone or no phone, funk or no funk, this IS the day the Lord has made and that is every reason to rejoice and be glad in it.

(p.s. don't you just love the word "rejoice"?!  As I was writing it I was marveling at what a wonderful word it is...)

Blessings friends - rejoice in His day today -

Daphne

The Word - Hospitality

Hospitality has been on my mind a lot lately.  I've never had a 'word' that I focus on for the year - but this one might take me through a few months.  

It might be the preggo hormones, but I've had the urge to find anything I can that speaks about hospitality to read/absorb.  There is lots in the Bible - and that's where I started.

This verse from Romans is so practical and simple.

Practice Hospitality.

My goal is to be a great host, to make our home a warm, cozy and welcoming place where people pop-in often and want to stay.

Where a pot of tea and/or coffee (I love both!) are always on and flowers are on the table.

Some fresh cookies wouldn't hurt either...

Here are a few other verses about hospitality - but this does not exhaust the list. 

 I think this word will be around for awhile.

Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling.

1 Peter 4:9

Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it.

Hebrews 13:2

Blessings and hospitality this weekend friends,

Daphne

(p.s. I'm linking up with sneak peek friday again!)

 

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This Word post was inspired by the sermon this Sunday.  

We referenced many different scriptures, but our pastor had a quote that stuck with me:

"The farmer doesn't grow the seed, but prepares the soil for growth"

Meaning, God makes the changes in our lives, but we need to prepare our hearts (soil) for Him to do those great works.  We prepare by prayer, reading, studying and fellowship.

This also made me think of a parable Jesus taught:

Mark 4: 3-8

"Listen to this!  Behold, the sower went out to sow;

as he was sowing, some seed fell beside the road,

and the birds came and ate it up.

Other seed fell on the rocky ground where it did not have much soil;

and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of soil.

And after the sun had risen, it was scorched; 

and because it had no root, it withered away.

Other seed fell among the thorns, and the thorns came up and choked it,

and it yielded no crop.

Other seeds fell into the good soil, and as they grew up and increased,

they yielded a crop and produced thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold."

Blessings and wishes for much rich soil in your lives friends,

Daphne

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Because The Word isn't just for Sunday...right??

This is the very first one I did - several years ago now.  It hangs in our craft room/office and it will probably always be my favorite.

Hope it finds you well this Monday morning.

Blessings Friends,

Daphne

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Just some of the Word that spoke to me.

I've been painting with watercolors lately and I LOVE it.

Hope to share more of the Word and some creations

here

with you

soon.

Blessings,

Daphne