It felt really swell to unload a bunch of furniture at Metal and Crate last week! That means we can move around in our basement garage again without facing an obstacle course! I was pleased how the ancient desk turned out...don't ask me to ever come up with that same color paint again, but i loved it! It's a blue...yet masculine. i especially like it with the stained top! A few other peices... a cedar-lined waterfall wardrobe, a chair, and an old chest of drawers that a friend wanted to get rid of, and i gladly took off of her hands! A bench I had got custom made for our children was not so easy to hand off!! I painted it a lime green...it would look nice in a toyroom or you could use it like we did at your dining room table. it has a little height to it so it brings them closer to the table and we would've had 3 chilluns sitting on it at once during a cetain stage of raising our family. Nostalgic? YES!

Planting, dying and losing...

I teach a young ladies Sunday School class, and last Sunday's lesson was on planting seeds. We all know seeds need to die, then they need moisture and sunshine if they're ever gonna grow and produce lots of fruit.
Jesus died, and brot forth LOTS of fruit because He had eternal life! Now MANY people can have eternal life!!
Jesus has asked US to die..to lose our lives, so we can REALLY LIVE!!! Losing our lives means releasing control of my life  and transferring control over to Jesus!! Lk.17:33 If you cling to your life, you will lose it, and if you let your life go,you will save it. It was Mother's Day morning, and I gave them this simple illustration of Emily getting up early out of her cozy,warm bed to make a coffee cake for me...Bless her heart! In that way, she "lost" her life!
 God has been teaching me about these things, and it's for sure His way of showing me His grace and reminding me of Him!!
Someday i want a sign something like this in my livng room to remind me of this Biblical principal OFTEN!!