Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas :o)
Originally uploaded by {Jenny}

Christmas Eve

Last chance!
Originally uploaded by lizet87-nl.

May the God of Hope fill you with all Joy ... /Romans 15:13/

Advent day ...

Originally uploaded by Cherry Kisses

Advent day 10

credits:
feistuff - border
sdesigns /wornwhites/ - paper

Advent day 7

And now, God, do it again—
bring rains to our drought-stricken lives
So those who planted their crops in despair
will shout hurrahs at the harvest,
So those who went off with heavy hearts
will come home laughing, with armloads of blessing.
/Ps 126:4-6/

Advent day 6

"You are all I want

You are all I need

draw me close to You

help me find the Way

bring me back to You

help me know You are near ... "

Advent day 5

i said to myself
relax and rest
God has showered you with blessings

soul - you've been rescued from death
eye - you've been rescued from tears
and you feet were kept from stumbling
/Ps 116:7-8/

Advent day 4

This is my winter song to you.
The storm is coming soon,
it rolls in from the sea

My voice; a beacon in the night.
My words will be your light,
to carry you to me.

Is love alive?
Is love alive?

...

I still believe in summer days.
The seasons always change
and life will find a way.

Ill be your harvester of light
and send it out tonight
so we can start again.

Advent day 3

credits:
Wilna Furstenberg - watercolor picture
Sue Cummings - paper / paint overlay
Lynnemarie - mask

Advent day 2 - sense of wonder

Brighton
Originally uploaded by bootsieking

As children we had a sense of wonder. Our eyes were wide open and drinking in the fascinating gifts we beheld…Our thirsty souls could not have enough of the wonders of creation.

"Then, somehow, we grew too old to dream. We tired of the abundance of the world, or at least grew weary of keeping up with the feast of life, and stepped away from the banquet of life. The natural gift of wonder God gave us as children was meant to be kept alive.…Instead we let wonder go to sleep. We entered the typical dream state of most humans.Why else does Jesus tell us today, ‘Stay awake!’…Advent says, ‘Wake up and realize the gifts of love you have received.’
/Rev. Alfred McBride/

Advent day 1

credits:
Bible verse - Message version
paper - scdesigns (wornwhites)
tree - v.pearce (running and jumping)
stiches - taylormadedesigns (meremodesty)

crocheted fabric rug

השטיחון בסלון
Originally uploaded by osnat.ganor

just love it !!!!
check her other works - gorgegous

a song a day - Beautiful Mess by Jason Mraz

great song and beautiful video!

the morphoses

whoo ... hoo

owlgroup1
Originally uploaded by ElisabethD

a song a day - Waiting for the rain by Misty Edwards

a song a day - I will waste my life by Misty Edwards

for the love of tea ...

Quilted Teapot & Lavender Teabags
Originally uploaded by PatchworkPottery

Quilted Teapot & Lavender Teabags

potholders

Originally uploaded by silje/vanilje

a song a day - Details in the Fabrics by Jason Mraz (feat.James Morrison)

Calm down
Deep breaths
And get yourself dressed instead
Of running around
And pulling on your threads and
Breaking yourself up

If it's a broken part, replace it
If it's a broken arm then brace it
If it's a broken heart then face it

And hold your own
Know your name
And go your own way
Hold your own
Know your name
And go your own way
And everything will be fine

Hang on
Help is on the way
Stay strong
I'm doing everything

Hold your own
Know your name
And go your own way
Hold your own
Know your name
And go your own way

And everything
Everything will be fine
Everything

Are the details in the fabric
Are the things that make you panic
Are your thoughts results of static cling

Are the things that make you blow
Hell, no reason, go on and scream
If you're shocked it's just the fault
Of faulty manufacturing

Everything will be fine
Everything in no time at all
Everything

Hold your own
And know your name
And go your own way

Are the details in the fabric (Hold your own, know your name)
Are the things that make you panic
Are your thoughts results of static cling (Go your own way)

Are the details in the fabric (Hold your own, know your name)
Are the things that make you panic (Go your own way)
Is it Mother Nature's sewing machine

Are the things that make you blow (Hold your own, know your name)
Hell no reason go on and scream
If you’re shocked it's just the fault (Go your own way)
Of faulty manufacturing

Everything will be fine
Everything in no time at all
Hearts will hold

abundant life

Jesus tells us in John 10:10 that He came so that we might have life and have it more abundantly. Abundant life doesn't tie us to some convoluted vision we have of the "perfect" Christian woman. Abundant life is full of adventure and making a difference. God wants us to go on a great adventure with Him. A relationship with God is a great adventure....
more here

a song a day - Lucky by Jason Mratz

Boy I hear you in my dreams
I feel your whisper across the sea
I keep you with me in my heart
You make it easier when life gets hard ...

I'm lucky I'm in love with my best friend
Lucky to have been where I have been
Lucky to be coming home again
Lucky we're in love every way
Lucky to have stayed where we have stayed
Lucky to be coming home someday ...

http://marciescudderphotography.com

Nothing is more beautiful than the uniqueness that God has created.

… You don’t have to create the beauty - you’ve got the beauty.

… You don’t have to create the freedom - you’ve got it.

… You don’t have to create the image of God in you - you have it.

… You don’t have to win over God’s love - you have more

than you know what to do with.

Thomas Keating, ‘Centering Prayer,’ Heartfulness: Transformation in Christ

i heart summer .... and etsy ;-)

found on etsy in SophieIsobelDesigns's Shop

my refuge

credits:
Creashens - pillow talk kit
font: pea laura

I'm ok

I found this beautiful layout by Gabi at Pixelcanvas gallery with even more beautiful quote about being ok with yourself. It's here for you to read it.

a quote a day

"Life is what happens while you're making other plans."

perfect

A photo taken in Taize last summer
recolored with Coffeeshop action and then I added S.Cummings background paper and perfect wordart

'Again and again I've taken quick glances and then for some reason ... it's opened up like one of those Japanese flowers that you put into water and something you thought wasn't worth more than a casual, reaspectful glance begins to open up depth after depth of meaning'
/s.Wendy Beckett/

The Lord God is my Strength, my personal bravery, and my invincible army; He makes my feet like hinds' feet and will make me to walk [not to stand still in terror, but to walk] and make [spiritual] progress upon my high places [of trouble, suffering, or responsibility]!

/Habbakkuk 3:19/ Amplified Bible

a photo a day

by Marcie Scudder

a song a day - Ocean And A Rock by Lisa Hannigan

the essence of beauty

credits:
template: taylormade essence
BG pp:taylormade tenderhearted
photo frame: viewfinderoverlay
photo: me

a song a day - Rise Up by Ben Lee

Whats in your heart
Whats in your head
Its one of the other these days
The quick or the dead
Sometimes we gotta fight
So don't you complain
Cause I never promised this
Would be easy babe

You and me are gonna rise up
and they will be surprised, yep

And every things weird
But soon they'll be gone
Cause are whispered words
are louder then bombs
so don't you lose faith
say its no fun
cause we've come to far to stop
before we're done

You and me are gonna rise up
and they will be surprised, yep
You and me are gonna rise up
and they will be surprised, yep
(They will be)

Sometimes we get lost
But soon we'll be found
This is far to important
To turn back now

You and me are gonna rise up
and they will be surprised, yep

i'm all over Grey's Anatomy again

a video clip from my definitely most fave drama - Grey's Anatomy (Chirurdzy) - i've been watching season 4 and 5 in the last few days (still a few episodes to see) and can't get enough of that - great music, great dilemmas, great plot, great dialogues - love especially the beginnings and opening of each episode ... so if you haven't seen that - go and see ...

greatness to live out

^1-10Companions as we are in this work with you, we beg you, please don't squander one bit of this marvelous life God has given us. God reminds us,
I heard your call in the nick of time;
The day you needed me, I was there to help.
Well, now is the right time to listen, the day to be helped. Don't put it off; don't frustrate God's work by showing up late, throwing a question mark over everything we're doing. Our work as God's servants gets validated—or not—in the details. People are watching us as we stay at our post, alertly, unswervingly . . . in hard times, tough times, bad times; when we're beaten up, jailed, and mobbed; working hard, working late, working without eating; with pure heart, clear head, steady hand; in gentleness, holiness, and honest love; when we're telling the truth, and when God's showing his power; when we're doing our best setting things right; when we're praised, and when we're blamed; slandered, and honored; true to our word, though distrusted; ignored by the world, but recognized by God; terrifically alive, though rumored to be dead; beaten within an inch of our lives, but refusing to die; immersed in tears, yet always filled with deep joy; living on handouts, yet enriching many; having nothing, having it all.

^11-13Dear, dear Corinthians, I can't tell you how much I long for you to enter this wide-open, spacious life. We didn't fence you in. The smallness you feel comes from within you. Your lives aren't small, but you're living them in a small way. I'm speaking as plainly as I can and with great affection. Open up your lives. Live openly and expansively!

/2 Corinthians 6: 1-13/ Message

eat.pray.love

I've just finished this book by E.Gilbert - and loved it! i'm sure i'll come back to it many times ... it's one of this books that are captivating and eyes and mind opening ... and are on this always relevant and interesting subject of search for meaning and hapiness in life ... becoming more

dać sobie czas ...

W nas jest to, czego szukamy,

Nie trzeba za tym gonić.

Jest przez cały czas,

I czas wystarczy temu dać

a samo nam się objawi.

a song a day - The Long Winding Road by the Beatles

The long and winding road
That leads to your door
Will never disappear
I've seen that road before
It always leads me there
Lead me to you door

The wild and windy night
That the rain washed away
Has left a pool of tears
Crying for the day
Why leave me standing here
Let me know the way

Many times I've been alone
And many times I've cried
Any way you'll never know
The many ways I've tried

But still they lead me back
To the long winding road
You left me standing here
A long long time ago
Don't leave me waiting here
Lead me to your door

don't give up

Even though on the outside it often looks like things are falling apart on us, on the inside, where God is making new life, not a day goes by without his unfolding grace.
/2 Corinthians 4:16/ message

Daily Practice

it is not how much we have but how much we enjoy,
that makes happiness
/Ch.H.Spurgeon/

bratnie dusze

Ludzie uważają, że bratnia dusza oznacza idealne dopasowanie, i tego właśnie wszyscy pragną. Tak naprawdę bratnia dusza to lustro, osoba, która pokazuje ci wszystko, co jest w tobie zdławione, osoba, która zwraca twoją uwagę na samą siebie, żebyś mogła odmienić własne życie.
/fragment z Jedz.Módl się. Kochaj E.Gilbert /

celebrating birthday

credits:
Paislee Press - hoopla /park avenue kits
J.Sprague - frame

a song a day - Forgiven by Deb Talan

from a Lovely and Amazing film

One quiet afternoon

One quiet afternoon
Originally uploaded by ArTeTeTrA

One of my favourite flowers

One of my favourite flowers
Originally uploaded by serendipity corner

to my little sunshine who turns 1 year today ;-)

You are my sunshine
My only sunshine.
You make me happy
When skies are gray.
You'll never know, dear,
How much I love you.

friendship

credits: TaylorMade

Friendship is unnecessary - like philosophy, like art
it has no survival values, rather, it is one of those things
that give value to survival

Dawanie

Dawanie w oczekiwaniu na wzajemność nie nakarmi tego delikatnego miejsca w nas, które tęskni za bezinteresownym dzieleniem się radością istnienia.
/fragment artykułu R.Arendt-Dziurdzikowskiej o szczodrości z majowego Zwierciadła/

THINK before you speak

Ask yourself these questions before speaking.

T is it true?

H Is it helpful?

I is it inspiring?

N is it necessary?

K is it kind?

Think before you speak!

a song a day - Två lyckliga dårar by Lisa Ekdahl

a photo a day

Originally uploaded by dorellana

a song a day - She by Elvis Costello

She
May be the face I can't forget
The trace of pleasure or regret
May be my treasure or the price I have to pay
She
May be the song that summer sings
May be the chill that autumn brings
May be a hundred different things
Within the measure of a day

She
May be the beauty or the beast
May be the famine or the feast
May turn each day into a heaven or a hell
She may be the mirror of my dreams
The smile reflected in a stream
She may not be what she may seem
Inside her shell

She
Who always seems so happy in a crowd
Whose eyes can be so private and so proud
No one's allowed to see them when they cry
She
May be the love that cannot hope to last
May come to me from shadows of the past
That I'll remember till the day I die

She
May be the reason I survive
The why and wherefore I'm alive
The one I'll care for through the rough in ready years
Me
I'll take her laughter and her tears
And make them all my souvenirs
For where she goes I've got to be
The meaning of my life is

She
She, oh she

live in love

Live in lover's life (...)
beautiful in fruits from the soul
/Philippians 1:9-11/

być sobą

Nie trzeba się starać, przebierać, mianować, wyglądać - wystarczy iść do przodu, rozwijać się, szukać, być kimś naturalnym. Byś wędrowcem. I wtedy buty, w których idziemy, okazują się zaczarowane, złote.
/fragment z Bajka to życie albo z jakiej jesteś bajki W.Eichelberger, A.Suchowierska /

be courageous

on my own

credits:
Sue Cummings

a photo a day

by i.anton

delicious ambiguity

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. Gilda Radner

Originally uploaded by mselderhuis

give ...

Give, and you will receive. Your gift will return to you in full—pressed down, shaken together to make room for more, running over, and poured into your lap. The amount you give will determine the amount you get back. /Luke 6:38/

feeling grateful

texture overlay by K.Pertiet

a song a day - Everything by Michael Buble

And in this crazy life, and through these crazy times
It's you, it's you, You make me sing.
You're every line, you're every word, you're everything.

You're a carousel, you're a wishing well,
And you light me up, when you ring my bell.
You're a mystery, you're from outer space,
You're every minute of my everyday.

bloom ...

God brings out the best

photo taken and altered by myself;
frame - gc_artisticphotoframes1

a photo a day

It hurts..
Originally uploaded by ange de l'amour

All you need to remember is

... that God will never let you down; he'll never let you be pushed past your limit; he'll always be there to help you come through it. /1 Corinthians 10: 13 /

a photo a day

palmiers
Originally uploaded by sevenworlds16

pragnienie piękna

Kew
Originally uploaded by Barbara Rich

Dopóki żyjemy, nie możemy przestać tęsknić i pragnąć. Czujemy, że istnieją pewne rzeczy, piękne i dobre, i musimy ich łaknąć.
/g.eliot/

a song a day - Bottle it Up by Sarah Barreilles

credits: Paislee Press - Altered Ego kit
text: S.Barreilles

I rejoice

No wonder my heart is glad, and I rejoice.
My body rests in safety.
For you will not leave my soul among the dead^">
or allow your holy one^"> to rot in the grave.
You will show me the way of life,
granting me the joy of your presence
and the pleasures of living with you forever.
/Psalm 16: 9-11/

Easter prayer

Lambs at Calke Abbey

Lambs at Calke Abbey
Originally uploaded by benwmbc

aren't they cute ;-)

waiting for the sunrise

credits:
photo by Andywon,
frame by J.Sprague,
prayer by Taize community

energy of love

God’s power is an energy of love that operates from within, gently. It can transform the harshest realities, even death.
br.Alois (more here)

THE LEGEND OF THE DOGWOOD

THE LEGEND OF THE DOGWOOD
Originally uploaded by lucycarol

a photo a day

check it here

a song a day - I've always loved you by Third Day

I don't know how to explain it
But I know that words will hardly do
Miracles with signs and wonders
Aren't enough for me to prove to you

Don't you know I've always loved you
Even before there was time
Though you turn away
I'll tell you still
Don't you know I've always loved you
And I always will

Greater love has not a man
Than the one who gives his life to prove
That he would do anything
And that's what I'm going to do for you

she always knew she could fly

she always knew she could fly
Originally uploaded by BjdReams

Screw the laundry - Spring is here

Screw the laundry - Spring is here
Originally uploaded by gentlepurespace

spring is here ...

by Abby

a song a day - Everything Impossible by Mercy Me

babies

a song a day - I would die for you by Mercy Me

credits:
overlay - K.Pertiet,
brush - SS Vector Foliage

GIve

credits:
DJ Petit(background), Rhonna Farrer (brush)

CREATE ...

a photo a day

by NACNUD

in every flower see a miracle
in every year seek more flowers

żródło ...

taken by Jogorman

Źródło

Zatoka lasu zstępuje
w rytmie górskich potoków...
Jeśli chcesz znaleźć źródło,
musisz iść do góry, pod prąd.
Przedzieraj się, szukaj, nie ustępuj,
wiesz, że ono musi tu gdzieś być —
Gdzie jesteś, źródło?... Gdzie jesteś, źródło?!
Cisza...
Strumieniu, leśny strumieniu,
odsłoń mi tajemnicę
swego początku!
(Cisza — dlaczego milczysz?
Jakże starannie ukryłeś tajemnicę twego początku.)
Pozwól mi wargi umoczyć
w źródlanej wodzie
odczuć świeżość,
ożywczą świeżość.

/Tryptyk Rzymski, Jan Paweł II)

Excellence comes about as a result of habit.
We become
just by doing just acts,
temperate by doing temperate acts,
brave by doing brave acts.
Aristotle

a song a day - Far Far by Yael Naim

For all of us - small and big girls - beautifully messy :-)
have a great day and celebrate your own beauty and messiness

for the love of trees and ... felt

super cute felt and fabrics pin made by Rosetutu