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How to Plan Your Wedding and Honeymoon.
How to Plan Your Wedding and Honeymoon.1. Weddings typically can cost you anywhere around $15,000 or more. The big question is: who foots the bill?The 21st century has heralded a shift in the way these costs are handled. We have moved away from the days ...
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Through the course of conversation, a friend gave me the idea to frame my poetry. What a Godsend! There is a way to decorate my house as a testimony for God after all!
For the next few months, every piece of paper caught my attention - from cards with framed messages (making beautiful borders) to designed stationery (for backgrounds) to picture posters (creating otherwise more expensive large wall hangings). Each and every creation is one of a kind. There's even a grouping of family photos, with one frame out in front that says, "Our God Reigns". My house is growing to be a visible expression of my heart. Isn't God wonderful!?!
However, there was just one snag (an object lesson, if you will).
In purchasing a picture of a temple garden with doves; no verse, poem, or saying had been included. It needed something more to mark its' religious significance. Not having before realized; doves are no longer easy to find in the stores. My husband helped search until we found enough pieces to complete a wall, shelf, and table grouping.
A poem was to set in the midst, to tie this grouping together. More than a half dozen changes in the framed poem occurred before I was satisfied with its' wording. Then, the materials used in the frame changed more times than I can count. It was a chore ever coming to the place that poem, fonts, paper, ink, color, background, and frame all worked together like it should. Eventually, the right combination came together that left that feeling of 'awe, perfect'. Concluding that this framed creation was never going to get any better than that, I vowed to never touch it again. Finally!!! I was glad that was over!
Then one day, while on vacation, I came across a gorgeous handcrafted Canadian resin dove frame. It was twice what I wanted to pay. How could I be sure if it were a perfect match, being several states away? After having labored
over the decision, I concluded that I might not get another chance for a frame like this again.
Once home, I set the frame with the grouping to see how it might look. Still uncertain, after hesitation, I took apart my framed work, transferred it to the new frame, then set it in place of the original. Awe! PERFECT! It was BEAUTIFUL!!! How could that be!?! I always thought the feeling of 'awe, perfect' was God's way of saying something is just right/complete/as it was meant to be.
"How could that be, God?"
He answered, "See. My 'PERFECT' is even better than yours." And, yes, I did 'see' the difference.
I think God gave me that object lesson as a way of sharing with people something I'd already learned, Except the Lord build the house, those who build are laboring in vain (Ps.127:1). His 'PERFECT' is better than the very best we can do. All our righteousness is as filthy rags until God begins to live through us; trading in our knowledge, thoughts, beliefs, talents, abilities, creativity for His. 'Awe' to know Him! His ways are always 'PERFECT'!!! And, if we'd just let God build our house and His, they'd both be 'PERFECT', too.
© by Joyce C. Lock
http://my.homewithgod.com/blessingsandlessons/
http://www.aspecialplace.net/ChristianityMadeSimple/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HeavenlyInspirations-originalwritings/
http://our.homewithgod.com/heavenlyinspirations/heavenlyinspirations-intro.htm
This writing may be used in its entirety, with credits in tact,
for non-profit ministering purposes.
In addition to being a published author and poet, Joyce C. Lock created the religion column, "Christianity Made Simple" for Peru Daily Tribune, continues to write inspirational articles for area newspapers, and shares further in online and e-mail ministries.
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North Shore Poets' Forum contest looking for entriesDaily News TranscriptBy Staff reports The North Shore Poets' Forum invites poets 18 years and older to participate in its annual Naomi Cherkofsky Contest. Deadline is March 1. Cost is $3 per poem, five poems maximum, in any form, on any subject, up to 40 lines long.and more » |
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A&I Continues Season with "Alaska's Fiddling Poet"San Francisco Chronicle (press release)Ken Waldman-Alaska's "Fiddling Poet" whose show has been compared with a "Ken Burns movie"-will continue the 2011-12 season of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville's Arts & Issues series Feb. 22, in SIUE's Meridian Ballroom.and more » |
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In enjoying Poetry out loud, she's part of quite the crowdCherry Hill Courier PostShiane Salabie, 15, of Lindenwold, has used poetry as a way of overcoming her shyness. / Chris LaChall/Courier-Post Like the others, Shian Salabie shed her shyness, read a poem and returned to her seat. But the Lindenwold sophomore then took on a role ...and more » |
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