Where do I go for answers in my daily life.

My first choice is the greatest book ever written the Bible, where I go to find answers to any problem and guidance for living a Christ like life.
It is filled with so many great stories of courage, faith and love.
But I also love quotes and small prayers, I loved reading about other peoples thoughts and ideas. There are so many wonderful quotes and prayers around to inspire and encourage us. Is like a daily exercise for our soul, I have them all over my home, I carry some in my wallet, place them inside cabinet doors and tucked then in unsuspected places.
Here are two wonderful prayers by St. Teresa of Avila, that have helped me a lot. These prayers are so simple yet meaningful. It strengthens me, removes all my fears and calms my inner most worries.

Let nothing disturb thee;
Let nothing dismay thee:
All thing pass;
God never changes.
Patience attains
All that it strives for.
He who has God
Finds he lacks nothing:
God alone suffices.

May today there be peace within.
May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith.
May you use those gifts that you have received,
And pass on the love that has been given to you.
May you be content knowing you are a child of God.
Let this presence settle into your bones
And allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love.
It is there for each and every one of us.

And one of my favorite verses~
"Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. ~ John 14:27

                                                 Love, love, and more love
                                                         Sweet Blessings,
                                                                Virginia
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TEA CUP TUESDAY

Today I am showing three of my teacups, two have markings. I don't really care that much about the markings or where they are from, I just collect them for there beauty.
But visiting all these lovely lady's blogs that love teacups I am learning a lot about them and starting to turn them over.

                                                                          KPM

                                                  Handpainted Bavarian  "AUTUMN"

                                        This one those not have a marking but is hand painted.

I am joining these Tea parties.

Teacup Tuesday at Martha and Terris's blogs
Teapot and Tea Things Tuesday over at Pam's blog,
 and Lady Katherine Tea Time Tuesday

My home

Today I want to show my foyer, living room and dining room.
All these rooms are all done on consignment and second hands stores and of course my favorite garage sale finds. I love to find bargains to decorate my home.

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I haven't finish decorating. It changes all the time, as I find more things to add.
I am joining Cielo and all the participants at Show Off Your Cottage Monday .

Attitude

The older I get, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It can make our day joyful or it can ruin it. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will take for that day. We cannot change our past. We cannot change how people make us feel. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is the way we chose to behave about it . Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. We are in charge of our attitudes.

"Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe" (Philippians 2:14-15, NIV).


God often comforts us, not by changing the circumstances of our lives, but by changing our attitude toward them.
S.H.B. Masterman

                Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching?
                                              Sweet Blessings,
                                                    Virginia
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Tea Cup Tuesday

Teacups are always great to collect and decorate with, in part because there is such a variety of styles out there. my problem is finding room for displaying and storing those I currently have. I found myself acquiring more, of course I buy them for their beauty and no so much for their value. You could said I’m not that particular. I just plain like them.

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Here is a glass display cabinet that I found at a consignment store.
Is perfect for my growing collection of teacups.

Here are a couple of ideas to use teacups for decorating

I am joining these Tea parties.
Teacup Tuesday at Martha and Terri's blogs
Teapot and Tea Things Tuesday over at Pam's blog,
Tea for Two at Wanda Lee and Lady Katherine Tea Time Tuesday

Excuse me, Are you Jesus?

   This really makes one think!!!!

A few years ago a group of salesmen went to a regional sales convention in Chicago. They had assured their wives that they would be home in plenty of time for Friday night's dinner. In their rush, with tickets and briefcases, one of these salesmen inadvertently kicked over a table which held a display of apples.
Apples flew everywhere. Without stopping or looking back, they all managed to reach the plane in time for their nearly missed boarding.
ALL BUT ONE !!!
He paused, took a deep breath, got in touch with his feelings, and experienced a twinge of compassion for the girl whose apple stand had been overturned. He told his buddies to go on without him, waved good-bye, told one of them to call his wife when they arrived at their home destination and explain his taking a later flight. Then he returned to the terminal where the apples were all over the terminal floor.
He was glad he did.
The 16 year old girl was totally blind! She was softly crying, tears running down her cheeks in frustration, and at the same time helplessly groping for her spilled produce as the crowd swirled about her, no one stopping and no one to care for her plight.
The salesman knelt on the floor with her, gathered up the apples, put them back on the table and helped organize her display. As he did this, he noticed that many of them had become battered and bruised; these he set aside in another basket.
When he had finished, he pulled out his wallet and said to the girl,"Here, please take this $40 for the damage we did. Are you okay?" She nodded through her tears. He continued on with, "I hope we
didn't spoil your day too badly."
As the salesman started to walk away, the bewildered blind girl called out to him, "Mister." He paused and turned to look back into those blind eyes. She continued, "Are you Jesus?"
He stopped in mid-stride, and he wondered. Then slowly he made his way to catch the later flight with that question burning and bouncing about in his soul: "Are you Jesus?"
Do people mistake you for Jesus? That's our destiny, is it not? To be so much like Jesus that people cannot tell the difference as we live and interact with a world that is blind to His love, life and grace.
If we claim to know Him, we should live, walk and act as He would.
Knowing Him is more than simply quoting Scripture and going to church. It's actually living the Word as life unfolds day to day.
You are the apple of His eye even though we, too, have been bruised by a fall. He stopped what He was doing and picked you and me up on a hill called Calvary and paid in full for our damaged fruit.

  Let us live like we are worth the price He paid!!!!!
                                              Sweet Blessings,
                                                    Virginia
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“We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.”

Mother Teresa



                                                                                          

Tea Time Tuesday

The thing I love to collect the most of are teacups.

A while back I bought this display rack for my them few teacups collection. I found two of them in a garage sale. I still have the other one empty sitting in a corner of my garage. I love finding bargains….                                                                                                                                                                    

     

 As you can see now I have it all filled.
There is something about teacups that I adore.
 I think there are so romantic.
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Here is an wonderful idea to use your teacups, filled them with cupcakes.
 It will be great to serve at a party or a shower.
 Don’t you think?  

I will be linking this post with
Teapot and Tea Things Tuesday, at A Breath of Fresh Air  and Silken Purse
Tea Time Tuesday, at Lady Katherine Tea Parlor

Thank you to all the Tea Party Hostesses ~

Dream God’s Dream

Imagine all the people living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will be as one.

                                                     John Lennon
                                                                                                                                                               

         

God Has A Dream
Dear Child of God, before we can become God's partners, we must know what God wants for us. 'I have a dream,' God says. 'Please help Me to realize it. It is a dream of a world whose ugliness and squalor and poverty, its war and hostility, its greed and harsh competitiveness, its alienation and disharmony are changed into their glorious counterparts, when there will be more laughter, joy, and peace, where there will be justice and goodness and compassion and love and caring and sharing. I have a dream that swords will be beaten into plowshares and spears into pruning hooks, that My children will know that they are members of one family, the human family, God's family, My family.'"
 Desmond Tutu ...

The world will change when we dream God’s dream.

Share A Smile.....

A smile costs nothing but gives much. It enriches those who receive without making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None is so rich or mighty that he cannot get along without it and none is so poor that he cannot be made rich by it. Yet a smile cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that is of no value to anyone until it is given away. Some people are too tired to give you a smile. Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to give.
                                                   ~Author Unknown~

American author Og Mandino sums it up the best:
Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself."
                                   
                                         Loving smiles to you !
                                            Sweet Blessings,
                                                  Virginia
    It is more blessed to give than to receive.
                          ~Acts 20:35

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The Power Of One

One person can make a lot of difference. And any one of us can be that person ,we are all gifted with that power. Sometime just a simple smile or a word of encouragement will do .


The Power Of One

One song can spark a moment,
One flower can wake the dream.
One tree can start a forest,
One bird can herald spring.
One smile begins a friendship,
One handclasp lifts a soul.
One star can guide a ship at sea,
One word can frame the goal.
One vote can change a nation,
One sunbeam lights a room.
One candle wipes out darkness,
One laugh will conquer gloom.
One step must start each journey,
One word must start each prayer.
One hope will raise our spirits,
One touch can show you care.
One voice can speak with wisdom,
One heart can know what's true.
One life can make the difference,
You see, IT'S UP TO YOU!
~ Author Unknown~

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

4th of July .... Celebrates America's Birthday

We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls.

Robert J. McCracken

                                     Independence a Precious gift of God.
                              May We Always Remain Independent...... Amen.
                                          Have  A Very Happy 4th of July

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