August 29 ‘Ink Re-Cap and Wise Words from Around the Web
August 29 ‘Ink Re-Cap and Wise Words from Around the Web
to give us all strength and courage for the coming week.
Did you have a happy and fulfilling last week of August?
I’m praying you did,
although I know there are some who suffered
trauma from storms (Hurricane Laura, how could you?),
accidents (a young man lost his wife and baby daughter in a horrible accident. Praying for you still. And for the driver of the semi, who surely is hurting hard in her heart right now.),
and bad choices (I don’t know who you are, but I feel your pain. We’ve all been there.).
Our family celebrated the 3rd birthday
of the littlest grand-little. She was so excited and loved every minute. This gift from a great-aunt was the hit gift of the party. Every little girl needs one of these.
Her mama made these cupcakes, and guess which part was eaten first?
Another yummy part was eating this homemade ice-cream. Is any party complete without homemade ice-cream?
Our blog ‘Ink re-cap:
This wedding invitation suite is an easy DIY, and turns out totally high-end looking. Your friends will think you went all bespoke at the best stationers.
The Baby news for the week? A brand new, collated by kimenink, free (for now) baby shower game in our new fall baby shower theme. (Remember Rusty the chattering squirrel who loves to read? Yep. He wanted this game made up from all his favorites.)
Our son and his wife are remodeling a little farmhouse beside a river in Nebraska, so our Kitchen post is a DIY to make vintage/modern Fruit Botanical Prints. You’ll need a photo editing program and a word program. Canva and Google Docs should work. The best trick is the finishing: antiquing with a tea bag, which makes the prints look like they were pinned to the wall in that farmhouse by the first owners, and collected fly specks and food spatter for decades. Without the grossness, of course!
Our Thursday Craft project is a bit of Marie Kondo-style organizing. Make your own Pattern Binder to keep track of all your pattern pieces that keep wandering around as if they have feet.
That’s a lot of making for one week, don’t you think?
So our Friday Inspiration offers a few words about visitations from God, and the impact these have for generations. If we accept His visitations in our lives, and act on them, what sort of chain reaction can we begin on our family? our community? the world?
August 28 week is over,
but what about the week to come?
We need wise words to keep us strong and upright in the days to come.
These words from our Sunday School Study book portray oceans of truth:
“Throughout the Bible,
the irrational, the impossible, the illogical, and the senseless
often proved God’s immutability and might.
Who would guess that the sound of pitchers smashing to shards
would win a crucial battle (Jug. 7:20)?
Who would have imagined a sea parting
to allow several million people to cross?
Who would have foreseen that a simple walk,
seven times around a fortress city,
would reduce its walls to rubble?
God’s ways are effective,
and His plan is sound,
even when beyond our comprehension.”
Read this story and this story to keep you courageous and about doing because you know you don’t even have problems. Compared to these girls.
If you know someone with cancer, you want to read this story, because so many who get treated at this clinic show amazing results.
And just to prove that God takes care of the littlest among us, here’s a story about a 3-legged mouse transported with other pets rescued from Hurricane Laura.
