Normally when I reference the heart, I am speaking of the spiritual heart. Today, though, I read a story that had me considering the physical heart. I receive an excellent newsletter on digital scrapbooking by Linda Sattgast. She shared the story of her heart attack at the age of 51 here: http://www.scrappersguide.com/heart_attack.html
Years ago that story wouldn’t have been a blip on my mental EKG, but now that I can see 51 up ahead, I’m taking notice. Linda wasn’t overweight, inactive, or a smoker. Neither am I. I hope you will read her story and if you or someone you love has chest pain, insist on a full workup. Better to be embarrassed than to leave your loved ones lost without you.
This Valentine’s Day, take steps to guard your physical heart as well as your spiritual one!
Maybe you’ve wondered if I’ve been doing a lot of this. Nope! But superheroes DO need rest! Christmas, the flu, birthday parties, church functions, and homeschooling have kept me extra busy as have two very destructive preschoolers!
But in my absence from blogging, I’ve been finding a lot of great things I wanted to share with you! Here are a couple of them.
The first is www.jott.com. Heard of it? I told one of my friends who always asks about my latest finds about it and she doesn’t have a cell phone. You have to have a cell phone to make use of this. Let’s say you’re in your car and you remember something you need to email someone or that you need to be reminded of. Just call Jott and the message is automatically typed for you in an email. Jott to yourself, your spouse, a group, even your blog! Best of all…it’s FREE!
Another free find I have for you is www.iwantsandy.com. This is a lot like Jott (and actually you can use both services together) only you email Sandy. She sends you reminders to your email or your phone as you request. What makes Sandy a big time-saver is you don’t have to take the time to enter items into your calendar. When I do that on Yahoo, I have to use several steps to also set up the reminder. With Sandy, it’s as simple as emailing r 2/5 10 am radio interview in the subject line. R stands for "remind me." Each day Sandy will email you what you have on your agenda. You can use her to keep track of your todo’s, too.
Thanks to my friend Barbie for her help with this LO. I’ve really enjoyed doing this class and I highly recommend it for people who know basic digital scrapbooking using Photoshop Elements.
Snow! The snow postponed our plans to see family this weekend, but it’s been delightful otherwise. Days like this remind me of snuggling in for a day with family or sledding and snowmen. Today I think I will do some cleaning and baking! Hope you’re keeping warm wherever you are.
My 3yo daughter sang a song about God and His Son that I’d never heard before. I said, "Where did you hear that song?" She said, "God put it in my heart." Awwwww. It was so dear! The next day I asked her to sing it again. I was thinking I might videotape her. She said, "I don’t know that song anymore." LOL
I love how children often encourage us in OUR faith even as we encourage theirs. A good friend emailed me this example and I wanted to share it with you:
A few days ago, we caught a glimpse of a big beautiful woodpecker in our front yard. He created quite a stir in our house, but despite my best efforts, I couldn’t capture him with my camera. I was really disappointed! I studied ornithology in college and thought I remembered it being a Pileated Woodpecker. A quick online search confirmed it.
This morning, a pair of the woodpeckers returned to our yard and were patient enough for me to attach my zoom lens. I was delighted to get this shot.
I was thinking that God comes to us the way this woodpecker did. I certainly wasn’t looking for him. But there he was, creating in me a longing for more. In the book of Isaiah, God tells us: “I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me; I was found by those who did not seek me. To a nation that did not call on my name, I said, ‘Here am I, here am I.'”
May the Lord reveal Himself to you this Christmas in beautiful, unexpected ways.
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