Just a Daisy in the Meadow

There’s something about faith that just . . . well, how do you describe it . . . . Anyway, I’m longing, longing for more faith . . . Here’s a few quotes I found this morning.  ( I found them on a neat website for wall words www.wallwords.com. An aquaintance\friend  though xanga also does them their site is www.legendarydesigns.com)  Japheth and I were talking this morning about putting some WallWords in our store, and someday in our house . . .

Faith is not believing that God can, It is knowing that God will.

Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

Faith is when you close your eyes and open your heart.

When you come to the end of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unkown, faith is knowing that one of two things will happen: there will be solid ground beneath you or you will be taught how to fly.

Walking by faith means putting one foot in front of the other– with both eyes on God.

Faith sees the Flower in every Seed.

I really enjoyed Sharon’s newsletter this month . . . I think I’ll post it on here so you can read it too . . .

“A Tip: How I Save Money by Saving Money

(How we are saving money for our mission trip to California and Mexico this summer)

Since our marriage, I have mostly been a stay-at-home. That means that I only earn occasional income.

I tell Steve, “You work hard to make money and I work hard to save it.” Of course, that doesn’t mean that I don’t earn any money or that Steve doesn’t save. But I have the time at home to perform thrifty activities.

When I do something that saves our family money, such as sewing in a new zipper instead of buying a new coat, I figure out the money I possibly saved. Usually I round it down to a lower price. For example, for the coat zipper I sewed in, I counted the savings as $10, although I know that we could pay at least $20or more for another coat.

As an example, on December 6, in my day timer I wrote,

$20 savings (I bought a used answering machine for $1.50)

$20 savings (Steve thought we could buy insurance on our camera from the store for $20, but the salesman said that Canon would still refund us. Without the insurance I would need to mail in the camera. I told Steve as we stood there in the store with the high pressure salesman hovering over us, “I don’t mind mailing it in.” Steve was fine with that, so I saved ourselves $20. We’ll see how much    work it will be if the camera goes kaput.

$10 savings (I sewed a zipper in Steve’s coat instead of getting another used one.)

What I do then is put the money I saved into a special savings account that we don’t usually touch and designate it for whatever I am trying to save for.

This is a hobby for me. It is so fun to think that when I work hard to save money, I can actually “see” my savings.”

– Sharon Schnupp Kuepfer

Blessings this Christmas and a blessed  New Year!