Play Day-Life Doesn't Get Much Better Does It?

Today my good friend Jane, came over to stamp.  She helped me design and cut paper for Easter cards that we'll make Friday.  What a huge help she was.  She also went to Michael's with me and we found many things to buy.  Who doesn't?  We had two coupons, a 50% off one item and 25% off your total purchase.  So we got serious about shopping.
  I found some neat, new $2.99 stamp sets. There were 4 stamps unmounted in a plastic bag.  They were for mother's day, father's day, easter, graduation so I got one of each of those.
 Our Card Ministry has been asked to make Mother and Father's Day cards to sell.  So I wanted to get some different styles than I had and $2.99 is in my budget.
Here are the Easter cards we made:

At Michael's we found these beautiful tags from K&Company for $1.99.  I used one of the tags to make a  quick Mother's Day Card. I stamped the greeting in garden green ink and added retired SU ribbon.  I used my heat tool to shrivel the ribbon a bit.  I used a glue dot to attach the tail of the ribbon.

We used paper from a small tablet of paper from K&Company and came up with these two cards.

Here are two pictures of what my stamping area looked like when we stopped for lunch! It's obviouse two ladies were hard at work here isn't it?!

Jane and I were talking about how hard it is to hand things over to God and let him 'drive'.  I have a poem framed in my living room that speaks to this.  It's called The Bike Ride


At first I saw God as my observer, my judge, keeping track of the things I did wrong, so as to know whether I merited Heaven or Hell when I die. He was out there sort of like the president. I recognized His picture when I saw it, but I didn’t really know Him.


But later on when I recognized my God, it seemed as though life was rather like a bike ride. But it was a tandem bike, and I noticed that God was in the back helping me pedal.

I don’t know when it was that He suggested we change places, but life has not been the same since, life with my God, that is. God makes life exciting!

When I had control, I knew the way. It was rather boring but predictable. It was the shortest distance between two points.

But when he took the lead, He knew delightful long cuts, up mountains, and through rocky places and at breakneck speeds; it was all I could do to hang on! Even though it looked like madness, He said, “Pedal!”

I worried and was anxious and asked, “Where are you taking me?” He laughed and didn’t answer, and I started to learn to trust.

I forgot my boring life and entered into the adventure. And when I’d say, “I’m scared.” He’d lean back and touch my hand.

He took me to people with gifts that I needed, gifts of healing, acceptance and joy. They gave me their gifts to take on my journey, OUR journey, God’s and mine.

And we were off again. He said, “Give the gifts away; they’re extra baggage, too much weight.” So I did, to the people we met, and I found that giving I received, and still our burden was light.

I did not trust Him at first, in control of my life. I thought He’d wreck it, but He knows bike secrets, knows how to make it bend to the sharp corners, jump to clear high rocks, fly to shorten scary passages.

And I am learning to shut up and pedal in the strangest places, and I’m beginning to enjoy the view and the cool breeze on my face with my delightful constant companion, my God.

And when I’m sure I just can’t do any more, He just smiles and says, ”Pedal.”

– Anonymous
I love what this says and I'm learning to PEDAL!
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