30-Day Giving Challenge 2017 - Week 4

"I will sing my Maker's praises
And in Him most joyful be,
For in all things I see traces
Of His tender love to me."
- Paul Gerhardt

I am thankful this year to be able to take time to focus on being grateful. I'm also enjoying being able to purposefully focus on giving to others. Here are some of the opportunities I had this past week.

Tuesday - tucked notes of encouragement into library books
Wednesday - donated to aid in disaster relief for libraries in Texas
Thursday - spent time with family
Friday - dropped off donations at Goodwill
Saturday - sent cards to soldiers
Sunday - helped with the music ministry at my church
Monday - wrote some handwritten notes of encouragement

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30-Day Giving Challenge 2017 - Week 3

"Still from earth to God eternal
sacrifice of praise be done,
high above all praises praising
for the gift of Christ his Son."
- Joachim Neander

I am thankful this year to be able to take time to focus on being grateful. I'm also enjoying being able to purposefully focus on giving to others. Here are some of the opportunities I had this past week.

Tuesday - dropped food off at a local food shelf
Wednesday - helped with the children's ministry at my church
Thursday - donated to Room to Read
Friday - helped at a local library
Saturday - donated to support a hospital in Bangladesh
Sunday - helped with the music ministry at my church
Monday - donated to help a teacher and her classroom

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30-Day Giving Challenge 2017 - Week 2

"Praise to the LORD, who o'er all things so wondrously reigneth,
shelters thee under His wings, yea, so gently sustaineth!"
- Joachim Neander

I am thankful this year to be able to take time to focus on being grateful. I'm also enjoying being able to purposefully focus on giving to others. Here are some of the opportunities I had this past week.

Tuesday - paid library fees for a stranger
Wednesday - helped with the children's ministry at my church
Thursday - donated to help homeless kids through Project Night Night
Friday - helped at a local library
Saturday - donated to Voice of the Martyrs
Sunday - helped with the music ministry at my church
Monday - helped at a local library

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30-Day Giving Challenge 2017 - Week 1

"Now thank we all our God
with heart and hands and voices."
- Martin Rinckart

On Wednesday, November 1, this year's 30-Day Giving Challenge began.

Here's my summary so far:
Wednesday - helped with the children's ministry at my church
Thursday - donated through Kiva
Friday - helped at a local library
Saturday - donated airline miles to Make-a-Wish
Sunday - helped with the music ministry at my church
Monday - donated to Doctors without Borders

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Favorite Quotes on the Sky

"When I look like this into the blue sky, it seems so deep, so peaceful, so full of a mysterious tenderness, that I could lie for centuries and wait for the dawning of the face of God out of the awe-inspiring loving-kindness." - George MacDonald

"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings." - John Gillespie Magee, Jr.

"Women hold up half the sky." - Mao Zedong

"The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all." - Laura Ingalls Wilder

"When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy. There had never before been any star in that place in the sky." - Tycho Brahe

"Once you have tasted the taste of sky you will forever look up." - Leonardo Da Vinci

"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds." - G.K. Chesterton

"High in the air rises the forest of oaks, high over the oaks soar the eagle, high over the eagle sweep the clouds, high over the clouds gleam the stars. High over the stars sweep the angels." - Heinrich Heine

"A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery


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Spine Labels - Set 21

spine labels
noun (plural) - a collection of odds and ends that are as random as reading spine labels in a bookstore

3 Ways to Care for the Heart of Your Third Culture Kid

Émile-Antoine Bayard’s Illustrations for Around the Moon by Jules Verne (1870)

10 Lessons Every 21st-Century Woman Can Learn from Jane Austen

A Stanford researcher’s 15-minute study hack lifts B+ students into the As

John Muir Quote on Wood Sign

5 Reasons to Start a Collection of Wooden Spoons

Strawberry Baked Oatmeal with Bananas

Bathroom Storage Idea

10 Cozy Ways to Make Your Home Smell Like Fall

Snickerdoodle Apple Bread


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