God Blessed My Heart in Minnesota

I had the pleasure of attending the Hearts at Home conference in Rochester, MN with a number of ladies from our area this month.  About 3,000 women were in attendance from 24 different states.  The mothers of over 7,000 children were blessed this weekend.

We were led in worship by Abide.  We delighted in the humor of 321 Improv.  Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, Dr. Juli Slattery, and Jill Savage were the main speakers.You can learn more about the conference here if you'd like.  http://www.hearts-at-home.org/

It was so encouraging to focus on the Father and glorify Him.  To hear Him call us in relationship, resetting our compasses back to North.  To feel His grace and remember to abide in it.  And to see the beauty of these other women and families and His mercy to them, for them and through them.

Our God is Great and greatly to be praised.

It was a shot in the arm.  I am thankful for this conference.

Handiwork

When God made hands he made something so good.  Don't you just love to look at and marvel about hands?  The hands of a baby...the hands of the elderly...the hands of a child. 

Well, I'm thankful for running across this little project that my children could do with their hands.  Each one made a garland of colorful fall felt leaves running stitched together with golden yarn.  These beautiful strings are adorning shelves and windows in our house where we could drape them,  giving cheer.  How satisfying to see even those four year old hands be able to accomplish this work!  It was really a first try at any type of needle work for all three children.