HAPPY NEW YEAR and HAPPY VALENTINES

January 28, 2011



Well HAPPY NEW YEAR all. It has been awhile since I have been on. Sorry about that. I have had to have my floors refinished (ugggg) and now that that is done I am focusing on Valentines Scarves..... Wahoo.


I have some new ones.... Take a look at the pictures. They are so fun and pretty. I will be happy to make some for you. You can say which one you like and I will try to make it sorta like that one. All the ones you see on the site for Seasonal Scarves are SOLD... but can always try to make it sorta the same. You know they will always be personalized anyway. You know it doesn't have to be Valentines to say "I Love you" with a HEART scarf...


Enjoy the pictures of the new ones.... and some of the OLD ONES.

Hope you have a wonderful Valentines and God Bless all of you....
Meg

How many times can I say AMAZING.... FIVE.... but it seems like MORE

Okay I know it has been awhile.  I first want to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas.  It is now December 28th, 2010 and almost the NEW YEAR.  What do I wish for the New Year. 
Wow...  Health for sure --- Happiness and Contentment for my family and friends. 
My family --- Happiness, Health, Ease in Life, Dreams fullfilled....., Love in life....
I have realized in my 53 years (and it has taken this many 53 years to realize it)  I am very blessed in so many ways and so very thankful for that.  My family is AMAZING, my life --- well it is also Amazing.  I just have no complaints --- none that are worth speaking out loud of.  I just look around and see that there are so many people and organizations that I can help with and I am going to do that in 2011.  For one I am going to start working with Urban Ministries.  What an amazing organization that this is....  I am very excited about this actually.  When I figure it out more I will let you know.

Until that time I just want to thank God for my Health, My Family, My Friends.... My Life....  It is such a short time we have here on this earth and I don't want to waste a moment of it. 

My youngest got a camera for Christmas and she has been taking pictures (we got snow for Christmas --- can you believe it  --- anyway here are some of them...  Enjoy and again if I haven't said it.

Happy New Year....

Arent' they amazing....  She does have an eye for this photography...  :o)

LIFE IS AMAZING IF YOU JUST STOP TO TAKE A LOOK AROUND...

Okay so maybe I lied... I haven't left after all

Well okay....  So I said I was going to start a new blog and I did - SORTA...  It is part of my Artist Website www.megsmither.com and than check out the left hand side and you can see the Blog.  But it is mainly for Art Instruction if you will.  I like the idea of it and I think that it will be a good thing but I miss writing in this Blog.  I can just say want I want and just well be ME.  So I am not going to end this Blog site.  I may not be back all the time --- but than was I really here that often in the first place NO.  So nothing has changed.

I have found out today that I have a torn MCL --- just great.  I fell the other day (so stupid) and gave myself a huge goose egg on my head and cut my face (Slightly) and twisted my knee.  But when I couldn't walk on it I decided to go to the Doc and low and behold I had to have an MRI (WHICH MIND YOU I WAS TERRIFIED) and it came out that I have a torn MCL.  It might even be more but i won't know until next week when I go talk to the doc.  I am soooo bummed to say the least.

Oh well,  not going to have surgery until after the Holidays.... Just not going to deal with that right now. So there.  :o)

Okay I have rambled and told you my wows so now i will depart for now but I WILL BE BACK.  Not leaving this time.  Aren't you glad. 

Oh and just so you can keep up with some of my Art still on this site --- sorry Scott....  see some of the latest scarves and also a couple of my Collages...

So now I will call it an evening...

Hope you have a Blessed Thanksgiving each and everyone of you and take the time to tell those you love how much you appreciate them and how much they mean to you.

SO I'M STARTING A NEW ART BLOG

Okay, so I know that I have this Blog site and I'm not going to stop using it (but I probably won't be here as often). 
I am not going to post my ART on this site anymore.  I have started a new BLOG that is also attached to my website http://www.megsmither.com/  and here is the address:

http://www.megsmither.com/index/Meg_039;s_Art_Blog

I know that it is rather lengthy -- so just make sure you cut and paste.  But I do hope you will enjoy it.
 
I will be having Art Topics on it and hopefully teaching as I go. 
 
I will come back here from time to time so don't worry.  Thanks for coming and reading.  I never had any comments so maybe noone really ever did read this Blog.  If that is the case -- than I won't be missed.  :o)  God Bless All of you... 

Oh before I go I do need to recommend a book that I am reading.  It is wonderful. 

"The Story of God, the Story of Us" 
By: Sean Gladding

Enjoy my Friends.

MEG


 

My Week and my SON

So it has been a little while since I have written and it seems that I am mainly writing about my Bible Studies these days -- but again that's okay for now because it seems that is what is on my mind these days.

First before I tell you about what I read this week I just have to say that I had the wonderful pleasure of sharing some time with my son this past weekend.  He came in to visit and even though he was out and about with his friends (which I so expected him to do) it was nice when I had a little time with him.  Mainly we just sat and talked with he and his Dad -- but when he first got home he was telling me that he has been thinking about maybe NOT being Ordained.  Now he can go thru seminary and NOT be ordained and that bothered me at first.  He said that if he did become ordained in the Methodist Church that he than would have to be in the Methodist Church solely.  Now I'm sure that is not competely accurate --- he could go to another non denominational church but it would be harder. Anyway he said that he hasn't made the decision but I said that I really wanted him to be ordained and he asked me WHY.  I said well (not really an exact answer cause I didn't really have a GOOD one --- but "JUST BECAUSE" sounded good to me,,, so I said, " to Minister you need to be ordained like you need to be baptized" -- at least in my silly mind.  He told me "Mom everyone is a Minister.  If you are a Christian than you are called to be a Minister."   Well after going back and forth with him --- and me not winning this argument I let it drop (FOR NOW).  But than I started to think.   Maybe he is right - and at the end of the day --- it is not my LIFE but HIS and how he serves God is his personal Journey -- NOT MINE.  
My kids are amazing people and Lee and I must have done something right cause God showed us how to get them this far... I am just so proud of all of them and Tyler you just knock my socks off each and every day.

Now what I read this week that just floored me as well.....

A Poem  

Author:  Unknown

I counted dollars while God counted crosses.  

I counted gain while He counted losses.

I counted my worth by the things gained in store,

But he sized me up by the scars that I bore.

I coveted honors, and sought for degrees.

He wept as he counted the hours on my knees.

I never knew till one day by a grave,

How vain are the things that we spend life to save.

I did not yet know, "til a Friend from above,

Said, richest is he who is rich in God's love!

Revelations is such a powerful Book of the Bible and I have learned so much and I am not even out of Chapter 2.

...Our Lord says the true riches are those that come from within, where the heart is filled with the grace and love of God.  There is an experience of close relationships with other people; they become dear and precious to us. That was the experience of the Church of Smyrna in Chapter 2.

....I read once about a Christian who was going through a time of great misunderstanding and attack, and he could not do much to defend himself.  One day a friend of his came up and took him by the hand and told him how much he sympathized with him for what he was going through.  But, looking him in the eye, he said, "Remember, they have not spit in your face yet."  It was a reference, of course, to Jesus.  They did spit in his face. They smote him.  They plucked the hair from his beard.  They beat him on the back with rods.  They lied about him.  So Christians who endure mistreatment and misjudgment must remember that the Lord knows what it is like.

....The Apostle Paul tells us in Romans that "the sufferings of this present moment are not to be compared with the glory that shall be reveled in us."  Romans 8:18 

So anyway --- just wanted to share what I have learned this week and it is only TUESDAY.  What does this wonderful week have left to offer me.  I can hardly wait.  Thank you Lord for showing me so many wonderful people and opportunities in this life I lead.

Walk 268 Air Conditioning Blues..

So it seems that my posts these days are my Daily Walk readings.  Maybe cause I don't seem to have anything useful to say or maybe this is what I am suppose to say.  I mean my day consisted of hanging out at home and being here for the HVAC guy - who was only suppose to be doing a routine maintance call - to tell me that my Air conditioner is broken AGAIN.  Now mind you my house is only 3 years old.  Did I mention the house is only 3 years old!!  We built it and it should not be breaking so soon.  Last year around this time the SAME thing was wrong with the air conditioner.  I really think that they should be putting a new one in cause we obviously have a LEMON. 

But I digress.  Is that how you spell that.  Anywho..

My reading was from "the Daily Walk Bible (NIV)"

Zechariah 3 - 4 

It's about Zechariah's night visions.

Overview:  In his eight part series that might be titled "visions to revitalize a Nation", Zechariah uses an assortment of symbols and signs to portray the future of his people. Certain themes emerge repeatedly; the need for cleansing, the certainty of judgment, the sovereignty of God over sinful men and women. Like a candlestick in a darkened room, Israel will bear light to a darkened world. "not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord Almighty" (4:6)


My Daily Walk: Becoming a Christian has been likened to taking a step into the unknown... and landing on a Rock.  There are many things about the Bible you may not fully understand.  You may have many questions about points of theology.  But the all important issue you must face is simply this:  is Jesus Christ who he claimed to be? Either you will accept his claim as Messiah (as amply supported by the many specific prophecies in Zechariah), or you will reject it.  But you cannot straddle the fence.  What will you do with Jesus today?


The person who insists upon seeing with perfect clarity before he or she decides - never decides.

The Book of Joel

So I am reading the Daily Walk Bible (NIV Version) and so todays reading was The Book of Joel which is only 3 Chapters. 

So the overview of the Book is:

Disaster struck the southern kingdom of Judah without warning.  An ominous black cloud - the dreaded locusts - descended upon the land.  in a matter of hours, every green living thing had been stripped barer.  Joe, God's spokesman during the reign of Joash (835 - 796 B.C.), seizes the occasion to proclaim God's message.  the locust plague has been a terrible judgment for sin.  Yet God's future judgments during the day of the Lord willm ake the plague pale by comparison.  In that day God will destroy his enemies but bring unparalleled blessing to those who faithfully obey him.

After reading Joel's short three chapter book, try to summarize its description of God in a single word.
I can't choose one word --- I will say "MY EVERYTHING".
the book of Joel reads like the screenplay from a disaster movie:  locust swarms, drought, famine, raging brush fires, invading armies, astronomical catastrophes.  But why this display of calamitous events?  One reason becomes apparent at the end of the book: "Then you will know that I, the Lord your God, dwell in Zion: (3:17).  You cannot read Joel without coming to grips with the almighty God who sovereignly controls the course of history.
Not only is God big enough to move mountains, but he is also concerned enough to be a welcoming refuge and a strong fortress (3:16). That means he is your refuge, your stronghold, your fortress (all good words to choose for your one-word summary.)  (I CAN NEVER FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS)... opps 

Pick up a small rock and carry it with you today. Let it remind you that your fortress is big enough to rule this mighty universe, yet small enough to live within your heart.

THE JUDGMENT OF GOD SHALL TURN TOPSY-TURVY THE JUDGMENTS OF PEOPLE.

I just thought I would share what the Bible said today....  Hope that you got something out of it.

Amazing Picture of God's Work