Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Awesomeness!


Just finished teaching nine pretty *AWESOME* kids! 

You are special!

God made only one you!

He made you for a very special purpose, and no one else can accomplish that purpose!

 
If He had made you like someone else, you couldn’t do what you were meant to do. And if He had made them like you, they couldn’t do what they were meant to do!

We are all different, and that’s a good thing!

God NEVER  (ever) makes mistakes!

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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Too Cute...Tuesday!


Happy New Year to you and your families! 
Please find my photo attached with my daughter and her Baby Be Blessed doll. 
 Thank you for your ministry!  ~Shelly G.



So sweet, Shelly! 
Thank you so much for sharing!!
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Friday, February 24, 2012

Yay...Free Friday!

Would you like another chance to win a $56 Gift Voucher from Baby be Blessed?!

Well today's your chance!

To enter: Simply leave a comment in the linky below!

The winner will be announced on Monday!
Thanks so much!!

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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Easter Sale!


For a limited time *EASTER SPECIAL* All personalized animals are 20% off!!
---order soon to take advantage of this great deal!!---

CLICK HERE
to check it out!


Enjoy one of our old slide shows from 2010!


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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Too Cute...Tuesday!


I have been wanting to contact you for a year. In September 2010, we went to China to adopt our daughter Hope. Right before we left, we ordered her the "Maria Sue" doll, then renamed the Hope doll. What an amazing thing...the doll we ordered for her was given her name. Such beautiful twists and turns God allows. I had in mind two things to hand her (she was 2 1/2 at the time we adopted her) the moment they handed her to me. One was a ladybug blanket sent by her grandparents. The other was her Baby Be Blessed doll. I thought it may comfort her to have something to hold onto during the transition and that in the future it would be the one thing she has had since the moment she became ours. I knew "Lucy", (as she was named), would become dear to Hope and she has. She never left her side in China and she sleeps with her every night, every nap and accompanies her during every doctor visit (Hope had a congenital heart defect; it has been repaired.)



I love how God uses this ministry. Really it is a ministry, because it has ministered not only to us in giving her the gift of Lucy, but it has ministered comfort to Hope in a huge year of transition.



Thank you from the bottom of my heart and Hope's...

Amy Brady

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~I know that this was my response to your email Amy...but I shout it out again! 

My eyes are full of tears!


All praise and glory to God! I know that He uses these dolls...no doubts ever in that! But what a blessing when He allows an email such as yours to encourage this broken child of His to keep going!!!

Thank you so much for sharing!
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Friday, February 17, 2012

Yay...Free Friday!

We're back with another Giveaway!

You will be entering to win a $56 voucher for a Baby be Blessed personalized doll!!

To Enter: Simply leave a comment in the linky tool under this post.

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Thank you for sharing Baby be Blessed with others!

Winner will be chosen on Monday!
Have a FANTASTIC WEEKEND!


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*WINNER IS #22...CONGRATULATIONS!! =)



Monday, February 13, 2012

{Hope for the Home}: Be Intentional!


I'm over at {Hope for the Home} today!


Will you come over and visit me there??

Oh, and another $56 Gift Voucher is up for grabs! ;) CHECK IT OUT!!

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Friday, February 10, 2012

Yay...Free Friday!

Are you ready to enter our Giveaway this week?!

You will be entering to win a $56 voucher for a Baby be Blessed personalized doll!!

To Enter: Simply leave a comment in the linky tool under this post.

Additional entries: (please 1 linky for each)

*Follow our blog

*Write a blog post about the giveaway (please leave link)

*Like Baby be Blessed on facebook

*Share on facebook (hit *share* from our fb post so I can see your entry!)

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Thank you for sharing Baby be Blessed with others!

Winner will be chosen on Monday!
Have a FANTASTIC WEEKEND!

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Thursday, February 9, 2012

Praising in Hope!

There are times when I feel my prayers are foolish.

Sickness, barren wombs, starving children, broken hearts...death.  This world is broken.  So many hurts and so many needs.  There are so many -life altering- important requests flooding the throne, that I often feel unworthy to ask. 

Photo's of suffering children etched in my mind.

I ask the Lord to forgive me and He is so busy and there are MUCH more important business that He needs to attend to.  I feel unworthy to ask for such petty things...and they are petty in the grand scheme of life.

Last week I was plucked up out of the pit once again.  His love and grace overflowing which is something I don't deserve and certainly could never earn...He knows every dark corner of my heart.  The minor issue that I wanted to "fix" was concerning my daughter Natalie.  She loves horses!  She was our first little girl and I threw everything frilly I could at her!  We bought her the baby dolls and doll stroller.  I showed her how fun it was to put your baby in the stroller and take it for a walk...I couldn't wait for her to play mommy!  She took one look at me, tossed that baby right onto the floor and shoved her stuffed horse in that stroller and smiled!  Spirit was almost on auto replay and she just loved horses from an early age!

That being said, she is now in 4H.  We have had a hard time finding her a horse, to lease or buy and I was determined to solve this problem.  Many obstacles were in the way and the financial worry of owning a horse loomed over me. 

I felt the Spirit telling me to slow down...wait...but I ignored it. 

Many many prayers have been prayed over this horse.  Months - of - prayer!  Now you know why I say that I felt foolish.  It's just a horse for crying out loud!  Yes it is something she wants and loves more than almost everything...but it's definitely NOT a need in life!

But once I stopped trying to force something to happen...once I yielded to the Spirit and aligned my heart with His.  When I remembered His word and His faithfulness in EVERY SITUATION, I then relaxed and trusted that His perfect will for Natalie concerning this --would come, horse or not.

What a mess I would have made if I would have continued forward!

He loves His children...He desires to bless and bless abundantly!!  It is I who usually hinders the full blessing which would be offered.

Natalie and I prayed together often.  We crossed every discouragement and closed door.  We continued walking forward and (once I fully surrendered) felt His peace.  Whatever God held for her in this situation will greatly outweigh anything that we could force together!  We will patiently wait...

Not even a week later...we met with a sweet-sweet man named Jerry.  He is 70yrs old and *LOVES* his 7yr old paint named, Cocoa.  (...and let me just add that Cocoa really loves her Daddy...)  She hasn't had a job for most of her life...just time in the pasture. 

Sunday we go pick her up.

God is so very good!  Words simply can't describe my heart!  I shared with Jerry how trying it has been to find the right horse and all the other worries that wrapped me all up.  He shared that he too struggled with this decision.  "Maybe it is just Divine Intervention."  he said.  I smiled -I know it is...

Small prayers and big prayers...they're all important!  ALL a fragrant aroma flooding the throne of our Lord!  We simply need to abide in Him!   He just wants our all -every bit of ourselves to yield to His will.  Sometimes He answers prayers right away and sometimes we need to wait.  Sometimes He doesn't answer prayer the way we would like Him to but He is faithful, trustworthy and righteous!  That's who He is, otherwise He would not be God!

He is faithful in the small and the big and by remembering the small things, gives me faith and HOPE to face bigger things that will come.

May we spend time tucked up into His lap today -pour out your whole heart, He is waiting...it's all important to Him because YOU are important to Him!

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Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Too Cute...Wednesday!


Wanted to Thank you for the wonderful dolls we got. They're cuter then we could have ever imagined. Thank You for spreading the Word of God and the minister you're involved in! You're impacting so many young lives! May the Lord Bless you this Christmas season and all through the year!


Thank You,
Megan Cone


~Your welcome, Megan!  It's all Him!
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Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Bits of Weekend Grace and Our WINNER!!


This weekend was full of family, taking pictures outside on a frosty foggy Sunday morning -when I should have been inside getting 4 children ready for church! (we STILL made it on time =)  A horse named Cocoa and LOTS AND LOTS of pink and red tulle!!

The Be My Valentine Doll has taken over our house!  *smile* and I LOVE praying, sewing, stitching and tulling each and every one!

The winner of our Giveaway this week is -Valerie from The Almy Family Journal!  --Your boys are so cute!-- Congratulations!  I will be in touch with your voucher soon!

I wish each of you the {very best} week!

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Friday, February 3, 2012

Yay...Free Friday!

 It's Friday, and time again to give away another $56.00 Gift Voucher!

To Enter: Simply leave a comment in the linky tool under this post.

For additional entries:
(please 1 linky for each)

*Follow our blog

*Write a blog post about the giveaway (please leave link)

*Like Baby be Blessed on facebook

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(all links are on the top left sidebar)

Thank you for sharing Baby be Blessed with others!

Winner will be chosen on Monday!
Have a FANTASTIC WEEKEND!

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Thursday, February 2, 2012

Hope

As we journey into the second month of the year, allow me to share honestly about what's been going on with this one little -but loaded- word...HOPE.

I FINALLY decided to bite the bullet and choose a new cell phone. Change is hard for me. I know this seems silly because it's just a phone but I knew how to use my old one. It still worked. Well I knew how to make it work (since water spilled in my purse and a few buttons no longer functioned). The thought of getting a new phone was simply not appealing to me... especially since they are getting more and more high tech...but after much debate and a stomach ache, I finally chose one. I had to fight through the first week of learning, needed a replacement (because the camera didn't work properly) but this new phone is growing on me...

The one thing that I really *LOVE* is the Bible app!
{If you don't have it and are able to get it...get it!!}

I signed up for a Bible reading plan and it has been really easy to keep up (actually I'm four days ahead) because whenever I'm waiting for preschool to end or a train to pass...I use the extra minute wisely and read another section.

*I must openly admit and apologize for all the times I thought it is terrible how you see a lot of people has their nose down in their phone all the time --and you MUST keep this balanced because we need to interact with people not phones--but maybe...prayerfully...they just might be reading their Bible app?? =) Maybe?*

So what does all this have to do with HOPE?

Well in addition to the Bible reading plan I was also reading a 3 day topical reading on HOPE

During this time-
{you know when I seemed to be so spiritual...reading my Bible app -4 days ahead *wink*}
I had this huge sin, blockage in my heart, looming over me and I didn't even realize it!

I am a fixer and I will push and pull my own way until I can fix it. I will finagle and work different options in my mind. I will google and look for answers. I'm strong minded and determined...and it's hard for anyone to change my mind once it's set. I've even been willing to go against my husband and fight to win the argument because (you know) I'm right and he is simply just wrong! I have justified this behavior because it really typically is for a good cause or to help a loved one. The big problem is...the big fat - I - that's in the center of all of it!

I exhaust myself just typing all that out...and it's ugly...but unfortunately it has been true.

The Lord has forgiven and the Spirit teaches...but how quickly we can fall back into that same old pit and last week...well, that's where I was rolling about.

There has been a (minor) issue that I wanted to fix with one of our children. It is something that will work itself out but I, in my Mama Bear self, decided to step ahead of the Lord and fix it myself. I didn't want to wait. Let's just take care of it.

I knew I was in the wrong....Spirit saying, wait...I wasn't lining up with the Lord. But I kept trying to fix and resolve. I still didn't see it for the sin that it was.

All week I felt sick. This Ohio weather goes from 60 degrees one day to 30 degrees and snow the next, so I have had a lot of drainage and my throat and ears were sore. Thursday things took a turn for the worst and Saturday I was sitting in on the white crinkled paper at Urgent Care.

I felt sick inside and out.

As I was waiting...I was reading through the HOPE verses on my phone. This is what I read

James 4 (MSG)
Get Serious

1-2Where do you think all these appalling wars and
quarrels come from? Do you think they just happen? Think again. They come about
because you want your own way, and fight for it deep inside yourselves. You lust
for what you don't have and are willing to kill to get it. You want what isn't
yours and will risk violence to get your hands on it.

2-3You wouldn't think of just asking God for it, would you? And why not? Because you know you'd be asking for what you have no right to. You're spoiled children, each wanting your own way.

4-6You're cheating on God. If all you want is your own way, flirting with the world every chance you get, you end up enemies of God and his way. And do you suppose God doesn't care? The proverb has it that "he's a fiercely jealous lover." And what he gives in love is far better than anything else you'll find. It's common knowledge that "God goes against the willful
proud; God gives grace to the willing humble."

7-10So let God work his will in you. Yell a loud no to the Devil and watch him scamper. Say a quiet yes to God and he'll be there in no time. Quit dabbling in sin. Purify your inner life. Quit playing the field. Hit bottom, and cry your eyes out. The fun and games are over. Get serious, really serious. Get down on your knees before the Master; it's the only way you'll get on your feet.


Oh how I love the LORD and He knows when I need a firm hand against my own sinful flesh! It was at this moment that I realized how defiant I can be against the Lord! How I can rebel and turn my own way...
My Hope is strengthened and grown through encountering God in situations like these! How faithful He is not to leave me in the ditch!

Romans 12-14 (MSG) So don't you see that we don't owe this old do-it-yourself life one red cent. There's nothing in it for us, nothing at all. The best thing to do is give it a decent burial and get on with your new life. God's Spirit
beckons. There are things to do and places to go!

I love the Lord and His refreshing Word...
He is our HOPE! =)
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