Too Cute...Tuesday!

Faith Brooks... you ARE simply Too Cute!!

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Marvelous Monday!

It's another Marvelous Monday!!

The winner of our Yay Free Friday giveaway is...

The Garners said...
Love the giveaway and I LOVE the scipture!!

YAY GARNER FAMILY!!

Thanks again for all of you who entered for our giveaway this week! We praise God for every opportunity that He allows us to share His awesome Word!

My prayer for all of us this week is to seek out God through the Holy Spirit and His mighty word! Let us receive a renewed passion and fire in our hearts for Him! That through our walk IN Him, we might be healed. That others might see the difference in us. That others might see Christ himself, in us.

We all know that we are unable to live this out in our flesh... daily picking up our cross and dieing to self. It seems hard! That cross is heavy! You feel the weight of the sharp splinters digging into your skin! But my sweet sisters, we make it much harder than it really is! When we feel the weight of that cross...we are trying to hold it up ourselves. All we have to do is ask for help...it is that simple. He is faithful to answer!

Please pray with me this week.

Lord,

We want to know you, desire you and TRUST you in every single detail of our lives! Heal those areas in our lives that are broken, Lord! You are faithful and Your word promises you will never leave or forsake us! Let us hold that peace which surpasses all comprehension! Your way is better than our own! We ask boldly, knowing You will answer! In the mighty name of Jesus Christ! ~ AMEN!

Be blessed today! Stand FIRM in Christ!!

Much love~Tina

Yay...FREE FRIDAY!!

It's Yay...Free Friday!
Thanks for all your wonderful giveaway ideas through facebook...you may just be seeing some more of those ideas soon!

Our giveaway this week is a Baby be Blessed scripture tote with matching doll blanket! The scripture reads: "I will praise You, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will tell of all Your marvelous works. I will be glad and rejoice in You; I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High." Psalm 9:1-2

To enter, please leave a comment under this post. I will pick the winner Monday!!

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!
Tina

Too Cute...Tuesday!

I wanted to send our deepest thanks for the Friday Give Aways. We were so blessed to have won several weeks ago. I'm not sure who likes Esther Ruth more...Mama or Sadie! We will cherish and love her well!!!


Thanks so much!
Kiley Farwell

Oh! She is so so cute!! Thanks again, for sharing this picture and your kind words!!

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Do you have a picture for Too Cute...Tuesday??
Please email them to babybeblessed@gmail.com

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...and speaking of cute!

What do you think about the cute new banner and button Christina from Pooh's Corner http://momsbabypooh.blogspot.com made for us! Christina, you are so very sweet!! Please check out her blog and...shhh...just a little insider info...you just might find a BbB giveaway show up there sometime real soon!

What a blessing! God is awesome!

I am still having trouble getting the button html code for a copy and paste to work correctly. Does anyone know how to do that? Please email me if you can help. We would love to be able to share our button with you!

Thank you ~Thank you ~ Thank you!!
Have a great day!
Tina

Marvelous Monday!

Good Morning! Hope you all had a fantastic weekend and a Marvelous Monday! =) Here are the winners of our book giveaways!

The two copies of "Same kind of different as me" go to....


blessedmomto8 said...
I would love to be entered for the frist book :)

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Jennie said...
Same Kind of Different as Me, please :)



The two copies of "What difference do it make" go to...



Samantha said...
The first book completely changed the way I think about life, I would be honoured to read their second book!

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jenh said...
I would love to be entered for "What difference do it make?" I read "Same kind of different as me" and have passed it on to so many of my friends and family. I think that book really changed my outlook on life. It was so good and real...


Please send me an email at babybeblessed@gmail.com with your addresses and I will get those out to you! Thank you so much for entering and if you didn't win, please keep these books in mind!

Oh, and just for clarity...I recommend reading the FIRST book then the SECOND book. Sorry, if I confused anyone!

Have a wonderfully BLESSED day!
Much love~Tina

ps-The order status will be updated a little later on our website, and we do have some finished lambs and bunnies for sale as well as our new totes. Go check them out if you have time!!

http://www.babybeblesseddolls.com

What difference do it make?

Today we are not going to focus on who has read the book...but on who hasn't! We've got copies to give away and we would LOVE for you to have one of them!!

We will be giving away two copies of "Same kind of different as me" and two copies of "What difference do it make?"

You can...but I wouldn't recommend reading the second book before the first, so when you leave your comment below (this post) to enter please specify which book you would like to have.

So we kind of have two giveaways going on at once, one for book one and two for book two! =)

We would still LOVE to hear your thoughts, so please share with us either here or in the previous post. I also have a copy of the introduction chapter of "What difference do it make?" so if you are interested in receiving that, please email me at babybeblessed@gmail.com and I will email you a copy. It is too long to post here.

I'll choose the winners on Monday!!

Have a wonderful weekend!!
Much love~Tina

Same kind of different as me...

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It's really hard to put into words what I have carried away from this book. To be honest, it is so much that I'm still trying to process and ponder the wisdom and life lessons that Ron and Denver share.

You know...God really used it to bring a lot of ugliness about myself to the surface. Things that I didn't either realize or simply was ignoring about myself.

We live in a very small town. It's actually considered a village. We have one gas station which is also our little grocery, one restaurant, one bank, one school which holds K-12, a car lot, and one stop light. They all run down the middle of town on Main street. It's really simple around here. It's clean. People pretty much know everyone or at least know where you belong. We simply don't have a homeless issue and everything that a larger city would have.

So once I really thought about it, I realized how very quick I was to judge...

People standing along interstate with a sign. My mind would think "Go down to Walmart and get a job!" I wanted to hand them an employment application instead of offering them a "blessing" as Ron mentioned above. They were a people on a much lower status and they didn't care...they just kept on without wanting to better themselves. That honestly is what I secretly thought. It's embarrassing to even admit that. Talk about snooty patooty and pridefully too big for her britches! Yikes!! Of course you've got to keep your loving Christian appearance by helping where you can and making donations.

I love Mr. Ron's honesty about his dealing with these same emotions! But, oh the heart of his wife Deborah! I love her heart and I love her relationship with the Lord. How open and obedient she was and how the Lord poured out the blessings...just not in the manner you'd expect.

Now, I don't want to ruin the book for those of you who haven't read it, so I'm not going to go into many details.

But that Denver....

The wisdom that the Lord has given him will trickle down to all those who read or listen to his words. Seeing and hearing life from his perspective puts truth and a Christlike view into my perspective. There is a big difference between head knowledge and heart knowledge. I know do not judge and love your neighbor...but yet that is what I did so quickly. It's the constant struggle of our flesh. Thinking we know and can rightfully judge. I am so glad that the video above gives the example of the $20 the woman gave to the homeless man. I probably would not have given it before because I would think I'd rather give him food directly instead of money that I know he will spend on sinful pleasures. But Denver has changed my view on that. We need to keep our heart pure in our giving. God knows our hearts and He knows theirs. I constantly remind myself of Romans 8:28 "And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose". That is a promise and we need to stand firm in that!!

This all goes so much deeper than just how I look at the homeless now. It has changed the way I desire to take things under my quick control because I feel I know what is best. Want to know a secret?? I don't know nothin'!! And I LOVE admitting that! The book has also changed how I view people. People all around me. Those people who are "different" than me. Well, that's why I love the title...because we are really the same kind of different! We are all just broken people. I praise God for sending His son to come and fix those who want fixed and I believe He is using this book all over the world to bring some light to what still needs some mending and moulding.

It is a daily battle of the flesh. Even as believers we have to fight that sin nature we were born into. But there is victory in Christ. If we can truly love someone as Christ loves and truly move as Christ wants us to move...wow! Sometimes God uses a simple life story to speak to our hearts. Man, He used this one in mine. I praise God that Ron and Denver were so honest and open so that we all can acknowledge week spots in our character. I praise God for Deborah and her heart. What an example she sets for me.

Have any of you read the book? Would you share your thoughts?? Even if you haven't...what to do think? We all struggle with the same sins...let's talk about them! =)

Tomorrow, we will be giving away the free copy of the second book "What difference do it make?" that Thomas Nelson gave us, and I'm thinking maybe...just maybe...a couple more than that! =)

Have a wonderful day!
Much love~Tina