Month: August 2009

Join the Sisters of Faith in welcoming Mary Snyder to the 2009 Bloggers Retreat!

MARY IS HAVING A GIVEAWAY THIS WEEK!!! GO SEE HER! QUICK!

Mary is one of 8 of awesome women who will be speaking and sharing their heart! I have had the pleasure of talking to this sweet southern sister on the phone just a few weeks ago—and she is PRECIOUS! You will love her to pieces!

You are coming right??

Mary Snyder is an author, speaker, wife, mother, blogger, girlfriend, but above all else a follower of Jesus Christ.

Mary’s walk of faith is a path littered with potholes and missteps. She has fallen in the potholes and tripped over her own good deeds, but the blessing is she serves a Grace‐filled and Merciful Savior who loves her and has called her into His service.

Her less‐than‐perfect life is the driving force behind her passion to see women come to a deeper relationship with the Lord. In truth and in love, Mary shares a message of hope, joy, and adventure in Christ Jesus.

With a passion for God’s Holy Word and a commitment to serve Him, Mary shares her heart with groups and connects with women of all ages.

Mary brings her love of all things girly and girlfriends to women’s groups and shares her heart in a message sprinkled with humor and wrapped in God’s Holy truth.*

To find out more about the retreat go to the site!

Bring a group of women! It will be worth the drive!

ON another note….if you have never heard or read Leigh Gray….you’ve GOT to!

I am going to GIVE AWAY one of her books!!! YEAH!!!

The way to enter THIS giveaway? EASY PEAZY!

Thought you’d never ask! Respond to this posting By commenting that you WANT to ENTER for the BOOK! THEN, go to MARY Snyder’s place and comment about the RETREAT!

If you get a chance, go to LEIGH’s SITE and tell her YOU are entering a contest on my page for her “autographed” book! “Loving God, Loving People” YOU will LOVE the book and LOVE Leigh Gray!

I know I probably confused you….but just do it….it’s sort of like a scavenger hunt! Right?? It will be fun! These two girls are so precious! And I really want you to meet Mary! She is giving away a $100 scholarship to the retreat!!!!!

*Taken from Mary’s Blog!

A few days away.  That’s the ticket!  (As Father Tim of Jan Karon’s books on the life in Mitford would say)

To help me gain perspective on things…. again. 

Being tired all the time doesn’t mean I have an excuse to avoid the Light.   As a matter of fact, the tiredness and exhaustion has caused me to seek Him all the more.  Are you that way too?

This is from a passage I read today, “Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed.” (Mark 1:35 NIV)

“Very early”….while it was still dark…He sought the Light.  He was the Light, but yet, He needed to be strengthened.  He was God in the flesh, and because of that very flesh nature,  He got weary…just like you and me.  That is hard for me to fathom.  But He did.  He went through the day to day—experiencing hunger, thirst, exhaustion, friendship, love for His followers, sadness, even anger.  But without sin.  Until the cross.

There He took on my sin.  And your sin.

The Light of the world took on the dark ugly sin of the world, and while the enemy thought he had conquered my Lord, and even surmised that He had shut Him into the very darkness,  he, [the enemy] knew so well, the Light became even brighter on His resurrection morning!

He arose!  He is the Light of the world—having come so that we too could have LIGHT and life everlasting!

When your day seems dark—as they so often do—in these economic times, seek the Light.   He is the Light.

When it seems that all your world is being stripped away piece by piece, seek the Light.   He is your provider.

When it seems there is no answer for the questions that are plaguing your heart, seek the Light.  He is the Answer!

There is no darkness too dark that His Light and love cannot penetrate!

Trusting Him,

Angie

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