We’re sorting through some old stuff and I came across the very first birthday gift that I gave to my husband after we were married.
What is it, you ask? Somehow I thought that what he most needed in life was a Japanese-style canister with verses from the Psalms in it, so he could pick out one per day to read and ponder. I decided to write out one verse from each Psalm (there are 150 Psalms), cut each one out and fold it. And I had to do it when he wasn’t around. As I recall, it took a long time, a true labor of love. In retrospect, it seems like an underwhelming gift, but he received it with gratitude and used it daily at least one time through all 150 verses. That was 40 years ago!
Quotes to Share
Confess all known sin; Get rid of everything doubtful; obey the Spirit immediately; proclaim Christ publicly.
Evan Roberts, in the 1904 Welsh Revival
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Song can turn melancholy into joy,
and weakness to overwhelming power.
Peter Leithart in From Silence to Song
You say grace before meals. All right.
But I say grace before the play and the opera,
And grace before the concert and the pantomime,
And grace before I open a book,
and grace before sketching, boxing, walking, playing, dancing;
And grace before I dip the pen in the ink.
G.K. Chesterton
And now I’ve got to figure out how the font changed. Very mysterious. I’ll probably delete this before I figure it out though.
Lynniebeemuseoday 
Now, today this seems to be working……as long as I don’t have to hit the back space. That’s when everything disappears. I like the 1st birthday gift for Kris. One of our adult granddaughters gave us something on that order one year. It’s a big jar with lots of colorful origami paper birds and each one has either a Bible verse or a past memory written on it. It was so thoughtful and she spent so much time on it.
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Oh my, that sounds like a wonderful gift! We did something like that for my parents, too, except without the Bible verses. When my Mom was in her last days and unresponsive, we kids all sat around her bed and read those memories aloud, laughing and enjoying them so much. We hoped that on some level Mom was hearing us and enjoying it too.
I’m glad you found a way to write a comment – you overcame your technology woes!!
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