sing, from sally, and sweets from sandra

just this week.. i've been wowed! and really glad to receive..

gifts, and goodies! a beauty necklace, that says, sing! the reason behind the gift really touched me to the core.. thanks for being so sensitive dear friend/you know me!....

and the amazing baked goods! wow! the cranberry oatmeal rocked! and the honey ginger bites.. :-) we loved them all!!!!!!!!!! thank you gf!!

i wanted to share because, well.. just cuz! :-) makes me happy!

i love these ladies, and wish that everyone knew them, like i do. the love and hope they bring to me and my family!

papa, bless my amigas~

with love, lisi

do something good everyday!

hey hey hey!!!

i saw this on the window of a starbucks last week... thought i'd post this and ask others to 'pose' in front of their starbucks (sb) with this cool thought!

WOOHOO!! and then...

go inside and treat someone, or even a stranger? hehehehehe! to a cup of hot cocoa or java! or special treats to share with a sweet friend, or your spouse!

i love this time of year, and i'm thankful for the cooler weather and the beauty that others show during this christmas season~

joy to you and your family and to your heart this first december weekend!! and 'do something good every day'....

thankful for friends and family

i'm really blessed to know people that love, bless, encourage and hold on to hope and faith for their lives and for me and my family.
bless them papagod, and help me to be there and love them like i desire to, and you need me to..

hoping for the happiest of thanksgiving!

bookworms?!

my dear friend, amy, just tagged me!! woohoo!!

hope you join in on this different and neat opportunity to see what your friends are reading, and what the happenstance page will say! mine was out of the love dare book..

"defending your rights and opinions is a foundational part of your nature and make-up. it's detrimental, though, inside a marriage relationship, and it steals away time and productivity. it can also cause great frustration for both of you. "

(this love dare on pg 56 was: love lets the other win/do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others. -philippians 2:4)

The rules for this award:

Pass this on to 5 blogging friends.

Open the closest book to you, not your favorite or most intellectual book, but the book closest to you at the moment, to page 56.

Write the 5th sentence, as well as two to five sentences following that.

hope your friday is blessed with joy, peace and rest..

here's the folks that get the tag from me:

eva: http://closer-than-your-heartbeat.blogspot.com/

cousin ryan: http://getinthenet.blogspot.com/

debs: http://lifenchaos.blogspot.com/

pati: http://patipakulis.blogspot.com/

noelle: http://noellemonteith.blogspot.com/

amy joy!

my friend amy... i met her on-line through a christian songwriters contest and then LIVE this summer, with my family!! her kids and hubby are so neat! really precious to me, because they are serving christ and seeking him daily.. she inspires me and brings me hope! blesses me...

she loves her god, her family, her friends.. she is real and gives love to so many.. i've known her a little over a year now, and am so looking forward to many years of friendship with her and her family~ so grateful that we met!

amy has a birthday today! she is my special dear friend, and i want to honor her today with a birthday song!!



love you amy! you send joy to my life... you have an amazing papa!!! ;-) thank you for our friendship!


so HAPPY you were born today!! love ya!!!!

more HOPE givers!

i just 'met' this gal, pati, from phoenix, arizona recently. not face to face, but blog to blog!! hehehehe

she is an amazing photographer! i am really glad that she is pursuing all that god has for her and her beautiful family. she has 3 gorgeous children, and a handsome husband! she adds to the beauty!! and she inspires, and gives many HOPE! from the true HOPE source..

i think of her and how her family is facing cancer. this is not a journey i have personally experienced, but i believe that we all have 'cancer's' that come into our lives.. i have made choices that have brought that malignancy, into my life/and others. i have repented and i have made better decisions, but in the end.. there are scars.. i call them 'good scars'. the ones that keep me humble, alert, prepared for battle, free, aware of the love that saved me, and... since those cancer's in our lives may not be permanent, they can be washed in the divine healing waters, cleansed in the pure sacrificial blood of our saving god! thanks be to god!!!!

i'm blessed to know this woman, and many others that have brought HOPE and have been vulnerable enough to share their story(ies)..

and through our pain or our past situations.. we can now choose to be the wounded healers, like christ.. the ones that use those tender moments/memories with the father of life, to be producers of HOPE and be perhaps the catalysts to 'heal' those same cancers in others; whether strangers, or close friends, or family.. or us, once more.

i wrote a song over 10 years ago during some of those moments for me, personally~

You Are

jesus, jesus

please hear my cry

a voice you've heard many times

spirit of the risen king

pour yourself on me

chorus

you are my healer

you are my release

savior, you know my needs, you are

you are my comfort

you are my peace

jesus, you meet my needs

you are, you are

jesus, jesus

please use this cry

to heal a soul like mine

spirit of the living king

pour yourself on me

chorus

jesus, you are

pati's website and blog.. you will be blessed!! with HOPE and more~

http://www.patipakulis.com/

http://www.patipakulis.blogspot.com/

LAUGHTER

"THE MOST WASTED OF ALL DAYS IS THAT DURING WHICH ONE HAS NOT LAUGHED."

-NICOLAS DE CHAMFORT

a good friend recently gave me a beautiful birthday gift... precious charm and necklace from james avery. she started off by sharing how she was inspired to have a theme for the presents: laughter! i was really tickled.. hehehehehhehehe ;-)

but really.. the gifts were so special. each was about laughter. such a gift, within this 'gift'.

here is a fun quote from the book she gave, 'laugh yourself healthy'.

-the older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight, because by then your body and your fat have become good friends.

;-)

A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

proverbs 17:22