All thanks be to God--Another blog award--I humbly accept

Oh my word!! Goodness gracious!! My, My My!! Someone else likes my stuff!! My stinkin' little stuff on my blog! Woohoo!! Go God!! You're the one who let me and enables me, and gives me anything good and worthy to say! I just pray that I get better and better at this blogging thing and that I use it to point someone in Your direction, God, as well as have a little fun and drink a little tea!!

e-Mom at Chrysalis (www.chrysaliscom.blogspot.com) has awarded me with the Sharing the Love Award. I LOVE HER BLOG, and I visit her as often as possible. If you haven't already visited her, YOU SHOULD ASAP. She is a very good blogger, so obviously I'm so humbled by her even thinking of me to award this to. THANK YOU E-MOM!!!

Award Rules
This award is created by Crystal at Memoirs of a Mommy in honor of Noah and the donor of this sweet little heart who ENCOURAGES us to SHARE THE LOVE. The rules for this award are to pass it along to some people whose blogs you love. They make you laugh, smile, leave encouraging comments on your blog. You would like to share some love with them because they have uplifted, inspired, encouraged or prayed for you. Please include this paragraph with the link to Memoirs of a Mommy so that everyone know where this award originated.

Now I have to pass this award along. Well, there are many great bloggers out there, so this shouldn't be hard. BTW, if anyone is interested, I have listed 100 Jesus, Bible, Christianity-related things, and quotes in honor of my 200th post celebration post. It took me a couple of days to get it all completed, but it's done. I think you'll be interested in some of the facts, some you'll know already, some you may want to follow up on with more study of your own, and some you may just be fascinated or surprised by. If you have a while to sit down and read through some of them, check it out!

Blessings to you!

Oh my word! Another award I so humbly accept!

My word!! Another acknowledgement!! Somebody (namely Tracy at Seed Thoughts--you get there by http://takeck.blogspot.com) loves my blog!!! Woohoo!! "Thank you precious Jesus. It's only because of you allowing something to come out of this brain to be typed on my blog that I have anything remotely worthy to say."

Tracy, thank you ever so much! I'd be satisfied if someone said, "I LIKE your blog." But to have someone say, "I LOVE your blog,"... well now, not only is that a great honor, but that's hard for me to wrap my mind around. Little old stinkin' me?!! Well, it doesn't change the fact that I still think I'm Little Old Stinkin' Me, but I sure am grateful, and I pray that God gives me something worthy and relevant to say for as long as I can. May He stay exalted while I remain abased.

And yet another award to more humbly accept!

Can you believe it?!! If you can, I certainly can't! Another award! Lord, only you knew! Robin, at www.pensieve.typepad.com, has thought enough of this relatively new blogger to pass along this award. Let me just add, Robin is the reason that I'm blogging in the first place, but, she is so much more advanced and so much more popular in the blog world, that I can't believe that I would be one of her considerations. She had so many more, she says, that she could have chosen from, yet she still thought that I, as well as 6 others, deserved this award. I'm so thankful...still surprised,...but thankful. I just humbly accept this award also. Guys, it's an "I love your blog" award! Somebody likes and respects what God has enabled me to do!! Woohoo!! Go God!

Another Award to Humbly Accept

Linda, at Remote Treechanger (http://www.remotetreechanger.blogspot.com/) has thought enough of me and my writing to award me the Share the Love Award. This will be the second of this particular award given to me, and again, I humbly, humbly accept. It is so hard for me to accept an award of any kind. I had read someone else's blog where she writes that she doesn't accept awards because she may have to deal with pride and she writes for the glory of God. This caused me to think. Here's what I concluded after thinking about that and talking with another blogger about it: I may have pride issues somewhere, but I don't in the way of being awarded one of the blog awards. I don't think more of myself when I receive them. In fact, I'm usually quite surprised that someone thought that my work was good enough to deserve one. As I've stated before many times, I only started blogging as an outlet for me and didn't think, because I wasn't one of the "big time" bloggers, that anyone would even read mine. I feel even more humbled when I receive comments because that tells me that someone is actually stopping by reading. My thoughts, in the beginning were, "if someone reads my posts...fine, and if they don't...well, I was just doing this just to be doing it anyway." Now, though, I'm more conscious of what I write because I realize that people are reading.

All this to say, thanks big time, Linda, for thinking of this "little time" blogger!! Receiving it in no way puffs me up, but causes me to be abased. It causes me to glorify and exalt the Lord even the more, because He gives me any gifts or abilities I have or the mind that I have.

MY FIRST BLOG AWARD!! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!

Is this award not beautiful!! Talk about humbling!! Tracy, a precious blogger at Seed Thoughts (http://http://www.takeck.blogspot.com/) thought enough of this new, amateur blogger and her posts to award me the Art Y Pico Award. What is this award and what does it mean? I'll let Tracy's words explain it to you. They'll do a better job than I would. Here's Tracy:

"It is the Art Y Pico award and it is given to those who inspire others with their creative energy and talents in writing, artwork, design or contributions to the blogging community. It originated here. What does the expression mean? Well, apparently it doesn’t exactly translate to English, but it loosely translates to, “Wow. The Best Art. Over the top.” (This was taken from the Art Y Pico blog.)"

WOW!!

I tell you, I'm just blogging at the encouragement of a friend I met at church, who is getting to be well-known in the blogging community I might add. She knew I loved poetry, and she shared the same love, and she thought I might have, well...something to say. I like writing and always have so I thought I'd look into it (which I did for a long time before deciding to jump in) and give it a shot. I really prayed about doing it though, because I didn't want blogging to take over my life like I knew it could, I didn't want to become addicted and neglect family or other priorities because of it, and I wanted God to be pleased with me doing it. Once I got all this down, things started to flow. God has given me a good handle on it (most of the time, and when I surrender my time and schedule to Him), and I think God is pleased with the content. I never even thought about real and regular readers! In my mind, this would just be a writing outlet and a hobby.

People really do read my posts, I soon found out. I'm still shocked by this! Then, I became a little more conscious of what I wrote, and thought well, if people are reading it, even if it's not that often, I'd better say something that they can use or be edified by, be pleased with, or at least get them thinking and/or praying about. I hope and pray that I'm doing that.

Tracy must think so, and folks, I am so honored and blessed by her heart and decision to name me one of the recipients of this award.

If you would like to investigate the origin of this award, go to http://arteypico.blogspot.com/.

I will be looking at some of my favorite blogs and praying about whom I can share this same award with. It will be so hard, because there are so many great blogs I've come across.

Well, thanks again Tracy. You've made my day and my week. May God get all the credit for our gifts and talents. Without Him, we wouldn't be able to receive an award nor bless someone else with one.

Blessings to you all.