Cutting Beautiful Snowflakes (A Craft Even I Like)

Every December, we cut snowflakes to decorate our doors. We've been cutting snowflakes for years, and, no matter how many I cut, I still love the surprise of it. I tried to make a cat face, but it turned out like a batman face with hearts all over it (see below).

We fold paper and make all sorts of fabulous designs. You can use this website to learn how to fold the paper: http://www.wikihow.com/Cut-Elegant-Paper-Snowflakes.

Right now, I have three little girls cutting snowflakes at the kitchen table. I will be sweeping up little white scraps of paper for days. 

Not My Problem

I recently heard my husband describing an interview he heard with the late Bill Bright. When asked about some of the biggest problems he had faced in his life, Dr. Bright replied that he didn't have any problems.

When the interviewer pressed him on it--surely Dr. Bright had problems!--the man insisted that he had no problems.

The interviewer kept asking him over and over again because he just couldn't believe that a man's life couldn't have any problems.

At this, Dr. Bright explained that he didn't say his life didn't have problems. He said that they weren't his problems. They were God's problems. Bill said that he had no problems because he transferred ownership of his life to Jesus and therefore any problems were really God's problems.

Bill Bright later restated that if his only concern is what the Master wants, then his life could be problem free.

Today, I throw my hands in the air with relief. This is not my problem. It's God's problem, and He can handle it. 

Welcome December: A Bible Reading Plan

At the first of every month, I remember how wise people told me that they start reading Psalms and Proverbs that day. 

If you read five Psalms a day and one chapter of Proverbs, you'll finish the books by the end of the month. 

This I've accomplished intermittently since 1995. I write in the margins of my enormous green Bible things I'm praying about. I'm amazed how Psalms and Proverbs so readily apply to my exact circumstances each time I read them.

I'm excited to begin today!