Flowers Photo Winner

Hello Sisters,

I know it's been quite a while since my last photo challenge occurred, but I realized I never officially announced the winner.

So, {as I'm sure you've been able to tell for months} the winner is: Miss Alyssa!  

You can view her photo by clicking HERE.

I love the the contrast of the white flower and dark background.  And the water droplets!  Your picture is stunning!  =)

At the very bottom of my blog is a "I Won a Photo Challenge at..." button.  If you would care to grab it, please do!  =)

I'd like to say a thank you again to all of you who entered my photo challenge.  I will be having another one soon I'm sure. =)

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Hello, again!

Oh my!  How long has it been since my last post?  I don't even want to think about it...yes, I'm pretty ashamed...

In my defense, I have been busy and blogging just had to be put aside for a while.  {Plus my computer stopped working and it was hard enough trying to work around my dear mother's schedule to study, let alone take up more time blogging on her computer.}

But I wanted to let y'all {whoever you are that still pop over to my blog} know that I am just fine and will hopefully start blogging again.  How often?  Well, I won't make any promises, but please know that I have realized how much I miss writing & chatting with you sisters and I will be making more of an effort to find time!

With that I will say:

Au Revoir, Until next time,
Many Blessings!
Tiffani

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Flower Entries!

Hey Y'all!
I love all of these entries!  They are gorgeous photos!  So without further ado...presenting:

Miss Alyssa's picture can be viewed by clicking HERE.

Miss Bridget

Miss Cassie

Miss Sierra

Miss Tasha Ann

Ms. Traci



So let the voting begin!

Au Revoir...Until next time.
Many Blessings!  =)
Tiffani

Linking to Alexandrea's photo challenge!  =)

Hey Everyone!
Thank you all for your photos!  I will be posting them tomorrow, and you can start voting!

Au Revoir...Until tomorrow.
Blessings!  =)
Tiffani

Photo Challenge: Flowers

Hello!

I've decided to have another photo challenge!  The last one was so much fun!  I hope you'd agree.  =)

So this theme is...FLOWERS.

I know y'all have lovely flower pics!  I know flowers may seem simple, so I'll ask you to be creative.  With lighting, perhaps the location, the angle or what's in the picture with the flower(s).  The choice is yours.  =)

Here are the rules:

~You must follow my blog~

~Place your link in a comment {you don't have to have a blog}~

~The photo must be an original taken by you~

~Absolutely no inappropriate links/entries, or else your entry will be deleted.~

The challenge ends on March 28, 2012 at 3:00PM

I'll post my favorite photos...{well, lets face it...I'll probably be posting all of them =P} and y'all can vote for the winner. {There will be a poll on the sidebar like last time}

Feel free to tell your friends!  The more the merrier!

Au Revoir

Many Blessings!  =)

Tiffani

A Giveaway...

Hello Friends!

I just wanted to let you all know that my friend Miss Alexandrea is having a wonderful giveaway at her blog!  There are 7 different things that you could possibly win.
So if you get a minute (it really does take only a minute), pop over and enter!

I will be posting again soon!

Au Revoir...Until next time.
Many Blessings!  =)
Tiffani

Light Photo Winner

First of all I would like to thank all the lovely Mademoiselles who entered the photo challenge!  They were all gourgeous pictures!  =)

As you can see by the sidebar poll Miss Melanie has won the Light Photo Challenge!

Congratulations Melanie!  Your picture is absolutely beautiful!  I LOVE how the crystal clear the picture is and how the sunlight just bursts through!

At the very bottom of my blog is a "I Won a Photo Challenge at..." button.  If you would care to grab it, please do!  =)

I will be having another photo challenge in the next couple of days!  It will be a little simpler in theme, but I know you ladies have beautiful photos of these and I can't wait to see them!  =)

Au Revoir...Until next time.
Many Blessings!  =)
Tiffani

Photo Challenge Entries!

Hello All!

First of all I would like to thank everyone who entered my photo challenge!!!  It was such a blessing getting more than 1 entry  =P  I hope to have many more in the future!  =)

{Now that my Oscar acceptance type speech is done =P}  On with the entries!

Just as a reminder the theme was Light.

Miss Alexandrea

Miss Tasha Ann

Miss Sierra

Miss Bridget

Miss Melanie

 The voting has now begun!  The poll is on the sidebar.  Tell all your friends!  =)  I'm so glad its up to you, because I would never be able to choose!

Au Revoir...Until next time.
Many Blessings!  =)
Tiffani

Photo Challenge: Light

Hello Friends!

To celebrate my 55th post *happy dance* I am hosting my very first photo challenge!!!

The theme is...drum roll please...

Light

Here is an example:

You can pretty much interpret it any way you'd like!  I'm looking forward to seeing what y'all come up with!

Here are the rules:

~You must follow my blog~

~Place your link in a comment {you don't have to have a blog}~

~The photo must be an original taken by you~

 ~Absolutely no inappropriate links/entries, or else your entry will be deleted.~

The challenge ends on Feb. 27, 2012

I'll post my favorite photos...{or all of them, depending on how many I get} and y'all can vote for the winner.  {There will be a poll on the sidebar}

Thank you so much for reading my blog, you all are blessings to me!  <3

I hope this is the first of many photo challenges.  I have enjoyed participating in them on other's blogs and I'm super excited to have one of my own!

So start snapping those pictures!  And feel free to tell your friends!  =)

Au Revoir...Until next time.
Many Blessings!  =)
Tiffani


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The Describing of Friends...

Hey now you know it's true
After all that we've been through
You can count on me
When it comes down to the end
I will always be your friend
No matter where you go
I want you to know now

Chorus:
I promise my prayers
I promise my heart
I'll be thinking of you
Wherever you are
When the daylight is done
When the night is so dark
When I cannot be there
I promise my prayers

Down each road we take
We're joined together when we pray
No matter where life leads
I will lift you up
You'll be covered by his love
The angels will find you
I'm here to remind you now

Chorus
I'll cover, I'll cover you, I'll cover

Beyond our understanding
His hand is moving and we stand amazed
I pray His love will guide you
I know He's there beside you always

Chorus

Promise My Prayers ~ Point of Grace

In case you have never read T.S. Eliot's Old Possums Book of Practical Cats, my title is referencing one of the poem titles.  He wrote of poem called The Naming of Cats...hence The Describing of Friends...  =)

What is a friend?

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words." ~ Anonymous

"To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world." ~ Anonymous

To me, friends are those:

~Who you can text in the wee hours of the morning with a prayer request

~Who will burn their fingers on a curling iron to make sure your hair is "perfect" for prom

~Who will listen when you need to talk something out

~Who lift you up and make you smile without even trying

~Who you've never met in person, but are still 'kindred spirits' in Christ

~Who you can just start chatting with, even if you haven't seen them in a while

~Who don't make you do all the talking, yet never dominates the conversation

~Who asks you how you are and means it

~Who can be totally goofy with you one minute and serious the next

~Who love to watch I Love Lucy with you  =P

~Who's book recommendations you can trust

~Who will laugh with you and tease you {all in good fun of course  =)}

~Who's seen you cry and still thinks you're beautiful

~Who knows your faults and still loves you

~Who will pray for you before you have to ask

These are just some of the definitions of a friend to me.  I would love to hear some of yours!

"For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them."

~Matthew 18:20

"Two are better than one,
Because they have a good reward for their labor.
¹⁰ For if they fall, one will lift up his companion.
But woe to him who is alone when he falls,
For he has no one to help him up.
¹¹ Again, if two lie down together, they will keep warm;
But how can one be warm alone?
¹² Though one may be overpowered by another, two can withstand him.
And a threefold cord is not quickly broken."

~Ecclesiastes 4:9-12

So to all my friends, I just want to let you know what a blessing you are to me.  I wouldn't be the same person I am without you!  I thank the Lord that you are in my life!

Au Revoir...Until next time.

Many Blessings!  =)

Tiffani

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Freedom in His Embrace!

When He calls, I must listen

Where He leads, I must follow

Who He is, I strive to be

He has rescued me

God is so good!  I am crying with joy right now, just, because...I can feel His presence.  

It is such an amazing feeling to know that He is with you!

To know that He is here...right now...at this very moment!

There are times when I feel like I could just burst with joy. 

You know the feeling where you want to just start singing "for no reason".  Ahh, but we do have a reason.  We always have a reason to feel joyful!  We have His love, His peace, His hope...and His joy inside of us!

I feel like I could just go dancing around, but I'm sure the people below us {I live in an apartment} would prefer I did not...

There is nothing that compares to the overwhelming sense of joy and peace as when you've just come out of a trying time spiritually.

I realized a couple days ago, that my life had been sorely lacking in prayer...  I started feeling moody, and dare I say...purposeless.  Ahh, but He is so faithful.  Even through that, I knew He didn't leave me.  No, He carried me!  He ministered to me in ways that only He can.

It is so wonderful to know that we have freedom in Him!  Freedom that lifts us above the chains of this world and lets us soar above.

Freedom that give us the ability to run to His arms whenever we feel weary. 

That was my problem.  I was feeling weary and instead of running to Him, I tried to be a "big girl" and take care of myself.  I know better...you'd think I'd learn my lesson...  Maybe one of these days I will.

But that is the past.  And the present is me running full speed ahead, toward {not away from} my Abba Father's outstretched arms.

There I will stay, surrendered, tucked under His wing, in the palm of His hand.  Resting, trusting, listening, praying...in His embrace.

Au Revoir...Until next time.

Many Blessings!  =)

Tiffani

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Wrapped in Your Embrace...

This is one of my new favorite songs!

"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for You are with  me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me."

~ Psalm 23:4

Wrapped in Your Embrace

My heart cries out to be heard

My heart cries out for mercy

My heart cries out, in need of a Savior

You wrap me in Your embrace

Let my lips not speak idle words

But give You all praise and glory

My heart cries out, in need of a Savior

And You wrap me in Your embrace

I am undeserving

Yet You are so willing

Your love for me is amazing

You wrap me in Your embrace

You are faithful

You are Light

You hold me in the palm of Your hand

And You wrap me in Your embrace

My days have been numbered my You

You are the Holy God, my Father

You are my Provider

You wrap me in Your embrace

I am fallible

You are unchangeable

You still my heart and quiet my soul

And You wrap me in Your embrace

You are my comfort

I am Your daughter

You are my Rock and my Foundation and my Fortress

My Abba Father

You wrap me in Your embrace

Au Revoir...Until next time.

Many Blessings!  =)

Tiffani

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My Valentine...

Love this song, and I thought it was perfect for today =)

"And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love."

~ 1 Corinthians 13:13

 

 

I've never felt like I've missed out on anything on Valentines Day, because I didn't have a date.  Valentines Day has never been a reminder that I'm "alone"  =P

 

 

In fact, its quite the opposite.  My Valentine is always with me, and loves me unconditionally, despite my many, many...many faults.  He is patient with me, He gives me joy and peace that cannot be contained.  He always listens and is always on time...it's my watch that is unreliable.   =)

He doesn't wait until a certain holiday to give me gifts...He blesses me every day.  He has written His name on 'my paper heart'.  {And yes, I have just burst into song...  =P }

 

 

Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior.

 

 

Since I was really young, my mom has always talked about how unconditional love, keeps no record of wrongs. (1 Corinthians 13:5) Our Abba Father and our Savior Jesus showed us the greatest example of unconditional love that the world has ever seen...and ever will see!

 

 

We are promised that if we, but ask with a truly repentant heart for forgiveness, He will grant it to us unconditionally.  He loves us that much!

I will never understand why He loves me.  Sure I could rattle off a couple "good points" about myself, but...

 

 

"...For the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart."

~ 1 Samuel 16:7b

 

 

And the honestly the only good thing in my heart is Jesus.  Period.

Although that does make me wonder again about why Jesus would even consider coming into my heart...

 

 

The only answer that comes close to satisfying me is:

"⁸ For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. ⁹ Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? ¹⁰ Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent?"

~Matthew 7:8-10

We are His children, and He tells us that He will never leave us or forsake us (Hebrews 13:5)

 

 

It all comes back to His unconditional love for us.  The love that we don't deserve.  The love that He freely gives, when we ask.

I pray that you all had a blessed Valentines Day.

Au Revoir...Until next time.

Many Blessings!  =)

Tiffani

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Ask...Listen...Follow...

Where You go, I'll go

Where You stay, I'll stay

When You move, I'll move

I will follow You

Who You love, I'll love

How You serve I'll serve

If this life I lose, I will follow You

I will follow You

I Will Follow ~ Chris Tomlin

Tee hee...I'm laughing at how silly my thoughts are at the moment.  I'm nervous about writing my first post for 2012...  =P   That's why I've been putting it off. 

My Abba Father has been showing me so much in these past few months, weeks, days, hours even. 

I'm beginning to fully realize...realize even more that our God is always ready and willing to show us new things about Him.  He's always ready to wrap us in His warm and comforting embrace.  He's always ready to listen and interrupt us if necessary.  He's always there to wipe away the tears that we let escape.

I'm the one holding everything back.  I'm a girl, standing in front of a bridge--a narrow bridge.  There's no way to 'go around it.'  Jesus one step ahead of me, reaching out His hand, encouraging me, beckoning, calling out to me to join Him, follow Him step by step.  I've followed Him this far on our journey and this is just another bridge I need to cross.  But it's not "just another bridge."  This bridge, just like all those in the past, will be a new experience for me.  I will grow in and through Him.  I will learn more about Him and myself.  And I'm standing there...waiting for Him to do something...  To "give me a sign" to move in a certain direction...

He is always ready to speak to me.

All I have to do is ask.

Why don't I ask more often???  Why don't I listen more often??? 

Maybe you ask the same questions...  All I can say is that I can't change what I haven't done in the past, but I can change what I will do in the future.  It's a New Year's Resolution, so to speak...  =) 

So no matter how many "forks" in the road there are, no matter how I look at it, there is only one direction to take...  The one that my Savior is standing in front of.  And it's my fault for being the one who's closed her eyes, expecting to 'stumble' onto the right path or eventually find it on my own.

So to be honest...I don't exactly know where that path is going to lead me...and when those "forks" come along, I most likely won't know which one leads where.  But whichever path He is in front of, is where I want to go.
I just got a flash on the animated Disney Peter Pan movie.  When all the "Lost Boy's" are following John (with his top hat and umbrella) singing "We're following the leader, the leader, the leader.  We're following the leader wherever he may go."  Along the way they go through tall grass (the tops of heads and that umbrella bobbing up and down), over a hippopotamus (I think)...  *giggle*      *sigh*
That's how I want to be, following Jesus (not oblivious to my surroundings  =P).  Joyful, worshipping, willing, determined, without any doubts or reservations.

I long to see my Shepard face to face...  To feel His touch...   To hear His encouragement...  To sing His praises...  To dance in the warmth of His light...  To be still in Him...

My dad just said something the other day...  He didn't make it up...and I'm not who the first person to say it was...

If there were no problems, there could be no miracles.

Feel free to read that a couple times...I did  =)

I pray for there to be an abundance of blessings in your life!  I also pray that through those trials that you're facing, that our Abba Father would perform miracles for you.  That you will grow in and strengthen your relationship with Him. 

"Praise the LORD! Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever." ~ Psalm 106:1

Au Revoir...Until next time!
Many Blessings  =)
Tiffani


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