I will be very upfront about this assignment. I love it and think it’s a wonderful idea to pass along the blessings, but I DO NOT like being recognized for doing anything to help someone. I do LOVE being blessed enough to help someone, moreover, helping anyone gives me so much joy in life. I feel so strongly about that, that I have to reveal that my life would not be worth living if I didn’t have the love and compassion for helping others. My husband had to help me out with this because I am so humbled by it. Years ago when we lost our home and had nothing, not even a place to be a home, we decided that whenever God decided to bless us, that we would never hesitate to turn that blessings around and make it multiply for others. We had the opportunity to help a local family by taking care of their farm when they went out of town for a much needed vacation. That family told us to keep or sell whatever eggs their chickens put out for the week they were gone…we’re not talking about peanuts here, we’re talking 160-170 eggs a DAY!!! So we started giving them to our neighbor who is an elderly woman and has a very ill son who cannot work and provide for them. She was/still is sooo happy to have those eggs. We also passed some along to our Pastor who is no longer publicly employed and the joy just keeps on giving back to us. We have also been going to a warehouse for fresh and organic produce where we can buy tons of fruit and produce that we have shared with the neighbor lady and our Pastor as well. We’ve also canned most of what was left from those trips. Okay, sorry this is getting too long. I chose to share this song, “To God Be the Glory” since we give God all the Glory and Honor for what we do have. Thank you Pat and Jenny!

To God Be the Glory

How can I say thanks
for the things you have done for me
Things so undeserved
Yet you give to prove your love for me
The voices of a million angels
Cannot express my gratitude
All that I am or ever hope to be
I owe it all to Thee

(Chorus)
To God be the glory
To God be the glory
To God be the glory
For the things He has done
With His blood, He has saved me
By His power, He has raised me.
To God be the glory
For the things he has done

(Bridge)
Just let me live my life
And let it be pleasing, Lord to Thee
And should I gain any praise,
Let it go to Calvary.

With His blood, He has saved me
By His power, He has raised me.
To God be the glory
For the things he has done.

I wanted so bad last week to have some of you ladies to leave me a couple of ideas for the next few weeks assignments. I didn’t get a single one~ I was so surprised not to get any at all. So, here I go with this weeks assignment. I’m very open to any ideas you all have and would love to hear from you. Feel free to leave a comment about one or email me with anything you have. Maybe you just need someone to bounce an idea off of, I’m very open to that too.

This week’s assignment is The Three R’s — Reduce, Recycle, and Re-use. I thought since today is Earth Day and this month is Arbor Day that we all could share ideas or tips that we use for recycling, reducing or re-using items in our home. Do you recycle at all? Does it just seem nearly impossible to recycle? Trying to catch every piece of trash that goes into the garbage is a hard one for me too. I have a friend who is very diligent with it and so are her children! It amazed me to see how they re-spect nature and use the Three R’s in their home. I challenge you all to write about your ventures with recycling, reducing, and re-using your trash and take a pledge to at least try to use some of the tips that you read about on this assignment. Don’t forget to add your favorite scripture for this assignment.

Here’s mine:
My family and I are not diligent enough about the Three R’s but we should be more conserving. Things that we do to try to be more advantageous about are these:

• We try to save on fuel by not going anywhere we absolutely do not have to. That means making one trip count the most and doing several things in that trip.
• We re-use most plastic that we purchase; i.e., water bottles or drink bottles get filled with water. We rarely have cans to throw out since we don’t buy soft drinks or canned vegetables.
• We do recycle paper and glass products instead of throwing them into the dump.
• We did decide to join the Arbor Day foundation, for $15/year and received 10 trees that we have planted to take the place of some trees we had to cut down because they were rotting.

Our Pledge

• We are going to start composting our trash and use it to fertilize our garden that we plant for food that we can preserve to use later on.

Like I said we have lots of room for improvement but we are going in the right direction. I can’t wait to read all of your ideas and your pledges.

Have a wonderful day!!!