at 11/30/09 6:21PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRlTO_LJ03g
at 04/14/09 8:43AM
This was an email that was sent to me and I thought I would share it with you.
A man was exploring caves by the seashore. In one of the caves he found a canvas bag with a bunch of hardened clay balls. It was like someone had rolled clay balls and left them out in the sun to bake. They didn't look like much, but they intrigued the man, so he took the bag out of the cave with him. As he strolled along the beach, he would throw the clay balls one at a time out into the ocean as far as he could. He thought little about it, until he dropped one of the clay balls and it cracked open on a rock. Inside was a beautiful, precious stone! Excited, the man started breaking open the remaining clay balls. Each contained a similar treasure. He found thousands of dollars worth of jewels in the 20 or so clay balls he had left. Then it struck him. He had been on the beach a long time. He had thrown maybe 50 or 60 of the clay balls with their hidden treasure into the ocean waves. Instead of thousands of dollars in treasure, he could have taken home tens of thousands, but he had just thrown it away! It's like that with people. We look at someone, maybe even ourselves, and we see the external clay vessel. It doesn't look like much from the outside. It isn't always beautiful or sparkling, so we discount it. We see that person as less important than someone more beautiful or stylish, or well known, or wealthy. But we have not taken the time to find the treasure hidden inside that person. There is a treasure in each and every one of us. If we take the time to get to know that person, and if we ask God to show us that person the way He sees them, then the clay begins to peel away and the brilliant gem begins to shine forth. May we not come to the end of our lives and find out that we have thrown away a fortune in friendships because the gems were hidden in bits of clay. I am so blessed by the treasure of friendship I have with you. Thank you for looking beyond my clay vessel. Be sure to look for the gems inside yourself. Appreciate every single thing you have, especially your friends... life is too short and friends are too few!
This was taken from my cousin
Deborah's weblog. Can you help?
Please let me know if you have any extra Bible lying around your house that do not get used, that you would like to send to someone without a Bible. I have a friend in the Philippines who has requested at least 5 Bibles to be sent to her. Five people were recently baptized, attend church with her, and are being faithful members, but they do not have Bibles. They do not have such easy access to Bibles, in the Philippines as we have over here. Even if they could find one, many people there would not have the money to buy one. It's not like when we say we don't have the money to buy something--we choose what we spend our money on (cable, entertainment, etc). They really do not have the money at all.
Let's count our blessings and do what we can to help others.
They may not all be looking but I think this a great picture for six kids three years old and under.
It's a GREAT pic!!
How cute!!
It's adorable! I love how they're dressed, too.
What a cute picture!
They are beee-utiful!
Love it!!!
What a great picture! I love it.
Just precious!
that's great! we're hoping to get ours done this month!
I love it! They're all so precious!
I loved seeing that look on kids faces when I was student teaching. It is something I'd like to do one day, but maybe in the private sector. I've just seen way too many teachers go home crying (particularly in bryan which is such a shady district). My friend that's working there now says all she does is work all the time, even in the evenings and deals with angry parents who wonder why their kid isn't passing while the kid is tearing up his homework and throwing it away. I know alot has to do with where you teach. As an admissions coordinator I would be doing alot of marketing for the school and admissions testing things like that. So, I'll still get to hang with the kids some, but without the stress of being in a classroom.
I'd love to hear the creation song words...thanks!
