My Artists and a Step of Faith

The girls had a holiday from school today, so we went to view their art at the local county youth project show. Their art teachers picked their art to be on display there. They were very excited about that!

Kaylee got 2nd place for her fish picture. The thing I love about Kaylee's art is that she always uses tons of colors! It's kind of like her signature style :)
Madison got 3rd place for her rodeo art. I love her use of watercolors!
I wanted to tell y'all about something I finally did that I've been wanting to do for so long! I have been following our local pregnancy resource center's newsletters and facebook for a long time. I also have been holding on to lots of things that I had from when I had my craft booth at the bakery, as well as a resale shop book that I kept meaning to take by and donate. I never would because I knew it would make me anxious and you all know that's a battle I've had for a long time.

So anyways, I read in their newsletter that the baby bottle blessings campaign was coming up. This campaign is a fundraiser and how it works is you pick up baby bottles from the center and hand them out to your church members. The church members take them home on Mother's Day, fill them up with spare change and bills, then bring them back on Father's Day. All the money goes to the pregnancy center. Isn't that such a neat idea?! So, I saw this was coming up and I thought, Oh I want to do that! Then I thought I wasn't sure if I wanted to deal with it. I knew it would probably make me nervous. But then, I saw it being announced again on facebook and I decided to just go for it and see if my Pastor would be interested.

He said we could try it and see how it goes, so I went yesterday (finally!) and dropped off my things I'd been wanting to donate and picked up the baby bottles. On the way there, I was listening to the radio and they kept playing songs about stepping out in faith and I just smiled and knew that was the Lord telling me I was doing the right thing. I had told Him that this wasn't about me, it was about Him and I was going to do it no matter what. Isn't it funny how we get ourselves all worked up sometimes over nothing too, especially those of us with anxiety disorders......it really was not a big deal at all! But, I knew that this was a step in the right direction, of being the person I want to be, of being who God made me to be.

This is the song that played on my way there. It ended right when I pulled into the parking lot of the pregnancy center. I promise, I could not even make this up if I tried! You have to read the words to it.....can you believe how perfect they are?!!


I know I haven't posted my church post for last week, but I just can't get motivated to blog about much of anything lately. I'm not sure why, but I really haven't wanted to go to church or bible study lately either. I hope it's just a season that will pass.

I hope everyone has a wonderful Mother's Day!!