A Full Cup

Welcome back!

I have been thinking alot lately about the abundance of blessings that God has given us.  He truly fills our “cup” daily with blessings.  I am grateful for that and humbled and awed by God’s giving.  As a result I want to be a good steward of what God has blessed me so richly with.  One of the ways I am able to do so lately is through watching my budget closely and couponing.  It is truly saving me money.

I started back couponing at the first of March and using a spreadsheet I’m keeping up with my savings through shopping the sales and couponing.  Since March 1 I have saved $200.  In March I only saved $64 so that shows that most of my savings have come in April, which means I am improving.  YAY!

One of the ways I am finding lots of savings and coupons and filling my coupon binder is by participating and trading and riding coupon trains over at A Full Cup.  They recently relaunched with a new website.  I don’t have as much time as I”d like to hang out over there but I am spending most of my Saturday’s there to catch up and utilize it as much as possible.

If you are new to couponing, or even if you’re an oldie you could definitely find something useful at A Full Cup so why not go check it out.  It has forums, a coupon database, trains that you can join to swap coupons and even printable coupons you can print right from the site.

By the way, I’m adavant over at  A Full Cup so be sure to friend me.

Blessed

This weekend can be summed up in the title of this post….BLESSED.  Yesterday without knowing I’d receive this card from the foot of a cross that the ladies of Proverbs 31 had set up at the conference I had written about the blessings I felt i had received throughout the weekend.  Then, I went to the closing session and was told to pick up a card from the foot of the cross.  On the card would be a verse and behind the verse in lighter print was a word for us. My word…..BLESSED. 

Girls, tell me something I don’t already know!  I am truly blessed.  Not only from attending She Speaks this weekend, but in everything I am blessed. It’s hard to know what else to say right now, as my mind whizzes back and forth, I have so much information from She Speaks I want to use and apply, but for now…. I’m VBS director for the next 5 days so I must go get dressed, whiz myself and my 2 kiddos off to church and then rush to a dr.’s appt. to assure that baby  #3 is doing what he’s suppose to be doing.  He is due in exactly 3 weeks. So I leave you with the verse that was on the card…

“I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints and his incomparably great power for us who believe.”

Ephesians 1:18-19

So Many Questions

As I lay here in bed still this morning, this last day of “She Speaks” so many questions fill my head.  Ok what do I do about??  When do I do?  What does God want from this?  How do I apply that?  How can I really do that?  Am I really a blogger, a speaker, a writer?

Wow the questions that are whizzing through my head faster than I can even type, and I type fast.

This conference has been absolutely amazing. Better than I ever dreamed.  Something only God could orchestrate.  I have met bloggers, speakers. writers, leaders, women, all called, called out by God, and I am one of them.  Never before have I felt so much like I fit.  I’m not sure you’ll understand but I think some of the ladies whom I have met here will certainly agree.

Though many of them I have NEVER met before, while others I may have read their blogs are chatted with on Twitter, we all seem to have this special connection.  The connection I have always known as a “divine connection”.  The connection I have felt before but not often, because God only allows it to happen just a certain number of times in our lives.  This is one of those times.

So, whether or not I am leaving here with questions, it’s ok.  Because what is awesome is that I know GOD can answer all those questions, and I know that over time, he will.  So, just as I anticipated and looked forward to She Speaks for the divine appointments and possibilities it held.

I now look forward to going home, to experience the divine appointments and possibilities that God has….. so much to look forward to, besides just seeing God provide the answers for the questions he’s placed on my heart while I am here, but also to see him work in my daily life, as over the next few weeks. I have so very much to look forward to, so many blessings to experience.  As I lie here thinking about them, I can’t help but be overwhelmed with joy at the honor he bestows upon me by putting those blessings into my life.

Blessings like being able to minister to children in VBS tomorrow morning  (Monday) bright and early after I arrive home from She Speaks, blessings like birthing my 3rd child, whenever God sees fit (hopefully sooner than later), as he’s due July 14, and blessings that will come sooner, like this afternoon when I get to kiss my 2 precious babies that I am longing to hold right now as momma has been away for 3 days now……….

Thank you LORD for those blessings, even if they are sometimes questions that are whirling through my mind.

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