Storage Units

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More that likely you know someone who has lost a job or you yourself may be unemployed. This story may interest you. I have always heard of people buying storage units and selling the items for a profit, a very good profit. It was not until just recently that I met two people who do this. A woman I work with does this on the side and makes a very good income doing so. I am blessed that I'm currently working, but I think this would be fun to do on the side ( if time permitted ) There are ways to make money if you are in need of something this may help you out for awhile. There are lots of article on the web about this so you can read a lot more about it if you want to.

Have a wonderful day,

Ginger







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Blessings

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Have you ever met anyone that had nothing, barely making it day by day, but yet they tell you that they are blessed. A few weeks ago I noticed a man digging in the neighbors trash looking for cans, bottles and plastic to recycle. It doesn't make me real happy to see someone digging in my trash so before he got my house we talked for a minute. I told him that I recycle also, but I told him I would give him all that I had. He told me that this was his job. He said that he makes enough money to tithe, pay his rent and eat. He proceeded to tell me that HE IS BLESSED I didn't ask any question on why he was in this predicament, but I could tell that he was a happy man.

Proverbs 10

5 He who gathers crops in summer is a wise son,
but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son.

6 Blessings crown the head of the righteous,
but violence overwhelms the mouth of the wicked.

7 The memory of the righteous will be a blessing,
but the name of the wicked will rot.

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Blessings,

Ginger


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Tea Pots

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Do you love teapots? I do, although I don't collect teapots I have a couple that I love.
I was looking for a teapot for a friend the other day online and I came across this teapot above. It is just too cute I love it! Of course I had to bookmark the shop that I found it because you just never know when I may NEED a teapot like this.

Have a wonderful day,
Ginger

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Linens

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I think that linens are by far one of my favorite things. I have so many that I have to keep them in 3 different places. I love everything from kitchen towels, to bed linens, to table cloths. One of my favorite places to go it the Pasadena flea market and visit this one lady that all she has are piles and piles of linens. It's one of those things where you never know what treasure you will find. It has been a long while since I have been because I just can't justify buying more when I don't use all that I have now, that has never stopped me before but the older I get the more practical I am, and let me tell you it is so boring!! SO what I have been thinking about doing is going to the flea market and maybe buying some of those beautiful linens and try to sell them. Not everyone has a Pasadena flea market close to them. This has been on my mind for almost a year so I guess I should make up my mind.

Here are some pictures that I found online of some linens. Are lines something that you love to collect?












Have a wonderful day,
Ginger

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Women Of Faith

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This weekend was the Women of Faith conference, this is my 3rd year attending this event and I look forward to it every year. There are speakers that are just amazing and touch my heart.
There is just something about being with 15,000 women who all believe in God, something about being in a room with 15,000 women praying. The weekend was full of emotions happy, sad, crying, laughing, singing, praying.

While I was sitting there in my seat looking at all of these women I had the need to say a prayer to myself, I knew that the Lord was there and I just thought to myself what a great opportunity, although I know he is there no matter where I am but this prayer is a prayer that I have been saying all week, and felt the need to pray it again.
The prayer that I said was for a dear blogging friend she had emailed me asking for prayers for her son. I'm not real sure on his age but I know he just got married a little over a year ago. He was on the families doc and he slipped and fell, he fractured his neck in 3 places. She said it was by the grace of God that he is not paralyzed. This family is heavy on my heart, if you can please say a prayer for them as well, I know that she would appreciate it very much.

I am so thank-full for all the prayers that are asked upon us, knowing that we are all here to pray for each other in times of need is truly a feeling of comfort.
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Thank-you,
Ginger

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A House Wife

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Today is Friday, and I always work on Fridays but I'm off today. As I was laying in bed before I got up to drink my coffee I was pretending, just for a few minutes that I was a house wife. Remember the day, way back when dinner was on the table at 5:00 and there was even a dessert after dinner. I grew up in a household like that, but how I wish I could of been a house wife. My husband would love to be a house husband for that matter. I am so thank-full for my job these days, and even more thank-full for a day off every now and then so I can pretend that I'm a house wife. I hope your having a wonderful day, if your at work or home.
Blessings,
Ginger

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Seven Days Of Work Make One Weak

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Exodus 20:9-10




9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates.





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Blessings,
Ginger

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Strangers in the Pew

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A man by the name of Bob Rowland and his daughter Cynthia Rowland McClure wrote a book called Strangers in the Pew, Do you know us? He is a member of our church, and a very well respected man.
This is what is written on the back of the book.
This book calls for church leaders to reach out and involve hurting members, who for the most part, have been forced to the periphery of the Church's fellowship and activities.
These strangers in the pew feel neglected, overlooked and marginalized. They are the first to give up and drop out.
God calls leader to "Defend the cause of the weak and maintain the rights of the poor and the needy." Ps. 82:3
This is a good book, I'm not done yet but it leaves me thinking.
There is a homeless man that goes to our church, not all the time he comes and goes, and we can see his hurt. What about the members that are there every week, they look pretty, and well dressed, are they hurting? Just because they look perfect on the outside they may well be hurting inside. Are they a stranger to us? Do they need our prayers, our help? Are our lives to busy to take the time to ask someone how they are, but actually wait there until they tell us. I am so guilty of this, I ask someone how they are but in passing. I need to be still, I need to listen. This is not just the preachers job it all of ours,I think to many people put all the responsibility on the preacher and not enough on all the other 200 or 2000 people sitting in the pews. Cynthia Rowland McClure, had Bulima she was hurting, did the people on the pews know she was in such pain? After she went to many hospitals for help and received the help she needed, she then was diagnosed with breast cancer that ended up taking her life about 5 years ago. Do people in the pews know Bobs pain over the loss of his daughter? Is a stranger sitting next to you on the pew? Do they need your prayers?
I'm so sorry this was a long post, I hope you had your seat belts on. This has been on my heart and I wanted to share this book with you.
God Bless,
Ginger
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Introductions

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When I read my Bible I enjoy reading the introduction to the book that I'm about to read. Yesterday morning before work I read Ecclesiastes and the introduction said this in the New International Version.


Ecclesiastes studies the meaning of life. The "Teacher" looks at wisdom, pleasure, work, power, riches, religion, and other things. All of these have some value and are useful in the proper time and place, but they have lasting value only if God is at the center of man's life. Reverence and respect for God and a real devotion in serving God are the most important in making life have meaning. Without God, the "Teacher" says, "everthing" is meaningless"


I hope you enjoyed this as much as I did.


Blessings,

Ginger

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Retirement

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The Dictionary defines retirement as withdrawal from an occupation, to retreat from an active live.

The only scripture I could find on retirement was in Numbers 8:24-26


Numbers 8:24-26
24 "This applies to the Levites: Men twenty-five years old or more shall come to take part in the work at the Tent of Meeting, 25 but at the age of fifty, they must retire from their regular service and work no longer. 26 They may assist their brothers in performing their duties at the Tent of Meeting, but they themselves must not do the work. This, then, is how you are to assign the responsibilities of the Levites."

I find myself dreaming of the day I can retire, thinking that I would have so much more time to visit people, call people, send cards to people. The fact is I may never retire with this economy, so I need to find the time to do these things now. I pray the the Lord keeps my husband and I healthy enough to work as long as we want to.


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Blessings,
Ginger

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