This year I decided to "try and be more organized". Notice I sneaked that word "try" in. As long as I do my best to try to be organized I haven't failed. RIGHT? :)
So far so good :) I am realizing I need more tools of the trade here, but I have managed to organize what I could with what I have.
Going through stuff I haven't given thought in a while leads you to find things and memories you had forgotten about. As I went through some of my stuff and some more of mom's stuff I got to realizing all the things and people that have meant so much to mom, me, and the family.
Mom kept everything in her Bible cover it seemed. She rarely threw anything away. I know this for a fact considering I found a Baby Shower card with a 20 in it that dates back almost 9 years now. I couldn't believe it. It was still sealed and everything. A small yet great blessing and to think, had I not decided to organize things, I wouldn't have ever found it.
I stopped what I was doing as I found my Mam Maw's New Testament Bible. When you open a Bible that belonged to my Mam Maw you didn't just find scriptures, you found notes, on every single page. This one I have here was given to Mam Maw June of 1980 by Uncle Albert it says. Off to the side of that it says "Thank you, I read it and I loved it." By this time in her life I can only imagine the number of times she actually had read the Bible, cover to cover, and how many different notes she must have written.
On the front cover there are all kinds of things written, wedding dates and Bible verses and such. There was one thing she wrote on there twice. Ephesians 2:8. So with that I turned the Bible to Ephesians 2:8 and read it. For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God. I sat and thought about that for a moment. I felt as if I needed that right in that moment. Ya know, often times we want to take credit for all the good things that happen within us and our lives. In one of the notes it says "Do not care who gets credit as long as God gets the glory."
So far in this new year life has been easier, better, and full of happiness. And I know who gets all the credit and glory for that!
Going through stuff I haven't given thought in a while leads you to find things and memories you had forgotten about. As I went through some of my stuff and some more of mom's stuff I got to realizing all the things and people that have meant so much to mom, me, and the family.
Mom kept everything in her Bible cover it seemed. She rarely threw anything away. I know this for a fact considering I found a Baby Shower card with a 20 in it that dates back almost 9 years now. I couldn't believe it. It was still sealed and everything. A small yet great blessing and to think, had I not decided to organize things, I wouldn't have ever found it.
I stopped what I was doing as I found my Mam Maw's New Testament Bible. When you open a Bible that belonged to my Mam Maw you didn't just find scriptures, you found notes, on every single page. This one I have here was given to Mam Maw June of 1980 by Uncle Albert it says. Off to the side of that it says "Thank you, I read it and I loved it." By this time in her life I can only imagine the number of times she actually had read the Bible, cover to cover, and how many different notes she must have written.
On the front cover there are all kinds of things written, wedding dates and Bible verses and such. There was one thing she wrote on there twice. Ephesians 2:8. So with that I turned the Bible to Ephesians 2:8 and read it. For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God. I sat and thought about that for a moment. I felt as if I needed that right in that moment. Ya know, often times we want to take credit for all the good things that happen within us and our lives. In one of the notes it says "Do not care who gets credit as long as God gets the glory."
So far in this new year life has been easier, better, and full of happiness. And I know who gets all the credit and glory for that!
Mike grandmother passed in 2010 and her Bible is the same way. I love going through it and reading all the notes.
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