Discipline Like the Heavenly Father

Like a faithful, loving, wise and dedicated father, God will discipline his children, not to meet out his anger on them, but to produce in them a harvest of righteousness.

— Paul David Tripp (@PaulTripp) September 16, 2021

Time and Beauty

Something we can pass on to all our daughters. Marmee in Little Women says it so well.
 

Jigidi

 

One more new activity is Jigidi! So what on earth is Jigidi you ask! It's the neatest place ever and my only regret is I didn't discover it sooner! Thankfully a page I follow on facebook joined up there and I found out through her. Hate to keep you in suspense so I'll tell you--Jigidi is a place where you can not only solve jigsaw puzzles, but make them! It is so much fun! So I encourage anyone who enjoys solving jigsaws to come over there to and join up. It's easy and free. Many of the folks only do the solving part and I tell you, there are new puzzles being created every minute from across the globe.

I like making the puzzles for others to enjoy almost as much as I do the solving of various ones made by others. I have started following different people whose creations I particularly enjoy. It doesn't have to be a fancy "creation" by the way. It can simply be one of your photographs that you use to make one. It can be of however many pieces you select, depending on the pixel size as to how high you can go. I have so many images on my computer to use and own a lot from Dover and Broderbund so I can keep going for quite a while, and also I enjoy fooling around with images in Photoshop Elements (VERY limited in knowing what I'm doing there, but whatever) so it's just up my alley.

Above is one of the ones I made into a 100 piece puzzle. But you can go higher and lower, with the lower count ones getting solved in split time by some of these people according to the leaderboards. OH, and it's sort of like a social media kind of thing, because you can comment on the puzzles and talk to people. Sound good? I thought you might be interested. :) Come on over and check it out! Here's where I am:   Speakable Gifts Puzzles

Nanna Maxine

Prayers for These

 It's been a long time for posting! Some while back, I had pretty much decided maybe it was time to think of this place more as a memory of past days, but of late I'm thinking, well maybe don't give up yet. It's still a place where we can keep track of what's happening with the ministry. In that case, I think I'll still pick it up again for occasional current thoughts and happenings. 

So, having said that,  there have been a couple of new things which could be considered significant as far as Speakable Gifts goes. For me, the biggest change has been the addition of a new Facebook page. This one is very special  to me, as it's for something that's been close to this heart for many a year. And that "something" is certain children, not so much the ones in our homes being parented which we mostly address at the Helping Childgren Grow page. No, this one is to turn our concerns OUTSIDE of our own homes to a world where there are many children who are suffering for countless reasons. We live in a fallen world, and as such, many little ones and young ones are left trampled on, in one way or another, in its wake.

So, born out of that fact, we have a new Facebook page which addresses those children in the categories that are harsh realities of this fallen world. With the support of some dear friends, I launched the page in August, calling it "Prayers For Such as These." If someone lands on this blog post page and wishes to come over and be a part, it would be just wonderful. We're not about numbers over there, but about prayers. We know what the Bible says about prayers. So just because of that, let's hope the humble petitions offered up by a few believing intercessors mean something to our God, and who else is it that we care about pleasing? He is able to work mightily through the prayers of His people, as we all know.

So. The poster I have above is our "About" to help folks understand the children groups more specifically, even though there are other individual situations that come up periodically which aren't on the listing and we address those specific needs when they arise.

Thanks! This is a call to come join us at Prayers for Such as These !

Lovingly. Prayerfully,

Nanna Maxine