Scrapbooking...

I love scrapbooking! I am still learning the ways of professional scrapbooking, but I absolutely love making beautiful pages of fun memories. This weekend I got a few of the girls together from here and we sat in the sheep's gate (the dining room area) and we had a create a card night...which is much like scrapbooking only not with pictures. I had a lot of fun! They were all creating cute cards and I would help them think of fun ideas for making cards a little more masculine (as apposed to cute ideas) All I can say is it was tons of fun and great bonding time with those ladies.
But while I was sitting there I was thinking about how God works. I think He is helping these ladies make a scrapbook of their own. I think God views our lives like a scrapbook. He will take some of the rough times in our lives and even though they might be trash to some one else He puts it on the page in order to make the page look better. He will accent the beautiful picture with some little things (aka some of your not so awesome, but in the works, talents) He will also take the better times of your life to remember and wash away all the piddly times we messed up or disobeyed or fell flat on our faces. How many times have you put the hard times in a scrapbook to remember the entire incident? Not very many, mostly because those times were hard and you don't want to remember them. That is the way I think God works too...He remembers the good times and lets go of the wrongs we have committed against Him and makes a wonderful masterpiece. Praise Him for His graciousness and His creativity!! Thank you God for you are always at work in my life...creating a new page everyday!!