Bountiful Blessings
Good morning and Happy Mother’s Day!!! Of course, we
should celebrate our mothers (and our fathers) all year. Why do we need a
special day to tell them that they are special?? Anyway…. Summer and I had a “girls”
road trip this weekend. We hit the open road for Mobile, Alabama to see one of
Summer’s bestest friends graduate from South Alabama (Lesley Shiver). It was a
wonderful time. Always always always a wonderful time seeing Lesley. She is
beautiful inside and out, and we got to meet her family as well. Tony and Damon
were awesome! But of course, to every good there is a little bad. Poor Jim was
home all alone. Just pitiful. Pining away for me. Sigh. He took his troubles to
the road. Burning up the highways on his Harley on Saturday and forging new
frontiers on his 4 wheeler on Sunday. Oh, what will he ever do without me, poor
guy? J
Well, graduation. What an exciting time. Sometimes it
feels like forever for me and Summer and sometimes just yesterday. Lesley
graduated with magna cum laude and a gpa of 3.89. (Beautiful and smart too.
Doesn’t seem fair, does it?) I have several other friends and family graduating
this semester. To name a few - Meagan Lemay, John Lemay, Nathan Lyon, Lucy
Phillips and Marcie Parsons. I am so excited for them and for the new chapter
in their lives!! Congratulations!!! College graduates. Whoop Whoop! Then there
are many others from Samford who I have gotten to know over the last few years
that will be graduating and moving on. That is the hardest and the best part of
working in higher education. You get to meet so many wonderful students. You
get to watch them enter as teenagers and leave as mature men and women (most of
them anyway). You form friendships; you learn to respect their intelligence,
their perseverance, their dreams. And then poof. May brings graduation and
students loading up cars, anxiously anticipating the future while nostalgic for
the college years that will never return. Then June brings a whole new set of
young, eager faces entering the gates, unloading more stuff than they will ever
need while leaving something vital at home J. It is like a merry go round with people
getting on and off, having fun while the ride lasts, you know? And for however
brief their ride, they bring happiness to our lives. Corny, I know. But while
some friends are forever, some may only last for a brief time. It doesn’t make
them any less important.
So
to all my graduating family and friends, I will continue to pray for you but I
am assured that God has plans for you, plans to prosper you
and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. I love you, my
friends, and congratulations!
Prayer for the week -
Dear
Lord,
You
place friends in our lives. They bring joy, laughter, hope and friendship. These
friends may only be in our lives for a short time but live in our hearts
forever. As graduation approaches, we watch these special friends welcome a new
chapter in their lives, and we ask for your guidance. The path is there. The
steps are scary and often difficult but may they gain strength knowing that you
walk alongside. Open their eyes and their hearts to the plans that you have for
them. Plans to give them hope and a
future. We ask this in your name. Amen.
Quote of the week –
“The next best thing to being wise oneself
is to live in a circle of those who are.”
CS Lewis
Bible Verse for the week -
Bible Verse for the week -
“He who
walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.” Proverbs 13:20
Bible Fun for the week - Unscramble (shout out to the grads – wisdom is the theme of the
week)
Psalm 107:43
rewevohis iwew, et mhi edeh tseeh ntghis dan disconder eht treag evol fo het LORD.
rewevohis iwew, et mhi edeh tseeh ntghis dan disconder eht treag evol fo het LORD.
Proverbs 4:6-7
od ton kaserof modiws dan hes liwl ptecrot oyu; evol ehr, nda esh lliw catwh rove uyo. womdis si pusreme; fortheree egt miswod. Thhguo ti soct lal ouy avhe, teg stndadneugin.
od ton kaserof modiws dan hes liwl ptecrot oyu; evol ehr, nda esh lliw catwh rove uyo. womdis si pusreme; fortheree egt miswod. Thhguo ti soct lal ouy avhe, teg stndadneugin.
Proverbs 14:1
het sewi namow siubld erh soueh, tub hwit reh now shnad het holiofs eon staer sreh wond.
het sewi namow siubld erh soueh, tub hwit reh now shnad het holiofs eon staer sreh wond.
Proverbs 14:33
oidswm ssret ni het rhaet fo imh how ash gindstandunder, tub hatw si ni eth aerth fo sloof si deam nowkn.
oidswm ssret ni het rhaet fo imh how ash gindstandunder, tub hatw si ni eth aerth fo sloof si deam nowkn.
Ecclesiastes 2:26
ot eht amn hwo ssealpe imh, God sievg odwsim, klewodgen and essappihn, utb ot teh srenni eh vesgi het satk fo gnigathre dan rostgin pu healwt ot hdna ti evor ot eht neo how seeaslp God.
ot eht amn hwo ssealpe imh, God sievg odwsim, klewodgen and essappihn, utb ot teh srenni eh vesgi het satk fo gnigathre dan rostgin pu healwt ot hdna ti evor ot eht neo how seeaslp God.
With love on Mother’s Day
and always! Terri
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