Sunday Seven
Sunday Seven is a meme designed to give thanks for the little things, or give recognition to the POSITIVE things that happen in our lives. This looked like something that I would really enjoy doing... but just a tiny bit differently. I decided since it is Sunday SEVEN, and there are SEVEN days in the week... I would tell something that I was thankful for or positive in my life on each of the seven days of the past week! If you would like to learn more about Sunday Seven, go here! But make sure ya come back!
Sunday - Pastor gave an incredible sermon today! His sermon's are GREAT on a bad day. Today was a GOOD day! He is so amazing. There was a spaghetti lunch after church today. I ususally don't attend the meal functions because I like doing meals with my family... but today Sue & Cordell (friends from Monday night Bible study) sat next to me at service and asked me to come with them to the lunch - so I did! It was fun and I'm glad I got to spend that little extra time in fellowship! Also met a few more members - so this was a very good thing!
Monday - Hard Day. Messy weather - wanted to stay in bed - but had to work. Came home to find power out -- had power outages off and on all day. Didn't even HEAR about the Virginia Tech shootings until around 3:00 this afternoon! Then Bible study got cancelled due to the weather and we were asked to stay home and pray for the VT families instead. Hard day. I'm thankful for a loving God who is going to help all these families get through this miserable time, somehow... some way. He is good.
Tuesday - What IS it with Tuesdays that I always have to stretch to find something to be thankful for? I am definitely noticing a pattern here! Today I'm going to be thankful for kitties! My three (hmmm... I guess I've finally gotten "over" losing Squash...) always provide me with smiles -- even the BAD one! Maybe especially the BAD one! Missy (my son's cat) is IN to EVERYthing! But she is also the one with the most spunk and energy! She instigates everything! She probably also causes me the most smiles!
Wednesday - AWESOME day all the way around! Started with a fabulous talk with God before I even got out of bed - not prayin' -- just talkin' ... then I opened Curves this morning and had the BEST time there today! Just fun and laughter for 4 full hours! Had two members come in today that actually wanted my help and motivation! I LOVE it when that happens! I ended up working out for almost the entire 4 hours! You know I left feeling GOOD! THEN I made arrangements to meet with Darlene - one of the members for a late lunch at 3:00 -- and had time for a little NAP before that! AWESOME day!
Thursday - Went to Hillwood House with Susie - and got to MEET Tillie!!! This whole day was just such a treat! Bible study this evening deserves mention too - this is a FANTASTIC group of women - after only two weeks with them I feel like I've made friends for life! They are sO sweet!
Friday - Well, even though the "slumber party" part of my day was very short (about an hour), the time that we gals spent together preparing for the yard sale was great. It was a LOT of work (to be expected) but we had a lot of help! Several of our EVER SO GOOD members came in and helped out! I guess there was probably about a dozen or so of us all working together and it was just a nice group of caring women!
Saturday - I am WOWWED by how successful the Curves yard sale was! We brought in $1,021.80 -- ALL for Relay For Life / American Cancer Society!!! Whooo hooo! I am sO psyched up about this! And honestly - God WAS looking down on us with favor! He sent us someone in the last hour that was going to be having a yard sale NEXT week - also for a non-profit cause - who was willing to buy EVERYTHING we had left over at the end AND haul it off for us!!! Is that amazing? God is good! ALL the time!!!
Labels: Sunday Seven
posted by Melli at
7:20 AM
14 comment(s):
Except for your Monday and Tuesday, the rest of your week was great.
My Sunday Seven is up too.
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FRIDAY'S CHILD, at
4/22/2007 7:52 AM
Woo Hoo, high five's to God! Sounds like a great week. I'm so plesed that you are making some wonderful friends in your Bible Study and at work. I love it when a plan comes together. Hugs and prayers!
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Lazy Daisy, at
4/22/2007 7:54 AM
I love it that you are getting to meet so many people in your church. Melli, you must be a total "people magnet"...that's a great thing.
Hooray for the garage sale and Relay for Life...what a great cause and gift to it.
Have a blessed day!!
:-) Susan
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Susan, at
4/22/2007 8:32 AM
Melli, I would say that God is looking out for you!! This is the way that it should go when you put God first in your life!! I am seeing a new Melli emerging here!! I like this new Melli really well too. Thanks for stopping by!! When you come to Savannah we will show you these big steps that we have here. I wonder how these ladies with the BIG dresses ever went up and down some of them. Have a wonderful Sunday..Sandy
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Ramblins of a middle-aged goddess, at
4/22/2007 8:39 AM
I saw your "mood" gadget first and it said "content". Now I know why!!! happy sunday, Melli!!!
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MaR, at
4/22/2007 10:33 AM
Great Sunday Seven! Glad that your Sale went so well!
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Twisted Cinderella, at
4/22/2007 12:19 PM
Yea God! I'm so glad your yard sale was such a success.
ALL the time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Unknown, at
4/22/2007 3:26 PM
Great week. Wednesday sounds like a wonderful day! Awesome work on your yard sale- congrats on raising so much money. Wow!
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Melanie, at
4/22/2007 5:15 PM
You inspire me when you count your blessings!
Great charity yard sale, too!
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Anonymous, at
4/22/2007 10:19 PM
Congratulations for the yard sale thats quite a nice amount !
Reading your post today made me think of all American women living here in Brussels or Waterloo. Of course they try to have the same traditions and lifestyle as home. Which is normal and is good for us too because you always learn. They from us, we from them. But one thing has always amazed me but at the same time I find it wonderful. In each place in Europe, as soon as they are more than 3 a "American Women club" is created. Of course we have one here too. That has nothing to do with church, because there are so many religions but just the fact to get together and do things together. To go out, organize get togethers in restaurants or meet in Tennis or whatever club. But they always invite us to join and of course we do (at least those who speak english) and this exchange is very nice, finally we are all women only.
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Ingrid, at
4/22/2007 11:15 PM
God is good! (gotta keep remembering that) and I'm glad he's been good to you!
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Carmen, at
4/23/2007 10:23 AM
Here I was all worried because I hadn't seen a new blog post from you...come to find out that Bloglines didn't pick this one up yesterday.....grrrrr!! I need to e-mail you again...I'm behind on my correspondence....ha! :)
Love you!
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Jennifer, at
4/23/2007 2:35 PM
I hope you're having a wonderful time and better weather than we've had :-)
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Anonymous, at
4/23/2007 8:18 PM
That is a lot of money for a garage sale. It must have been an awesome sale!
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Unknown, at
4/24/2007 9:25 AM
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