SHOW & TELL #29 - Angel jewel box

Show & Tell Friday once again. Go to Kelli's, There Is No Place Like Home, and check it all out. Write your blog and then place in on Mr. Linky and visit the other Show & Tell blogs and enjoy.

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This is another piece in my Angel Collection.

It is a small ceramic jewel box and has Three Little Angels

You notice the two to the left are praying demurely with their eyes closed and their Halo's on straight.

The little angel to the right has her eyes wide open and her halo askew.

Guess which one is me? Your right!!! She has that askew halo on her head!

COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS......

Count your blessings

Name them one by one.

That is what I am doing here today. Naming two very special blessings I have received just the past two days since my granddaughter, Oksana, came home.

#1 - Right after she got to their home and brought her stuff into the house she opened a book to show me her bookmark she had bought for herself. It was about 6" long and was cussive letters B E L I E V E. My heart skipped a beat. This was my granddaughter who would say "Grandma is too religious. She talks about God and Jesus all the time." Thank you Jesus.

#2 - Then last night when I tried to call their house, just before we left for Church, and got no answer. When I called after church I inquired if they had gone out to dinner. That is where I figured they were. My Oksana's reply was, "No, Dad was driving me to church." My heart skipped two beats!!!! My granddaughter went to Wednesday night church services with one of her girlfriends.

God is doing Great and Mighty things in the Joyce family!!!!

We are truly Re-Joyce-Ing!!!

I wake up each morning with anticipation of what the new day will bring.

It's been a long haul.....but GOD IS FAITHFUL if we just keep

BELIEVING

&

STANDING

ADDENDUM:

Maalie left the following comment on this post.

"Yep. That's the way. Indoctrinate 'em when they're young and you have 'em for life. So say the Jesuits.

I trust for their own sakes that they will mature to cast off the blinkers."

TO WHICH I ADD:

Maalie -

Almost!!!! It's from THE WORD
Proverbs 22:5 – “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”

I have seen this be yet another of the many promises of God I have seen fulfilled in my life. I have stood on this promise for years and saw it fulfilled 60 days ago when our 43 years old son returned to God.

Even though he left the faith and travelled down many occult and philisophical roads he returned to the Faith and His God. God is faithful to HIS WORD.

David, the prodigal, is now David, heir of the living God.

A THREE FOLD CORD

Ecclesiastes 4:12 - "And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him, and a three fold cord is not quickly broken."

Oksana is home!!

Aric, Marc & Oksana

The three Joyce men

Marc, David, Mickey

Sons & Father

Susan, Mickey & GOD

A three fold cord that has stood for 49+ years!

HAPPY 75th BIRTHDAY

1942 - 10 years old

Mickey Wayne Joyce - Born November 24, 1932

Happy Birthday to the love of my life.

I am the most blessed woman to have this wonderful man as my husband for 49 years and the father to our 4 children and 3 grandchildren.

1953 - 21 year old taken in Rapid City, SD serving as an Air Man in the U.S. Air Force



1958 - Age 25 - On our honeymoon Grand Canyon

1958 - Age 25 as instant father to two little girls.

1977 - Age 45

1984 - Age 52

1997 - Age 65 - 6 month trip to Alaska on retiring.

2007 - Age 74 - Oldest son, David, is home!!

2007 - Age 74 - Mickey & Susan 49 years married and still very much in love!

RE-JOYCE WITH US !!!!!

(this picture was taken August, 2006)

This day after Thanksgiving 2007 is truly a day that our family is rejoicing.

We are able to share the best news. Not one thing but TWO!!!

BOTH of our granddaughters are coming to Tulsa to live.

Our 12 year old granddaughter, Oksana, is coming home!!!!!! She will be flying in Monday, November 26th. You can go here to read about her decision last August to remain with her mother. Oksana is the daughter of our younger son, Marc, and sister to Aric.

This is another answer to PRAYER

Our 21 year old granddaughter, Jessica, is driving and will be here the same day! We have been trying to get Jessica to move here from Mississippi ever since her mother, Jacque, came here September 15, 2005 after Katrina. She made the decision two weeks ago and gave her notice at work. We are so delighted she is coming.

Add this good news to David returning to Tulsa just 55 days ago and you can see why we are rejoicing. We don't fully understand God's purpose in reuniting this entire family for the first time in years but we know He has a plan and we watch eagerly as it unfolds.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Thanksgiving is having your prodigal son start his blog, Wider Than The Sky, which contains this dedication:

dedications
Where would we be as humans without our common experiences?To a new friend of mine who will know himself when he sees the following verse – the only verse, so far, I prefer in the ultramodern translation that I have used here:

1st Peter 5:7 - So be content with who you are, and don’t put on airs. God’s strong hand is on you, he’ll promote you at the right time. Live carefree before God, because he is most careful with you

Most of all to my mother and father, whose constant prayers built about me a cover of protection that kept me alive and who, to my sheer amazement and to God’s glory, never lost faith in God’s plan for one minute — even through ten years of utter silence, completely unaware whether I was dead or alive or where I was or if they would ever see me again. If I am alive today, it is because of the intercession of these two most sincere believers.
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To ALL of you in blogland who bless me by reading my blog

and those who's blogs I am blessed by reading

I wish you a VERY HAPPY THANKSGIVING

I am thankful for my LORD & SAVIOR, JESUS the CHRIST.

I am thankful HE has paid the cost of redeeming us to ALL who believe in HIM.

I am thankful for THE WORD OF GOD.

I am thankful for being blessed to be born in a country who's very existence is based on the Bible and Christian principles. A fact that is sadly so often forgotten today.

I am thankful for a wonderful, and long, marriage with my wonderful, Mickey.

I am thankful all 4 of our children will be together to celebrate our Thanksgiving.

I am thankful for good health.

I am thankful for a good mind.

I am thankful for a nice, warm, loving home.

I am thankful for all the other material blessings I have been blessed with.

I am thankful that God not only hears, but answers our prayers.

I am thankful for all the prayers I have seen answered.

I am thankful for the prayers I am currently praying that will be answered in the future.

I am thankful for Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.

I am thankful to call you friend.

DAVID TELLS HIS STORY

Many of you who have been following the story of our prodigal sons return.

The first blog I ever wrote about David was about raising him as a child here.

Then I began the story of his recent return here.

David has now begun his own blog, Wider Than The Sky.

His story starts at the bottom of his page so please scan down and begin there with the Origin Of The Species.

This story, as you will see, is not a pretty one. What story of a Prodigal is?

But, as with all who turn their lives over to Jesus, it will have a wonderful ending.

These first four segments he has written are the beginning of the bad times.

He will be adding to them and I trust you will bookmark his blog and follow along.

Mickey, David & I appreciate your interest in our story and the many prayers that have been offered for us and our extended family.

It is a very exciting time for all of us.

We serve a wonderful, mighty GOD who can, and does reach out and snatch us from the very pits of hell.

This is OUR story.