AN EXCITING WAKE UP

It was a wonderful morning surprise, to wake up and learn that I have been nominated by Lisa, at MY COLORFUL TREASURES (http://mycolorfultreasures.blogspot.com/), to win the "One Lovely Blog Award". It is AWESOME to have recieved my first Blog Award - as I have just recently ventured into the exciting world of blogging!! Thank you Lisa - it is a blessing and honor to have known you! And, thank you to my nominees for having touched my life in the many ways that you have......



The rules for recieving the "One Lovely Blog Award" are as follows:



1. Post the award on your blog (picture, too), along with the person who has given you the award and a link to their blog.



2. Pass the award to 5-15 of your most favorite blogs. Remember to contact those bloggers to let them know that they have been chosen for this award.



My Nominations for the "One Lovely Blog Award" are:

Catherine at Shabby Lane Shops (http://www.shabbylaneshops.blogspot.com/)

Jamie at Handful of Blessings (http://handfulofblessings.blogspot.com/)

Jill at Jill Savage (http://www.jillsavage.org/)

Jenny at The Not-So Bland Family (http://not-soblandfamily.blogspot.com/)

Katie at Mulcrones' Life As We Know It (http://mulcrones.blogspot.com/)

Have a Beautiful Day!

BLESSINGS!!! Jodi

Captivating Book

Another Great Read!!!

If you follow my blog at all, you know how I like to read. And, it is crazy, but I am NUTS over Non Fiction. I am a former Social Worker and Counselor. I get my passion and "buz" on life by learning about real life stories. It really is true that Life is Stranger that Fiction!!

So, my next book that I must give MAJOR kudos to is "The Midwife" by Jennifer Worth. This book is a 1950's account of the life as a Midwife in The East End Docks of London. Admist Immense Poverty and a Rough Culture, Worth gives detailed account of her days as a young midwife, delivering babies of the local Cockney's and saving the lives of mothers.

The story is both humorous and heartbreaking. From the life of the impoverished, the local prostitutes, and the select few "upper" class, it seems that pregnancy did not show regard to class in the East End in 1950! Each mother was left to litterally "bear" her own burden, in her home, minus modern day technologies and pain relievers, all with equal outcome of new life balanced with the possibility of death and devestation to both baby and mother.

The Midwife is captivating - one of those "can't put it down" types of books. I have spent enjoying the past week, with my last waking moments with eyes glued on the text as I slowly drift off to sleep. My days have been spent living life as it is today, with the fresh reminder of the East End of the 1950's not far from my conscious. The line of my real life and "The Midwife" has truely been blurred over the last week. Now THAT'S when you know you have a good book!

A must read! Pick up "The Midwife" and then lets talk about it!!

~ Jodi ~

Glory, where Glory is due

I am a perfect treasure. I am loved and adored. I can do no wrong. I am perfect. Wow - that was hard for me to write. How much of that do I really believe about myself? The honest and sad truth is very little.

But, all this changes when I see myself through the looking glass of Christ. God refers to me in his great Book as his Perfect Treasure. I am loved and adored by God, regardless of how ugly I can be. I can do wrong, but by the blood of Christ, I am holy and perfect in HIS eyes.

Absorbing that makes my head spin. It is too good to be true - but it is ALL right there in black in white in the Book, the Bible. If I call myself a Christian, a Believer, a Follower of Christ - then I MUST believe my initial statements to be true.

Listening to my own voice brings me down, listening to the world's perspective of me could (and has) throw me into a down right depression. But by the Grace of God and the Truth of HIS word, I can live as I don't fully understand, but choose to believe.

Have a Blessed Day - :) Jodi