Vintage Thingies Thursdays

Today for Vintage Thingies Thursdays, I decided to share some very old photos. The first one is my mother and her mother. This picture must have been taken in about 1917 or 1918.

Left to right - my mother's younger sister, my mother, and I think the two on the right were her cousins.

I don't know any of these people. This photo was in my grandmother's photo album. Evidently they were friends of hers. On the back was written Orcutt & daughter. I had never heard the name Orcutt before. Anybody know who Orcutt is?

ME, THE CHIEF & IRENE

This picture was taken the same day as the one in the header picture. Irene is my friend; has been my friend for 60 years. We still keep in touch. We both celebrated our 50th Wedding Anniversaries this year. She got married two weeks before I did. I was her maid of honor. She was my matron of honor. We both married preachers. She and her husband were missionaries in Brazil for almost 50 years. They live in Oregon now. 

WHERE I SPEND A LOT OF TIME

I'm glad people are still visiting Spiritual Sundays and making comments. You might want to check back there occasionally to see if others have posted  something to share. Actually if there is something on your heart of a spiritual nature that you would like to share, Mr. Linky is always there for you to sign in. You don't have to wait until Sunday. A new Mr. Linky will be up again on Saturday. In the meantime, if you want to join the sharing, go ahead and sign the last Mr. Linky. One person did this yesterday I am happy to report. There is also a You Tube video on Spiritual Sundays that I posted yesterday.

IS THAT MARILYN?

You never know who you might run into at the Five & Diner. We went there for dinner the other night and look who we ran into. Elvis was there too but Hubby chose Marilyn to have his picture taken with.

PLASTIC PEARLS

Our church publishes a monthly newspaper. In the latest one the following article caught my eye. It was so meaningful to me that I decided to use it for Spiritual Sundays this week. Here is the story:

 

Plastic Pearls

Little four-year-old Jenny went shopping with her mother for household things. After they had shopped for everything, Jenny spotted a beautiful plastic pearl necklace by the checkout line. Mommy can I please have this necklace?, she asked. Well Jenny, if you do enough chores around the house, then you can earn some money and you can buy it yourself. So Jenny went home and did all kinds of chores for two weeks. She cleaned the bathrooms, picked weeds in the yard and even filled the water bowl for the dog. Finally, she had enough money to buy her own plastic pearl necklace.

After Jenny bought it, she wore it every second of every day. She swam with it on and slept with it too. She loved her pearl necklace very much. One night her father came into read her a bedtime story like he had done every night. At the end, he asked Jenny, Jenny do you love me? Yes, daddy, of course I love you. Then give me your pearls. No daddy, you can have my life-size Barbie, but not my pearls. That's ok. Her father left saddened.

This happened two more nights until the third night when her father came in, Jenny was sitting on the bed crying, Here, you can have my pearls, Daddy. As soon as she handed over her pearls, Jenny's father pulled out a beautiful velvet case with a real pearl necklace inside. He had it the whole time, but was waiting for Jenny to give up her plastic pearls so he could give her the real thing. So it is with our Heavenly Father who asks us to give up our plastic pearls so that He can give us the real thing. What plastic pearls are we holding onto today?

This article made me think, what "plastic pearls" am I holding onto today that I do not love or trust my Heavenly Father enough to give them to Him. And what wonderful things does he have for me that I may never get to enjoy because I am holding onto the "plastic pearls."

Friday Show & Tell

I did my Show & Tell today on my Dolls Dolls Dolls blog. I hope you will go there to see it. 

And, of course, now a reminder!

Another week has gone by and it is time to be thinking about

 Spiritual Sundays. 

You may want to go there now if you haven't visited there in a few days. There is a new post with a picture of Ruthie with her award for being the first to participate in the new Spiritual Sundays blog. Congratulations Ruthie.

Vintage Thingies Thursdays

This picture was taken in 1942. The little girl is my cousin Betty who was living with us at the time. The car behind her was our car. 

This picture of Betty and me was taken about the same time. She only lived with us for a few months. I was an only child and I loved having a "sister" for a little while. After she left I carried this picture, a 5 x 7 enlargement, around and played with it until I nearly wore it out. I managed to restore it somewhat on the computer. A copy of it hangs on the wall in my doll room along with other pictures that have special meaning to me.

A Reminder:  Spiritual Sundays will be coming up again soon. If you participated last week in our first Spiritual Sundays, we hope you will want to return and do it again. If you missed it last week, we would like to invite you to join us this weekend. 

Today Was Teeth Cleaning Day

HOME TOUR

I'm joining the Hooked On Houses Tour.

You can click on the X at upper right corner of slideshow to reactivate.

Spiritual Sundays

Ginger and I are thrilled at the reception of and participation in the new Spiritual Sundays blog. To those of you who had a part in it, thank you, thank you, thank you. Every post was inspirational. 

It was not announced but we decided to give a gift to the first person to sign on to Mr. Linky on our first day. I am happy to announce that Ruthie is that person. I have been inspired by posts that Ruthie has made for a long time.  As soon as she receives the gift, I will post a picture to share with everyone. 

 

Now, I'm looking forward to this coming weekend and doing this again. I think as time goes on, more and more people will join in and be blessed also. God is so good and His love endures forever.

SPIRITUAL SUNDAYS

I hope that many of you will want to participate and will put the Spiritual Sundays link on your sidebars. 

To put the picture link on your sidebar, you can right click on the above picture and save it as picture. Then post it in your sidebar and add the following link: http://bloggerspirit.blogspot.com/

I believe in Miracles and dreams that will come true,

And I believe in happiness and friendship, through and through

I believe that when you cry your tears are not in vain,

And when you're sad and lonely someone knows that you're in pain.

I believe that when we laugh a sparkle starts to shine,

And before you know these sparks will spread

From more hearts than just mine.

I believe the gifts you have are there for you to share

And when you give them from the heart, the whole world knows you care.

I believe that if you give, even just to one,

That gift will grow in magnitude before the day is done.

I believe that comfort comes from giving part of me,

And if I share with others, there's more for all to see.

I believe that love is still the greatest gift of all,

And when its given from the heart, Love will conquer all.

Author: B.J. Morbitzer

Friday Show & Tell

I did my Show & Tell post this time on my new doll blog. You can click here to go there if you wish to.

Tomorrow is "launch day" for the new Spiritual Sundays sharing blog. Ginger and I are very excited about this new blog and we hope you are, or will be too. If you haven't ventured there yet, you may click on the picture to take you there for a preview and be sure to go back tomorrow to participate.