last one!

well, here is my last card for the weekend! amazingly i have had so many requests for cards to be sold at the shop, i have decided to have a basket full of cards there - anyone can sell them there, and we will take a 10% handling fee. i think it is fair - if someone pays with a credit card and the card sells for R40-00, i have to give the cc company 5% already, so if anyone is interested, you know where to find me! anyway, i have not made a Tilda card for ages, and i really wanted to do some coloring - i am trying to use a different medium everytime i color. this time i used my Derwent inktense pencils in their watercolor capacity. you can't blend them - the color sticks once it gets wet, and it intensifies, so it is always hard to know what color you are going to end up with! anyway, plain and simple - i colored her, cut her out with my Nestability and mounted her a few times. i am entering this card into the challenge at Stampavie.
this week is now over. it has been a very good week. the business is doing well, i am getting time again to play and i feel i am getting to know Jesus better. at least - i feel as if i am starting to get Him. if that makes sense. on thursday i was in Port Elizabeth. at about 1pm as i was driving along a very busy high way, i saw a man walking next to the road, collapse. it was a black man and he looked like a street person with a small plastic bundle. as i drove past i could see his face contorted and i could FEEL the anguish. i drove on for a while and almost drove ON. but i have been asking the Lord to let me be a blessing to someone every day. i made a U-turn and went back. i stopped in the yellow line with cars rushing by. i went over to the man and asked him if he was ok. he cried that he was in so much pain. i had two blankets in my car from LAST WINTER ( and i have been threatening to remove them). i fetched them for him to lie on. i also had an extra bottle of water in my car that day that was still full. i tried phoning the emergency services ( that was a bit hard) and then i realised that my brother in law was a paramedic. he was out of town ( about 500km away) but i asked him if he could phone someone and send an ambulance. then i waited with the man. he said his name was Marshall. i asked him if he could perhaps have AIDS, and he told me that he was saved in 2005 and he had himself tested then, and ever since he was not promiscuous, so he could not have it. i sat flat on the side of the road next to him and we spoke about where he came from, and why he was in town. the ambulance came after about 5 minutes and as soon as they had him comfortable, i left. while i was sitting there, i watched the cars drive past. everyone could see something was really wrong. here is a white woman sitting all by herself next to a black man lying down on the pavement. the only people who came to ask if they could help, were the petrol attendants at the ENGEN garage across the road. the whole time i was reminded of what Jesus said in Matthew 25: 40b (before this Jesus talks about when He comes again and He will seperate all of us - the ones that gave Him something to drink, eat, clothe Him, took Him in etc from the ones that did not - and the righteous asks Him WHEN did they do that and He answers): "assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the LEAST of these My brethren, you did it to ME." and i kept on thinking - what if this was Jesus? i had missed an opportunity earlier the week at the post office - there was a man sitting outside - ( i promise you, he looked just like the pictures we see of Jesus in the Children's Bible) and at first i went "BIG SIGH - not another one" and then i thought, no, when i get out and he is still here, i will talk to him, and he just got up and walked away. i felt as if i missed something BIG. SO, when i saw "Marshall", i had an opportunity to catch up. have you ever felt like that? i did not tell anyone - i am sharing it here for the first time tonight. and i am not recanting the incident for any reason, except to tell you that we have to be aware of other people.........in church today we were made aware again of the fact that we are also strangers and that we have to be KIND to strangers - treat them right, in love. the only thing that differentiates us as Christ-like people, is the fact that we have received GRACE, and therefor should DISPENSE GRACE. oh how i lack in that department........so quick to judge and look down at people. i need to be overflowing with Grace, as i have received so much, but it is as if i am STINGY with my Grace for other people.....................God, forgive me! i will try and be more full of GRACE this week and every other week of my life, for without your GRACE i will be on my way to hell. if You did not send your SON to die for me on a CROSS so that i might live, where would i be? straight on my way to hell. where i will burn forever and ever. forgive me for every unGRACEFUL thing i have EVER done.

i hope everyone has a wonderful week and that you will both receive and dispense much GRACE!!!!