Birthday ponderings and prayers

52 years...and I'm just grateful!

My birthday was quiet this year, thanks to a headcold I came home with from SING Conference. I was supposed to be at Mt. Vernon River Days, but kept my germs to myself. I did a little work and then Randy ordered pizza and we watched a movie at home. My phone buzzed all day with birthday wishes from family and friends, and I even got a beautiful video from Honduras of them singing both in English and Spanish to me 💖.

I'm sitting here on Sunday morning with a hot cup of coffee and just thanking the Lord for another year of getting to serve Him, being blessed with a family I love so deeply, and a job that I wouldn't trade for anything.  And I'm thanking Him for you, because you are choosing to walk with me in this calling to bring work and wages to the women from our Faith Home family.

This next week, I will get to see so many of you at the Inside Out Conference in O'Fallon. Or at Kunstfest in New Harmony. Please pray for the volunteer who will be helping Alegria be in 2 places at once.  This week also holds a very important meeting for a prospective partnership that could produce new jobs. Please pray with me that God would use it to make a way for more artisan jobs.

Lots of moving parts this fall, lots of jewelry being finished for our winter gifting collection. Join me in celebrating, giving thanks, and seeking God for his wisdom and blessing on behalf of Alegria.