TWENTY Top 20 - FLOWERS This is the seventh post in my blog series called "TWENTY Top 20".. We are celebrating 2020 (and celebrating a new decade) with this series. In this series there will be a total of twenty different categories featuring the top 20 previously published posts on that topic. Once or twice a month I will feature a new category. Since we are in the month of May we are focusing on FLOWERS - anything having to do with beautiful flowers. ENJOY!
Each co-host will be sharing her own picks for Features. This gives everyone a better chance of being featured. Be sure to check all of our blogs to see if you were featured!
If you've been featured we'd love for you to grab a button.
The party starts every Tuesday at 7am EST and will continue until Saturday at 11:59pm. Feel free to stop back any time and "like" your favorites. Please visit other blogs if you have a moment.
Share older posts as well as new ones. No limit on links!
*Pictures should be your own*
By linking up you give us permission to use these photos
(with proper link backs) in our features. And now for the party!
_________________________________________ Grow your own! Many wonderful garden products from "Mary's Heirloom Seeds"!! click to view
We have been having some beautiful weather lately - Saturday it actually reached 79 degrees. I hope that you are all healthy and safe! Thank you again for joining us!
There will be 4 different features each week and 4 different feature categories. Just to be clear - this is NOT a themed party - you may link up ANY family-friendly blog posts any day of each month. The "theme" occurs in our weekly features: WEEK#1 GARDEN - gardening, homesteading, recycling, outdoor activities &/or preserving (this can include any type of green living, repurposed ideas, outdoor concerns, posts relating to farm animals etc all while remaining family friendly)
All Hosts/CoHosts will post this blog hop on every Monday of each week.
Please link up your family friendly blog posts below!
It wouldn't be a linky party with YOU!
(IMPORTANT NOTE: by linking up you understand that you might be featured next month and if so, we will use some of your photos from your post - rest assured - we will always link back to your lovely blog. We might also share your fantastic posts on social media. Also, you may link up as many family-friendly posts as you like & YES - other blog hops &/or giveaways are welcome {giveaways and blog hops will NOT be featured though} Thank You & ENJOY! )
Welcome to the 85th Old Fashioned Sunday Hymn Sing!
I miss the old hymns that I remember from my childhood - there were no drums, no electric guitar and no mind numbing beat. It was just voices and maybe a piano or an organ. The choir led the congregation in singing - and the words of these hymns are poetic. I realize that there is a need for the modern "seeker oriented" worship music - but it is also necessary to have deeper songs (no offense intended to anyone who prefers the newer church songs).
I decided to have an "Old Fashion Sunday Hymn Sing" once a month on this blog.
I personally do NOT have a great singing voice - I used to play the guitar & piano but my voice is NOT an instrument. That's the great thing about this digital hymn sing, you can warble along without being embarrassed or without offending anyone else.
The hymns that we will be studying are taken from an old hymnal from a Baptist church that is no longer in existence - "The North American Hymnal" published in 1956 by "THE ROGER WILLIAMS PRESS"
I will also try to find a version of the featured hymn on "YouTube" to share with you each month.
Today's featured hymn is "He Giveth More Grace" written byAnnie Johnson Flint (1866-1932). I am not familiar with today's featured hymn. My aunt shared this song with my mom and the lyrics are so comforting in our current worldly situation that I wanted to share it with you. The author of this hymn had a very tragic life. Three years after Annie Johnson Flint was born she lost her mom (during childbirth to her younger sister). Her father was also terminally ill and willed his children to a Baptist family - The Flint family. Her faith grew and grew. She decided to train to become a teacher but after a few years of training her arthritis became too severe that she ended up in a wheel chair and had to give up her teaching dream. To make things even worse, her adoptive parents both died within a month of each other and she and her sister found themselves alone again. This story has a good ending though, Annie began making hand lettered cards and gift books and a card publisher started to sell her cards and some of her poetry!
"But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me." 2 Corinthians 12:9
I have included 2 versions of this lovely hymn (below the lyrics). The first version is performed by an all male quartet and the second version by an all female duet. Enjoy!
Turn with me to number 000 in your hymnals and let's sing:
He Giveth More Grace
written by Annie Johnson Flint (1866-1932)
1. He giveth more grace when the burdens grow greater, He sendeth more strength when the labors increase, To added affliction He addeth His mercy, To multiplied trials, His multiplied peace. CHORUS
2. When we have exhausted our store of endurance, When our strength has failed ere the day is half-done, When we reach the end of our hoarded resources, Our Father’s full giving is only begun. CHORUS
Chorus
His love has no limit, His grace has no measure, His power no boundary known unto men, For out of His infinite riches in Jesus, He giveth and giveth and giveth again.
I challenge you to thank God for something everyday for one year! Either write it down in a diary OR share with us on a blog. If you have a blog & would like to share your THANKFULNESS posts with us, then please fill out this form: 365 Days of Being THANKFUL form - click HERE and you will be added to the THANKFULNESS page.
Fun Fridays #39 - BRAIDED BEAUTY Happiness and laughter are so good for our health! "A happy heart makes the face cheerful" Proverbs 15:13 (click HERE to read the health benefits of laughter) This is a series called: "Fun Fridays". On the first Friday of every month I will share with you an old photo or something from the recent past that made me happy; in hopes that it will at least make you smile 😊
The picture above is my mom when she was a child. She was adorned with beautiful German braids and wearing an outfit probably sewn by my seamstress grandmother. Notice the lovely detail on the collar of her dress. God has blessed me with the best mom! ENJOY!
I challenge you to thank God for something everyday for one year! Either write it down in a diary OR share with us on a blog. If you have a blog & would like to share your THANKFULNESS posts with us, then please fill out this form: 365 Days of Being THANKFUL form - click HERE and you will be added to the THANKFULNESS page.
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