A Granddaughter's Gift

Blessings come in all sorts of ways.  Our telephone rang last Friday evening and it was our granddaughter, Mackenzie.  She very happily told us she had just had her hair cut short.  Since her hair has been growing long since she was a very little girl and her Daddy much preferred long hair on his girls, I knew there had to be a story!!!!!  As excited and happy as Mackenzie was it did not take long for the story to unfold!

One of Mackenzie’s friends, who also had very beautiful long hair, had had hers cut short earlier last week.  She told Mackenzie that she had donated her hair to Locks of Love.  After Mackenzie and her friend parted company, Mackenzie had lots of questions for both her Mommy and Daddy.  Why did she cut her hair?  What is Locks of Love?  The questions probably seemed never ending! Kristen and Justin explained that many little children who are very, very sick sometimes loose their hair.  With the donated hair Locks of Love makes wigs and hair pieces so the children don’t have to go everywhere bald or with a scarf /hat over their little head.  Once Mackenzie heard her parent’s explanations, she announced that she wanted to help a sick little child and donate her hair.  Last Friday after school Mackenzie brought up her wish to donate her hair again to her parents. Kristen told her ok we will go to the beauty shop this afternoon.

I have thought a lot about Mackenzie’s decision to help another child who she does not and will probably never know.  Many times when Mackenzie is visiting in the summer, I have kidded her about cutting her hair so she would be cooler.  She has always let me know that her hair was “long and beautiful and her Daddy would not want her hair cut!”  Yet once she knew of a real need, she was willing to put personal wants and wished behind the very real need of another human being.  Thank you Mackenzie, for showing the love of Christ by helping someone else in need.  You are a very special and beautiful little girl!  I am very blessed to be your Nana.

Visit Locks of Love if you would like to learn more about the process.  I really enjoyed reading about all that is done.  Also, if you have long enough hair and a very giving heart, you might just consider giving of yourself.  I can only imagine the feeling of a child who once again could feel “normal”!

Blessings are found in the strangest of ways!

Last Wednesday I worked all day mowing/mulching Mother's and our lawn, blowing leaves off our driveways, patios and porches, and cleaning the leaves out of the gutters on both sides of our street. Everything look so nice, yet I knew in less than 24 hours new leaves would "design" a new picture for me that would eventually require the same day of work again. I planned to enjoy the yards for the next 24 hours! Olin took me out for a surprise date and nice supper at Smokehouse that evening. On the way home, he happened to mention that several loads of wood would be being delivered in the morning" IN OUR FRONT YARD"! All I could think about was "not even 24 hours of "beautiful" yard.

 

Sure enough around 9 a.m. Thursday morning, the first of three loads were delivered! I was busy in the kitchen starting to can pumpkin. We love to use the Buckskin pumpkins from The Red Barn Farm in Weston, Missouri.  Kathryn had been out to the farm with a friend and had purchased a HUGE Buckskin pumpkin and Olin had brought 3 really nice ones in from his garden. It was time for me to get to work! As I cut into and divided the huge one, I felt like I had just entered into a "pumpkin NICU"!!! There were seeds that had little green plants almost out of the seed coat with little roots and root hairs attaching to the meat of the pumpkin. Not just a few, but lots of them! Kathleen and I had such a fun time getting pics of this pumpkin and the plant nursery inside. Somewhere between finding the "pumpkin NICU" and the thuds of the wood being unloaded in our very clean front yard, the name of my blog was birthed! There are blessing everyday around us if we only just look. Sometimes the blessings may come in the form of a "mess"; but, they are no less a blessing!! Wood delivered to our front door is SO much easier and safer for us to work with.   I doubt I will be thinking of the freshly mulched lawn in January when the snow is deep and the wind chill is unthinkable!  We will just be blessed to have lots of firewood to put in the fireplace and keep the family toasty warm. "Now your know the rest of the story" behind Seeing A Day Full of Blessings (Or At Least A Blessed Mess).

Let's Start At the Very Beginning

Hello! I am blessed to be the daughter of the King, wife of a wonderful husband, the mother of the three most precious daughters in the world, 'second Mother' to our very special and wonderful son-in-law, Nana to the two most special grandchildren in the world and daughter of my Mother, who's shoes I will never be able to fill. Yes, I do realize that even though my family is extremely precious and dear to me, we are all "sinners saved by God's incredible grace" and that is the perspective this blog will start and end with.

Thank you for taking time to stop at Seeing A Day Full Of Blessings and share a "virtual" cup of coffee or tea with me. I hope you will want to regularly stop by and enjoy, hopefully be uplifted, maybe even learn something new or gain a little strength. But most of all, I hope you will have a bigger smile on your face than before our "cup of coffee/tea" together and begin to LOOK for and FIND your day full of its blessings!!