Baby be Blessed Giveaway...Giveaway!!

Are you ready for a Giveaway....Giveaway??!!

I must admit that we are so very blessed to have met a $300 goal for Give a Blessing after the very first day! I praise God for providing to sweet Lindsay and her family!! But I don't feel we should stop there do you?? That's barely a drop in the bucket to meet the medical expenses they are facing! Let's join together and allow God to work through us in prayer, finances and the resources He has given!!

I pray that the Lord would lead you to give! Please donate through the ChipIn below!!

Through next Friday, July 24th...if you give away $20 or more we will have a giveaway for you!! Not only will you double your chances of winning a personalized Baby be Blessed doll, but we will also send you a FREE finished Baby be Blessed crown!

"In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: 'It is more blessed to give than to receive'."

Acts 20:35



We praise you Father for the healing you are giving to Lindsay! We continue to pray for COMPLETE healing in your perfect will! Bless their family Lord as they joyfully journey home from the hospital!!


**Since the donations go directly to Lindsay and her family we need you to forward your online pmt confirmation to us to verify your donation. Please email it to order.babybeblessed@gmail.com

May God bless you richly for your giving!!

Living Proverbs 22:6

"Train up a child in the way he should go,

Even when he is old he will not depart from it"

Proverbs 22:6

We are back from vacation and seems that we are (or at least I am) still playing catch up from being gone. It feels good to be home but we had a wonderful time with family last week. We are blessed!! We did visit the Creation Museum last Tuesday and WOW...was it awesome!! If you are ever in the area, please make sure you visit!! I'll share more later on my family blog Thompson Blessings in which you can link to from the side bar...

The Lord has been plugging away at me for a while now. Most of it I really kept pushing back and didn't want to fully acknowledge or listen to. You know how you can just be going through the motions of life? Well that is where I have been. In speaking with my friend Lori the other evening it kind of hit me that you can know and even say all the right things as a Christian...but where is your heart really? Are you really living it out? Are you completely DAILY surrendering your will to the Lord??

I was not...

Maybe I thought I was...or maybe I even could tell someone I was...but I wasn't.

In praying about what today's post should be about in sharing my own walk in Living Proverbs 22:6 out as a parent, the Lord brought me back again to me. How am I? Where am I? Who am I in HIM?? Kind of ouchy to look at. Most of it I really didn't want to look at. That sin we all hold onto. I'm not even sure yet all He has to reveal to me about those controlling sins. I know that I have been ignoring...not wanting to see them because for some crazy reason, I want to hold on to them. I feel those things are better for me than what God has for me. I would have to give up something that I really do need in my life!

Yikes! As a Christian in my head...I know better! I've know what's right. I know truth. But where is my heart? What am I holding above Christ?

The Lord gave me more than I can put into words yesterday. I have a lot to absorb and continually lay down in my walk with Him. But you know what...I smile. As much as I was reluctant to even look at the ugliness I was still holding onto, God has me. He is calling me and has brought me to a place once again of complete surrender...Thank you Jesus!!

So what He placed on my heart is to simply share my walk in this. The bitter truth and all the ugliness of my journey of walking towards who Christ desires me to be in every facet of my life. The only place to start is with me and where I am at in Him. Once I am that clean and open vessel He desires me to be...I will be filled and I will overflow to all those around me including my children. Only through Him can we be living Proverbs 22:6! It is not through any study or program...only Him!

Let us join together this week in really praying that the Lord will revile our true hearts in Him no matter how ugly it might really be. The glorious thing about it is that once we remove those dead branches from our vine...we can really bloom!

Love you all!

~Tina

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Would you like to join us in Living Proverbs 22:6??

Would you devote your Thursdays to blogging about how you are living this out?
I pray that God would join us to encourage each other in this journey

Please link to our MckLinky so we can share together

PS-If you send me your children's photo...I'll make you your very own Living Proverbs 22:6 logo for your Thursday blog posts!! Email to: babybeblessed@gmail.com

Pursuit of God

I started reading The Pursuit of God this morning. This book has been on my bookshelf forever and I have yet to read it. The Lord's timing is perfect however as He brought me back to this book yesterday. My heart desires to know Him more. So quickly our minds and bodies get wrapped up in what is going on in this world, that we don't seek God and His will. We place our own controls and desires before the Lords. He is calling me...He is waiting on me to choose Him. To seek Him. To draw closer to my Creator. The prayer after chapter one brought me to tears as I continue to step forward in faith to Him and His will for my life....

O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me
thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need of further
grace. I am ashamed of my lack of desire. O God, the Triune God, I
want to want Thee; I long to filled with longing; I thirst to be make more
thirsty still. Show my Thy glory, I pray Thee, that so I may know Thee
indeed. Begin in mercy a new work of love within me. Say to my soul,
"Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away." Then give me grace to rise and
follow Thee up from this misty lowland where I have wandered so long.
In Jesus' name.
Amen
(AW Tozer)

Please pray with me. Pray that we would daily pick up our cross. That we would have a thirst to know Him. That we would have a mighty longing after our God!

~Tina

Making a difference!

My heart is so full right now! What a blessing to see God place a burden on someones heart and watch them obediently walk forward in faith...even at the age of 15!!

Hi! My name is Lexi and I am the founder of Jumps 4 Joy.

I am a 15 year old Jesus Freak who felt the call of God to make a difference after learning how many children die and are orphaned every day. I imagined myself in their shoes and even the thoughts burned my heart.

But what could I do? I'm just a kid right?

Or was it time to take a stand?

LOVE-LOVE-LOVE IT!!!!
PLEASE visit her blog JUMPS 4 JOY to learn more on how we can join together to help!!

You have all our prayers and support Lexi!!
I'll keep you updated as we move forward to have our very own Jumps 4 Joy!!

Many Blessings~
Tina

Sweet Lindsay Dean!

Lindsay Dean, daughter of JR and Suzie Dean, was born at University of Michigan's C.S Mott Children's Hospital, June 11, 2008 with a Congenital Heart Disease known as Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, or HLHS. The short explanation is that Lindsay was born with only half of a heart. In order for her to live, a series of three operations were planned and possibly down the road, a heart transplant. Thus far, Lindsay has endured a total of 5 open heart surgeries and because of her poor heart function, Lindsay was put on the transplant list in November 2008. Well, much to our surprise, it finally happened! Lindsay has a whole heart and June 5, 2009 will forever be a date to remember! Lindsay is one of three children in the Dean family, brothers Cole and Cruz.

As of July 1, 2009 Lindsay is still in the Hospital as she experienced so complications after her surgery. Please pray for this precious family and click HERE to visit their site.

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Please donate directly to Lindsay's Heart Fund!!



By making a donation to this great cause we will enter your name in a custom doll raffle! For each dollar you donate your name will be entered in for a chance to design and win a custom Baby be Blessed doll!

Since the donations go directly to Lindsay and her family we need you to forward your online pmt confirmation to us to verify your donation. Please email it to order.babybeblessed@gmail.com

As a special bonus....if you donate $20 or more, you will get TWICE the entries!! example: $20=40 ENTRIES!!

So hurry!! Go help this sweet little girl and her family!! =)
Thank you so very much!

It's Official!!

Baby be Blessed is officially on vacation!!

YAY!!

Thought it would be fun to participate in the Blog Hop Favorite Photograph to share one of the many favorite photographs I have taken so far. Thought it announces a Thompson Baby be Blessed vacation perfectly! I'll be updating my family blog (Thompson Blessings -link found on the sidebar) through the week if you would like to take a peek into what we've been up to.

Have a great week everyone!

Happy 4th of July!

So are you back wondering who won the 4th of July Giveaway??!!

Drum roll please................

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And the winner..................

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Timestamp: 2009-07-04 11:45:16 UTC

CONGRATULATIONS NATALIE!!

Natalie said...
TOO CUTE !! what a blessing :D Thank you for the chance to win

You must hop over to visit their blog!

Too sweet...I could just smoosh your babies to pieces!!

Please pray for Natalie as she continues through her pregnancy!

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY EVERYONE!!