Today is Harper and Hud’s first day of school aka 2-days-a-week Mother’s Day Out. Huddy has never gone before and has told me countless times, since I broke the news to him, that he was just flat out not going. He even goes into great lengths explaining how he going to fly home if he has to go…first on his wings and as I break it to him each time, “You don’t have wings”, he changes it to something new…rocket, airplane, hot air balloon. It really is a completely pointless conversation because he really thinks he is going to fly home…one way or another.
I literally laughed out loud when I saw this picture. He looks like the captain of the All Male Cheer Team. Josh would not be happy with this. Gooooo Team Kelley…I really wish he was making spirit fingers as well.
So this morning we ventured out to school and it was, for the most part, a success. There were tears from Huddy, but he got over it even before I left. Harper was a bit apprehensive, but she put on her brave face + she was made for school. She adores everything about it, just takes her a minute to warm up.
And then there was ONE! Oh my. Sol kept saying, “Me go to school too.” He was so quiet, no tears, but just so very, very quiet. I am so excited about this time we are going to have together. I’m thrilled to just hang with him.
We did get to play a bit with our friend Josh. That was nice for Sol. They were the biggest hoot at Kroger together. And cookies always make things better.
We have been talking this day up as much as possible and last night as Harper was going to bed, she asked if I would make her a special shirt with a bird. Well, how could I not. This morning, the very first thing she said, “Mom did you get a chance to make me a bird shirt?” But of course.
I also made her little friend Trace, at school, a cowboy tee for him to sport at his cowboy birthday party. Hope he loves it Kristy!
And as of yesterday we have officially been on the waitlist for 9 months. As always, we are celebrating being another month closer to meeting our boy with an art giveaway. The number 9 was hard to work with. I could not find a verse or quote that I liked that included the word nine, so I went with a verse I love that has 9 words…”But as for me, I will always have hope.” Psalm 71:14 Seemed ever so appropriate for this time in our life.
I also included the definition of ‘hope’…I read it over and over and over again. I would like this permanently engraved in my mind.
This is a 10×10 canvas and as always, we will ship it straight to the winner. I’m pretty excited to see who wins this one.
As always there are lots of ways to enter to win this piece.
PLEASE leave a separate comment for each entry.
-Leave a comment about something that has given you a bit of hope lately
-Blog about the giveaway
-Share the giveaway on your Facebook
–Share the giveaway on your Twitter
–Become a fan on Facebook HERE
-Subscribe to receive PPA updates by email in the right side bar
Please leave a separate comment for each entry. Giveaway will end this Friday, August 19th at midnight and I will announce the winner on Saturday.
Happy Tuesday!
**Giveaway is now closed**
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Something that gives me hope — the cycle of the seasons, the cycle of each day, knowing the sun will come up in the morning and the moon out at night, knowing that God orchestrates it all.
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My hope comes from the Lord. We finally got to finalize our domestic adoption. We are living with new hope now in being a forever family!
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something that gives me hope – God’s sovereignty!
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I think this is the first time I have done this, but the theme of this piece resounds with my spirit. I too am waiting. Hope is something I have really struggled with lately. My wait has been 12 years. I know God is faithful, and his promises are Yes and Amen, but hope deferred makes the heart sick… Blessings to you. I am inspired daily by your artwork.
Something that gives me hope is all the movement in Ethiopia over the last few weeks. Friends have received referrals, court dates, passed court, embassy clearance and came home with their beautiful children. Your time is near. The wait is so hard but I love that you celebrate each month of waiting!
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I subscribe to your blog and love it!
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Your blog could not have come on a better day for me. We found out yesterday that my husband will no longer be able to serve in the Navy after already being in for 10 years due to military cutbacks. We were counting on him retiring. We have 4 small kids and I am a stay-at-home mom. After a very sleepless night and slow day worrying about this I just read your blog and the definition of “Hope” about 100 times, specifically “one that gives promise for the future”. Your words have given me hope. We are, indeed, in God’s hands and everything is going to be JUST FINE! Thanks, I needed the reminder!!! I pray that you get your baby boy home soon!
I have hope lately in watching other families bring their Ethiopian babes home… hoping we can bring our Zoe home very soon!
Its going to sound strange but something that given me a little bit of hope lately–the fact that for the past two months we have had extra money from somewhere in our bank account. We keep thinking we missed a bill, but we can’t find one we missed, so its just there. This gives me hope that I can wait a little longer before having to go back to work.
really love this and the message of hope in general.. this blog is so inspiring to me!
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I’ve got hope in our Heavenly Father and am so thankful for Him and His grace that’s new every day
Answered prayers have made me hopeful!
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I am a FB fan :o)
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What gives me hope is the saying that “God does not call the equipped; He equips those He calls!” Facing a struggle right now and not feeling up to the task…but His promises give me hope!
I shared the giveaway on Facebook. I love this piece, by the way, and would love to proudly display it in my home!
Love love love this! If you do not have hope, you have nothing. 🙂
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Shared on Facebook too! 🙂 Another beautiful piece.
I’m a Facebook fan.
I’m a fan on facebook!
And I just shared the link on Facebook!
I have watched a dear friend cling to her hope in Christ as they have watched their three old year girl in the fight of her life against e-coli. If she can hang on to hope during that time, surely I can do the same in my ‘little trials.’
My foster children are going home in 5 weeks. I am finding hope in knowing that these precious boys are Gods children and He has a plan for them.
Cooler temps have given me hope! Praise God for them!
I follow on twitter. 🙂
I shared the link on Facebook 🙂
I’m a fan on facebook.
And, lastly, I’m a fan of yours on facebook. Your work is amazing and you’ve inspired me to learn how to quilt if I ever find the time!
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Something that gives me hope today is that every life matters and counts to God, even the unborn or stillborn, the forgotten and orphaned and those blessed with families.
I find great hope in that!
Love your work!
Being around my family has given me hope!!
I shared this giveaway on facebook 🙂
knowing that our Heavenly Father hears and answers each of our prayers : )
I feel hopeful about getting started on our next adoption SOON! So excited to feel God tugging on our hearts again! The verse you chose speaks exactly to where I am today!
Beautiful piece, Laura! Something that has given me hope lately is spending time on vacation with my family. It’s such a rejuvenating time and gives me hope for the future!
shared on FB about your giveaway!
I am SUCH A BIG FAN on FB!
I’m a fan on Facebook too!
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What a beautiful piece! I have hope that we will be free of the debt we have been paying off!
For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you HOPE and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. Jeremiah 29:11-13
The LORD gives me HOPE! 🙂
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Shared about the giveaway on Facebook!
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Sometimes hope comes in a hug from my kids.
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Shared on facebook.
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I am following you on twitter!
Shared on facebook and subscribed to email updates on here! 🙂
Looking in my own little one’s eyes as she learns the difference between good and bad gives me hope in our future generations.
random i know, but my kitchen recently gave me perspective about my season of life in being home and gave me hope for embracing the mundane and not wishing for this precious season to hurry.
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Each day I know that God is in control and that gives me hope.
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I am an adoption caseworker and one of my birthmother’s recently told me that she went to an abortion clinic to have an abortion and someone working in the clinic told her to NOT have an abortion. She left that day and called me. Now her precious baby that she is carrying will see life and be loved by a family. This fills my heart with so much hope for the future of this child! No doubt that God is working in the heart of this mother!
We have hope in God that has planned out our adoption before the foundation of the world. Our adoption in Ethiopia is final, just waiting to be submitted to Embassy!
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Hope for me is knowing that soon we will be bringing our son home from Ethiopia. We are just waiting to get submitted to Embassy and I have hope that it will happen soon! 🙂 Praying for you and your family, that the waiting won’t be much longer and that God will sustain you and uphold you during this time of waiting.
I am following on twitter! 🙂
God gives me hope, every day. We are in the beginning stages of adoption, wondering where all the money is going to come from. People have been crawling out of the woodwork offering help and support! Just talked to a friend from high school (haven’t seen each other or spoken in 12 years!) who offered us amazing help. God is truly overwhelming sometimes.
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I had a great loss last week. The people who love me each made a deposit of hope and love into my heart on Friday and Saturday. Each day gets a little better.
I am a FB fan! 🙂
Although we just started, our fundraising is going well so I have hope that we’ll meet our financial goal for our Ethiopian adoption. As always, love your art! Hope I win! 🙂
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I’m finding hope in God’s provision of a new job!
Here’s the reason for my hope: I know that my Redeemer lives and that He shall stand in the latter day! (and He gave me a really great husband to help me until then…)
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I have seen many of your art pieces, and liked many, but as I try to recover today, and am doing a rather poor job, from spending 9 weeks in Haiti this summer with all 4 of our children together, but sadly, having to come home with only 3 of them again, as our adoption is not completed, your canvas on Hope brought more than tears to my eyes. I wish I could just buy this one. We function every day on HOPE. The hope that some morning soon, we will only have to walk across the hall to hug her, instead of fly across the ocean. You do beautiful work! I am soo hoping to win this one!
I am already a FB fan…does that count?
shared the contest on my FB page.
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Seeing my 2 year old lovingly interact with other kiddos today gives me hope that he is ready for a sibling coming his way 🙂 Only time will tell
I am a fan on FB!
I follow you on Twitter, too!
Laura,
Love your update (& pictures) on your kids going to preschool. I think it’s about time that I win one of these pictures. I always have hope, too.
I love, love the shirt and he is going to love it to!
Something that gives me hope? My new church community!
My daughter and husband give me hope. Love it. We are currently looking at adoption options. Where do we begin?
Something that gives me hope is God’s faithfulness to me and my family! Knowing that no matter how crazy things get, God has a brilliant plan.
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I shared on Facebook.
The freshness of a new school year and all of the excitement that goes with it gives me hope! God has provided me with a long term kindergarten sub job and the possibility of remaining on as the teacher. I am blessed and hopeful! Thanks!!
I am a facebook fan! Thanks again!
I am on your email list! Thanks a lot! I love this piece!
We have been home with our kiddos from Ethiopia for one month and I am hopeful that my life won’t always be quite this chaotic 🙂
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Reading about everyone’s adoptions gives me hope.
I’m following you on Twitter. BTW, I LOVE your artwork.
I tweeted about the giveway too.
What gives me hope is the face of a child. Each time I look at a child I see the beauty of what God has created and I know that He is still in control and allows us to view glimpses of Him thru each wonderfully special little child. All is right with my life and world when God is the center of it and children are the center of me.
Thank you so much for posting this verse….I really needed it today. It’s been 9 years since I lost my brother, but some days are really difficult. God always has a way of sending comfort….
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Something that gives me hope is: it’s the Holy Spirit who changes me. . not all my hard work (and constant failures).
Love the piece! Something that gives me hope is my salvation in Christ…without it nothing else matters!
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love you here in chicago and praying your baby home….
My daughter gives me hope everyday.
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God has shown me over and over again recently that He is in control and is present in my life at all times. THAT gives me hope. 🙂
It gives me hope that my friend Courtney got a new set of lungs LAST NIGHT. . . a double lung transplant!
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I am leaving a FB post now about the giveaway!
I love the first day pictures with each kiddo!
Our family too is celebrating 9 months on the waiting list, and what has brought us great hope this week is after 8 months of a slow referral process our agency is now about to give them out more swiftly. It was a good reminder that God is at work even when things don’t seem to be moving.
I’m a facebook fan!
shared about giveaway on facebook!
new twitter follower!
I shared on FB!
I’m a fan on FB!
Remembering specific times of God’s faithfulness and provision in my life gives me hope that He is and always will be my faithful provider.
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I love this verse! My children inspire and give me hope every day!
Oh, the sentiment in this verse is precious to me right now. Waiting on my very last chemo treatment, and hope of a clear scan is always on my mind.
Shared this on FB!!!! (as always!) ;o)
I have an amazing friend that I’ve met through my blog who is also waiting to bring their daughter home from India. She is an amazing woman who has such faith in God. She calms me when I’m upset about the wait and teaches me about His great plan. She gives me HOPE and I’d love to give this picture to her!!!
my hope is that regardless of the delays and changes and happenings overseas, the Lord already knows who our future adopted child will be and has specifically picked us for each other – so all we have to do is wait (impatiently or not!) for His timing and the reward will be the blessing of our lives!
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I am a FAN on FB!!!!
I have hope knowing that God is in control and every good and perfect gift comes from him!
I am a fan on facebook:)
I’m a Facebook fan.
I mentioned the giveaway on Facebook!
Seeing God’s hand at work gives me great hope. He is good…all the time.
Love this one too. Everything you make is so wonderful!
Shared on FB (although I didn’t really want to because I don’t want anyone else to win it.) 🙂
I love this. We’ve had some baby disappointments lately, and God has given me hope…in countless ways – a kind word, a sermon specifically for me (it seemed), a verse… He’s cool like that.
I am a fan on Facebook.
Other than HOPING that I win this artwork? I have a bunch of reasons to be hopeful but mostly I feel hopeful when I look at the two kids I never thought I would have and feel hopeful for a third. 😉
Shared on FB 🙂
Hopeful for a great start to a new school year 🙂
Hope has come through the observation of how God is working in my husband with his distant family. <3
I’m now following you on twitter. 🙂
I am a fan on fb!
New follower on twitter!
I love the “waiting” piece . . . It is so very special! Perfectly appropriate for the situation 🙂 I hope my name is drawn!!!
As always a huge “fan” on fb!!
New fan on fb!
It gives me hope when I read other’s blogs such as yours who have such a heart for orphans. Hope that one day there will be no more! Every time I see a new piece of yours, it is more amazing than the last! Such beautiful work!
I had to look up the verse, and I love what it goes on to say: “…I will praise you more and more. My mouth will tell of your righteousness, of your salvation all day long, though I know not its measure. I will come and proclaim your mighty acts, O Sovereign Lord; I will proclaim your righteousness, yours alone. Since my youth, O God, you have taught me, and to this day I declare your marvelous deeds. Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, till I declare your power to the next generation, your might to all who are to come.” (Psalm 71:14b-18) Wow…that gives me hope. The idea that what He’s doing in my life now through infertility is ultimately going to be used by Him (no matter what the outcome) to bring glory to Himself and give me reason to praise and declare His power to the next generation is AWESOME!
As we wait to bring our two girls home from Uganda, getting their room ready gives me a lot of hope. 🙂
Of course, I am a still a “fan” on facebook!
The love of children gives me hope
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I am a Facebook fan
I have hope for the future generations thanks to my kiddos, for I pray they will be men of valor who will change the world in the Lord.
I hope I win because we are also waiting for our baby, and some days keeping hope is more difficult than others 🙂
Well, two things have given me hope recently.
One is my grandmother going into the hospital and acting like it was a stroll in Central Park. She makes me realize that anything is possible and gives me strength to carry on even when I’m sad or anxious.
The second is my friends and their kind words. They always know the right thing to say to cheer me up. It is like a mini- wake up call…They help me realize anything is possible as long as you set your mind to it and just be yourself.
At the risk of sounding cheesy, God’s Word is my “go-to” place for hope. Amazingly enough, there is a passage, a verse, a story, a truth for every situation that comes my way…tonight’s hope message has been “Store up for yourselves riches in heaven, for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
I’ll write about it and link it up in my Friday blog post – topic that day is “favorites” 🙂
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and I don’;t twitter 🙁 but i heart those cute shirts and those cute kids 🙂 Hope Huddy’s first day was awesome.
oh yeh, facebook fanned you too. Have a happy week!
Rainbows in my living room, we call them Grandma Susie’s kisses since they’re made by the prisms that used to hang in my grandma’s kitchen. When ever I see them I get a little jolt of hope!
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THe littles who are snuggly sleeping in the back of the car as we head home from vacation give me so much hope.
-Heather
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I am a follower on facebook!
Our only hope is in the LORD.
I shared you on facebook too.
Reading God’s promises in scripture has given me hope lately 🙂
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Love the artwork. Fan on facebook.
I love all of your artwork but…..the pictures of the kiddos really make my heart smile. I especially like the ones of the first day of MDO! 🙂
I love all that you do! Following your family gives me hope that there are a HUGE amount of good people in this world.
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Love love this! Reading this brought tears to my eyes and such a good reminder. In the last day two very special people (friends – one new friend and one life long friend) were diagnosed with horrible cancer diagnosis. So unfair and frightening – this verse is such a great reminder and the dove…oh my! Perfect!
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I just lost my Grandmother. She was my special person and the hope that comes from the Lord is that I know I will see her again and it will be a joyous reunion.
Had a double rainbow in the sky a few days ago and it reminded me of the hope that God gives us through his word!
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Something that gave me hope ~ We got a COURT DATE!!! Just found out last week!
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God has brought me hope thru the book of Isaiah as we wait to bring home our daughter from Ghana…”when I say I shall, I mean it. I cannot fail.”
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Recently joined Twitter….. and I am now following you! 🙂
A string of wonderful things happening in my life lately has given me hope for the future. 🙂
I am a friend on Facebook.
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Already subscribed! 🙂
Hope – my husband is on his way home from Ethiopia with our two girls! To see this journey finally coming to an end (and also to a beginning) gives me hope!
I am a fan on Facebook!! Love your stuff!
Following on twitter
When there doesn’t look to be much hope left in the world, I get my hope from the Lord. I find hope in seeing babies born and children coming home to their forever families. I find hope in the love of my family and friends. Looking beyond the world’s flaws you can always see the hope in God’s flawlessness!
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I am in the process of adopting two children from Uganda – one with whom has special needs…and her name is Esther:) I heard about her on a friends blog and then all over facebook…how if she did not have a family by December that she would moved up to the “older kids” orphanage and never be adoptable after that. The Lord showed me that we were her family but that I would also be bringing home a little boy as well. I have received HOPE so often in the last few weeks when this journey began…HOPE when the orphanage emailed me immediately back…HOPE when we raised EXACTLY the amount needed to pay for the homestudy and medical exams by having a yard sale and fundraisers and donations…HOPE again when I received a prophetic message from someone that told me that there would be TWO children coming home with us…and then HOPE again when I received a positive email from the orphanage again….and then HOPE when a reporter that heard about our story decided to write a story about our journey to spread orphan awareness – which will give others HOPE….I could go on and on about the HOPE in my heart dear friend and for a long time I have been HOPING to win one of your giveways! I will blog about it, facebook about it, tweet about it and I will even add your art work to my Pinterest page so that is even more than anyone else:!!!!!:)
WOW! I HOPE you win this one too!!!!
Love, love, love
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Praying for a friend’s tiny (1lb 6oz) baby who is NOT on a vent…breathing on her own…her name is Jolie Hope and she gives me hope
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I am realizing lately that all I have is HOPE – and of course my HOPE is Christ Jesus. But oh some days it is just plain hard to live in the reality of Hope – like right now – I have hope for my children to be walking faithfully with Christ – but I don’t see it always – I have hope for our newest grandson to get a visa so our daughter & her family can come “home” to see us – but I don’t see it right now – but I know that HOPE is TRUE, FAITHFUL, and ETERNAL – so I hope – and trust – and walk totally by faith & not sight!! I do so love the creativity that our LORD has given you and put in your heart!
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I am hopeful that we will be going to meet our twins soon in Africa. 🙂
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Okay friend! I just shared the giveaway and left a comment on Facebook – now off to blog, tweet and pin it too!! HOPING TO WIN:) Love you sister!! xo
I have really been encouraged by reminders that god is not finished refining me yet… This gives me great hope for the future.. Although things seem hopeless I cling to the HOPE that does not disappoint.
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We have had two successful weeks of homeschool so far, and I have hope that the rest of the year is going to go much smoother than I originally anticipated!!!
I have hope that my husband will some day return to Christ and come to worship with me. Nothing would feel better than to have him sitting beside me, with his arm around me… worshipping the Lord together. Hope, just the word alone, conjures up so many feelings. I love this piece and hope the lucky winner likes it as much I do. Dori
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What gives me hope-I have a 4 yr old Daughter with Special needs. We adopted her from Guatemala and brought her home when she was 11 months old. At the time of her adoption we didnt know she had any special needs. She can not walk or talk, although she tries sooo hard everyday. Her name is Faith. She is what gives me HOPE.
Here I am again friend – I left comments here, I blogged about you again, your button is on my blog and has been for a while now, I just tweeted about you, left comments on your facebook, shared it with my facebook and now I am off to PIN it too!!:)
Ice been reading through the Psalms. The Word gives me Hope!
My hope lately has come form an unexplanable sense of peace in a time that would normally make me stress out to no end!! I fully understand it is with Him that I gain peace.
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Okay, I added you to my Pinterest Page:) that is an extra one!! Now I have officially commented here, on facebook, shared it on my FB wall, blogged about it, tweeted about it, and pinned it too!! Here is HOPING I win:) Oh and I added your Pitter Patter Art button to my blog a while back!:)
I just added mine up and realized I need to add that I put it on my twitter too…in just one comment to make it total up correctly:)xo
Hi! knowing that my husband and I are together going through changes, gives me hope. I feel more secure knowing we have eachother while making big changes for our family. Relationship gives me hope!
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God’s promise that he will prosper and not harm us gives me hope! I think that without faith in God there would be no hope!
I am so glad that I found you!!! your work is amazing 🙂 Something that has given me hope lately is seeing 2 adoptive mamma’s have their adoptions or trips fully funded!!
I follow on twitter now!
I just became a facebook fan too 🙂 love it!
My oldest child started k4 today and she willing got on the school bus and she had a big grin on her face. That gives momma hope that she is going to do just fine at her new school. Praise God for happy transitions!
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Already a fan on fb.
I get the email updates too!
Hope….at this point in my life as a foster mom, there have been moments when I’ve wanted to give up on “hope” wondering if there was even a purpose to do so or even if it was ok to do so in our particular circumstance. What I’m learning is that God wants to know the truths of my heart even if they differ from His perfect will. And HOPE is very much a truth of my heart right now! Thanks for this perfect scripture reminder, it was the ONE I needed today!
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Thanks so much for the giveaway! Hope you and your lil’ guy enjoy your alone time….by #3 that is a rarity for sure! 🙂
Something that has given me hope, has been watching my son (adopted at 8 yrs old) develop attachment to his family. This is something I’ve begged God for, and only a year ago never thought was possible.
Love this picture God gives me hope each and everyday and has blessed me with great hubby,kids, family friends, a great school and the awesome teachers my kids have this year give me hope
Hope to win 🙂
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Being a teacher and watching excited children everyday gives me hope. Also having a daughter and watching her grow and change into an amazing person also gives me hope everyday.
I am already a subscriber.
I’m a FB Fan!
I just shared your post of the giveaway on my FB page. It was nice to see that my sister from Texas is also joining in on your giveaways now as well.
Something that gives me hope? Knowing that God has a plan for my life….even when I don’t know what that is yet. =-)
I have been delighting in God’s Word the last few days…definitely brings me hope! Love the canvas!
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At this time in my life my hope comes from the Lord and him alone. I am having major struggles with my marriage and God comforts me and gives me strength for everyday. I have hope that I can be a great mother to our 4 year old daughter. Thank you for your words of inspiration today.
Something that gives me hope is watching my friends raise their children to follow Christ. That He will be made known in our community, country, & world!
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Something that gives me hope: I lost a dear friend a little over a year ago while he was doing humanitarian aid work in Afghanistan. Shortly thereafter I started sponsoring a little boy through Compassion Intl. who shared my friend’s first and middle names. And then through a crazy set of “coincidences” I was able to meet that little boy on the one year anniversary of my friend’s death. I was surprised (though I shouldn’t have been) to find that my sponsor child and my friend were so alike, even down to the hairstyle. God was so intricately interwoven into those details, and to know He cares so much that He would tend to my heart as I grieve in such a way totally infuses my world with hope.
Many blessings, Laura. Praying that this waiting will soon be over!
I have been given new hope in seeing my daughter grow stronger and healthier and more in charge of her diabetes. I need to trust in God’s promise to take care of my children.
I have new hope upon seeing my cousin’s daughter’s strength in fighting back … against a recent illness. Love her and am praying for her family daily!
things that give me hope today…a bright new sunrise with hues of pink and purple stretched across the sky reminding me that God is a god of healing. Today hope came as a doctor listened and heard the seriousness of the anxiety held deep within someone I love dearly. Today hope comes in the form of love.
I’m hopeful that it’s in God’s plan for us to adopt again 🙂 (I’m also hopeful that I’ll win this amazing artwork!)
Knowing that in all things God works for the good of those that love him… no matter how imperfect we are… that gives me hope. 🙂
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I subscribe to your blog. 🙂
‘hope’= ahhhhhhh!
reading your blog gives me hope
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LOVE this piece!!! You do such awesome work! Something that has given me a bit of hope lately……well….we, unfortunately got caught in the court closures, after having just met our sweet, precious baby boy in ET. Broke. our. hearts. However, God has used many friends (local, FB, blog) to so showered us in their love and prayers, and it has served as a sweet reminder that God has NOT forgotten us; He loves us!; and in HIM alone lies our HOPE!!!! 😀
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What has given me hope in this long wait for a referral is Christ and the fact that He has our child in His hands!
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Something that gives me hope…how we have received divine intervention throughout our adoption process when we need it most…when we needed a home after moving to a new community…God provided…when we needed our home study visits done…God made it happen…when we needed help fundraising…God provided reinforcements…God is truly awesome and amazing and gives me hope every day!
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I tried to become a fan on facebook…silly me couldn’t figure out how…know I probably missed an obvious button on the page somewhere…
I’m sharing the giveaway on my blog…love love love this piece!
Just blogged about this giveaway on my blog (http://www.marquezfamilyjourney.blogspot.com)!!!
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I have really been encouraged and given hope by reading Dr Russell Moore’s book “Adopted for Life”. Really enjoying it!
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I am over a year into my adoption process, over six months on officially on the wait list, and I have found hope to be my constant companion through the ups and downs that are part of this journey. Today seeing your blog and your 9 month giveaway artwork has brought me hope. Thank you.
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I would LOVE to hang this in my home and feel its inspiration every day!
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My husband walked for the first time today without crutches, a walker, or his wheelchair since June 10!!!
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Already subscribe and marvel at how you can even make swing chain look appealing!
I find hope in the fact that our daughter from Henan Province has been in this country for only 1 1/2 years and passed all of her state mandated testing, including third grade science and some pretty hefty vocabulary. It was a wonder 🙂
Waking up every morning and looking at my sweet precious little boy gives me loads of hope on so many levels every day.
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We were 10 months DTE on 8/4. I would LOVE to win this piece!
Hearing my child say, “I love you, Mommy,” for the first time this weekend has given me such great hope as a parent! I’m reminded constantly (through my children) how DEEP the Father’s love is for me, and I don’t know if there’s any greater hope than that!
I shared on Facebook! Hope he comes home before 10!
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I’m hoping (and trusting God) in so many things right now. It was very reassuring this week to have a full rainbow in our back yard. JUst a reminder that God keeps His promises.
What a beautiful piece of art! Would love to have this!
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Fall brings hope for me. Totally refreshing.
As a senior in college I’ve been awfully perplexed about my future. It seemed that absolutely nothing was going to work out for me in terms of work and an internship this semester, but I’ve been blessed with a great opportunity that also gives me more time on campus to enjoy my l ast year of school. Without hope, we are nothing. How can you press on without hope and faith that everything will work out for the best?
I find hope in the Lord’s amazing grace and forgiveness that He has for me… and I’m a fanatical Facebook Fan too 🙂
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facebooked about it and commenting about it now! your work is beautiful!
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I love this piece! The thing that stands out to me was hearing the testimony of a young lady the other day where she shared how she was restored from her past and is hopeful about her new life! It was so inspiring and her bravery was incredible!
I have hope that I will meet my Ethiopian daughter within the next year as I am on the waiting list and I also recently was given a job from God that will help us bring her home with less debt.
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I am already a fan on facebook! LOVE your art!
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I am sure Sol loved his first day alone with Mama!! How sweet 🙂 Where are you going to put that third car seat? lol – I am sure you will find room!
Hope. I have loads of Hope lately – we are waiting for our LSC from China so we can get our girl – I have faith that it will be here soon – and I am finding hope in the blessings while we wait!
christ in you brings hope of all things to come. wonderful news this morning of good things coming…HE is our hope!!!!!!
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i follow your blog and LOVE it!!!! 🙂
My husband and I are in the process of adopting a child from China. We are coming to the end of our homestudy stage and are so excited!!! God has lead us on this journey and has filled our hearts with so much love, HOPE and joy!!! We are thrilled that he has trusted in us to adopt a special needs child from China and instill in this child the holy word!!!
Something that gives me hope – is looking at God’s promises to us and knowing that his plan for my life is better than mine 🙂
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Just finished up a blog post about the giveaway!! … http://garcias2chile.blogspot.com/2011/08/pitter-patter-art.html
I see hope all around but feel particularly hopeful with regard to all the doors God is opening for our work ahead in Ethiopia. I love your work and you are a talented artist. Have a great day!
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I love the word “Hope” … it is actually my middle name … and my daughter’s middle name … and the central theme of our ministry as missionaries to Chile: our eternal Hope, in Jesus Christ!
Love your art work and praying it won’t be much longer before your on the way to Ethiopia! I liked the give away on Facebook!
the Lord has given me hope lately in knowing the “nearness of God is my good.” He is alive, and He is at work. He is near.
I recently (in April) married a man with 3 children. I never wanted kids of my own. The kids were never taught about God. Since our marriage, we have the kids in church, prayers before bed and meals, weekly memory verses… We dove right in and are raising the kids in our home the way that I was raised in mine. Thankfully my husband has become a christian himself over the last year. What gives me hope is that the kids now ASK to pray, I look over and all 3 are holding hands around the table waiting for us to sit down to pray. They are REALLY upset if we have to miss chuch. They are SO thirsty to learn and pray and hear bible stories… this gives me hope that my husband and I are having an influence on 3 little souls and that one day very soon that they too will become saved.
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Hope seems to be a distant thought these days as I suffer a third loss of pregnancy this week. But I always have Faith in the Lord! He will do what he see fit and I will have Hopes again!
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Oh my! Beautiful! You are so talented. Trying to figure out how you create these pieces!? 🙂
I LOVE your work!
Another beautiful creation and an inspiring reminder. Today is my birthday, a wonderful day to win one of your uplifting pieces!
I have found hope through God’s word lately while learning how to begin discipling our 1 year old son. We are wanting to do it the right way and out of love. So hard at the moment, but the Bible gives us so much hope in encouraging us why and we we are doing this for!
Love this!! God’s Word has been giving me so much hope lately as we have been on the waitlist for 11 months now for our baby girl in Ethiopia!
What’s giving me hope lately is the revolution in my country against corruption… India is the second most corrupt country in the world (according to Transparency International) and if this collective fight that I am part of can bring into effect the Ombudsman Bill, this could change. I see hope for my country – India.
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I follow on facebook and Im one of your biggest fans… always read your blogs and enjoy them so. Pls enter my name for a chance at HOPE… thanks
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I had a true sense of hope while recently attending a Beth Moore conference & felt the Lord speak specifically to me & a current situation within 5 minutes of being in the door!
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God gives me hope. I have faith that I will have a second child.
This is a beautiful piece. I love your work!
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“Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.” Joshua 1:9
This verse gives me hope every day that no matter what I’m going through, God is with me, and he’ll never leave me. 🙂
One month after bringing our 6th child (3rd) adoption from ET, I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer…… and today I just finished my 4th chemo treatment— 2 to go and I HAVE HOPE in Jesus name 🙂
Getting clear health reports, test after test after test. I am so thankful.
i have hope when i look at the 3 little people God entrusted us with…i’m hoping for 2 more 🙂
I find hope in the start of a new school year–hope for a fresh start and for God’s presence to be made known to a new group of kiddos who might not otherwise know him!
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I’ve had a rough week this week. I find hope in God. My husband is a great source of hope. He is always thinking on the positive side of everything and that is a huge blessing to me.
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Ive received hope from the encouragement of my mentor and the time she gave me today even though she’s so busy!
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Hope is in a lady named Elisa Luna. She is the principal at the school my husband works at. She was shot 1 1/2 years ago in the back by one of her teachers. She is paralyzed from the waist down. The school she is at is an inner city school. Students there have hard lives. Ms. Luna is the essence of Hope. She has shown those students, including my son, Landon, that there is always hope. She has had a hard road of recovery. She is working full time now, back at the school and is walking with a walker. She has learned how to walk using her hips. She is an inspiration of hope!
God’s faithfulness in bringing the exact word that I need from Him gives me hope.
As I enter this drawing, I’m forced to reflect upon what hte verse means to me personally. Through the heart shattering trials of life, God consistently, faithfully, proves that He is good. He’s the light in our dark, the sweet in our sour, “the aid in our lemon” so to speak. He is life, He is good, He gives hope. No mater how long or dark the night, no matter how heart wrenching and painsteaking the trial, we can always have hope, because our God is good… ALL THE TIME. And so “as for me, I will always have hope” <3
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There is hope in seeing the pieces that have fallen into place for us to get back to Nashville soon.
love this. hope always.
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I’m in need of some hope. I’m one of those teachers that received a pink slip at the end of last school. Can’t believe I’m not preparing my classroom now. Trying to think of it as a blessing in disguise.
Your work is beautiful. I’m a fan on fb.
We have been waiting for 9 months as well! Lately it’s been hard to wait for our kids to come home. But, I have hope in Christ. I feel like God’s really been teaching me to be His child. To really be childlike. To rest in Him as my provider, comforter, and sovereign God of my life.
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I was hesitant because so many things have made me forget my hope. Reading your blog, seeing the face of Sol and you on your chil fil a date have brought me joy and hope. God secured his family and He can bring us there too. Love that boys smile!! Hug him for me. ; )
We held on to hope daily for almost two years waiting for our twins (who we were told were unadoptable 9 months into our wait) to come home from Ethiopia- Hope was fulfilled and a year ago we became a forever family of eight!
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My hopes is in the Lord. Generic, I know, but I have a specific hope with him. My son was in a car wreck in 2008 and is paralyzed from armpits down. I had and still hold out hope that he will walk again whether here on earth or one day when we meet our Creator and Great Healer. Love, love, love your blog and art and thank you for sharing your life and talents with us.
*hope. Also, FB fan. I saw other people writing that and thought maybe I’m supposed to.
Hope…. Knowing god is not finished with me yet
Hope …..knowing he holds my future
Therefore I will ” be joyful in HOPE, patient in affliction and faithful in prayer”
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Right now what is giving me hope is a new Bible study on motherhood with a great group of Christian moms
I would LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to win this one!! Sure could use some HOPE right now!! I know God is in control!! My hubby was fired from his job yesterday! On the plus side…he lost his job because his boss found out he was interviewing for a job somewhere else. They seem to really like him, and HOPEFULLY, and prayerfully God will provide our family with that job too!!
Something that gives me hope: I have a beautiful little foster son. Just his face gives me hope, what he was pulled out of, it’s a miracle!
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Amen to all of the above comments!! Our hope is in Jesus Christ without that true hope life has no purpose or meaning! Love the artwork! BTW, hubby loved the artwork you did for his birthday! Thx!
My husband and I are purchasing our first home. This is a big, big step for us and for providing a stable future for our two sons. This has provided with me with much hope that our future will be bright and happy as long as we continue love each other and nuture one another making our home a beautiful place to be!
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My husband & I have felt led to go into ministry for over a year and we may possibly have found a mission board to partner with to reach unreached people groups ~ that gives us hope that we are following the path in life we know God has called us to!
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I love this picture. You are so talented. It is cool that you use your talent for the Lord. Love it!
I lvoe this piece and would be honored to display in my home. Without Hope you have nothing!
I have a renewed hope in the confirmation from God that we made the right decision keeping the boys home with me this year. They are growing spiritually, and I love it!
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Oh my goodness the kiddos are so darn cute! Love the art work!
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I have found hope lately in being able to be a single mother to 2 young kids, trying to run and keep my business growing, taking the kids from school, to MDO, to dance, to soccer, without any help! All things are possible, even if it doesn’t seem like they are! =)
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I HOPE that I will win…I will be sending to my college freshman daughter who is really struggling….and I HOPE that things get better soon!! I also just found out that my son’s teacher is your sister-in-law!! 🙂
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This scripture has given me hope, since this is the hope we have as Christians, and I am looking forward to it!
He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away. And He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” ~Revelation 21:4-5
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Hmm, we’re on day #5 home with our girls. It’s hard. But each day it seems we get a little tiny bit better – a smile, a quick crawl to momma, or a peaceful nap – all hope that in a few months we’ll hit life that feels a bit more normal. Love the painting Laura! 🙂 Praying for you guys. I know it’s hard!
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Something that gives me hope is my four month old daughter. No matter what happens in our life, she brings me such joy.
Rainbows! Today they reminded me that God keeps His promises! Something i life that will NEVER change is that fact! 🙂
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I have hope with every smile and hug I receive from my two sons. No matter what the day is like….they give me hope that everything will be alright.
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I’ll reply with lyrics from a song that I dearly love, Hope by Sarah Groves.
Hope has a way of turning it’s face to you just when you least expect it. You walk in a room, you look out a window and something there leaves you breathless. You say to yourself, it’s been a while since I felt this but it feels like it might be Hope”.
Waiting for our little sweetheart for almost four years now and I will never lose hope!
Beautiful! as usual. 🙂
Also, fan on FB. Love your work! 🙂 Praying for you guys & your little man!
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Psalm 116:7 gave me hope this morning: “Return, O my soul, to your rest; for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you.” Despite what my eyes see in this world, the Lord has dealt bountifully with me and that will always be the end of the story…His grace, His mercy, His life given for mine!
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My hubby & I have been married almost 10yrs & this past year has been so wonderful it gives me hope that we have many more happy & peaceful years. God is good & faithful. <3
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oh, i don’t know what time zone you’re in, but just seeing this!
we are hopeful to have our family of 9 all together within the month!
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The thing that has given me hope lately is the LACK of abnormalities that have come back in the tests for my health concerns. Once we’ve ruled everything out, we can finally get to the root of the problem. We’re so very close to that, so that’s where my hope is. The tiny light at the end of a very long tunnel that grows brighter every day…
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Love this one!