“The RoseBouquet”

A totally different Helen, one of my subscribers to this RoseBouquet, sent some feedback to last week’s question, where I asked about gift-making ideas.

Helen wrote: “Have you ever considered the recipe jars?  You buy mason jars and add ingredients to the jar row by row so it looks pretty ie: flour in the bottom, then chocolate chips, then sugar, then oatmeal etc., then you decorate the mason jar with ribbon and attach the recipe card to it.  (All the person would have to do is add the wet ingredients ie milk, eggs) makes pretty gift.

Thanks for your updates as always sister.”

Well, guess what! It happens that I’m working on a recipe book with exactly such gifts in a jar ideas. I had one friend in mind for this, but when I described it over lunch last week to another friend, she hinted strongly that she’d like such a gift as well. So I may be printing out more copies than I thought.

Anyway, when I asked Helen for her favourite recipe for a gift jar she sent me her favourite.

Hey! New idea! I’ve decided to use the Ruthe’s Roses article space to feature such gift-making ideas for the next few weeks. So our more heavy series on Friendship lessons we can learn from the Bible stories will go on hold. Probably until January. I’m going to feature Helen’s recipe this week, and if anyone else has a good gift-making idea, and if you send it in, it may well get chosen for the next issue of The RoseBouquet. Otherwise I’ll have to come up with some more, and though the ideas come easily enough to me.

As for work activities, these days we’re preparing a booklet of prayer requests for the Day of Prayer here at the mission on Saturday. I may have more to say about that next week. Except, hey, if you love to pray for others, and if you are in driving distance here in Saskatoon, I heartily invite you to come join us this Saturday. It’s always a great day of hearing reports from each dept. of answered prayer and then praying over the new requests. We record them so we can track what God is doing in the mission. The fellowship is sweet too! A pizza lunch is provided, and we are at it from 9:30 am to 3:30 pm, but you may come for whatever hours you can spare.

I’m also lining up new affiliate links for this site, Ruthes-SecretRoses.com, but I’ll have more to tell you about that another day.

Oh yes, another feedback note came from Babara in Australia She wrote:
“I think your run down on the two [referring to Esau and Jacob] was very discerning and you must have put in a lot of thought. It is also well balanced in outlook - no one could take offense. Strange to relate, I love to hear about everyday life in Canada.”

Well, Barbara, I love tips like that too. I’ll try to work in more about life in Canada. Thanks for the vote of confidence about the article. Doing Bible studies and sharing my thoughts comes very easy to me. I generally hold myself back quite a bit because I get the sense others are not so keen on it. But listen, I can still put them as web pages on my site and those who like them can find them there.