Thank you!

A big huge thank you to all of you who participated in Bless Amazima Weekend!  We assure you that a donation has been made in your honor.  We hope and pray that you will continue to grow and GIVE with us!

Blessings!

Project: Bless Amazima Weekend

We would really love for you to visit Katie at The Journey this weekend.  She is someone who has touched our hearts in many ways, and someone (like many others) who knew and loved our son before we did.  We have been so richly blessed by her blog and we want to share that with all of you!

We hope that FIRST you'll visit Katie's blog, and give yourself time to just sit awhile with it. Once you've done that, we would love if you would let us know following us on Twitter, or on this blog, or by clicking "like" on our Facebook page.  If you've already done these things, please just shoot us an email telling us how you've been blessed by Katie's blog! We would be honored to donate a meal on behalf of each of you who reach out to us in one or all of these ways, up to $100.00.  (If, for example, you follow us on Facebook and Twitter, we will donate two meals on your behalf.)  Then, we hope that you'll pray about donating to Amazima, Katie's ministry in Uganda, by clicking the donate button on her sidebar. 

Here are the links you will need:

Katie's blog

Find us on Twitter

Find us on Facebook

Our email address:

contactfaithblogs@gmail.com

Disclaimer: Katie is not endorsing this weekend in any way, we are simply trying to let her know that we all love and support her and her ministry!

Guest post: Scars

We are excited to welcome our first guest!  

Meet Casey of 

The Wiegand's {from the heart of Casey}

A special thanks to Casey for offering up this post and for her beautiful words and photograph.

Scars

Any C-section mamas out there? Not to be TMI but any of you look at/see/ notice your scars everytime you are getting ready/ showering, etc?

Well, I do.

I love my scar. I love what it represents.

I love that long after my children are grown, I will still have my scar from my 2 previous c-sections (and however many more). I love that it is a daily reminder to me of the 2 little lives I have to take care of & think about.

I often think about Jesus & his scars when I look at mine. 

His scars represent something beautiful too.

What about our emotional scars? We all have them. Some run deeper than others...some change us for better and some create walls in us.

Our scars make us who we are, don't they?

"There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit." (Romans 8:1 - 4)

Nichole Nordeman

How did I get locked up inside?

What's this that renders me paralyzed?

I lost myself in small pieces

It happened over time

I traded love for a heavy chain

Another link every other day

I pulled it up and down a mountain

It made me want to say?

No more chains

No more chains

Big and small, watch them fall away

No more chains

Big and small, watch them fall away

I wonder now if the choice was mine

The door was open, I walked inside

Nobody had my arm twisted

Nobody made me stay

The face of freedom can show up small

A tiny crack in a prison wall

A song that rises up from silence

A voice that wants to say?

I should let you give me wings

I should let you set me free



Find the original post here  

Featured Blogs of the week!

Blessed with a Burden by Megan
Number 17 Cherry Tree Lane by Rachel
The Not So Pharaoh Farrows by Elisa
The Journey by Katie

Each blog will be featured on our homepage for one day.  And be sure to check back over the weekend to see what we are doing to bless Katie and Amazima (of The Journey!)

Guest Post Anyone?

We would love to invite our bloggers to guest post here!!

If that is something you'd enjoy doing, please contact us!
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About

Hello and welcome!
We are so glad you stopped by!

If you have not yet visited our website, go there first and then come back here to read more!

We are a new website, helping to connect people who write blogs, who read blogs who love Jesus.  We hope that FaithBlogs is a place for you to find Christ's love and loads of inspiration.

It is our hope that FaithBlogs ministers to people in all walks of life, but that it is especially helpful families who are considering adoption and who are in the process.  We were so thankful for our friends in blog-land during our adoption process and encouragement that we still find to help us through our journey. We have found that blogs are an incredible way to connect with real, honest and genuine people.

We are praying that God uses FaithBlogs for His honor and glory.  We are small, for now, (just a husband and wife team) but we are having a great time with this and are excited to see where God takes FaithBlogs!

Thank you for your love and support!
Justin and Katie Troup