I have a deep love and appreciation for quilts.  Mainly, the quilts that my great-grandmother made.  Ma Patra would sit and sew regularly.  This has become a part of my life that is really a background memory.  I do not recall ever helping much with the quilting progress.  But I know that she was diligent about completing the quilts. Fun fact:  My family is very territorial about their Ma Patra quilts.  We all have more than one that was hand-stitched by her.  As I was growing up, she would give me a quilt on special occasions.  I would also get them just because, but I looked forward to receiving a…

I am eternally grateful for my salvation.  No series about my personal thanksgiving could really ever be complete without it. Without salvation, there is no Bible Study Girl.  Without salvation, there is no hope. I asked Google to define salvation.  It spit out that salvation is “preservation or deliverance from harm, ruin, or loss.”  In my eyes, that definition covers it.  I accepted Christ publicly when I was nine years old.  I walked down the aisle at church.  I stood in front of the entire congregation and told them that I believed that Jesus died for my sins.  I declared that I accepted Him into my life.  I received the…

On today, I express my gratitude for laughter.  Listen up guys.  Everything that I am grateful for is not super deep.  I am so easily amused.  Ask Bible Study Mama.  She will tell you that I laugh in my sleep.  Not just a giggle.  I am talking deep belly laughs.  The kind that really should wake me up.  Sometimes, she asks what I was dreaming.  Usually, I cannot recall anything specific. Now earlier this year, my laughter was replaced with crying in my sleep.  I am talking deep belly crying.  The kind that actually woke me up.  On more nights than I can count.  Bible Study Mama did not have…

In years past, I have been committed to using the month of November as a time to express thanks.  The very first year of the blog I extended an invitation to friends and family members to write about things that they were thankful for.  And last year Bible Study Brother took over and gave written roses to people who had made a difference in his life.  Writing took a major back seat in my life this year, but the good Lord pulled especially hard on my heart today.  The theme for this year’s November blogs will be “An Attitude of Gratitude.”  In the midst of the MOST challenging year of…