Sane, Simple, Sacred: Serendipity

Serendipity

Someone has defined serendipity as finding something nice while looking for something else. While scouring our house (closets, drawers, trunks, shelves) for a box of children's musical rhythm instruments to use in an upcoming Christmas program, I found THIS! Just right for our "new" table for the next couple of months! I'd totally forgotten that I had it.

Along with the table runner were these two plastic pumpkins. I placed them on our (artificial) mantel beside the ceramic pumpkin I made last year.

Give us this day our daily bread...

Who KNOWS what other serendipities I might experience before I find what I'm looking for?! Have YOU had any serendipities lately? (Seems to be happening to me more and more the older I get. Hmmmmmmm.....)

"His compassions never fail. They are new EVERY morning..."

Lamentations 3:22-23

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CindyOctober 4, 2010 at 8:02 AM
That's a great table runner! My serendipity was finding a purse I really like for just $8 at a resale shop.
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RebeccaOctober 4, 2010 at 8:06 AM
I remember reading about it - how you didn't need to dip nearly so deep into your "new purse fund"!
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Jacquelyn StagerOctober 4, 2010 at 8:10 AM
oh I LIKE that! Perfect! The white pumpkin is really nice too!
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KarieOctober 4, 2010 at 8:40 AM
I don't know if this falls under 'serendipity'... I was looking for a break from the many 'things' I HAVE to do, and I got a break -- a couple in my leg -- so now I can't do anything... I keep telling myself that God is trying to teach me humility -- by making me let others help-- and patience with myself, but I'm struggling...
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RebeccaOctober 4, 2010 at 8:42 AM
Karie, I'm preparing to speak at a ladies' event at Central Church later this month. Topic? Simplicity! He's teaching me, too--so far not in the hard way you are having to learn. Is your leg "on schedule as far as the healing goes? I can't imagine the challenges you face with job, babies, etc.
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ColleenOctober 4, 2010 at 8:57 AM
What a beautiful table runner Rebecca! It completely brings fall and all its wonderful colors to mind!
I know I've had examples of serendipity as well but of course I can't think of the at the moment!:)
Well, this isn't really a material one but this morning when I was praying (and worrying as well I'm afraid) over our job situations because of moving, I opened the Bible and began reading Psalm 16 and the verse "Lord, my allotted portion and my cup, you have made my destiny secure." jumped out at me. We still don't know what will happen with the jobs but I felt that was a rather serendipitous reminder that God has it under control.
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RebeccaOctober 4, 2010 at 9:03 AM
Colleen, That is definitely "serendipitous"! And the "spiritual" seredipities are SO much better than the "material" ones (if they can actually be separated....)
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AndreaOctober 4, 2010 at 9:27 AM
Rebecca, the pumpkin print is beautiful, and yes, I love unexpected finds and have many! They are such a blessing from God's kind hand!

I hope you have a wonderful, blessed week!

Andrea
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SandyOctober 4, 2010 at 10:06 AM
I love the table runner because it reminds
me of one my mother had when I was a little
girl. Sweet memories. I am also loving the
white pumpkins I'm seeing everywhere. I feel
terrible about your friend Karie though. :(
Get well soon, Karie.
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Lady FarmerOctober 4, 2010 at 11:06 AM
Hi Rebecca!
Your fall table runner is just perfect, isn't it?
I need to go hunting for our Autumn decorations ~ can't seem to remember where I put them! :~D
My serendipity ~ finding so many sweet blogging friends like you!
Be blessed, today!
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MFEO2009October 4, 2010 at 11:06 PM
I sure do.
Serendipity is also one of my favorite movies :)
Glad to have stumbled upon your page!
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GlendaOctober 5, 2010 at 8:23 PM
Yep! I do understand "serendipities"! And I agree with you that I'm experiencing them more and more - or maybe I just can't remember if they happened earlier in my life!!!
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"We simplify, not just to be less busy, even though we may be right to pursue that. Rather, we simplify to remove distractions from our pursuit of Christ. We prune activities from our lives, not only to get organized, but also that our devotion to Christ and service for His kingdom will be more fruitful. We simplify, not merely to save time, but to eliminate hindrances to the time we devote to knowing Christ. All the reasons we simplify should eventually lead us to Jesus Christ!" (Donald S. Whitney)

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and see a fine picture every day of his life,
in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul."

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Contentment makes poor men rich.

-Benjamin Franklin

"What I am gradually discovering is that in the writing I come in touch with the Spirit of God." ~ Nouwen

~~"Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting."~~Edmund Burke

C.S. Lewis: "To trust Him means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in trusting a person if you wouldn't take his advice. Thus if you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him."

"To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common--this is my symphony." William Henry Channing

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The Apostle Paul: "But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus." (Philippians 3:13-14)

"It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand. It stops us from taking anything for granted. It has also taught me alot about living in the immediate moment. I am somehow managing to live one day, one hour at a time." Madeleine L'Engle

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God holds you. Each day he carries us in his arms. Psalm 68:19 NLT
God sustains you. THE LORD is my Shepherd [to feed, guide, and shield me], I shall not lack. Psalm 23:1 AMP
God covers you. He will cover you with His pinions, and under His wings shall you trust. Psalm 91:4 AMP
God pours His love upon you. Through each day the Lord pours his unfailing love upon me. Psalm 42:8 NLT
God will not fail you. The unfailing love of the Lord never ends! Lamentations 3:22 NLT

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