I am super excited for today!!
A Memorial Box auction to help Vern come home!! {Memorial Boxes are explained at the bottom.}
PLEASE READ the rules before bidding:
1. The auction will end tomorrow night at 9:00pm PST – Tuesday, December 1st!
2. There will be 15 comments {made by me} under this post ON my FACEBOOK, each comment posted by me and each clearly labeled with a number that matches the Memorial Box. If you wish to bid, please place a bid UNDER my comment by hitting “reply”.
3. The comment section on Facebook will be the only place that bids will be allowed.
4. Payments for the Memorial Boxes will be paid to my personal Paypal account {APlaceCalledSimplicity@yahoo.com} within 24 hours of your win or your win will be forfeited and the friend next in line will become the new winner.
5. Shipping and insurance {although insurance is included in Priority} is the responsibility of the purchaser, unless you are local and then we can meet for pick-up. I have no idea how much shipping will cost as each box is completely different, however payment for the Memorial box will be expected in the first 24 hours. Then I will pack and take to PO to find out what shipping is to your home, at which time a second payment for shipping will be sent by purchaser.
6. Boxes will be packed up and taken to the post office within 7 business days of auction closing.
7. Bids will be in increments of $5.00 each at a minimum please. But if you should want to “go big” – please, please do!!
8. Each box will start with an opening bid {posted below}.
9. Feel free to share my post with your friends and family on FB as well.
10. I love antiques. Some of the boxes are antiques. Some are unusual. Three are old sewing drawers. One is a small white one. Some could be used for children {what better time for kids to remember what God has done than to start young!} They all can be used to set special symbols inside – each showing just how faithful God is. They always make great conversation pieces – such a beautiful way to tell your friends and family exactly what God has done for you through the items displayed!!
My kids often say, “Can we pull something out mom and you tell us the story again?” Yes, they love remembering!!
Any of the boxes can be purchased for another purpose. {One of my daughters stores her Essential Oils in an old sewing drawer! It looks so beautiful on her wall.}
Lastly, if you missed the post about Vernon….click here to meet him {it has a video!}..he’s 13 and has been waiting his whole life for his forever family. We finally found him and we can’t wait till he’s home!!
PS If there is any problem with posting bids…we will get it figured out!!
Let the bidding begin!! And thank you so much in advance!!
1. Gray Memorial Box – 6-1/2″ W x 14″H x 3″D – glass front – Opening Bid: $15.
2. Antique Sewing Drawer; bobbin holder; carved handle {pic below} 5″W x 15″H x 5″D – Opening Bid: $10.
3. Large Wood Memorial Box 11″W x 16″H x 6″D Opening Bid: $15. 
4. Black Memorial Box {with drawer} 8″W x 12″ H x 3″ D Opening Bid: $10.
5. White Memorial Box 6.5″W x 7″H x 3″D {interior pic below} Opening Bid: $10.
6. Gray Memorial Box – 6-1/2″ W x 14″H x 3″D – glass front – Opening Bid: $15.
7. Antique Mirrored Memorial Box {interior pic below} 12″W x 16″ H x 3.5″ D It would be easy to remove and put glass in the front {we were going to for the auction} but both Dw and I decided we kinda liked the old mirror – it’s pretty cool looking. I think it was an old medicine chest.} Opening Bid: $25.
8. Antique Sewing Box with carved handle {pic below} 5″W x 15″H x 5″D – Opening Bid: $10. 
9. Large Memorial Box with Fabric & Drawer {interior pic below} 11″W x 18″ H x 7″D Opening Bid: $15.
10. Wooden Cubby Memorial Box 12″W x 7.5″H x 3.5″D {could be turned lengthwise} Opening Bid: $10. 
11. Wood & Wire Memorial Box 10.5″W x 15″H x 4″D Opening Bid: $15. 
12. Antique Sewing Drawer Box with Metal Handle – 14″W x 4.5″H x 3.5″D – Opening Bid: $10. 
13. Wood Memorial Box with Drawer 13″W x 10.5″ H x 5″D Opening Bid: $15.
14. White Wood Memorial Box with Drawer 13″W x 10.5″ H x 5″D Opening Bid: $15.
15. Pagoda Memorial Box {interior pic below} 8″W x 15″ H x 3.5″D Opening Bid: $20. 
Thank you so much for Helping Us Bring Vernon Home!!
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And for those new to what Memorial Box, please permit me to explain…
A Memorial Box is filled with very tangible symbols, trinkets or objects, each representing a time in our lives where God provided, protected and proved Himself strong. Here’s the Biblical understanding behind it…
In Joshua 4 God told the Israelites this:
When the whole nation had finished crossing the Jordan, the LORD said to Joshua, “Choose twelve men from among the people, one from each tribe, and tell them to take up twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan from right where the priests stood and to carry them over with you and put them down at the place where you stay tonight.”
So Joshua called together the twelve men he had appointed from the Israelites, one from each tribe, and said to them, “Go over before the ark of the LORD your God into the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites, to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask you, ‘What do these stones mean?’ tell them that the flow of the Jordan was cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD.
When it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off.
These stones are to be a memorial to the people of Israel forever.”
So the Israelites did as Joshua commanded them. They took twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites, as the LORD had told Joshua; and they carried them over with them to their camp, where they put them down. Joshua set up the twelve stones that had been in the middle of the Jordan at the spot where the priests who carried the ark of the covenant had stood. And they are there to this day……….
On the tenth day of the first month the people went up from the Jordan and camped at Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho. And Joshua set up at Gilgal the twelve stones they had taken out of the Jordan. He said to the Israelites, “In the future when your descendants ask their fathers, ‘What do these stones mean?’ tell them, ‘Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’ For the LORD your God dried up the Jordan before you until you had crossed over. The LORD your God did to the Jordan just what he had done to the Red Sea when he dried it up before us until we had crossed over.
He did this so that all the peoples of the earth might know that the hand of the LORD is powerful and so that you might always fear the LORD your God.”
Many, many, many years ago we began gathering items for our Memorial Box – each representing a time when God rescued, healed, provided for or protected our family.
One of the most powerful times the significance of our Memorial Box became apparent goes back to 2009. We had just lost our home to the fire and were still reeling emotionally from that. Dw, who had just returned from Africa was very sick, yet he had insisted on driving with me the 1120 miles [one way] to Iowa City for Isaiah to have surgery for his Arthrogryposis.
As I drove farther from home, Dw got sicker and sicker and ended up being admitted to the hospital as well, which meant I had Dw on one end with Isaiah having surgery on the other end…and we were 1,000 miles from our home in an unknown city.
To top it off, the tests the hospital was running for Dw were alarming – clearly showing it was his liver. Fear began to take it’s ugly grip as I grappled with: Dw deathly ill, Isaiah having surgery, not knowing anyone, the kids 1,000+ miles away and uncertain what was exactly wrong with Dw’s liver. As panic overwhelmed me, suddenly, one by one, the trinkets from our Memorial Box zoomed by my mind’s eye in a steady stream.
And instantly I was overwhelmed with God’s peace as He whispered,
“What is in your Memorial Box?
Do you not remember?
I have healed, protected, restored and rescued in the past.
I will not leave you.
I have this one too.”
The thing was that when the Lord whispered that to my heart, not one thing had changed, but instantly I *knew* – He had been faithful all those other times, His faithfulness would continue even in this Iowa City, husband very sick, son having surgery season.
I encourage anyone I meet to begin a Memorial Box today. He is always faithful and we must always remember!! Our Memorial Box is pictured below:
