This morning we loaded up the kids. lunch and a bunch of snacks (yes sugar included) and headed out to the land where our home is being built. I had wanted to dig thru the dumpster and take out 2x4s that we could use to burn in our wood stove this winter, instead of throwing them in a landfill. Dw bought me some really sweet pink flowered gloves with leather palms – what a good guy!

I had climbed in the dumpster (amazingly I was alone and could pray and think). Moral of the story: Need some time alone, climb in a dumpster!
I was thinking about the building process. I have been very weepy this week with Cindy’s going home to be with the Lord. Once grieving about Cindy it seemed like my brain moved into grieving to a deeper level the loss of our beloved little log home to the fire. So I have been crying at the drop of a hat. (By the way, is that a dumb saying or what? Who “drops a hat” and cries…..anyway, you get the idea!)

While in the dumpster I was thinking about how I wanted to have some friends come over and write scritpure verses on the studs of the walls before the drywall goes in. That thought moved to how I wish I could have a party and invite all of you, my sweet bloggy friends, to our home being built so that YOU could write on the studs lots and lots of Bible verses and/or prayers. I mean, many of you sent quilt squares for our bedroom quilt (which is absolutely gorgeous)……and knowing you all did that on your own for me is unbelievable!!

Many of you have prayed for us diligently since you came by A Place Called Simplicity. Many of you sent things after the fire and so many of you have left such precious comments….comments that have often made us cry – we feel so loved and yes, we really, truly consider you our friends!!

Then all of a sudden the idea came out of nowhere! It was such a wonderful idea I knew it had to be God! Why not ask you if you would like to handwrite Bible verse(s) and/or a prayer and I will put it in the walls before they drywall? How amazingly cool is that idea?? Totally God!!

We would then be able to have our new home be filled with bloggy love? I giggle at the thought!
Now here’s the deal – if you live in the United States your verse(s) and/or prayer must be handwritten and sent to:

I know there are a bunch of you that live outside the United States – places like: Germany, Canada, Japan, England, the Netherlands, Romania, China, Singapore, Spain, the Phillipines, Uganda, Norway just to name a few…. YOU are the only ones who don’t have to send yours via snail mail (unless you are dying to)…but can simply email your Bible verse(s) and/or prayers to: APlaceCalledSimplicity@yahoo.com

The rest of you who live in America, you have gotta’ snail mail it cause I just absolutely LOVE handwritten stuff……..if you want to include your family picture or just a picture of you…please, please, please do!

We will read them all before we place them in our walls. I think we will probably staple them inside or pin them….but either way, behind our dry wall we will have bloggy love, verses and prayers!! It’s gonna’ be awesome!!

The only other hitch is that the drywallers are supposed to start in exactly 9 days…so you gotta’ jump on it right away!! So get busy and drop it in the mail…..

Whatcha think? Are you game? Yippee Jesus – I can’t wait!!