bracelets, mustard seeds & waxing poetic

 

i've received several emails/comments regarding the bracelets the girls & i often wear.

allow me to first share about one in particular.

emi was given a very special gift before she left for Peru.

one of my best friends prayerfully & financially supported her.

they also gave her this bracelet from waxing poetic

it's extra sentimental to me

(even though it's emi's)

because 'faith' is stamped on the coin.

 emi's faith was both tested and enlarged this summer while she was there. 

(shared about here, here and here)

the friends that gave this to emi are the ones that held her, day after day

when she was a newborn

& i was a new single mom.

that same precious friend sat with me the evening gregg passed away

and many, many days afterwards.

that precious friend and her family reminded me symbolically 

to remain faithful.

 to have faith, even if only the size of a tiny mustard seed.

so it seemed even more precious to me that 15 years later,

emi would be heading out to another country

where not only my faith, but primarily her faith would grow.

& that her faith would draw others to the Lord.

~faith~

i found this one  this summer (for myself) the week we moved savannah into the dorms at uga.

it's a regular player in my wrist adornment inventory.

anyway...just wanted to introduce you to Waxing Poetic
&
just maybe if you're in a place where faith to move mountains seems like an unattainable goal
it all starts with a mustard seed.

let me know if you pick out a piece. i love hearing fun jewelry stories :)

 matthew 17.21

“I tell you the truth, 

if you had faith 

even as small as a mustard seed,

you could say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’

and it would move. 

Nothing would be impossible.”