Scripture Memory Verse Week #12

Good Morning, Princesses!
I pray that your weekend is being blessed by Him in too many ways for you to count! I know that mine has been, and it's only Sunday morning!
Since Friday, Tom, Adrianne and I have been involved in our first "Building Hope in Haiti" Conference. This is a group of people from New York to the Chicago area that are all working together to do just that...build hope in Haiti in many different ways. All I can say in the few moments I have before leaving for church is, "WOW!" What an amazing group of people, with an amazing heart for Haiti!
There will be more on this in posts to come, but for now just a couple of photos...

From left to right, Pastor Marky Kessa, President of the Ev. Lutheran Church of Haiti (and Leonie's brother), Leonie, and her son, Ezechias (Rachelle's husband, if you've been following for awhile!)

At the BHiH Conference, Leonie, Ezechias and Tom are presenting an update on the Children of Israel Orphanage, and giving a vision for the future.

Adrianne and Ezechias at dinner after the conference ended...(the margarita is NOT Adrianne's!)

Our group at dinner...big group!

Ok, time for leave for church, and then Leonie and I head right up to Central Michigan Univ. to hear Stephani's choir perform this afternoon, so on to the memory verse and more chatting later!

This week's verse continues our theme about how your Heavenly Father feels about you...(He adores you, in case you forgot...) So the verse for this week is a continuation of our passage in Isaiah:

"Since you are precious and honored in my sight, and because I love you, I will give men in exchange for you, and people in exchange for your life." Isaiah 43:4

Another WOW, isn't it? Please take a moment to ponder each and every word in the first half of that verse...and reflect....and absorb...allow it to overwhelm you. You, dear sister, princess, are PRECIOUS and HONORED in the sight of the Holy One of Israel. The God that created the earth, the stars, and all of creation, created you and believes that you are precious and honored! I don't mean to pry, but when is the last time that someone told you that? And, then He throws in (as if the first part weren't enough), "and because I love you." Just in case you were wondering....

Ok, more on that later, time for church...to be in the presence of the One that thinks I (and you) am pretty cool. Woo hoo! Let's go give Him the honor, glory and worship He is worthy of...

Blessings...

kimberly