You Encourage Me to Follow in His Footsteps!

What a beautiful Blessing! I am so honored that my friend Maria has been kind enough to share this award with me! It means a great deal to me, because of what it represents! It was designed by Karen @ Karen's Ramblings. This is what prompted her to create it:

Encouragement. A word of hope or affirmation is a real blessing to building one another up - with the view of leading us closer to God.

I have been really encouraged, inspired, challenged and stirred up by a lot of posts that I have read. They have drawn me closer to God, desiring to follow in His Footsteps more and more.

Maria describes why she has shared this blessing from her heart...

The people I have mentioned are the ones that I can click on even when I maybe can't focus or press in, because of time or state of mind, and KNOW that I will be drawn near to Christ and it will be impossible to miss Him while I visit with them.

I have been encouraged, uplifted, challenged and blessed by so many of you. And I've tried to share examples of this when the Lord has placed it on my heart, whether that be in comments to you or in posts, such as here. There are so many of you that deserve this award for various reasons. And there are some of you that I would give it to if you didn't already have it!- (Maria and Susan) I would now like to pass this blessing on to...

1. JMom @ Lots of Scotts, because she truly treasures the blessing of motherhood God has given her, and her writing is honest, heart felt, hilarious and encourages me spiritually in my own parenting endeavors!
2. Erin @ Embracing my Cup, because she is endearing and her love for the Lord and her family is so evident in every thing she shares!
3. Kimberly @ A Planting of the Lord - She is one of my new favorites. Although she hasn't been blogging very long, she strives to deepen her walk with the Lord.
4. Marsha @ Marsha's Musings - I appreciate and enjoy her daily snippets (5 minute retreats) of encouragement as well as her heart for sharing God's love and word through foreign missions.

These are a few blogs I encourage you to enjoy for your self! I hope to continue to encourage, and uplift those of you who visit my blog. Lord make me worthy to bear the name "Christian."