(The Saturday Photo Hunt is below)

Here are some things I’ve seen “around” that I have enjoyed and thought you might, too.

• This quote from Sallie at A Gracious Home is so true:

A woman is complete in Christ – nothing more and nothing less. Marriage and/or motherhood may change her worldly status and role, but they do nothing to make her more complete in Christ. Salvation, wholeness, and meaning are found in Christ alone.

•  Are you familiar with Karla Dornacher? One of her books, Love in Every Room, is one of my favorites and stays out on the end table all the time. I love her style. Susan at By Grace mentioned a few days ago that Karla has a blog now. She’s even having a contest to give away some of her greeting cards!

• There are some gorgeous 4x4s at Everyday Is a Holiday that someone is using for a baking theme for their kitchen. A baking theme! How perfect for a kitchen. Why did I never think of that? I love Jenny’s quote here: it fits my world:

As artists, we’re not trying to make statements about war, or oppression, or poverty. We’re littler than that. What we think about when we create are the things that you don’t usually bother to think about…the little world that surrounds you when you  sleepily sip your morning coffee…the domestic sights your eyes gaze upon when you do the dishes after dinner…the backdrop of your everyday…the cake you bake on a random Tuesday…the color of the streamers at a kid’s birthday party.

•  Heather at HELLOmenameisHeather shared pictures of her studio this week. I am trying awfully hard not be covetous. 😀  Talk about the ultimate sewing and craft room. It’s beautiful, tranquil. inspiring. I would so love to have one room to devote to that (no, that’s not a hint to my sons. 🙂 ), but even if you don’t have a whole room, she shared many different little storage techniques.

• Mrs. Wilt at The Sparrow’s Nest is beginning a series on the woman of Proverbs 31. There is always much food for meditation there and I am looking forward to learning from the Proverbs 31 woman once again. But I always remember, and encourage others to remember, that this ultimate Biblical lady didn’t accomplish all of what is listed there in one day. Sometimes women can get discouraged at all of her accomplishments, but remember this is a picture of a lifetime, not “a day in the life.”

• Finally, you may have seen this one before as an nominee to the Hidden Treasure Awards that Everyday Mommy sponsored, but this post on Honoring My Covenant at A Dusty Frame has stayed with me for days. In my reading this morning I came to that passage about Joshua and the Gibeonites and the covenant they made, which Joshua needed to keep even though the Gibeonites weren’t totally honest. Then when Joshua and the children of Israel had to battle to defend Gibeon, the Lord marvelously enabled them. I never thought of this passage in regard to marriage, but marriage is a covenant. Something may change in one or both parties of a covenant, but the covenant is still in effect, and God will give grace when we honor our covenants. This and the rest of the post were just so profound and thought-provoking, I wanted to share it with you.

I finished Jane Eyre this week and want to talk about that a little, but I need to get to Wal-Mart and then get some chores done, so it will have to wait. Have a great Saturday!