Etchings of the Heart

Looking Ahead ... and Daring to Dream

Dear Friends ... I hope this finds you all happy and well! It's been some time since I've posted so thought I'd share some photos of what I've been up to.

Here are just a few photos of the scrapbook I've been working on for the Minnesota Angel Foundation

The Angel Foundation provides financial assistance for adult cancer patients to meet critical non-medical needs as well as education and support programs to families here in the Twin Cities metro area.

This is their story and the Hope for a brighter future

Minnesota Angel Foundation

 

Until next time dear friends ... celebrate this blessed time of the year with family and friends. Please keep our military families and their loved ones in your thoughts and prayers. Sending *smiles* blessings, hope and peace to all!

Susan

 

All For the Love of Hats

Look what's in my goodie bag today ... don't you just love hats *smiles* I've spent most of my day photo shooting and listing merchandise. You'll find a wonderful collection of handcrafted hats in our Little Pink Boutique at MakeMinePink.Com

 

 

 

 

Staging, Photoshoot and Photography by Susan Cudahy

A Blessed Sunday Morning

A Breakfast Prayer:

Father we thank Thee for the night and for the pleasant morning light. For rest and food and loving care, and all that makes the day so fair.

Help us to do the things we should. To be to others kind and good. In all we do, in all we say, to grow more loving every day. Rebecca J. Weston

May this blessed day bring you much happiness and love!

Photography by Susan Cudahy

A Breakfast Prayer by Rebecca J. Weston

Storytelling Through Photography

Picture this: The sun is just peaking around the corner. You're little tea time storybook is at hand, your favorite lace has been gently placed on the coffee table set with beautiful pink china and a lovely boutique of flowers ... they all work well together and seem to be telling the story of a lovely Sunday morning.

May your day be blessed with unexpected surprises, family, good friends and lots and lots of love!

We Are The World

Particularly as we get older, our spirits as well as our bodies need more quiet time, more reflection, more immersion in the magic of just being. That doesn't mean we're retreating from the world, so much as we're moving into a deeper experience of it. For the world is in fact a whole lot bigger than what we see with our physical eyes. Part of the value of the aging process ... and I did say that, yes: the value of the aging process is that it delivers us naturally to realms in which we're not quite so tethered to the realities of the material world. It's not so much that we're loosing it as that we're finding it.

Photo by Susan Cudahy

Text taken from The Age of Miracles by Marianne Williamson page 159

Happy Anniversary Darling

From Susan's Journal:
What a beautiful day ... stepping out on the balcony for a little quiet time with my Lord ... my prayer was that he would bless this marriage. We had come all this way to Tennessee ... just the two of us ... I asked that when I walk down the aisle ... he would walk beside me ... and I believe he did.

We got married in a little white chapel nestled in the Smoke Mountains. Our pastor ... an Evangelistic  minister said he could tell how much we loved each other just by looking at us. The ceremony was beautiful and based on one of my favorite chapters and verses: 1 Corinthians 13: 4-7

Love is patient ... love is kind ... it does not envy ... it does not boast ... it is not proud ... it is not rude ... it is not self seeking ... it is not easily angered ... it keeps no record of wrongs.

Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects ... always trusts ... always hopes ... always perseveres.

You looked so handsome in your dark gray pinstripe suit. What a wonderful man the Lord has chosen for my husband. We get a long so well. You're kind, loving and have such a wonderful sense of humor. I'm sure we'll rely on that going forward.

Today: That day I married my friend ... the one I laugh with and live for ... dream with and love  ... Happy Anniversary Darling!

Waiting for that BIG Catch * Lake Josephine * Minnesota

I have fond memories of going fishing with Dad and my brothers. It was always so exciting. We couldn't wait to get our fishing poles in the water ...

I had to smile when I saw this young man fishing. He just didn't want to quit ... I know he was waiting on that BIG catch. Let your imagination wonder ...

June Greetings

My windows are open. I can hear the sweet music of birds. They too must be happy the warm days  of June have arrived. It's beautiful, the early afternoon sun is peaking through the trees as a soft breeze gently moves the leaves. Our home is filled with the scent of the freshly mowed grass. It's picture perfect!

Thoughts for the day: If you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding ... wisdom will enter your heart and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul. Proverbs 2:3,10 niv