Kiss the Groom-" the Kissing tree"

such a sweet finding I discovered here 

searching for inspiration for a sweet friends bridal shower

try it i know you'll love it...

Gracefully Daisy

21 Suggestions for Success by H. Jackson Brown, Jr

http://www.21suggestions.com/

1. Marry the right person. This one decision will determine 90% of your happiness or misery.
2. Work at something you enjoy and that's worthy of your time and talent.
3. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.
4. Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know.
5. Be forgiving of yourself and others.
6. Be generous.
7. Have a grateful heart.
8. Persistence, persistence, persistence.
9. Discipline yourself to save money on even the most modest salary.
10. Treat everyone you meet like you want to be treated.
11. Commit yourself to constant improvement.
12. Commit yourself to quality.
13. Understand that happiness is not based on possessions, power or prestige, but on relationships with people you love and respect.
14. Be loyal.
15. Be honest.
16. Be a self-starter.
17. Be decisive even if it means you'll sometimes be wrong.
18. Stop blaming others. Take responsibility for every area of your life.
19. Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the ones you did.
20. Take good care of those you love.
21. Don't do anything that wouldn't make your Mom proud.

My Dear friend Raquel Shared these with me today. I really enjoyed reading through them I hope you will too.   with Love, Gracefully Daisy

Free to Be

Free to Be by Daisy Fuentes Dronen featuring leather handbags

I love this post! I am so excited about Polyvore it such a great tool for putting my musings into pictures! 
I love this pallet of neutrals. I can't wait for spring! I love the quote that inspired me to create this board. I want to be all of these...I am working hard on being punctual...lol

Gracefully Daisy

Brunch in citrus

Brunch in citrus by Daisy Fuentes Dronen featuring nautical jewelry

the table

Citrus beauty

so inspired by http://cocokelley.blogspot.com/ post for today! 

I started thinking about spring and how much I love brunch!

 I can't wait to host a brunch and would love to wear this when i do!

isn't it so beautiful...

Makes me long for spring, for picnics on the grass and sweet lemonade!

You are definitely invited to my brunch...lol

~Gracefully Daisy 

Today I remember to give thanks...

1. I give thanks for the one and only God-Who daily showers me with grace
2. I am grateful for a wonderful husband who loves me intimately, sweetly and thoroughly 
3. for our beautiful baby boy Samuel Benjamin who fills our house with unspeakable Joy!
4. for our health
5. for friends who enrich our lives
6. for naps on rainy days
7. for discovering a holy experience and basking in the encouragement found

~Gracefully yours Daisy

i made the mini book! so precious!

Romans 8-adventurously expectant

Romans 8 (The Message)

vs 9-28

"But for you who welcome him, in whom he dwells—even though you still experience all the limitations of sin—you yourself experience life on God's terms. It stands to reason, doesn't it, that if the alive-and-present God who raised Jesus from the dead moves into your life, he'll do the same thing in you that he did in Jesus, bringing you alive to himself? When God lives and breathes in you (and he does, as surely as he did in Jesus), you are delivered from that dead life. With his Spirit living in you, your body will be as alive as Christ's!

^12-14So don't you see that we don't owe this old do-it-yourself life one red cent. There's nothing in it for us, nothing at all. The best thing to do is give it a decent burial and get on with your new life. God's Spirit beckons. There are things to do and places to go!

 ^15-17This resurrection life you received from God is not a timid, grave-tending life. It's adventurously expectant, greeting God with a childlike "What's next, Papa?" God's Spirit touches our spirits and confirms who we really are. We know who he is, and we know who we are: Father and children. And we know we are going to get what's coming to us—an unbelievable inheritance! We go through exactly what Christ goes through. If we go through the hard times with him, then we're certainly going to go through the good times with him!

 ^18-21That's why I don't think there's any comparison between the present hard times and the coming good times. The created world itself can hardly wait for what's coming next. Everything in creation is being more or less held back. God reins it in until both creation and all the creatures are ready and can be released at the same moment into the glorious times ahead. Meanwhile, the joyful anticipation deepens.

 ^22-25All around us we observe a pregnant creation. The difficult times of pain throughout the world are simply birth pangs. But it's not only around us; it's within us. The Spirit of God is arousing us within. We're also feeling the birth pangs. These sterile and barren bodies of ours are yearning for full deliverance. That is why waiting does not diminish us, any more than waiting diminishes a pregnant mother. We are enlarged in the waiting. We, of course, don't see what is enlarging us. But the longer we wait, the larger we become, and the more joyful our expectancy.

 ^26-28Meanwhile, the moment we get tired in the waiting, God's Spirit is right alongside helping us along. If we don't know how or what to pray, it doesn't matter. He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans. He knows us far better than we know ourselves, knows our pregnant condition, and keeps us present before God. That's why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good."

 I couldn't leave any of these verses out I actually wanted to copy the whole chapter!
My little guy Sam, is 7 months old. Even at this age he was in my belly longer than he has lived in our home! These verses remind me of that adventurous expectancy! we were so excited to get to meet Sam and hold him in our arms beginning a new adventure together!

How much more with God! He makes us alive in Him to live an adventure with Him here on earth as he guides us to the biggest adventure of all eternity with Him! So let this expectancy be joyful for you! Know that the Lord truly has awesome plans for your life! This waiting makes us stronger, teaches us patience and helps us put things in perspective! Will you get tired while you wait? absolutely but that's ok because the Holy Spirit is right there with us as we wait guiding us, teaching us what to do, and helping us pray!
in summary 

"He knows us far better than we know ourselves, knows our pregnant condition, and keeps us present before God. That's why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good."

Praise the Lord!
Gracefully Daisy

Romans 7 in this life of contradiction

This is what living out our faith and life in this world is all about! This has been the Ultimate struggle in my life. I know that good that I want to do! I want to revel in the Lord's commandment I want to follow them and live them out but everyday it is a struggle because the flesh that my spirit lives in is not spiritual and still longs to do the exact sin that I want  to stay away from!

Reading this passage has always brought great  comfort to me because Paul a huge faith  warrior had the same struggle I deal with everyday! Praise God there is hope for me!

Romans 7:14-25

Released From the Law, Bound to Christ

^"14 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. ¹⁵ I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. ¹⁶ And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. ¹⁷ As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. ¹⁸ For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature.^[c] For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. ¹⁹ For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. ²⁰ Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

 ²¹ So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. ²² For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; ²³ but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. ²⁴ What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? ²⁵ Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!

   So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature^[d] a slave to the law of sin."

Here is another way to say the ending of this chapter from the Message 

Romans7:24-25

" ²⁴I've tried everything and nothing helps. I'm at the end of my rope. Is there no one who can do anything for me? Isn't that the real question?

 ²⁵The answer, thank God, is that Jesus Christ can and does. He acted to set things right in this life of contradictions where I want to serve God with all my heart and mind, but am pulled by the influence of sin to do something totally different."

The Hope for me is called Jesus! he is the answer! He has made things right "in this life of contradiction" He is with us always-as he promised! With him we can do all things for he gives us strength. (phil 4:13) This includes serving him! Praise the Lord because has thought of  everything and has given us all the answers because he wants us to spend eternity with him! Hallelujah! 

So in Love

So in Love by Daisy Fuentes Dronen featuring a rose quartz ring