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Published on September 22, 2016September 21, 2016 by Dawn MarieLeave a comment

(This link was previous broken…sorry for the inconvenience to those who visited earlier. Extra hugs n’ blessings to you for returning!)

it’s a 3hugs&blessings thursday kind of day-lee-o!

…and since I’ve been so grateful for all of those who take the time to stop in, stroll around my site, and hopefully leave with a smile (or two or more…) I want to give some well-deserved attention to 3 bloggers who do the same for me! (thank you, thank you, thank you!!)

I always leave their site with a refreshed spirit and a mile-wide smile on my face and in my heart!

I hope you feel just as blessed as I after scroll-strolling through their site and want to follow them along, (as I do!)

I love everything Vincent Egoro at Live Your Greatest Life has written! A very few of my recent favorites are: Don’t Forget to Forget! And God Has Chosen You! And Enough of Just Hoping! But truthfully-truly there is not a thing he has written which has not left me inspired by it’s completion. I almost wish there was never a period to be found in his writings. He offers me a run-on-sentence for living…(in accordance to the holy word of God.) I teased him once with a comment I left for him following another well-written post….that it was written from God’s lips to Vincent’s pen…as it was exactly what the Holy Spirit desired for me to hear.

Doodlemum is no ho-hum of a blog to follow! A rendering of sketches she uses to display her life in lovely scribbly-doo’s which are not so shy of gallery quality! So often I am fondly reminded of similar displays in our own home of “life-lived-out abundantly” activities!! A few of my favs: Looking Back! To Bedtime and Beyond! Wear something casual..

And lastly…but not in the least place (ever,) my dear blogging friend Faye who has TWO sites she wonderfully manages Sacred Musings and Passionate Creative Christian. Faye and her sage wisdom always inspires me and often helps bring a calming salve to my sometimes weary-soul, exactly when it seems to be in need of some brightening up! I know you will be just as inspired with all that she does ‘down under’ to spread His love!

Please and thank-you for scroll-strolling to at least one of these sites!

And I hope you will continue to stop back as I am certain to recommend more!

3hugs n’ blessings to all the inspiration we receive, which encourages our love to grow!

Bearing my Blessings out to dry!

Published on October 8, 2015May 12, 2016 by Dawn Marie5 Comments

Hip-Hip-Hooray, it is 3hugs&blessings Thursday!!

And although I’ve been neglectful to share…the blessings have continued to hang-out with me and be there!

My recent blessings:

The Saints God sent me this week to guard & guide me. Most especially St. Pontian (for his understanding heart,) and St. Hippolytus (for his loving obedience.)
The ridiculously-fun-real-life-relationships I have with my 3 adult children and how we have all stuck together these past 2 years, despite the messiness of life!🙈 They fulfill me, challenge me & bring me closer to God every day in various ways! No matter how exhausted I may become there is always energy to laugh together!🙉 #ohhowilovethem #notmymonkeysnotmycircus🙊
The new friends I made during our pilgrimage to see our Papa, Pope Francis, in Philadelphia, Pa! This includes ‘The Mexicans’ (and all those I met from all over the World!)

I do pray pardon for bear-ly keeping up with this challenge & invite you, once again, to forage your thoughts before hibernating tonight and give thanks for your 3hugs&blessings this day/week too!

Let’s all keep spreading happiness with 3hugs&blessings at a time!

(And may this not be to awfully botherly-bother for you to do!)

I can bearly wait to count my blessings for the week ahead! (Think. Think. Think.)

These 3hugs&blessings are for you, as I’m praying you’ll count your blessings too!!

“In the world you will have trouble but take courage I have conquered the world!!!!”

John 16:33

helen says…

Published on September 7, 2015September 7, 2015 by Dawn MarieLeave a comment

on this Monday, day of giggles, Helen has one important thing to say…

FullSizeRender — (barks translated below!)

“HAPPY LABOR DAY

TO ALL THE DOG-LOVERS (AND OTHERS) OUT THERE

WORKING EXTRA HARD

TO MAKE OUR COUNTRY GREAT!!”

(plus a few more of her “barking-tips” for this labor-day holiday to “chew” on!)

“Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.” ~Confuscious

“I want a life that sizzles and pops and makes me laugh out loud. And I don’t want to get to the end, or to tomorrow, even, and realize that my life is a collection of meetings and pop cans and errands and receipts and dirty dishes. I want to eat cold tangerines and sing out loud in the car with the windows open and wear red shoes and stay up all night laughing and paint my walls the exact color of the sky right now. I want to sleep hard on clean white sheets and throw parties and eat ripe tomatoes and read books so good they make me jump up and down, and I want everyday to make God’s belly laugh, because He’s glad that He gave life to someone who loves the gift!!” ~Shawn Neiquest

“Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same.” ~author unknown

“Lord on this Labor Day, we thank You for the blessing of work. We ask for strength to compete each day. We ask for rest when we are weary. We ask Your guidance for everyone seeking employment, and we ask that You be with those whose faces we might never see but who work tirelessly each day for the good of us all. Amen.” ~Our Sunday Visitor

and because it IS Monday Helen leaves you with this labor day giggle:

hugs n’ blessings to all the hard working teachers, factory & construction workers, police, firefighters, truck drivers and ALL other workers who have made this country great!!