Hope

One of the challenges over at Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge is scrapbooking your beliefs.  That doesn't necessarily mean religious beliefs it could be something as little as my husband believing that I ask him to swap cars only when my tank is empty... hmm but he may have something there :).  But when I read this challenge an idea came to mind immediately.  I don't believe in coincidence.  I'm not going to get into some deep religious blog post here but to put it simply I believe that God's hand is in everything.   I then saw on Missy's blog that the challenge over at Challenge Me Happy is based on a fabulous photo with blue sky, clouds, and the word love.  Well I swapped out the word love for the word hope, combined the two challenges and created this...

The base paper is Sassafrass Sunshine Broadcast, the other pp's are some old Fancy Pants.  Flowers are Basic Grey Bloomers, clouds and kite are KI Puffies, butterfly rub-on is by Jenni Bowlin, the little bird on the bottom left is by My Minds Eye, and the flare near the bird is American Crafts.

You can read all the journaling below, I know that's a whole lot of journaling but it is a nice story.

"In March 2006 Gavin and I flew to Mobile, Alabama.  Tim was stationed at Camp Shelby near Hattiesburg, Mississippi and this was going to be the last opportunity for us to see him before he left for Iraq.  I don’t know how many thousands of family members were traveling to Hattiesburg but it was a crazy day for traveling and Mobile was the closest airport to which I could find tickets.  All the flights were overbooked and there seemed to be thunderstorms all across the country.  Gavin was about 11 weeks old so I was traveling fully loaded with diaper bag, stroller, and car seat.   We had at least 2 layovers and when we landed in Houston I discovered the airline lost the stroller and car seat when I checked them at the previous gate.  So we were late for our final flight to Mobile and I was running through the airport carrying Gavin.  The plane waited for us but by the time I got there I walked in with a screaming baby, I can just imagine what the rest of the passengers were thinking.   We were seated near the front of the plane next to a very friendly busy man, all things considering.  I was trying to calm Gavin and I heard someone behind me tell the man next to me to switch places with her so she could, “be by that baby.”   This lady’s name was Hope.  The man sitting next to me was happy to change places with her.  Hope talked to me, and assured me not to worry about the crying baby.  I got Gavin calmed down and then the turbulence started.  It was the bumpiest flight I had ever been on and I could feel myself getting sick.  Hope took Gavin and cared for him the rest of the flight so I could either throw up or just sit back and relax, something I hadn’t been able to do all day.  We landed in Mobile and I never saw Hope again.  I don’t believe in coincidence.  God gave me Hope when I needed her the most."

 

See I told you it's a nice story!

Oh yeah, I've been seeing this all over blogs today but I too am going to watch Breaking Dawn tonight!  And then tomorrow I took the day off from work and am cropping at the LSS all day with my BFF.  How cool is that!?!

Thanks for looking!!!