Our entire family is trekking West to Breckenridge, Colorado to celebrate our eldest son's 50th birthday (Jerry) and his son's high school graduation (Ryan)! We'll all be staying at the Grand Timber Lodge. Everyone's excited. Jerry has written out all sorts of activities available in the area such as horse back riding, mountain climbing (his forte), hiking, biking & white water rafting.
Ron and I moved to Florida four years ago mainly for Ron's health. Five of our six families still live in Michigan. Jerry & Anne and their kids, Ryan and Lauren, live outside of Denver in Centennial, Co. Our Colorado family has never had a Grandma and Grandpa, Aunts, Uncles, or tons of cousins sitting in the stands wildly cheering for them or blowing out birthday candles. Well, some of us, on occasion. But this day...20 plus cousins and 10 aunts and uncles will be showering them with big squeezing hugs and lots of kisses on their turf!
Our entire family also gathered last August, 2009, in Northern Michigan for Ron and my 50th Wedding Anniversary. I remember really good seafood, Lake Michigan waves pounding the shore, sand in our toes, long walks, eating ice cream cones, and talking, early morning swims, late night talks; one til morning!! Lake Michigan was the perfect setting for everyone to just hang out together; like we had all the time in the world. It was wonderful!
Ron and I are so blessed with our large family. We're now seeing grandchildren give their lives to Jesus Christ. So far, two are in Christian Ministry. Our college graduates are serving in their communities. Nicole is a Registered nurse working in a Chicago Hospital. Michelle is a Dental Assistant in Michigan. Andrew is at Michigan State University/Dental, Nathan at Hope College in Pre-law, and Amanda at Cornerstone University in Accounting/Finance. Now Ryan has been accepted at the University of Colorado. He's undecided on a major at this point.
We also pray as our wholesome teenage girls wage war against the promiscuity rampant in their schools...the young teens opting to wear the Purity Ring. Praise God for kids willing to stand up for righteousness at the possible expense of being rejected! It's tough for teenagers to stand alone! But... when they have Christ, they're not alone :-) And when they have a fun loving family, they're not alone.
"Fun Family life" is Key. But... this only happens when the parents first three priorities in life are in Divine Order according to the Scriptures:
1) God is their first priority 2) Their marriage is second, 3) Their children are their third priority.
Following God's order results in a life of Good Fruit! Good fruit is delicious, pleasing, delightful, rewarding, enjoyable, good, gratifying, rich, sweet, and pleasant. This is God's intent for all families!
God so loves us!
Sharon
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Friday, January 29, 2010
Box of Letters
January 2010
I was just looking through the box of letters and e-mails I've received over the past year from people who's lives were touched by Heaven Has Blue Carpet. The Lord will work through anyone (willing and available) to get His message across to all people, "I Love You!"
A great number of the people who contacted me shared how they had been set free from a spirit of rejection after enduring years of misery! And many shared, through various stories, how they finally feel good about themselves for the first time in their lives! Several referred to themselves as," happy bummer lambs". One woman in her late 70's said, "I've been in prayer lines, deliverance sessions, read books on rejection and nothing helped me. Then I read your book. I cried and cried until there were no more tears. I am now free from that horrible rejection for the first time in my life and boy does it feel good!"
I received a wonderful letter from Tina Hutchison, from Holding Out Hope Ministries. Tina ministers weekly the Hope of Christ to the inmates at the Tennessee Prison for Women and to women on Death Row in the United States. Tina shared how she used my book for a bible study and how at one point, all the women were crying. She sent me her notes. Tina is an awesome woman of God and a beautiful singer. You can order her worship CD, Hope Inside. Visit her ministry at www.HoldingOutHope.org.
Tina's Scripture (and one of mine) is Isaiah 61:1-3
"He has sent me to BIND UP the broken hearted, to PROCLAIM freedom for the captives and RELEASE from darkness for the prisoners...to BESTOW on them a CROWN OF BEAUTY instead of ashes...and a garment of PRAISE instead of a spirit of despair..."
Four people felt strong enough to send me an e-mail telling me they were reading my book out loud (to: their neighbor in the hospital/woman in a nursing home/lady alone in a trailer and can't see to read/ her husband who can no longer read) and what a blessing it was for them. I believe it was primarily Christ's love flowing through them into their neighbor that blessed both of them! Read Isaiah 61:1-3 again.
I received tons of really enjoyable letters. How about this fun little note from an Attorney from Michigan. He and his wife flew to Los Angeles and stayed with family members and they went to their church for the Christmas Eve service.
"It was one of those 20,000 member churches that looks like a small college campus, complete with two recording studios, a sit-down restaurant, a man-made lake, a huge bookstore, etc. I was shaking my head at the sheer materialism of the whole experience when I noticed a purple and blue book with the picture of a sheep on the cover prominently displayed in the middle of one of the tables as I entered the bookstore. Then everything was right with the world again :-)"
I try hard to answer every letter as quickly as possible and I pray for every contact...continuing in prayer for many. I want to be a good steward of God's little sheep book!
Love,
Sharon Niedzinski
I was just looking through the box of letters and e-mails I've received over the past year from people who's lives were touched by Heaven Has Blue Carpet. The Lord will work through anyone (willing and available) to get His message across to all people, "I Love You!"
A great number of the people who contacted me shared how they had been set free from a spirit of rejection after enduring years of misery! And many shared, through various stories, how they finally feel good about themselves for the first time in their lives! Several referred to themselves as," happy bummer lambs". One woman in her late 70's said, "I've been in prayer lines, deliverance sessions, read books on rejection and nothing helped me. Then I read your book. I cried and cried until there were no more tears. I am now free from that horrible rejection for the first time in my life and boy does it feel good!"
I received a wonderful letter from Tina Hutchison, from Holding Out Hope Ministries. Tina ministers weekly the Hope of Christ to the inmates at the Tennessee Prison for Women and to women on Death Row in the United States. Tina shared how she used my book for a bible study and how at one point, all the women were crying. She sent me her notes. Tina is an awesome woman of God and a beautiful singer. You can order her worship CD, Hope Inside. Visit her ministry at www.HoldingOutHope.org.
Tina's Scripture (and one of mine) is Isaiah 61:1-3
"He has sent me to BIND UP the broken hearted, to PROCLAIM freedom for the captives and RELEASE from darkness for the prisoners...to BESTOW on them a CROWN OF BEAUTY instead of ashes...and a garment of PRAISE instead of a spirit of despair..."
Four people felt strong enough to send me an e-mail telling me they were reading my book out loud (to: their neighbor in the hospital/woman in a nursing home/lady alone in a trailer and can't see to read/ her husband who can no longer read) and what a blessing it was for them. I believe it was primarily Christ's love flowing through them into their neighbor that blessed both of them! Read Isaiah 61:1-3 again.
I received tons of really enjoyable letters. How about this fun little note from an Attorney from Michigan. He and his wife flew to Los Angeles and stayed with family members and they went to their church for the Christmas Eve service.
"It was one of those 20,000 member churches that looks like a small college campus, complete with two recording studios, a sit-down restaurant, a man-made lake, a huge bookstore, etc. I was shaking my head at the sheer materialism of the whole experience when I noticed a purple and blue book with the picture of a sheep on the cover prominently displayed in the middle of one of the tables as I entered the bookstore. Then everything was right with the world again :-)"
I try hard to answer every letter as quickly as possible and I pray for every contact...continuing in prayer for many. I want to be a good steward of God's little sheep book!
Love,
Sharon Niedzinski
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Getting the message out: "We desperately need a Shepherd!"
God used the sheep and shepherd analogy throughout the entire Bible as His favorite description of His relationship with us. Jesus told us, "I am the Good Shepherd;I know my sheep and my sheep know me " Jn 10:14
Sadly, the sheep and shepherd Scriptures just don't seem relevant to many in today's fast paced, high tech world. But this message is more relevant now then it's ever been! Our world is in a mess! We're ruining our pastures, just as all sheep do without a Shepherd. Our pastures and rivers stink with pesticides and allergies and sicknesses are increasing at an alarming rate. Even our atmosphere is affected. Need I mention that all our core values are at risk? We are in a mess because of our inherent greed, selfishness and lust.
We wouldn't be in this mess if we realized God gave us the Bible as our operating manual and He gave us His Son Jesus to shepherd us personally. The Good Shepherd easily guides and teaches His sheep safely through thickets and thorns, over precarious pathways and brings them to rest when they need it.
As I quoted in the book, "But rather pursue God and do things His way, people everywhere, all over the world, have plunged headlong into the deceptive pursuit of the here and now and have decided that accumulating worldy goods and pleasures is their best bet for finding happiness."
Believe me...no one in Sheep World accumulating the barn's treasures could ever be as blessed as a sheep who knows his Shepherd!
Our Shepherd longs to shepherd every single one of us, personally. If we ask Him to shepherd us, He will! Jesus specifically told us, "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you."
It is urgent that mankind specifically ask Jesus to be their Shepherd and to seriously start reading our Operating Manual, the Bible! God knows all about us...He wants us to know all about Him!
For those sheep that already follow the Shepherd, give thanksgiving! "On your feet now--applaud God! Bring a gift of laughter, sing yourselves into his presence. Know this: God is God, and God, GOD. He made us; we didn't make him. We're his people, his well-tended sheep. Enter with the password: "Thank you!" Make yourselves at home, talking praise. Thank him. Worship him." Psalm 100 The Message Bible
I had my 29th radio interview this week - with more to come. Pray I get the message out!
Sadly, the sheep and shepherd Scriptures just don't seem relevant to many in today's fast paced, high tech world. But this message is more relevant now then it's ever been! Our world is in a mess! We're ruining our pastures, just as all sheep do without a Shepherd. Our pastures and rivers stink with pesticides and allergies and sicknesses are increasing at an alarming rate. Even our atmosphere is affected. Need I mention that all our core values are at risk? We are in a mess because of our inherent greed, selfishness and lust.
We wouldn't be in this mess if we realized God gave us the Bible as our operating manual and He gave us His Son Jesus to shepherd us personally. The Good Shepherd easily guides and teaches His sheep safely through thickets and thorns, over precarious pathways and brings them to rest when they need it.
As I quoted in the book, "But rather pursue God and do things His way, people everywhere, all over the world, have plunged headlong into the deceptive pursuit of the here and now and have decided that accumulating worldy goods and pleasures is their best bet for finding happiness."
Believe me...no one in Sheep World accumulating the barn's treasures could ever be as blessed as a sheep who knows his Shepherd!
Our Shepherd longs to shepherd every single one of us, personally. If we ask Him to shepherd us, He will! Jesus specifically told us, "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you."
It is urgent that mankind specifically ask Jesus to be their Shepherd and to seriously start reading our Operating Manual, the Bible! God knows all about us...He wants us to know all about Him!
For those sheep that already follow the Shepherd, give thanksgiving! "On your feet now--applaud God! Bring a gift of laughter, sing yourselves into his presence. Know this: God is God, and God, GOD. He made us; we didn't make him. We're his people, his well-tended sheep. Enter with the password: "Thank you!" Make yourselves at home, talking praise. Thank him. Worship him." Psalm 100 The Message Bible
I had my 29th radio interview this week - with more to come. Pray I get the message out!
Thursday, October 30, 2008
GETTING THE WORD OUT!
I just finished 28 radio interviews that have gone out all over the Nation through a wonderful media company out of New York, N.Y. and several from Thomas Nelson Publisher. It felt great to be connected with all those early morning commuters going to work.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
All Praise and Honor to The Good Shepherd!
I just want to say, loud and clear, this book is the Lords! All honor and glory to Him!
The Lord opened up the sheep and shepherd scriptures for me and revealed things that I didn't know! He encouraged me to continue serving my flock when I thought it should be over (He knew I still had lots to learn). It was His idea for the book to be published! He opened closed doors (tightly closed doors) and pushed me through with my mouth hanging wide open!!! When I was told I had to write a Proposal, I had to ask, "What is a Proposal?" My Shepherd actually helped me write the Proposal for the book. Together we wrote for two months! Two wonderful months!!! Of course it was accepted. In fact, the 1st Publisher said it was, quote, "perfect". What a Shepherd! I think He chose me for this job because I was such a novice...I had to totally depend on Him. I had to! I think He is happy to have His little sheep book finally getting out there among the people who so need Him...and I pray they will also realize He needs them! That's pure love!
The Lord opened up the sheep and shepherd scriptures for me and revealed things that I didn't know! He encouraged me to continue serving my flock when I thought it should be over (He knew I still had lots to learn). It was His idea for the book to be published! He opened closed doors (tightly closed doors) and pushed me through with my mouth hanging wide open!!! When I was told I had to write a Proposal, I had to ask, "What is a Proposal?" My Shepherd actually helped me write the Proposal for the book. Together we wrote for two months! Two wonderful months!!! Of course it was accepted. In fact, the 1st Publisher said it was, quote, "perfect". What a Shepherd! I think He chose me for this job because I was such a novice...I had to totally depend on Him. I had to! I think He is happy to have His little sheep book finally getting out there among the people who so need Him...and I pray they will also realize He needs them! That's pure love!
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Women of Faith Support "Heaven Has Blue Carpet"!
My Editor sent me this note:
The Women of Faith Representative tells me the WOF have fallen in love with your book, and they've picked it as one of the select few to be sold on the concourse tables at their conferences. Congrats!
The Women of Faith Representative then sent me this note:
First, let me congratulate you on an AMAZING book. I loved every moment I spent reading it. In fact, I was so engrossed in the manuscript that I had to print it out and take it home with me to finish at night. You are a wonderful writer, and your stories are so touching and heartfelt. Well done! The Women of Faith are very excited to carry your book on the concourses this fall!
Women of Faith endorsers who will be on the cover of my book:
Sheila Walsh, Women of Faith Speaker and author of, Get off your Knees and Pray
Marilyn Meberg, Women of Faith speaker and author of Love Me..Never Leave Me
Dr. Thelma Wells, president of A Woman of God Ministries, speaker, author, and mentor
I met Sheila Walsh!
I was blessed to meet Sheila Walsh at the 2008 Women of Faith Infinite Grace Conference in Tampa, Fl, August 15, 16! She is absolutely beautiful inside and out! She spoke a powerful "now" message so poignantly to her audience, you could have heard a pin drop.
The conference was wonderful. These women of God had us laughing non-stop for two solid days! Of course, the messages also brought us to tears and deep soul searching. What an invigorating and healing weekend away for women! And did I mention the talent these WOF have? It blew my mind!
I'm in the planning stage for our family's yearly Ladies Get-A-Way (4 daughers, two daughter-in-laws & myself). Guess where I want to go?
The Women of Faith Representative tells me the WOF have fallen in love with your book, and they've picked it as one of the select few to be sold on the concourse tables at their conferences. Congrats!
The Women of Faith Representative then sent me this note:
First, let me congratulate you on an AMAZING book. I loved every moment I spent reading it. In fact, I was so engrossed in the manuscript that I had to print it out and take it home with me to finish at night. You are a wonderful writer, and your stories are so touching and heartfelt. Well done! The Women of Faith are very excited to carry your book on the concourses this fall!
Women of Faith endorsers who will be on the cover of my book:
Sheila Walsh, Women of Faith Speaker and author of, Get off your Knees and Pray
Marilyn Meberg, Women of Faith speaker and author of Love Me..Never Leave Me
Dr. Thelma Wells, president of A Woman of God Ministries, speaker, author, and mentor
I met Sheila Walsh!
I was blessed to meet Sheila Walsh at the 2008 Women of Faith Infinite Grace Conference in Tampa, Fl, August 15, 16! She is absolutely beautiful inside and out! She spoke a powerful "now" message so poignantly to her audience, you could have heard a pin drop.
The conference was wonderful. These women of God had us laughing non-stop for two solid days! Of course, the messages also brought us to tears and deep soul searching. What an invigorating and healing weekend away for women! And did I mention the talent these WOF have? It blew my mind!
I'm in the planning stage for our family's yearly Ladies Get-A-Way (4 daughers, two daughter-in-laws & myself). Guess where I want to go?
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
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