Maria's blogging/working area

I took this photo yesterday because I was so happy about having cleaned my office, I bragged about it on my blog, and got asked for a picture as proof.

Mrs. Mac's Blogging Time is spent ...

... at the dining room table.  I can't find my camera charger so I'll just post a picture of my dining room table area that I took earlier this month.  I used to have my office upstairs in the guest room .. but with the new laptop, I can be downstairs instead.  Sometimes I use a little library table in the foyer if the day is particularly beautiful weather wise as I can see the mountains from the windows.

Thanks for the suggestion, Connie.  I know Miss Apron is probably on a long journey so it may be a while before she makes an appearance again. 

Your turn, sisters .......

WHILE WE'RE WAITING...

I have a project for us sisters, in the spirit of fun, while we're waiting for "Miss Apron" to surface! Let's post a picture to the Sisterhood Blog of where we spend our blogging time. What does your computer area look like? Is it on your laptop in your favorite chair? Is it an office area? I'll go first!

AIR FARE SALE

Hi all ---just heard on FOX News this morning that the airlines are having a MAJOR sale today (Thurs, 3/11) for anyone traveling this summer through the date of 11/16. Catch is - you must buy your tickets before midnight tonight. Just thought I'd pass it along in case any of you are planning to attend the Scarf Sisters Reunion in October...or travel anywhere else for that matter!

The Miracle of the Carpenter

I got this in a Max Lucado newsletter

The Miracle of the Carpenter

by Max Lucado

Loretto Chapel took five years to complete. Modeled after the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, its delicate sanctuary contains an altar, a rose window, and a choir loft.The choir loft is the reason for wonder.Were you to stand in the newly built chapel in 1878, you might see the Sisters of Loretto looking forlornly at the balcony. Everything else was complete: the doors had been hung, the pews had been placed, the floor had been laid. Everything was finished. Even the choir loft. Except for one thing. No stairs.The chapel was too small to accommodate a conventional stairway. The best builders and designers in the region shook their heads when consulted. “Impossible,” they murmured. There simply wasn’t enough room. A ladder would serve the purpose, but mar the ambiance.The Sisters of Loretto, whose determination had led them from Kentucky to Santa Fe, now faced a challenge greater than their journey: a stairway that couldn’t be built.What they had dreamed of and what they could do were separated by fifteen impossible feet.So what did they do? The only thing they could do. They ascended the mountain. Not the high mountains near Santa Fe. No, they climbed even higher. They climbed the same mountain that Jesus climbed 1,800 years earlier in Bethsaida. They climbed the mountain of prayer.As the story goes, the nuns prayed for nine days. On the last day of the novena, a Mexican carpenter with a beard and a wind-burned face appeared at the convent. He explained that he had heard they needed a stairway to a chapel loft. He thought he could help.The mother superior had nothing to lose, so she gave him permission.He went to work with crude tools, painstaking patience, and uncanny skill. For eight months he worked.One morning the Sisters of Loretto entered the chapel to find their prayers had been answered. A masterpiece of carpentry spiraled from the floor to the loft. Two complete three-hundred-sixty-degree turns. Thirty-three steps held together with wooden pegs and no central support. The wood is said to be a variety of hard fir, one nonexistent in New Mexico!When the sisters turned to thank the craftsman, he was gone. He was never seen again. He never asked for money. He never asked for praise. He was a simple carpenter who did what no one else could do so singers could enter a choir loft and sing.See the stairway for yourself, if you like. Journey into the land of Enchantment. Step into this chapel of amazement and witness the fruit of prayer.Or, if you prefer, talk to the Master Carpenter yourself. He has already performed one impossible feat in your world. He, like the Santa Fe carpenter, built a stairway no one else could build. He, like the nameless craftsman, used material from another place. He, like the visitor to Loretto, came to span the gap between where you are and where you long to be.Each year of his life is a step. Thirty-three paces. Each step of the stair is an answered prayer. He built it so you can climb it.And sing.

In Cognito

So...is the apron in the Witness protection progam?

Pray For The George Family Please

Please keep my Blogger "friend" Heather and her family in your prayers. This family has really been through a lot-from their youngest daughter Emma's heart transplant as a baby, Heather's brain cancer and now Emma (age 8) is back in the hospital again. Heather is such an encouragement and such a shining example of a heart sold out to God. God's peace and His Sovereignty are evident in her life! I invite you to read her blog, you won't regret it!