Templates

Your life may not seem very remarkable or your work significant until you stop, look, and listen as you seek God’s perspective and how He sees you. Knowing you are loved, enables you to live loved and love others well, it gives you a higher perspective to see yourself and others as God sees you through eyes of deep love, compassion, and mercy for people matter to God and they should matter to us.

As we seek to better understand this passionate love God has for us, our rear-view reflection of the events of our lives takes on new meaning and purpose when we frame it through our Heavenly Father’s eyes.  Perspective is the key to writing your story to pass along a meaningful heritage filled with genealogical information, details about events during your growing up years to present time, how these events impacted your life, how God helped you, provided for your needs, gave you strength, protected you, funny things that happened, memorable things of importance that your family or friends may have said or done, and wise lessons gleaned along the way that you may wish to pass along.

Our story becomes a window into our hearts for our family to understand and know us better.  It also takes to heart God’s Word to “tell the coming generation of the glorious deeds of the LORD, and His might, and wonders that He has done” in our lives (Psalm 78:4 ESV, Psalm 73:28 NKJV, Psalm 102:18 NIV).

Events, awards, accomplishments, travel, family holidays, funny or interesting things, experiences with God, how God spoke to you through what happened to you or through the experiences of others. This gives parents an opportunity to affirm and brag on their children’s accomplishments and affirm their love for one another.

Events, awards, accomplishments, travel, family holidays, funny or interesting things, experiences with God, how God spoke to you through what happened to you or through the experiences of others.

Stories of answers to prayers and gifts from God, reflecting a faith, lived out in actions and words, anchored in Christ, can be a powerful influence and source of encouragement to oneself and a powerful influence for others to know and trust God. As was the practice of some in the Bible’s Old Testament, “stones of remembrance” were erected to remember and pass along the stories of God’s faithfulness.

As we write of “the glorious deeds of the LORD” sharing our prayers and God’s answers of provision, how our faith grew in seasons of loss or discouragement, recording God’s affectionate ways, love, and provisions, will be our “stones of remembrance” helping remind ourselves as well as others such seasons will not last forever when our hope and trust is in God for deliverance.  Such hope may be just what we or someone else needs to hold on a little longer by putting one’s hope in trusting the Living God with the outcome and move forward to meet fears with faith and courage. For God is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

“There is a reason behind every season and when we are ready, in His due time, our deliverance will come.” – NanaV

A storybook about the birth or adoption of a child, events leading up to the birth or adoption, events and experiences during preschool years, family holidays, funny or interesting things this child did or said, how God may have helped or spoke to you through these experiences. Grandparents could start a storybook for each grandchild and give as a gift at pivotal place in the child’s journey having recorded their prayers and answers to prayers along with the child’s birth details, childhood illnesses, accomplishments and adventures.

A storybook of favorite vacations, unique adventures and experiences, trips, funny or interesting things, experiences with God along the way.

A storybook to share favorite pet stories, their unique skills and abilities such as with pet therapy or use in rescue missions, funny or interesting things, experiences with God, how God spoke to you through what happened to you or to others with this very special pet.  It would be fun to write from the pet’s perspective as though the pet were speaking.

A storybook of a special person in your life who, though they are dead, their life “still speaks” through the written words leaving their legacy to remember, like Abel (Hebrews 11:4).  By faith Abel brought a better offering to God than Cain did, and God spoke well of his offerings, so “by faith Abel still speaks, even though he is dead.”

A storybook of a child who has passed or of a miscarriage, for though their life was short here on earth, their memory will carry on until you see the again in Heaven.

A personalized greeting card for any occasion to encourage family, friends, children, grandchildren.