love and joy...and giving

there's a weird way how the blog world has given me some of the most dedicated, loving and supportive peeps in my life!  and one of the bestest ever is tabitha from a five oh 4 uplifting.

just look at her beauty...and you haven't even seen her heart.

tabitha is full of joy...full of life, and the best part is, she never keeps it to herself.  she spreads it all around.  see, tabitha was born with some birth abnormalities {no right arm and at 9 months her left leg had to be amputated} and spent the first 3 years of her life in hospitals. 

no time for pity here...just glory and passing along some love.  listen to her words, 

"I would no longer allow the lack of compassion of others to stop me from doing what I was destined to do"

this tabitha is more full of life and joy and faith than most of us have in our pinkie finger.  she is stinking amazing.  i have been honored to work so many times with her in the past year on projects and i have so come to love her gift and goody bag drops...and her more than i can explain with words.

see, she makes up bags of love for children who are terminally ill and in hospitals, or kids who are in homeless shelters, and along the way, she takes the time to do them in honor of some kiddos and fams.  oh, you just have to go to read about what she does.  go HERE.

today, i am honoring tabitha, and i would ask for you to pray for her ministry...for her family...and pray to see if you feel led to donate some oriental trading company goodies for her bags of joy.

and, if nothing else, go meet a new friend...i promise you will be blessed beyond measure.

go and see what others are doing tributes for at angie's 

{i still heart jay...but understand, i'm just saying...and it's  a good thing it's angie, let me tell you}