Beverly and Maxine

If you happen to stop by, thanks for your patience!

Blessings,

Maxine

So, that’s what we’ve done. Well we’re almost done. We still have a few more “rooms” to pack up and move, but the new site (blog) is now up and running and ready for visitors. If you have kids who are still in a schooling situation, home or otherwise, come over and see what we’re doing for them in this new place. Bookmark it or become a follower so that you can know when new things get added.

For those of you who don’t know about our “Speakables” for children, they are writing activities which we offer which have the purpose of getting youngsters to consider writings from days gone by and to respond to them. More than anything, we’re trying to encourage kids of today to gain from the valuable moral and biblical thinking of the past. Now and then, we also have a writing contest using the Speakables.

But that’s not all. We believe in having fun, so you’ll find some of that there too!! You’ll find puzzlers and party ideas.

What’s the name of the new site you ask? Well, what else? It’s called “Helping Children Grow” and we invite you to come on over now!

Beverly and Maxine

By the way, if any of you have any links you think would be helpful to the bride-to-be and would like to pass them on, let us know in a comment or email us. We would especially welcome links to money saving suggestions. We’ll put any links we get into our tidbits folder and maybe feature it on our tips page. Thanks.

Happy Planning,

Maxine

Well, hello! Welcome to the Speakable Gifts blog. It’s great to meet you. We’d like to introduce ourselves.

Ours is a family organization, owned by Maxine Randall and Beverly Smith, mom and daughter.
We offer publications,

Gift boxes,

Our Touch of Grace Favor Bags ,

and other items to help your family live & give.

All of our gifts have a message. The message may be in a frame, in magnet form, or printed on a bookmark or label. We package our gifts in cello bags, boxes, paper bags, and organza bags.

We are SO pleased that you stopped by! Please find us on Twitter @SpeakableGifts, and search for us on Facebook! Let us know who you are and we’ll pay you a return visit.

Enjoy the rest of the party,

Maxine and Beverly

In the meantime, may you and your family enjoy a blessed and joyous Resurrection Day. HE LIVES!

Lovingly,

Maxine

Yes, we are still dedicated to helping children grow! However, as we’ve hinted, we are expanding the scope of our services to you. We feel that the name of our newsletter needs to reflect these changes. When you receive your next newsletter in your inbox, it will be titled, “Helping Families Live & Give.” We’ll talk more about why we’ve changed the name in our upcoming newsletter.

Hope you are enjoying Spring,
Beverly

Love and marriage, love and marriage
It’s an institute you can’t disparage
Ask the local gentry
And they will say it’s elementary

Try, try, try to separate them
It’s an illusion
Try, try, try, and you will only come
To this conclusion

Love and marriage, love and marriage
Go together like the horse and carriage
Dad was told by mother
You can’t have one, you can’t have none, you can’t have one without the other!

This is one secular song that I have to say I do like the words. This was a popular song at one time; its catchy little tune was heard in many stores and restaurants and, of course, on the radio. But are its lyrics, which were probably memorized by many folks, still believed in the day and society in which we live? And how are they believed? What truths are applied to them today?

Well, I would purport here that these words are certainly believed by God. Love and marriage definitely go together. And in speaking of the kind of love that is resident in a marriage, you can’t have one without the other. Now notice that I did not say which of these necessarily comes first, but that they go together. There is an important concept which I have believed for a while now, and here quote from my Companion to Aunt Jane’s Hero (still yet to be published): “Let us see if they learn in the pages to come what many of us have had to learn: that it is not their love which must keep their marriage dwelling intact, but it is the marriage itself, and their commitment to it, that must sustain their love.” Hopefully, you understand what’s at the root of that statement. I think you probably believe it too, because the statement that immediately follows is that “we all know Who must sustain the marriage.”

That is the nature and heart of the Christian marriage; it’s sustained by God. And when both husband and wife love God and Christ is the focus, that which naturally follows is love for one another. It’s a beautiful thing; actually you’ll have to look hard and far to find anything in this earthly journey that so closely resembles the relationship of Christ and His church. Actually, marriage is the ONLY relationship that does. So, if it is truly sustained by God, then love will be there, because it flows from Christ.

Everyone loves a wedding. Well, almost everyone does. That’s because it’s known to be one of the happiest events of life. In my opinion, what makes it truly special indeed is the fact that it begins a marriage. And if the two people involved love and belong to the Lord Jesus, it is an event of great magnitude indeed. It deserves celebration. Even our Lord has attended at least one such celebration. But, for years it has been impressed on my heart, and I know others who feel the same, that it’s not the size and fanciness of a wedding that sets it apart, but the strength of the commitment of the couple to be a blessing to their families, and to bring glory to God. We have been to a few like this, and I hope as time goes on, in a world which has less and less regard for matrimony, or else distorts it, we will see more and more couples who hold it in high regard, and who seek to be a blessing as they enter into it.

Here at SG, we are taking some steps in the direction of the Christian bride, with a hope that we can provide some gifts and favors which might help her and her groom to be the blessing I just spoke about. We’re moving along in that direction now and hope to introduce a few items soon to get started. In the meantime, bookmark this page on our site and check back with us soon.

Lovingly,
Maxine

In celebration of spring and for a limited time, we’re offering the Bright Gems for His Crown book at a special discount rate to churches which sell books. Churches only have to buy six or more books to get a 45% discount off the list price. So, if your church sells to its members by means of a book shelf or table or has a book room where you can purchase books, it would work to your advantage to have them take us up on this offer. They could then pass the savings on to you! So whoever is in charge of this ministry in your church–let them know and tell them to call us! The information is here, so you can send them the link to the offer page.

March is here, and I don’t know about you, but I’m ready for Spring! Here at Speakable Gifts, we are working on some new products. We’ll feature them in our March newsletter, so be on the lookout for that to come. We may send our mailing out a little later than usual, as we are putting finishing touches on our ideas.

We hope you are all well.

In Him,
Beverly