Hey there! Today's card is going to a special guy I've loved literally all my life; my big brother, Don. Don is truly my BIG brother in every way. 6' 3", and 18 years older, he tells the story when I was born at the beginning of his Senior Year. He went to football practice that evening and the guys thought he was joking when he mentioned he had a brand-new baby sister! Don joined the Navy when I was less than a year old, so my first vivid memory of him was after he discharged and came home to live with us. He took me with him to the barbershop where they gave me a sucker. Thankfully it was one of those "safety suckers" because when I started to choke, he leaped from the scissors to pluck the sucker out of my throat! My mother passed away 3 weeks before my 11th birthday, a victim of her own vice, smoking. She had both lung cancer and an inoperable brain tumor (in 1970), and my brother and his wife helped with my care during my mom's multiple hospital stays. To say I was close to my brother growing up would be putting it mildly!
Next Saturday is his 79th birthday. He lives in a retirement apartment with his wife and is blind from diabetes complications. He calls me almost every day, so I keep him up-to-date with all of the goings-on in my family. I created this card especially for him!
An avid outdoorsman, I wanted to use Peaceful Place for his card. I paired it with Country Club Designer Series paper, for a masculine look!
The Peaceful Place sentiment says it all for me:
Happy Birthday to my big brother Don!
Find the directions here: Download Peaceful PLace Birthday
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Hi Carol, besides admiring your card for you big brother, I found great solace in your post about worship.When I fell a little down, I sing a verse of a song over and over again until I feel peaceful again. t goes like this:
Praise God for whom all blessings flow
Praise Him all creatures here below.
Praise Him above you heavenly host
Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
Would prefer Spirit in the last line but haven’t found a word that rhymes with “host”. But it still works!
Thank you, Kathy for that song reminder. At one time we used to sing it every Sunday right after the offering was taken and before the sermon. Thanks for sharing!