Have You Ever Heard Of A Blessing Jar Or A Memory Jar?

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Blessing Jars I have a friend who does this wonderful thing with her family. At the end of December, she cuts strips of paper and puts them into a jar. The kids decorate the jar and it is put on the mantal along with another jar that the kids have decorated with the words "blessing jar" printed on it. Each time someone sees another family member or themselves being blessed such as When they see God especially bless someone in their family, they write it out on a piece of paper and put it in the jar. Then on New Years Eve,they open up the jar and read how God has blessed them throughout the year! On New Years Day they empty the jar and start again. So each New Years they are reminded of the blessing that they have received the previous year. They also video tape the reading of the blessings and keep it on their family history shelf. Memory Jars I will never forget the first memory jar that I saw. It was a birthday gift to a friend from her adult children. The lid itself was decorated with ribbon lace and beautiful material.The jar had felt hearts glued all over it. It was filled with strips of paper. She pulled a piece of paper out and began to read it outloud before she stopped and finished reading it to herself. She was in tears. Her grown children had taken stips of paper and on each one of them, they had hand printed something that they loved or admired about their mother. There was 365 piceces of paper in the jar. There was a tag on the jar that said something to the effect that she was to take one slip of paper out each day and read it. She was then to tape the slip of paper to the top of a page in the journal which they also gave her. She was then to write on the page something about either the person who wrote the slip of paper or about the words on the paper itself. I talked to this friend a few weeks after she was given the memory jar and the journal and she said that it was one of the best gifts that she had ever received in her life. She said it just started her day off with a warm and loving feeling as she read the slips of paper, she knew she was loved. A memory jar is a great gift for anyone who you care for. Have you ever heard of a memory jar or have you ever seen one? Have you ever heard of or made a blessing jar? What do you thing of the idea?