SPRUCE FOREST ARTISAN VILLAGE

I was on the road again this weekend.  My first stop was at Spruce Forest Artisan Village located at Penn Alps, just east of Grantsville, MD.

Spruce Forest Artisan Village offered us a truly unique opportunity to interact with working craft artists inside their log cabin studios.

The restored log and plank buildings, nestled under towering spruce trees, provides a peaceful and contemplative setting for artisan studios, craft galleries, historic museums, a one room schoolhouse, and Stanton’s Mill.

Spruce Forest Artisan Village, a non-profit arts center, and its parent organization Penn Alps Restaurant and Craft Shop were founded in the late 1950′s to support and encourage participation in historic preservation and mountain crafts.

Take a tour with me through the below video of this inspiring place.

YOUR GIFTS ARE NOT YOUR OWN

We each have a gift that we were given.  We have this gift not so much for our own sake as for the sake of others.  We are like an apple tree that produces fruit not for its own consumption but for the consumption of others.  Your gift is given so you can bless others.  If you have the gift of teaching, you have it so others will be taught.  If even one gifted person fails to function, they deprive others who may need it to function well.

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.

James 1:17

BE ENCOURAGED!  BE BLESSED!

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