how to be universally lovely

Wives, in the same way be submissive to your husbands so that if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives when they see the
purity and reverence of your lives
Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and [...]

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miles of smiles

I want to make people smile.
Not like a comedian, Not laugh like haha, but smile with quiet joy.  I want to make people happy.  I want people to feel good just by being in the same room with me.
Yesterday I gave someone a smile when they needed it and when they commented on it I [...]

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bragging on Ginny

alright.  I am going to brag on my child.
It is going to be sickeningly sweet and gushy.  If you don’t want to read it you don’t have to.  But I’m a mom and it is good for me to occasionaly wax eloquent about my darling child.  Ask Missy over at It’sAlmostNaptime.  This was her idea.  [...]

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heading back

okay, actually I’m already back.
The event was good.  Nothing earth shatteringly great or disastrously dangerous …or frankly anything easy to write about.
and there is something else on my mind anyway
I’m currently working on a memory verse
“Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing because to this you were called so [...]

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wake up with JOY

In his heart a man plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps.
Proverbs 16:9
I love to plan.
*sigh*
So does God.
I think that no matter how good I am at it…..God’s plan is probably a better deal than mine.  Any day of the week.
God knows everything.  He is a much better planner than I am.  In [...]

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God’s ways are higher than our ways

My boss seriously frustrated me yesterday. He had promised to go with me to take lunch to our newest faculty member at her new home as she moves in. But then he turned out to have too many meetings and had to beg off. Major problem with that: I didn’t have a car with me. [...]

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a stab in the gut

okay, here we go again.
Yet another, unmarried lady in my office has just announced that she is pregnant.
I’ve lost track of how many that is now.
I’m not as upset by it this time. Because I have come to the conclusion that I don’t want to be actually pregnant. I just want children.
Watching my [...]

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a rose in full bloom

I took photos all over Dallas this weekend. I’ll post those later, but the best photo was the one I didn’t take.
We visited Martin’s one remaining Aunt. His Father’s sister. She lives at home with constant nursing supervision. She is not physically doing well. As a matter [...]

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Praise God the Twins are here

Not my twins.  We don’t have a match yet, so we don’t know what God will give us (twins, boy, girls, siblings whatever) for quite a while yet.
But our associate pastor and his wife have been waiting for over 5 years and they have finally been blessed with twins boys!  They posted photos from the [...]

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if it rains all week, just quack like a duck

So does anyone else remember a very cute McDonald’s commercial from years ago (like maybe 20 or more) where these 7 or 8 year-old girls are stuck at summer camp (Camp Nippersink) and it’s pouring rain so they can’t have any fun and eventually the counselors, in an act of desperation pile all the girls [...]

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