surrender

Recently my pastor, Dr. Richard Hunter, posted a piece on feeling inadequate.
I wanted to add something to this.  Richard, if we were adequate, we would have no need of God.
Lord, I need thee EVERY HOUR.  Not just when I acknowledge my overwhelmed-ness, but every hour.  Not just when I feel like I can’t do this [...]

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turn on the light

Are you walking into a dark room?
Turn the light on!
And if you don’t turn it on, don’t ask for sympathy when you stub a toe on the chair leg.
Are you at a dark campsite?
Turn the flashlight on!
And if you don’t turn it on, don’t cry for sympathy after you fall in a hole.
 
Do you have [...]

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renewing the gratitude list

months ago I was posting a list of ten things to be grateful for every week.
Sometimes it was simple stuff, like oatmeal cookies.
Sometimes I tried to be profound.
I got lazy after a while and stopped posting those lists.
Well today, in the face of my husband losing his job to the concept of  “reductions in force”  [...]

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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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tips for praying in traffic

In honor of tomorrow and the National Day of Prayer I thought I would post a few tips for Praying in Traffic…since that is where a lot of us actually pray.

do not close your eyes
pray out loud  (it might help you stay awake so that you don’t hit someone)
bless your enemies****
remember to start your prayer [...]

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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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if you could have one wish

If you could have one wish.  Just one.
What would it be?
none of this wishing for infinite wishes stuff either.  Just one wish.

that’s okay.  I’ll wait.  did you think of one?
What was it?  Now be honest.
World peace?
fabulous wealth?
Athletic, strong,  healthy body that would allow me to eat anything I wanted and never get fat or have [...]

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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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love me tender

I want to be more sensitive.
Now to those people who know me and know how “over-sensitive” I already am, I will submit to you that what you are labeling “over sensitive” in me right now is actually just a tendency to over-react.
What I’m talking about when I say I want to be more sensitive is [...]

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remind the people

For the next two weeks I will be dwelling in this verse:
Titus 3: 1&2
Remind the people to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready to do whatever is good, to slander no one, to be peaceable and considerate and to show true humility toward all men.

I know the things I [...]

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