Tag: priorities

  • Consistency is Key

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    “Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.” “Variety is the spice of life.” These are two mantras that I have lived my life by. I wish I could be a woman of routine, but try as I may, I just can’t seem to get my schedule down to a…

  • Is your Busyness Wearing You Out? 

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    “Busy people are happy people.” I used to say with a chuckle every time someone told me I was doing too much. That’s not my response any more. I guess my busyness wore out my happiness. Eventually I had to find a better way. “Seek peace and pursue it” is more my mantra now. The…

  • Get your Beauty Sleep, Gain Confidence

    There are three simple things that each of us do every day that has the power to increase your confidence and make you more beautiful: Eat, Move, Sleep. Yet so many of us deprive ourselves in each of these departments. When my husband and I were first married he was an early bird, I was…

  • Are Men and Women Really Equal?

    The opening of the United States Declaration of Independence states as follows: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness… All men and women were created with equal…

  • What Makes America Beautiful?

    Katherine Lee Bates said it well: America the beautiful. Our spacious skies, fields and mountains certainly are majestic, not to mention the music-hearted seas that grace our beautiful shores-but really, every nation has some kind of beauty to be appreciated. Perhaps America’s greatest beauty is the very thing we celebrate this weekend: our independence. When…

  • Are Cliques Bad?

    Cliques. Nobody likes them unless they are them. Girlfriends who are having a good time together can (purposely or unmindfully) snub those around them, and if you are the one left out of the fun it can make you feel like an outsider. While these kinds of situations can rock the confidence of some women…

  • Beauty in Balance is Peace and Joy

    God is a God of balance. He wants us to be a people of balance in all areas of our lives even in the area of beauty. When we walk in balance, we walk in great peace and joy. Our enemy is no fool, he knows that, and he does not want us walking in…

  • Keeping the Cheer in Christmas

    It’s the most wonderful time of the year… but the hustle and bustle of this season can easily rob the joy from our “gay happy greetings” if we let it, don’t you think?   Actually, if I may, I’d like to guess which part of this busy season taunts your joy (according to your Img.ID,…

  • Silent Night

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      Silent Night, Holy Night; all is calm, all is bright ‘Round yon virgin, mother and child Holy infant so tender and mild Sleep in heavenly peace, sleep in heavenly peace  We’ve all heard the song. We sing it with reverence as we think about Baby Jesus sleeping soundly in a manger while His sweet…

  • Let Him In Your Boat

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    There are three accounts in the Gospels that tell the story of Jesus walking on water. Matthew (in chapter 14), Mark (in chapter 6) and John (in chapter 6) each give their viewpoint of what happened that amazing day. The disciples were in a boat in the middle of the sea during a raging storm…

  • Walking on Water

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    Oh, what I would do to have the kind of faith it takes to step out of this boat I’m in, onto the crashing waves…   Maybe you remember the popular Christian song, “Voice of Truth” by Casting Crowns? It was always one of my favorites, especially after watching two of my children do human…

  • What Not To Wear

    I’ve said it, and I’m sure you have too: “I have nothing to wear.” My husband responds to my whining like he does when our teens say,  “there’s nothing to do!” He laughs and says “oh, of course not.” After a number of changes in attire I immerge from the closet and Ron will respond,…