What’s your flavor?
Posted: February 28, 2012 Filed under: Prayers, Working Mom 4 Comments »
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Fruitful Tuesday:
What fruit are you growing today?
Today I am working on faithfulness. I pray that the Lord will give me the wisdom to keep me above the fray of contaminated conversations and negative words, against others or even myself. I pray that I am a faithful friend and coworker, and that I can stay true to my own ideals. I pray the same for you!
But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
- Galatians 5: 22-23
More Coincidences?
Posted: February 26, 2012 Filed under: Working Mom 2 Comments »
On Friday I linked up to Kassie’s post about God-planned events that we call coincidences. I also linked up to the Getting Down with Jesus link party that happens on Wednesdays which highlights God-planned coincidences that we have experienced. Finally, I also highlighted Squire Rushnell’s webpage, When God Winks, that is all about this same topic.
And today, I had my own God-incidence… In church today our pastor introduced his sermon with what I consider a classic example of a God-wink!
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Now the Festival of Unleavened Bread arrived, when the Passover lamb is sacrificed. Jesus sent Peter and John ahead and said, “Go and prepare the Passover meal, so we can eat it together.”
“Where do you want us to prepare it?” they asked him.
He replied, “As soon as you enter Jerusalem, a man carrying a pitcher of water will meet you. Follow him. At the house he enters, say to the owner, ‘The Teacher asks: Where is the guest room where I can eat the Passover meal with my disciples?’ He will take you upstairs to a large room that is already set up. That is where you should prepare our meal.” They went off to the city and found everything just as Jesus had said, and they prepared the Passover meal there.
When the time came, Jesus and the apostles sat down together at the table… ~Luke 22: 7-14
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Okay, see what might have seemed to be a coincidence?
Find a man carrying a pitcher of water…
During a time when men were not given lowly jobs such as fetching water, this man was a rarity. And in a city in which thousands of religious visitors were congregating for the Passover event, this man would have been even harder to find.
So this was like finding a needle in a haystack!
But find him they did, and he DID invite them to his home to allow them to celebrate Passover together. Coincidence? Nope. God-incidence? Yup.
I will provide for their needs before they ask,
and I will help them while they are still asking for help.
Isa 65:24 (NCV)
Sharing here:
Making NEW Friends (as an adult!)
Posted: February 26, 2012 Filed under: Working Mom Leave a comment »
How good and pleasant it is
when God’s people live together in unity! (Psalm 133:1)
Please head over to the SITS girls site and read my article HERE on how to make NEW friends as an adult… and if you missed my article on Keeping Friendships, please check it out!
I hope you have a great day
Faith, Confidence, and Coincidence…
Posted: February 24, 2012 Filed under: Working Mom 4 Comments »
This week on Bloggers in God, Kassie writes about Isaiah 65:24 and how God provides for us.
I will provide for their needs before they ask,
and I will help them while they are still asking for help.
Isa 65:24 (NCV)
Kassie writes about things that seem to be coincidences in a secular outlook but are actually evidence of how God provides for us!
This is what Jennifer at Getting Down with Jesus calls “God-Bumps”, and what Squire Rushnell calls “God Winks”. These are events that seem just perfect acts of fate or kismet, which are called coincidences, but from a perpective of faith, we can see that they are evidences of how God provides for us.
Writing about how God takes care of our needs, Kassie describes how He provides for us, before we even know what we require for any circumstance. She also asks us to remember that God always takes care of us, and asks us to give thanks for Him and all that he provides for us.
If you need help noticing the little things in your life that God has done recently, I recommend that you go to both Squire Rushnell’s website When God Winks and Jennifer’s website, where you will find many inspiring and uplifting stories of God’s presence, that just might make you take notice of how God is working in YOUR life, right now.
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In addition, I also urge you to visit Kassie’s home blog, Guiding Light from His Word, for more inspiration. Click on the book cover, below, to see their most recent writing project.
Supportasaurus (female): Helocene Creature known for baking cookies and Starbucks addictions…
Posted: February 23, 2012 Filed under: Working Mom | Tags: dragon*con, friendship, steampunk Leave a comment »
One of the things I like about blogging is the accountability that comes with the community. Sure, if you stop interacting, or don’t interact, of course there is no accountability. However, for someone who participates in the community within the blog ‘o sphere, there is a give-and-take that encourages us to lift ourselves, and each other, up. Whether the blog is about crafting, cooking, Steampunk jewelry, Dragon*con, or Christianity, the family of bloggers is a positive one!
Recently, I was reading an opinion on accountability online in which the writer listed, in Part I, the reasons he did NOT believe in Christian accountability. In Part 2, the author wrote about what he would have the community do instead of “accountability”.
I truly appreciated his opinion, and agree with it. At first glance, it looks like semantics. However, upon reflection, you see that this is more than words. The difference is in the point of view. The current connotation of accountability is somewhat negative, and while the author doesn’t mention this at all, his alternative to accountability, advocacy, is a positive popular buzzword. One which I can relate to.
Advocacy implies working together, to lift someone up, and this can be directed by focusing on and having:
- Honesty
- Positivity
- Individual behavior (rather than Corporate)
- Levels of Transparency
~Photo of the baby in costume is from this site HERE~
The SITS girls – Keeping Friendships Alive
Posted: February 21, 2012 Filed under: Working Mom 9 Comments »
Hey! Hello everyone! I am so excited to have the SITS girls coming over to visit my site today! I love making new friends and introducing old friends to new ones…so for those friends who read my blog regularly, click on the SITS buttons either here in this post or on my sidebar to investigate. And if you are stopping over from the SITS site, welcome!
Today is my SITS day!
I haven’t been blogging for too long, you could say I’m still getting my sea legs. But I get a lot out of the SITS site and I LOVE all of the bloggers I have discovered there! And of course, I can’t WAIT to get to BLOGGY BOOT CAMP this spring in Philadelphia!
In keeping with tradition, I’d like to share a little about myself with you. I would love it if you’d do the same with either a comment here or a post on facebook!
Created by Sculptor Henry Moore
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Welcome! I’m so glad you stopped by! And please, come back again to share some thoughts, some recipes or crafts, or just a hello.
~Lori
Monkey Bread Recipe for a lazy morning…
Posted: February 18, 2012 Filed under: Cooking and Baking, Family, Working Mom | Tags: easy recipe, sugar, sweets 6 Comments »
Fruitful Saturday:
A cheerful look brings joy to the heart, and good news gives health to the bones.
—–Proverbs 15:30 (NIV)
I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned this, but for my recent birthday my family got me a stand mixer. I love it! I have been using it at least once a week.
However, I still keep Pillsbury biscuits in the fridge for something quick. If the kids have a group of friends over for a sleepover, I can be lazy and pop them in the oven. I don’t personally like their flavor, but my family enjoys them! What I do like about them is that you can make them into donuts, little meat pies, and more. Here is the classic monkey bread recipe that my kids each learned in their home-ec classes and brought home from junior high.
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A vision of the future…
Posted: February 16, 2012 Filed under: Expectations, Family, Working Mom 10 Comments »
Yesterday I had a wake up call. My little girl is growing up.
Looking gorgeous, she wheeled her suitcase across the parking lot and got onto the bus.
I had a vision of how life will be in the future. And I was sad.
Yes, I’ve already gone through this with two other children. And yes, it hasn’t been quite as challenging this time around, until now.
For each of my older children, their senior year of high school meant butting heads with me. My husband didn’t really notice it at all, but I’m much more involved in the little things in their lives. The kids and I bumped heads over lots of little things and I had the double trauma of the first born (who was a boy), which was a HUGE emotional issue, because MY identity was SO wrapped up in my children’s. And then my oldest girl, my even-keeled buddy, graduated 2 years later.
This third child is my high maintenance baby. Even before she was born she was keeping me up all night kicking! And when she was 9 months old I saw my first temper tantrum… it was just like the ones in the old cartoons, in which the cartoon baby would lay face down and slap his hands and feet into the ground over and over. I cracked up laughing when that happened!
So yes, this has been a challenging year, but in so many ways it has been more fun than it has been in a long time. She is sweet and engaging and with all her drama she keeps life exciting! She has a lot of heart.
And today, as she walked away, I remembered that next year she won’t be here to add those things to my daily life. And life won’t be the same.
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But everything changes except God! I find so much comfort from that.
Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
@moretobe You are my Coffee Buddy! …more Celebrating Friends
Posted: February 15, 2012 Filed under: Working Mom 3 Comments »Lisa, 
from More to Be, is my coffee card give away winner! PLEASE check out Lisa’s blogs…
She writes, “More to Be is a natural outflow of my passion for Jesus, for you, and for the next generation. I pray that this website will become a rich source of encouragement as you meet God personally through His Word and by the working of His Spirit, making you more like Jesus every passing day!”
In addition, Lisa also shares at Passion and Purpose – Life Coaching for Life Change, where you can subscribe to receive more uplifting and helpful posts from her via email. Here is the number generator I used for my Starbucks card give away… Thank you all so much for playing. I really would have liked to just invite you all over for my famous homemade lattes, but we’ll have to plan that some other time!! :-)
Celebrate Friend’s Day
Posted: February 14, 2012 Filed under: Working Mom 10 Comments »
In honor of Valentine’s Day, I am giving away a tiny token of my appreciation. Using a random number generator I will choose a comment poster and send them an e-card to Starbuck’s for $5.00.
That way, we can have coffee “together”.
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Don’t forget to send an email or make a phone call to your friends today. Just a quick check-in to let them know you are alive and well! And while you’re at it, why don’t you set up a time to get together??
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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
— Bernard Meltzer
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