tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34413258024856124872024-03-20T02:10:53.654-05:00The Bungalow Nest The Bungalow Nesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12590686988093452417noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3441325802485612487.post-19724265791631566402013-08-21T20:23:00.002-05:002013-08-21T20:52:25.328-05:00August; here & almost gone.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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August has been busy. So busy, I haven't been able to update to my new website. I feel very antsy to get things rolling, but time and money are usually the things that hold me back. It can be discouraging to wait, but Im learning to use the resources I have and know I will get there as soon as I am able. </div>
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I can't quite believe it is almost September and sooner than we know it, the Holidays will be here. I've began to paint for the Holidays and it makes me so excited to show you all my work on paper-goods.</div>
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I've also been rearranging our home and transitioning it for Fall. This is always my favorite time to decorate. It's a tradition for a couple years now to gather branches, big and small, to bring the outdoors inside. I'm sure if our neighbors see me bringing in branches...they may be thinking I'm strange. ;)</div>
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Nesting my husbands office while he's gone to surprise him, moving the couch all by myself to face a different direction... I tend to be strong willed when I want something done, in creating or changing something, even if it's literally bigger than me...like our couch. Thankfully I didn't break my back.</div>
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I will keep all of you updated when I have my website up, and my paper-goods available. Thank you so much for being patient with me!</div>
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The Bungalow Nesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12590686988093452417noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3441325802485612487.post-32988237725009469672013-07-08T20:40:00.002-05:002013-07-08T20:40:55.181-05:00New website soon!New and exciting ideas and opportunities are here for The Bungalow Nest.<br />
Please stay tuned for my new website in the next month. I can't wait to share my new work with you, make connections with people, and create as always.<br />
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LThe Bungalow Nesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12590686988093452417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3441325802485612487.post-71515373499988168262013-06-02T19:28:00.004-05:002013-06-02T21:01:21.774-05:00Coconut-Lime Thai Chicken soup w/ Roasted Sweet Potatoes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Soup. Sometimes it's all I want to eat. I'm always looking for new and interesting soup recipes to try and this is probably one of my favorite ones. The first time I had this was at my in laws home, where my sweet mother-in law made it for us all. My favorite side with this soup will always be roasted sweet potatoes, since she introduced me to this recipe. I hope you all enjoy this recipe as much as we do!</div>
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Home is a special place. It is true home is where your family and friends are. But is it possible to make a home without those close by? I'm going to say yes. Home to me, is a comfortable place, where the air is filled with home cooked meals, baked goods, and sometimes...not so good smells. </div>
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Friends and family in your home. One of the important things to me, is to make our home cozy. When people walk into the door, I want them to feel welcome and comfortable. For the past 8 months since we moved into our rented bungalow home, I've continued to nest it, care for it, and add more character to it. Does this take time? Yes. I decorate my home quite often in my spare time. I'm (probably too often) happy to spend a few hours moving various furniture and pieces around to create something new and inviting. Money? Well, I've never had much of it, but collecting things over the years,<br />
finding great deals at thrift stores and antique stores, and saving money for the occasional splurge on a great rug, you can create something uniquely yours and beautiful.</div>
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I have to admit; I grew up learning how to get the best deal and have always gotten a thrill out of a cheap steal on everything I buy. Mid century Zenith stereo cabinet at an Estate sale for a $1.00? Sold!</div>
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Sometimes you have to know where to look for a good deal, but sometimes I think I just get lucky.</div>
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Please excuse my fold up chairs and table. I never said my home was spotless. ;)</div>
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My best friend <a href="http://shawnaarnold.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Shawna</a> created this wonderful artwork you see behind the lamp in this photo. I remember she told me it represents her family. Perfect. :)</div>
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This would be a wonderful opportunity to bring in old friends and new acquaintances to get to know each other and eat wonderful food together! Think of a pot luck dinner party. There are so many great people in this town, and what a great community event to have!</div>
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Music, food, laughter in our home. Sounds like fun to me!</div>
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When thinking of home, I can't help but think of our friends Taylor and Shawna, who are in Argentina, away from home. I think of their bravery and determination to create a new place to call home for 9 months. They will find small pieces that stay with them in time and friends that they will always remember who created an inviting place for them there. </div>
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And Happiest Birthday to my best friend Shawna! I hope you had a beautiful day, sweet friend!</div>
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Life lately has been, as it always is, a little hectic...especially as you can see that it's been a few weeks since I've posted. But I'm still here. I'm still eager to keep this thing rolling, and ready to create and share!</div>
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Here's what my life has looked like the past couple of weeks...</div>
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Little Legend from Madison, WI stopped by to play a show. They make me want to dance every time they play and not just because they're our friends; they really know how to play a great show! </div>
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My husband grew up with Joe, one of the guitarists and had the privilege of touring with them last Summer in one big, hot, sweaty van. He very much enjoyed taking part in what they are creating.</div>
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Recently, they signed a record deal with The Record Machine, out of Kansas City, MO! Find them on FB and spotify to preview their music, and look for upcoming tour dates. Keep up the good work guys! </div>
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My husband recently purchased our second car, a Z3 BMW convertible. I never thought I would ride in one of these; not because I was afraid of tangled locks, but the feeling of being so open and vulnerable to others around me on the street makes me nervous. There is no solid roof to protect you from harm, bird droppings, or people yelling at you for no reason. </div>
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This year, one of my goals was to step out of my fears. I can't say that I've completely done that..or it will ever completely happen, (it's a process), But I still hate roller coasters. (Barfing is not just a fear, it's an inconvenience at theme parks, you guys.) So it's safe to say I can check off 'riding in a convertible' from my list.</div>
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I could do this all day. I could find a home and go in and start moving things around to make the place more cozy. I think most women are natural nest makers, I being one of them. Using what I have, and slowly collecting the things I love. The best part is to switch it all around from season to season!</div>
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We went thrifting at an event in Billings, MO called Pheona's. If you live in this area, you should check it out. It's a once a month sale that is partially outside, with the rest indoors in an old house, where a few vendors have set up wide spread booths through out with unique knick knacks. </div>
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The ceramic lamb planter pictured that I found was still in a box when I spotted it. Usually I take a while to decide if I want to buy something, because I like making smart buys and getting what I absolutely love, <i>but this was it</i>. I picked it up and payed for it right away and I'm so glad that I did because there was a man who kept coming up to me trying to take it off my hands. He was polite, but the last time he came by, I told him jokingly that he <i>couldn't have my lamb.</i> ;)</div>
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Ever since I can remember, I was around classic cars. The smell of the exhaust from old cars developed a memory for me while for years my parents have been in a classic car club. The Classic Car auction in Branson was amazing. I can't tell you much information about cars as much as I would like, but I find myself amazed by the unique use of color and craftsmanship of the body. Seeing people drop money like it ain't no thang was kind of crazy. But there were amazing cars there that I've never seen before..ones my jaw dropped over and ogled at. The colors were insanely beautiful! We saw the Indian Motorcycle which sold for $67,000 that was owned by Steve Mcqueen, and a replica of the t.v. show's "Batman" car. </div>
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I'm praying for my husband's safety while he is making his way to work. As I am off work for the morning, I thought it would be spent well by finally posting a simple recipe I've been meaning to show you all. </div>
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You may or may not work full time away from home, or you may be a stay at home mom. Whatever the case, if you have trouble coming up with simple, healthy, and tasty recipe every night like me, you may appreciate this one. </div>
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Fish. So good if it's cooked well, and if you've got the loving taste buds for it. Lately, my husband and I have been eating a lot of tilapia in different ways. Here is just one.<br />
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Pan cooked tilapia and asparagus on the side.</div>
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Here is where you're going to begin. The best thing about fish is that is doesn't take but a half or less to thaw out. So if you didn't have time to take out chicken, beef, or any other meat for the matter, and you are trying to stay away from microwaving to thaw, you're set here with fish. We buy individually packaged fish, that way the thawing process is easy.</div>
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First, plug your sink or fill a large bowl 1/4 to 1/2 of cool to room temperature water. Do not use hot water as it can make your fish fall apart easily while cooking. You will want the fish to stay cold before cooking it. Let them sit in the water for a half hour or less until thawed. </div>
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While the fishies are thawing, yes fishies, you can prepare your asparagus, or any side you decide to eat with this scrumptious fish. Roasted oven potatoes, steamed veggies, etc. To keep our asparagus hydrated and stay fresh longer, I keep it standing up in a cup or small bowl in the refrigerator with a small amount of water to submerge the ends. (I learned this from my Momma in law). :)</div>
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These will take about 10-15 minutes to cook on stove top depending on how crunchy or soft you like them. We like them in the middle. You can also roast them in the oven at 350 degrees for 20 minutes. This is an estimate of time and temperature since I cook with a gas stove. You can adjust your time and temperature according to your oven, but I would say to keep a timer and your eyes on them if you decide to roast them. I like to cook mine over the stove top on medium heat with a tbsp of olive oil, sprinkle of sea salt, pepper, and a small quarter squeeze of a lemon.</div>
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I promise I haven't forgotten about you, but I have, however been in a whirlwind since the Holidays. I think things are beginning to settle down and I hope to be sharing fun ideas, recipes, and life with you.<br />
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LindsayThe Bungalow Nesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12590686988093452417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3441325802485612487.post-47531490899936195902012-11-01T22:30:00.001-05:002012-11-01T22:30:34.453-05:00Nashville.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The weekend before last, my husband and I were given the opportunity to travel to Nashville, TN to go to our friends' wedding, Garrett and Hope. My husband also shot their wedding and it was such a perfect Autumn day for such a beautiful wedding!<br />
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On the days we weren't on photo duty, after the wedding, we traveled that evening to the downtown area and witnessed the massive amounts of bars and venues full of musicians playing mostly country and classic rock songs..not to mention there were several lone song writers along the streets playing for money. They don't call it the music city for no reason, folks!<br />
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Sunday we made our way to good ol' Trader Joes to buy special groceries that we missed since living in Cali and since we've been home, have been enjoying their roasted tomato soup (accompanied by gouda bacon grilled cheese sandwiches), warm spiced apple cider, and a nicely sized container of yogurt covered raisins (that my husband devoured in 3 days time).<br />
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On our way home we found a sweet little town called Paducah in Kentucky where we ate lunch, walked along the river side, and found the biggest collection of records I've ever seen.<br />
I picked up Ray Charles and Bing Crosby to add to my tiny collection that I hope to continue to grow.<br />
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Getting away from home clears my mind every time and I think it is necessary for us to do so every often. This trip reminded me of how much I love to travel and see new things. I remembered to dream again like I used to about traveling. Our time is so limited here in this world. I've spent the majority of my life in Missouri and sometimes feel a little naive in the way that I haven't experienced stepping foot in foreign soil. I think stepping outside of my comfort zone of home and what I know every single day gives me the opportunity to step away from getting so caught up in my routine and take more time to meditate on what the Lord is saying. I've always been timid and indecisive about many of my decisions. I'm hoping to live a little more freely this next year, in the arms of Christ; to be less afraid of what others think of me and being veiled in what the Lord says that I am. I hope to be more assertive in my decision making and moving forward to reach the goals I always place to the side. I'm praying for strength, for motivation, for an abundance of joy to live life more freely and out of my timid shell. I'm praying to fearlessly pour out to others what I've so graciously been given.<br />
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With Love,<br />
Lindsay<br />
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<br />The Bungalow Nesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12590686988093452417noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3441325802485612487.post-3935294533907032522012-10-27T14:22:00.001-05:002012-10-28T20:43:45.337-05:00Nesting.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Last night my husband and I said it smelled just like Autumn. Maybe it was the neighbors fireplace smoke, or the million wet leaves in our yard, or maybe the cool crisp air stirring it all about. I'm pretty sure Autumn is the best time of the year because it is so short of a time. The leaves on every tree are bursting with color and the coolness of the air is just enough to make sure you cook chili and drink hot cider. Too much of something good isn't as interesting or exciting because it spoils it and we end up taking it for granted.<br />
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Our new home is so great and such a quiet and peaceful place. It's still a mess in certain rooms and we are still substituting certain furniture (or boxes filled with things) for uses they don't quite fit naturally but work in the mean time. I have to stop myself sometimes to just be thankful for all we have and all that God has given us. A lot of my blog posts in the past are about patience and waiting for our own home. He's given us so much and I am taken back sometimes because He's supplied us with more than we asked for.<br />
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I'm looking forward to inviting our friends and community into our little nest for dinners, (once we find some dining chairs of course; we only have one at the moment..Eek! ), putting up our first real Christmas tree as a married couple of over three years, and continue to make it an organized space.<br />
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I hope you're enjoying this beautiful Autumn weather and hope you'll consider following my blog! ;)<br />
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With Love,<br />
LindsayThe Bungalow Nesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12590686988093452417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3441325802485612487.post-35810380813352087092012-10-26T21:42:00.002-05:002012-10-26T21:42:52.017-05:00I'm back...with a new name.Welcome to my blog, The Bungalow Nest! With a new look and name. A name is part of the first impression after all. The Bungalow Nest is more current for me, even though I may be using the name Needle & Twine for selling any of my crafts in the future.<br />
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I couldn't stay away from blogging I guess. But I did take quite a long break from my blog and decided that when I have something important to say, writing is the perfect outlet for me. I fumble with my words in person...but give me some time to get it all out on paper or on my handy Macbook and I am there.<br />
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I cannot promise anything here. I can't promise that I'll be sharing all of the million crafts I'd like to show you how to do, or get every perfect picture of my favorite outfit of the weekend posted, or show every delicious recipe I love, or trick you into thinking my life is perfect because we all know life isn't.<br />
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I do want to share these things because they are a part of my life, but my greatest hope with this blog is to share good ideas and bring warmth into your home, your nest. My hope is to spark a fire of faith through words of encouragement and the light that is Christ. I hope to show that pushing through the not so good seasons and persevering to celebrate the good ones is a beautiful way to live.<br />
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Here's to a beautiful Autumn and Winter season and onward to 2013!<br />
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With Love,<br />
LindsayThe Bungalow Nesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12590686988093452417noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3441325802485612487.post-84829082334264554202012-03-09T23:41:00.005-06:002012-03-09T23:51:02.855-06:00Control leaves us joyless.<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The more control I feel that I have by pushing forward on my own without trusting in the Lord to guide me, the less peace and joy I have. This season, as long as it has been, the Lord has been teaching me to rely on Him; to lean on Him with all my needs. I've discovered how joyless and miserable I am when I take the steering wheel. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">I think</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> I'm getting closer to what I want, when I just end up crashing and burning. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Everytime, Christ is there waiting for me.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Romans 8:5-8</span></span></i></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #481003;"><sup id="en-NASB-28122"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">5</span></span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. </span><sup id="en-NASB-28123"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">6</span></span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace, </span><sup id="en-NASB-28124"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">7</span></span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">to do so</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">, </span><sup id="en-NASB-28125"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">8</span></span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">When we want something, really badly, we figure in our own brain, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span> </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"Why can't I have my way? Don't I deserve this? I think I've waited long enough."</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">This has been a very long season of waiting for me. I could probably have a whole blog on it's own over this season of waiting. The harder and more difficult a season, the more the Lord can and will teach us.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Just when we think life is unfair, as believers, we have to take a moment to step back and ask ourselves, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span> </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"Am I who I say I am? Am I living in the Spirit? </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Am I allowing Christ to dwell deeply inside of me in everyday life or </span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">am I pushing away from Christ?"</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">I have to admit I've grown tired and weary. I've forgotten that disobedience is sinful. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">I've learned discipline is in the Lord's favor because of His great love for us. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span> </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #481003; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> Hebrews12:7-11 </span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #481003; font-style: normal;"></span></span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #481003; font-style: normal;"><sup id="en-NASB-30220"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">7</span></span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">his</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> father does not discipline? </span><sup id="en-NASB-30221"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">8</span></span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. </span><sup id="en-NASB-30222"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">9</span></span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live? </span><sup id="en-NASB-30223"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">10</span></span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">disciplines us</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> for </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">our</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> good, so that we may share His holiness. </span><sup id="en-NASB-30224"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">11</span></span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span> </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">We may not always understand why we go through various trials or difficulties, but be reminded that God does. We may think life is unfair at times, but let us not forget the great suffering Jesus endured for our salvation and redemption. Let us not forget He holds us in His hands, and His hand is upon us, watching over us, guiding us along the way. Be awed by His mysterious works, whether too quiet to hear, or invisible to the naked eye. Away He works, when we're awake or sleeping, day in and day out.</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #481003;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">When we are too weary to pray, remember words aren't always necessary. </span></span></i><br />
<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The Spirit knows our hearts;</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Romans 8:26-28 tells us so.</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #481003;"><sup id="en-NASB-28143"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">26</span></span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">us</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> with groanings too deep for words; </span><sup id="en-NASB-28144"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">27</span></span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">the will of</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> God. </span></span><sup id="en-NASB-28145"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">28</span></span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">His</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> purpose. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">How sweet it is that He carries us.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div>The Bungalow Nesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12590686988093452417noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3441325802485612487.post-38254493202816331932012-02-03T18:36:00.001-06:002012-02-03T18:52:42.426-06:00Learning patience.<div style="text-align: center;">It's been a while since I've written. I can honestly say I will probably never be consistent at posting, </div><div style="text-align: center;">unless maybe it was my full time job. Dream on for me.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">As for learning, yes learning...</div><div style="text-align: center;">I'm learning how important patience is. (I think I write on this topic too often)</div><div style="text-align: center;">But if we want to be content with where we are, with what we have, in what we're doing,</div><div style="text-align: center;">Patience is a necessity.<br />
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This is something I've learned and have been relearning (yes, it's true) the past 6 months since Matt transitioned into working with School to the Nations, and starting his own business.<br />
I've been reminded of the rewards God provides for us with our trust we place in him. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Matt's business is growing and it was a huge step for us to part ways from a regular full time job.<br />
This is his dream, and it's coming true in so many ways.<br />
I love seeing him motivated, happy, and content in what he loves to do.<br />
And in seeing all of these things, I think..<br />
<i> Lord, You are so good to us. So faithful. Without you, there wouldn't be. </i><br />
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He is always faithful, always loving, always providing, always.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Sometimes we have to take a big step in order for our eyes to be opened to what the Lord can really do.<br />
I trusted what the Lord was voicing to Matt months and months ago.<br />
We know when the Holy Spirit is working;<br />
a quiet whisper, is sometimes loud and clear to us when it feels right.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">If you want Him to use you, honestly use you and you trust Him. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Take a step, a big step.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">"Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer."</div><div style="text-align: center;">Romans 12:12 </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
I'm learning as a small business owner to try and let go of my fears and worry.<br />
Be patience here and now. And take action.</div><div style="text-align: center;"> Trust the Lord, because His guidance is all-knowing.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>It is and always will be.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">"Let us not become weary in doing good, </div><div style="text-align: center;">for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up"</div><div style="text-align: center;">Galatians 6:9</div>The Bungalow Nesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12590686988093452417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3441325802485612487.post-44614888276602702472012-01-20T00:01:00.000-06:002012-01-20T00:01:46.487-06:00Rest.<div style="text-align: center;">Sometimes I think stress creeps into my life, and becomes this habit, a way of living..like it's normal. </div><div style="text-align: center;">I don't want it to be normal. The past few days I have been off on my sleeping schedule, and have found that it's been harder to shut off my mind. I've been working everyday this week and when I don't have enough time for myself to just sit and think...all of my worry that was being drown out by other activities during the day, floats to the surface. These past few nights, I haven't been able to fall asleep right away. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Yes, normally when my head hits the pillow I am out like a light. Lucky me, right? </div><div style="text-align: center;">I'm not exactly sure what the point of this post is.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Maybe just that I wish I could get on a plane and fly out of the country to clear my head.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Well, I know that is not going to happen. </div><div style="text-align: center;">But I do know Prayer is essential in these times.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Jesus said in Matthew 11:28,</div><div style="text-align: center;">"Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest."</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>The Bungalow Nesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12590686988093452417noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3441325802485612487.post-78159900791498065952012-01-07T21:18:00.006-06:002012-01-07T21:46:48.498-06:00"Perfect Love casts out fear.."<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 13pt; margin-bottom: 1.571em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #353535;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">"There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love" 1 John 4:18</span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="color: #111111; font-size: 14px; line-height: 13pt; margin-bottom: 1.571em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #353535; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Tonight, as I was cleaning up the kitchen after dinner, I began thinking about what I'd like to be doing day to day, the things I would like to accomplish, and where the Lord is going to lead me this year. </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #353535; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I think of the things I would like to do, but am unsure of how to do them. I think of the places I'd like to go, but I do not know how to get there. While thinking through all the possibilities and great opportunities I could have this year, I realize my thoughts are gripped by fear. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #353535;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I realize how much I live by fear and make my decisions based upon those fears; my insecurities, my lacking. I also realize that I don't place very much emphasis on the trials which have been overcome by the Grace of God. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #353535;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I've forgotten how I got to the place that I am in. I began thinking of how far I've come since I graduated from Massage Therapy School, and how my dream has always been to have my own business, with a relaxing atmosphere; a place for comfort, build relationships, and add simple little touches that made my business special. I've accomplished the things which I thought I could never do. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #353535;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I know the Lord is teaching me to rejoice, to look towards the future with hope in Him and not fear.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #353535;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #353535; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I know without a doubt that I am weaker vessel without Christ in my life. I have a hard time each morning choosing to sit down and reading His word. It is one of the many things I've always had trouble with. I claim to love the God who I worship, but do I really know Him? If I want my life to reflect Christ, I need to spend my time relishing in who the Lord is through His Word. I know my fleshly desires are strong and the only thing that can overcome my sin is seeking the truth of His word, day in and day out. I cannot do the things I wish to do without Him. I know that I have a hard time not believing these fears and failures every single day. </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="color: #111111; font-size: 14px; line-height: 13pt; margin-bottom: 1.571em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #353535;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I choose this year to not live by fear, but by the Lord's truth about the new creation I am through only Him. He has washed us clean. Isn't it time we delight in the fact He has done this for us? To choose to think on the things that are holy, pure, blameless, righteous, true. Clinging to scripture and deep in prayer. I will think upon these things and live by the Hope the Lord has given me as His daughter. Only He has washed me clean. Only He casts out fear and darkness. </span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="color: #111111; font-size: 14px; line-height: 13pt; margin-bottom: 1.571em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #353535;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">For He is Light. </span></b></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="color: #111111; font-size: 14px; line-height: 13pt; margin-bottom: 1.571em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #353535;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Come and behold him, come fall in love again.</span></b></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 13pt; margin-bottom: 1.571em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #353535;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">His desire is for you.</span></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #353535;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">All He wants is you.</span></b></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="color: #111111; font-size: 14px; line-height: 13pt; margin-bottom: 1.571em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #353535;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><i>"For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, "Abba! Father!"</i></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="color: #111111; font-size: 14px; line-height: 13pt; margin-bottom: 1.571em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #353535;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><i>"For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and self-discipline." 2 Timothy 1:7</i></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="color: #111111; font-size: 14px; line-height: 13pt; margin-bottom: 1.571em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #353535;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><i>"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." </i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #353535;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><i>Eleanor Roosevelt</i></span></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="color: #111111; font-size: 14px; line-height: 13pt; margin-bottom: 1.571em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #353535;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><i>With much Love,</i></span></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="color: #111111; font-size: 14px; line-height: 13pt; margin-bottom: 1.571em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #353535;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><i><b>Lindsay</b></i></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #353535; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; line-height: 22px;"><u>Supplies you will need:</u></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;">2.5 cups of sugar (bag of sugar-$3.00 Walmart)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;">1 cup EV Olive oil. (liter-$7.00 Walmart)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;">4 Tablespoons of lemon juice. (pre-squeezed and packaged-$2.50 Walmart)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;">Glass jars with sealed lids. (Kerr 12 pk. 8 oz. $9.00 Walmart)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;">Pretty Ribbon (3 spools-$6.00 Michaels)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;">Metal spoons. (2 4 pk.-$2.00 Walmart)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;">About $30.00 total..gifts for at least 8 people.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><u>Directions:</u></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 22px;">I bought all my supplies at Walmart and Michaels. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;">The recipe is for 12 oz. jars, but you can use any size jar you'd like. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Mix 2 1/2 Cups of Sugar with 1 Cup of Extra Virgin Olive Oil. Add in 4 Tablespoons of Lemon Juice.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 22px;">You can use scented essential oils if you'd like instead or along with.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Mix well until a gritty paste forms and spoon into a glass container with a lid that seals.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 22px;">The Sugar may settle once it sits for a while, so be sure to stir before using. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;">Pair your glass jar with a little metal spoon tied with some lovely lovely ribbon!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;">This scrub is great to use after any craft projects that leave your hands sticky or gummy...including paint!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;">Perfect in time for Christmas!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;">Will post photos of my own creations soon.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;">Love,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;">Lindsay</span></span></div>The Bungalow Nesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12590686988093452417noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3441325802485612487.post-79053344343932449802011-12-11T15:15:00.005-06:002011-12-11T15:51:00.498-06:00His Nest.<div style="text-align: center;">Some of you may not know that Matt and I have been living with Matt's family for about a year and a half now saving our money and building our careers. Sometimes sacrifices are made when you marry young, and having our own home was one of them after moving back from Cali after a year.<br />
I cannot express how thankful I am for Tom and Bobetta.<br />
We are truly blessed by their patience and giving hearts.<br />
This has humbled us, as God has placed us here to wait patiently. I'd like to say that Marriage looks different practically for a lot of couples. It is true that God has given us a perfect picture of what marriage should be and He has been teaching me a lot about this. It's been difficult to wait for our own home...</div><div style="text-align: center;">to have our own Christmas tree, our own kitchen to cook together, complete privacy and freedom. </div><div style="text-align: center;">But that is just it. It isn't going to be <i>our own </i>when we do end up moving out.</div><div style="text-align: center;">It is and always will and should be in Christ's hands. I am in consistent need to be reminded all that we think is ours, is the Lord's.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I wouldn't have it any other way. Pushing my husband to feel like he needs to work at a place where he feels useless just to pay our rent doesn't feel like a good idea to me...I can't say I have never been tempted, but I believe the Lord has placed us right where He wants us the past year and a half.<br />
I am not saying that couples who are working in places they dislike to provide for their families are in the wrong. And I can't say that working for minimum wage to provide is perfect. We all have our differences and God places us, as believers, in the right work place to further His Kingdom.<br />
Life is after all to glorifying Him, right?<br />
I've started realizing how quickly life is moving, and it is moving faster and the days feel shorter.<br />
Do something you love, that moves you, and gives God the Glory. Whatever you do, do for His glory.<br />
The Lord calls us to take action. Not just speak and think, but to take action by His guidance; to use our gifts.<br />
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"There's a unique sense of fulfillment that comes when we submit our gifts to God's use, and ask Him to energize them in a supernatural way-and then step back to watch what He does. It can be a difference between merely existing in black and white and living a life in full brilliant color." Lee Strobel</span></i><br />
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I have learned a lot about encouraging my husband. I know I have had difficulty doing so here and there, and it is clear to me that lifting him up in the work he is passionate about is essential; working for a non-profit doing media, taking part in showing God's word through photo and video to be shown to the Nations. I am so proud of Him. We have been blessed to see more and more support come in from friends and family and we are so thankful! I have seen so much growth in Him as he's worked with School to the Nations. Though this has been part of us waiting for our nest, I wouldn't do this any other way because of Matt's growth and passion to see the Good news reach the nations.<br />
Praise God for His plan. Praise God for His provision and guidance. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Sometimes we think we know everything...where to go, what to do, how to do this or that. </div><div style="text-align: center;">If I hadn't trusted God with where He was leading Matt, </div><div style="text-align: center;">I don't think I would have seen <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">this</span> growth. I wouldn't <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">trust the Lord</span></i> for my <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">strength</span></i> as I have now.</div><div style="text-align: center;"> In my mind, I will know...<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">our nest</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> will be His.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div>The Bungalow Nesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12590686988093452417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3441325802485612487.post-71055024533515874272011-12-06T10:55:00.002-06:002011-12-06T10:55:20.088-06:00Seeking to have Joy this morning.<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore."</span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Psalm 16:11</span></span></div></span>The Bungalow Nesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12590686988093452417noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3441325802485612487.post-55425877574221808672011-12-01T10:00:00.006-06:002011-12-02T00:41:24.091-06:00"Fear not..."<div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 15px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"But now, this is what the LORD says— he who created you,</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; line-height: 15px;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel:</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"Fear not, for I have redeemed you;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">I have summoned you by name; you are mine.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">the flames will not set you ablaze. For I am the LORD, your God, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">the Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I give Egypt for your ransom,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Cush and Seba in your stead."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Isaiah 43:1-3</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">It is my responsibility as a believer to place my trust and confidence in the Lord. He has redeemed me! Why do I fear? </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Why am I so focused on my fears over my capabilities? </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Sometimes it feels like satan has a hold of my foot and I just can't seem to shake him off. So I've been in a rut lately. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">A lot of things weighing on me, that I haven't just laid at the feet of Jesus. When my fear and worry comes out of my mouth, part of me doesn't believe how much junk is in my brain; dampening my strength and confidence in what I can do.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">THe Lord's strength cannot be dampened. He is my confidence. He leads me through the waters beside me, He keeps me safe from the blaze. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Sincerely, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Lindsay</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></div></span>The Bungalow Nesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12590686988093452417noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3441325802485612487.post-58893839737404850412011-11-21T21:45:00.004-06:002011-11-21T21:51:10.088-06:00Renewal.<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I'm beginning to feel a renewed passion and excitement to create things. Sometimes I wish I went through college to just learn, instead of feeling like it was a vital need to just get an education so I could work to have money. I never really felt like I was raised with the knowledge to be a life time learner. It's not that I've knowingly gone through life with that thought, but I didn't grow into the habit early enough in life to know that listening or practicing to something once is not enough. I've learned the hard way that repetitiveness works for me. I can't fully retain knowledge, let alone stories once, and be able to tell them right back. I'm terrible with giving directions, and taking standardized tests. There are just things I know I'm not good at. The problem is that I need to spend more time making lists of things I wish to learn more about, do those things, and repeat. I was thinking today as I was driving to work, how little time we really have here on Earth. How little time we have to make an impact in life. Not to impress people, <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">but to glorify God, spend time deep in prayer, to give our all, to encourage, love, bring peace and kindness. To create, accomplish, try, seek, believe in ourselves and others.</span></i></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I know that my walk with Christ cannot be lived in a one time listener type of way. Even as a believer, I am consistently being washed clean by the pure blood of Christ, and to be repenting my sinful heart and actions daily. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It took a one time death of The One to cleanse me, but I must repent of it all, each day and strive to live like Christ. I cannot read a verse in the bible once and be convinced I am never to read it again. Have you ever come back to a verse you know you've read, because it seems to ring so beautifully in your ears, and flow like refreshing waters? What a feeling!</span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span> </div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I feel this need to leave Facebook. Everytime I look at the news feed, I find myself reading things that don't need to fill my brain. Sure I love people, and reconnecting, but am I really using it as a tool? I don't think I've convinced myself to leave it completely, but just to have less to do with it. To place more time and brain power into time with my husband, to create things, market my business and be productive. I'm not saying I spend hours upon hours staring at what suzie, bobby, and billy are doing at the moment, but to take away those few moments a day, maybe I could think a little clearer, and put more care into things that need my attention and focus. I'm not trying to convict anyone of their use of FB, but this is my own belief for what works for me in my life. </span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span> </div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I feel like my time management, energy, and attitude could use a makeover. To look towards the positive, to things on my plate, the people in my life, the Lord of my life...and to wait patiently through the hard times knowing that my God is orchestrating something beautiful. I may not hear it the music, but oh to give Him all the glory, to sing Him a new song! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Oh how He Loves us.</span></i></span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</div></div>The Bungalow Nesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12590686988093452417noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3441325802485612487.post-16560443913101297892011-11-12T21:33:00.000-06:002011-11-12T21:33:35.279-06:00ten, eleven, twelve...<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">You know, it's hard to keep up on this. I love the internet, but yet I hate it...because it is such a distraction from real life. There, I said it. Sorry to be a debbie downer about it. A lil' truth aint gonna hurt ya.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">The past three days I have still been thankful, and they are as follows...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">12. I am thankful for God's plan for my life.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Though I wish I could see the line of the path right now, I know that if I trust in Him, He will lead me beyond what I can imagine.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #001320; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">"He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters"</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #001320; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Psalm 23:2</span></span></div>The Bungalow Nesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12590686988093452417noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3441325802485612487.post-43724783838992890002011-11-09T09:36:00.000-06:002011-11-09T09:36:41.667-06:00Number 8 and 9. Thankfulness.<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">The Lord is so good. He's kind of sneaky too...which to me, shows He is humorous. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">It feels like the good things come out of no where, without any notice beforehand, after having a few hard weeks, which makes the wait so worth it. And this shows me that we are being held in His hands. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">It isn't always easy having a childlike faith...I over complicate and over think things. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">There's nothing we can do to make Him love us more. He just Loves us, with a deep mercy and grace we can never fully comprehend. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">And all He asks is for us to Love and worship Him. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #001320; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">"And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose." Romans 8:28</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #001320; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #001320; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">8. I am thankful for the Lord's timing.</span></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #001320; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">This past week I've been re-thinking my business and whether I've been doing the right thing. Of course I've only had my massage therapy business running for a little over a month. I told myself beforehand that it wasn't going to be easy to get people in the door right away. But once I was in the middle of making calls, and spending days sitting in my office for a walk-in, I began to worry that all my hard work was amounting to nothing. I know this has been a season of learning patience. Patience throughout every part of my life, whether it be at my work, my new business, saving money for Matt and I to live in our own space, etc.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #001320; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I know God is teaching me to rely upon Him in everything, practically and mindfully. And I know that there is nothing I will be put through that I can't come out of if I rely upon Christ. </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #001320; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">This week I had two clients in one day. Praise God!</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #001320; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #001320; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">9. Today I am thankful for friendship.</span></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #001320; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">This is one of the things I am so sure of; The Lord has blessed me with friends. I've heard that you're blessed if you have 5 really close friends or less throughout your lifetime. I feel blessed that He's brought such wonderful friends into my life. I think of the way they've been weaved through my life, such as one friend leading me to meet a group of friends that held my future husband and has been such an encouragement to me 6 years strong. Another friend who has witnessed such growth in me from a teenager that though we live miles away from each other, when we see each other, I feel that foundation of friendship of the past and we talk with ease.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #001320; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Thank you Lord for friends. I know that I could not go through this hectic life without them. </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #001320; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
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</span></span></div>The Bungalow Nesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12590686988093452417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3441325802485612487.post-63561926670604255082011-11-07T22:53:00.001-06:002011-11-07T22:54:57.629-06:00Two more...<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I figured I would stray behind on this Thankfulness list. Fhew...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Does anyone else feel like the days have gotten shorter?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I suppose they feel like they do since it's dark by 5:00 p.m. now.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">There is not enough time in the day anymore for me </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">but to have any time at all, I am thankful.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Because you know, if the days were too long...I could be complaining how work lasts forever.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Onto Thankfulness...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">6. I am thankful for God's provision over my life.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">The past few weeks have been tough for me. My mind has just felt so boggled by stress, business, work, church, and trying to fit everything else in that matters so much. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I stop and think, "Where has all the time gone? I need more time to rest." </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I realize how much I've been staying under a gloomy cloud. Feeling like I don't even want to think of my worries or hear encouragement about my current adventure because it reminds me of how I may not be fit for it. But I have got to tell myself; "you can do it! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Why do you doubt yourself so much? Why are you giving up so easily?...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Give it </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">all</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> to God." </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Let go of your worries and </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">trust</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> in Him.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">2 Corinthians 9:8</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">"And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work"</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Philippians 4:19</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">"But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus."</span></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">...onto the next on my list.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">7. I am thankful for a God who needs nothing from us; We need everything from Him; </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">He longs for us to just worship Him.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">This statement I've read or heard this week within the last couple of days a few times. I think I might have needed the reminder that I have been relying too much on myself for the things I need. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">When I go through a day without scripture, it is harder to survive throughout the day. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">It is hard to have hope or to be in the right mind set.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">When I haven't taken the time to immerse myself prayer, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I understand that I'm headed into a battle of a day I can't win on my own.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></span></b></div><b><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Romans 12:1-2</span></span></strong><em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></em></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect."</span></span></em></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </span></strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Galatians 2:20</span></span></strong><em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></em></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me."</span></span></em></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></b></div>The Bungalow Nesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12590686988093452417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3441325802485612487.post-24648027171592839472011-11-05T17:47:00.001-05:002011-11-05T17:50:20.810-05:00Thankfulness day five.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Can you imagine this Earth without nature? I cannot imagine life flourishing without it. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Maybe the earth would look like the moon. No color, no life, no resources, no nothin'.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">What a scary thought.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU0Lr33GCUrkKnPNGyJbO9GLgPsfF1WOrdmbhEEKLy34gxBvfJnuxl9SjYb9tBXNInB0wjg-YQkvVmzyh7X1fsVPXw3b6feKCwOBIW7xV7bCH4kqWXApq4wEZNzhNf9LNcX8njmI361k5O/s1600/74218_171898802835752_100000469010093_547724_6177627_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU0Lr33GCUrkKnPNGyJbO9GLgPsfF1WOrdmbhEEKLy34gxBvfJnuxl9SjYb9tBXNInB0wjg-YQkvVmzyh7X1fsVPXw3b6feKCwOBIW7xV7bCH4kqWXApq4wEZNzhNf9LNcX8njmI361k5O/s400/74218_171898802835752_100000469010093_547724_6177627_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>5. Today I am thankful for nature. </b></div><div style="text-align: center;">The Lord has blessed us with colors and creations that come only from His paint brush. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Creatures that we could have never imagined to exist. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Thank you Lord for providing a land of resources and beauty.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">"Let them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and they were created. He hath also stablished them for ever and ever: he hath made a decree which shall not pass. Praise the LORD from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps: Fire, and hail; snow, and vapours; stormy wind fulfilling his word: Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars: Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl"<br />
Psalm 148:5-10</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">"He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth."<br />
Psalm 104:14</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">"But he has given proof of what he is like. He has shown kindness by giving you rain from heaven. He gives you crops in their seasons.<br />
He provides you with plenty of food. He fills your hearts with joy."<br />
Acts 14:17</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">With love,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Lindsay</span></span></div>The Bungalow Nesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12590686988093452417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3441325802485612487.post-35689378295927425522011-11-04T11:22:00.001-05:002011-11-04T11:24:04.856-05:00Thankfulness is a year round thing...<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">But, since Turkey day is on it's way, (while I'm listening to Christmas music..) I'm seeing the tradition of thinking of something you're thankful for each day until Thanksgiving Day on Facebook and it's reminded me to do the same. I believe with all the commotion and stress that has been going on in my life, I need to take time each day to verbally and mentally say "I am thankful for_______." </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">God calls us to not just think, but go do! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Romans 12:13-16</span></b></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">" </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Contribute</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">to the needs </span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">of the saints; </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">extend</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">hospitality</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> to strangers. </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Bless</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">those</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Rejoice</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Live in harmony</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> with one another; do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly; do not claim to be wiser than you are."</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Since I am behind, I should list 4 things I'm thankful for.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Starting with this precious man in my life...</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></span> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy7kKE6TRX70HMchxmgjnN8xNOfsfrqex2jmKGb8EIlv2vrRKT6r1LqfbKuiISUcYSQrdlyYGtZJNnFBG-mbG0nGxoI0JkD1ywNqd23ea6a17vCdemwLDVWNv0RE1TutORK4YbEvhd_q9l/s1600/matthew5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy7kKE6TRX70HMchxmgjnN8xNOfsfrqex2jmKGb8EIlv2vrRKT6r1LqfbKuiISUcYSQrdlyYGtZJNnFBG-mbG0nGxoI0JkD1ywNqd23ea6a17vCdemwLDVWNv0RE1TutORK4YbEvhd_q9l/s200/matthew5.jpg" width="200" /></span></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">1. I am thankful for my husband Matthew.</span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I am so very thankful for the depth he has. He is deeply encouraging to me. He never lets me leave his side when I am angry, even if it is with him; he just won't have it until things are resolved and talked through. Even though at times this makes me frustrated, I am indeed very very thankful for this characteristic he carries. He gives me peace and understands me more thank anyone I know. He sees things I cannot and helps me to bring my darkness to light. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">He is a wonderful spiritual leader for our family. I trust his judgement and the decisions he makes. He is humble and gentle. He leads me to the Lord, always.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Oh yeah...and he's funny too</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">2. I am thankful for community. </span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">We can't go through life on our own. God doesn't expect us to. We must cling to the Lord foremost, but reach out to one another, through hospitality, prayer, and accountability. Jesus was surrounded by others throughout His life on Earth.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Beginning in Acts 2:42 and following, we community here...</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">"They devoted themselves to the apostles teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread, and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and good, they gave to anyone as he had need. Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved."</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></span> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></span> </b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">3. I am thankful for a home.</span></span></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></span> </b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Matt's family has been so gracious to us, by letting us live with them for over a year now while we are getting on our feet financially. I can feel progress and the Lord will provide a home of our own soon. I can feel it. We just need to be patient in waiting and be reminded we live in a big warm home, with food in our bellies, and a warm bed to sleep in at night. We live with a family who loves and cares for us, who understands our struggle and needs; a fun and loving family who we enjoy spending time with. And it's even better during the Holiday season, to be so close to people you love so much.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></span> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">4. I am thankful for freedom in Christ.</span></span></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></span> </b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I'm so thankful that the Lord gives us freedom in Him. Freedom from the things of this world that do not fulfill us nor complete us.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></span> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">"For you have been called to live in freedom, my brothers and sisters.<br />
But don’t use your freedom to satisfy your sinful nature. Instead, use your freedom to serve one another in love."<br />
Galatians 5:13 (NLT)</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></span> </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">"We have escaped like a bird out of the fowler's snare; the snare has been broken, and we have escaped."<br />
Psalm 124:7 (NIV)</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></span> </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">"Sin is no longer your master, for you no longer live under the requirements of the law. Instead, you live under the freedom of God’s grace."<br />
Romans 6:14 (NLT)</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></span> </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></span> </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Until tomorrow with Love,</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Lindsay</span></span></span></span></span></div></span>The Bungalow Nesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12590686988093452417noreply@blogger.com0