Two Things I Said I’d Never Do

This week I joined two social media websites that I said I would never get into, Instagram and Twitter. Instagram really isn’t that bad, I’ve actually been enjoying being able to take a picture, edit it a little and post it for a quick update on what we’re doing. But Twitter…. (sigh) I’ve made fun of twitter since it started, why on earth you would want to post status updates all day long is beyond me. So why did I get into these?

For my kids.

Hebrews 13:17 says “Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give an account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

I mentioned in my last post about doing some “remembering,” and with that remembering comes a lot of thankfulness for those who watched for my soul as a teenager. The prayers that were said on my behalf were numerous at times I’m sure! Kenny and I do a lot of praying for our teens but we also try to do a lot of checking up on them as well. One of the many ways I have been doing that is through social media like Facebook and now Twitter and Instagram. It’s just one (or two) more ways to get in touch with our teens and hold them accountable for the way they use these sites as well as a way to be encouraging to them too!

If your on Twitter and/or Instagram look me up!

@BeckyGodby

 

If you are a parent or youth worker reading this, let me encourage you to check out what your teen has been doing on these sites. Often times you will be surprised at what you will find! Hopefully you don’t find anything to be alarmed by, but just the same, do some checking, keep your teen accountable to what they say/post and what they are reading. Encourage your teen to have good friends (online ones too) who will edify them and help them to grow spiritually.

Thankful Thursday

This year for Teen Camp we drove 14+ hours north to The Bill Rice Ranch in Murfreesboro, TN. That camp week was a tremendous blessing to my heart this year as we listened to wonderful, Godly music and dynamic Bible preaching from Dr. Alton Beal, Dr. Bill Rice, Tim Thompson and Matt Downs. I’ve said many times that we brought home a completely different youth group than the one we left with, that, in itself, was a major encouragement and blessing to see our kids making decisions to live in light of eternity. I have been enjoying the camp CD and playing through the choir books that we purchased ever since. One song really ministered to my heart this morning as I was just struggling (do you ever do that? have a day that is just a struggle?) I think the name of this song is “You Comfort Me” but I’m not 100% sure. What I’m sharing here is the second verse and chorus. Enjoy!

“Daily gleaning from Your Word,

Seeking truth today.

Knowing that in every trial

You will lead the way.

Teach me Lord to trust in You,

You will faithful be

Trusting that You’ll light my way

You will comfort me.

 

You are the God of all comfort,

You are the one I can talk to.

You are the Healer of wounded hearts,

Searching the hidden parts.

"You are the giver of all things,

You are the reason that I sing.

You’re my everything,

You comfort me.”

 

~Bex

Saying Goodbye

I hate saying goodbye :( its definitely not fun at all! As excited as Kenny and I are about our move to Florida, and all the new things and people that will bring, we will still miss the people we have gotten to know and the memories of living where we are now.

Kenny and I dated and got married here, we were in our first ministry together here, and met a lot of wonderful people that will forever hold a place in our hearts. That is all very hard to leave behind, but moving has been and will continue to be a growing experience for us both.

Someone jokingly said to Kenny and I that packing up all of your worldly possessions and moving will either make or break a marriage, I’m beginning to agree with that statement! Its almost comical how differently Kenny and I have approached moving and I think we have both agreed that if we ever move again we are hiring someone to come in, pack everything up and move it all for us! (Don’t worry our marriage isn’t on the rocks and we won’t be needing counseling after this ordeal, I’m just not doing it again!)

All joking aside, I did want to thank each one of you who have prayed for us and with us over the decisions that lead up to this move, those who helped us pack and offered helpful advice with coffee breaks, those who are coming to load the truck and those who just wished they could be here to throw popcorn during the communication break down spots :) We have been so blessed to have each one of you in our lives and I don’t know how I could have done it without you.

This will be my last post until we get to Florida so I’ll {try} to take pictures and give you all the details, along with a tour of the new house, when we get there. Until then, I’m Florida bound, let the “flor-idiot” jokes begin!

~Bex

Thankful Thursday – A Coffee Pot

Mom and Dad got me a 4 cup coffee maker and I have definitely been enjoying it :) With this post though I wanted to share a recipe’ for:

Cinnamon-Maple Coffee

~Sprinkle Ground Cinnamon over grounds in brew basket.

~Pour Maple syrup into the bottom of empty coffee pot.

~Brew coffee like normal and pour into cup

~Add a dollop of whipped cream to the top and enjoy!

This is the way I do mine (4 cups) if you are brewing 6 cups the measurements are:

~1/2 tsp Ground Cinnamon

~1/2 cup Maple Syrup

 

What’s your favorite coffee flavors? Any recipe’s you’d like to share?

Thankful Thursday – Extra Work

September and October (and sometimes even November) for some reason is the “slow season” for Barbers. Its been like that for the five years I’ve been barbering and from what some of the old-time barbers, who have now retired, have told me they always took their vacations this time of year because business is just slow.

Today I am thankful for the opportunity I had on Tuesday to work an extra day for my friend, Amanda. Also, being able to stay the night at my Mom and Dad’s house kept me from having any added expense of driving down the mountain to work. It still wasn’t a super busy day on Tuesday, but just a little extra cushion in the bank account always helps. :)

What has happened this week that your Thankful for?

Thankful Thursdays – Conviction

Doing daily devotions has never been easy for me to continually do. I’ll start doing them faithfully for a week or two and then I get “busy.”

“If your too busy to spend time with God then your too busy!”

Well this past week I was once again too busy until Tuesday. I worked at our churches day care to fill in for a lady that was out sick. One of the teens from our youth group came in and excitedly told me that her and her friend had done their devotions for two days now and were going to help each other remember to do them on a regular basis. I was excited for their progress but felt about 1 inch tall at the same time. That night I was at the RU meeting and in the Challenge Group section of our evening Mrs. Judy, the ladies Group Leader, talked about reading her Bible and doing the RU challenges. She said,

 “I can’t expect you all to do what I’m not already doing.”

Ouch! I’m constantly asking the teens if they’ve done their devotions. Then the final blow, the message at the end of the night. What was the message about? Prayer and Faithfulness… Now down to 1/8 inch tall I went home and asked the Lord for help in this area of my life.

With the Lords help I am starting again but this time with a plan. I finished the Proverbs 31 study, I had started on ROH, yesterday, and today I started a study on the book of James. The book is a Teen study guide that Kenny recommended. I’m also asking different Ladies, who are spiritual giants to me, to help keep me accountable in this area.

The thankful part of this post is that God is still working on me! I think it is always neat to see what God uses, or brings into my life, to direct me back to Him.

* I’ve had different people ask me why I blog about my “personal, spiritual issues.” the answer is that I want others to know that I’m not perfect, I have things that I struggle with and God is constantly working on me. I blog about these things because maybe someone else is “too busy” or has stumbled for another reason. My prayer is that they might be encouraged by my experience and that they don’t give up in their walk with God.

So what have you been doing in your devotions recently?

Thankful Thursday – Laugh-a-ble Moments

We’ve been rather busy this week with the teens and getting ready for RU Sunday, I’ll tell you more about that later. Today I’m thankful to be married to a man who will do silly things if it will bring a teenager to church.

Kenny, recently has started growing a “goatee” just for something different.

Here he is with his brother Wesley, so you get the basic picture of what that looks like.

Kenny has started going on Tuesdays and Thursdays to the high school during their lunch period to sit with our teens, meet their friends, check up on what they’re doing, how their day is going, etc. Brandon, one of our teens we hadn’t seen in a while came over and started joking about Kenny’s goatee, telling him he should shave it all off and just leave a “soul patch” – a small triangle patch of hair under the bottom lip. Kenny told Brandon that he would do it IF Brandon came to church Wednesday night.

Well… Brandon came to church :)

it took a couple tries to get a “good” picture…

It also took A LOT of begging to get him to let me publish the pictures on here :)

Kenny is going to see the teens for lunch today and show Brandon his soul patch. Then, he said, he was “shaving the rest of it right off!”

I know this is kinda silly but we love our teens and we’ll do silly things sometimes if it means they come to church and hear God’s word.

*If you think about it, some of our teens don’t have the best home life. Please pray for them to be faithful so Kenny and I, along with the Church can show them the love of Jesus and hopefully give them a safe place to get away from the stresses of everyday life for them. Thank you.* 

Thankful Thursday – My Friend Stephany

 

Stephy and I grew up together, went to church together, college, she was my maid of honor and she has always been a great friend. This summer has brought a lot of changes for her, she accepted a teaching position at a Christian school about an hour or so away from where we both grew up. This puts her closer to Chipotle and Qdoba which makes me a little jealous, (not really, I’m very happy for her). I know she is really excited and probably a little nervous about making this move but I know God has something great in store for her.

I am very grateful for such a supportive and Christ honoring friend, she truly desires to serve God in every area of her life. Stephy has been a great encouragement to me in many areas and I know no matter what’s going on I can always talk to her.

 

So thanks Stephy for everything and good luck in your new job!

Thankful Friday – The Proverbs 31 Woman

I know its not Thursday but the internet at work was down so I couldn’t send it out. But I hope you get a blessing from it no matter what day its on :)

I was looking online for some new ideas of what I could do for my personal devotions, I like to have a guide or a book to follow to keep me on track, and I stumbled across Revive Our Hearts – The Counter Cultural Woman. I had seen this series before and thought it sounded interesting so I decided to give it a try.

Before I go on I have to say that I don’t particularly like that fact that she uses every version of the Bible under the blue moon but I do appreciate her heart for God and that she really wants to help encourage women to live a Godly, Christ-honoring life.

For my Bible reading I’m taking the 31 day challenge to read Proverbs 31 every day. Its been really neat to see the things I’ve found in my own reading of this passage but what I want to share with you all is what Nancy, Revive Our Heart’s speaker, had to say.

Today she was giving an over view of the Virtuous Woman. Yes, she sews, she cooks, she has her own business but the heart throb behind all of her “works” is her love for God and her desire to please Him above all others. I really had to question myself about the motives I have for doing things.

Am I wanting glory and honor for God or for myself?

(ouch) This was a real burn as I thought “Are the things I do so that Kenny will be proud and praise his new wifey? or because I want to please God whether Kenny, and others, notice or not?”

Going back to the Virtuous Woman, she received her husband and children’s praise at the end of the chapter but how much better to receive the praise of our heavenly Father for work well done that brought honor to His name.

Thankful Thursday – Our Nation’s Independence

I know I’m a couple days behind but this really is something I am truly thankful for. I’ve mentioned in an earlier post about my trip to Africa and how thankful I was for the little things like Toilet paper. We have so much in this Nation that makes us “rich” in the eyes of those around us. Is our country perfect? No. I’m I 100% pleased with the direction our country is headed? No, but I can say that there is no other place I’d rather live! :)

Now for a brighter note :) here are some pictures of our 4th of July celebrations. We went to Watauga Lake with our Pastor and his family and Craig – now that I think about it, I don’t think I ever got a picture of Craig :S maybe next year.

I did get his picture! Well the back of his head… but its a picture! Brock and Kenny tried to be “Ninja” and stand up on the raft…

…It didn’t last long!

We also went to see fireworks but I didn’t take any pictures… Sorry :S I hope you all had a good 4th of July and that you remembered the reason we celebrate.

Thankful Thursday - My Job

I think I’ve mentioned before that I have the greatest job in the world! God really worked everything out for me to get this job. When I was in Cosmetology school the chemicals(perms, color, hairspray, etc.) started giving me headaches. I remember telling my Mom that I loved just cutting hair and I would probably look for a shop where I could do just that. I think it was about a month before I graduated that Jeff and Lisa Enloe called my school looking for a girl, getting ready to graduate, that wanted a job just cutting hair. I told you God worked everything out for me! As of today (May 12) I have been working for the Enloe’s for 5 years and wow has time flown!

 

These are from the Spindale shop where I’m working at now.

This is the Forest City shop, Plaza Barber Shop

I gave one of my nephew’s his first haircut here. That’s my Mom holding him as they wait for me to finish with another client.

I’ve met a lot of interesting people through my job, and learned a lot of different things from these people as well!

Did you know that God only made a few perfect heads? The rest he put hair on!

The difference between a good haircut and a bad haircut - 10 days

I’ve met some of my best friends here. I wrote a little bit about Amanda

here recently though we have decided that we are sisters that were separated as children, we just have so much in common! Amanda has taught me a lot too, like its ok to be blonde and smart! lol (she’ll get me later for that one!)

Amanda is not the only friend I’ve made at work there’s Christy, Kim, Chastity, Lisa, Cassie, Mechelle, Alicia, Judy, Lindsey, and Rebekah, she’s just the only one I have a picture of!

This job has just been an amazing experience, I can honestly say that I look forward to going to work, that I love my job. So thanks to all of my co-workers, bosses, and clients for making these past 5 years a pleasure!

Thankful Thursday – Conviction and God’s Word

Do you ever wish you could sing really well, or preach, or teach Sunday School and Children’s church? Or on the other hand do you wish sometimes that you didn’t do those things? I know this is an odd way to start a blog post but I must confess I’ve been desiring to serve the Lord like so-and-so does and thinking “why can’t I do….. like this person.” “why do I have to do this when I could be doing that?” All of these things stemmed from not being satisfied with where God has me, happy with what He has me doing.

God, ever so faithfully, brought these verses to my mind the other day as I was contemplating my dis-contentment.

1 Corinthians 12

1. Now concerning Spiritual gifts, bretheren, I would not have you ignorant.

8. For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;

9. To another Faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;

12. For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.

13. For by one spirit are we all baptized into one body…

15. If the foot shall say, because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

16. And if the ear shall say, because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

17. If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?

18. But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.

21. And the eye cannot say unto the hand,  have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

22. Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem more feeble, are necessary:

28. And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.

29. Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers?  are all workers of miricles?

30. Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?

I know I’ve skipped over some verses here in an effort to shorten this post and give you an idea of where I’m going with this. My point is that God used these verses in my life this week to say “Hey, I don’t have you doing such and such because I need you to do this” What I do in my service for God is not more or less important than what someone else is doing, it is right in God’s will, where I need to be! I continued reading:

31. But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.

1 Corinthians 13

1. Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

2. And though I have te gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

3. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

8. Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

13. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

I don’t know how I ever missed that these two chapters “just fit” together but I realized, more importantly, that whatever I do in the service of the Lord, if its not done with love, “it profiteth me nothing.”  I hope I got across my thoughts clearly today and that this was at least a little help/encouragement to someone else.

Thankful Thursday – Good Friends & Family

I know one of my first Thankful Thursday’s was about friends and I’ve done one on family before too, but I just couldn’t pass up telling you some more!

On Thursday evenings Kenny usually comes down after work to spend part of his weekend with me and sometimes we get together with Brittney and Stephany, two good friends of mine since grade school! This particular Thursday Stephy had to work late and I was going to be at Emmanuel with Kenny on Friday and Saturday for our Youth Lock-in and an Anniversary Party, so he didn’t come down. But Brittney still came over, poor girl, and I put her to work she volunteered to help address invitations.

I have truly been blessed by all the people who have pitched in to help with Kenny and my wedding!

Mom, Brittney and I sat at our Dining room table and watched “The Inheritance” while we addressed all 175 invitations – I actually don’t know the exact number we addressed but we ordered 175 to make sure we would have plenty.

Thank you Mom and Brittney for all your hard work!

Thankful Thursday - Music

Music has always been a great comfort to me and I’m always amazed how God brings to mind verses and songs that convict, encourage and heal my soul right when they are needed most. I’ve had a couple different songs that have been taking turns being stuck in my head but one of them in particular went almost hand in hand with Kenny’s message to the teenagers last night.

Kenny did a a two part message about serving the Lord. This week he asked, "Who are we?" In 1 Cor. 4:1 – It says we are ministers of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. The basic idea here was that since Christ purchased my freedom from the slave market of sin I now have the choice to continue in sin, which would displease my Savior, or to follow and serve Christ with my life. Also, as a Christian I am to be a "steward of the mysteries of God," meaning that once I learn something in scripture(the mysteries of God) I am responsible for it, I’m to obey it and I’m supposed to share it with others.

Now for the song, its actually a little chorus in the Wild’s  book called: All I Ever Want To Be. Here is how it goes:

All I ever want to be is what You want of me, Lord;

I give my life to You.

And all my hopes and dreams and plans I place with-in Your hands, Lord,

and give my life to You.

Here am I, Lord, use me;

take my life and mold me.

All I ever want to be is what You want of me, Lord;

I give my life to You.

And all my hopes and dreams and plans I place with-in Your hands, Lord,

and give my life to You.

I learned this song from a girl I went to Africa with and it has really stuck with me ever since. It reminds me a lot of a professor I had at Ambassador, Dr. Childs, he always said live life with your hands open, palms up, for God to take away what you don’t need and fill with something better. How much happier would I be if I place my "hopes and dreams and plans" into the hands of the One "who holds tomorrow."

…sorry about all the song lyrics throughout this post, its the music in me :)

Thankful Thursday - Spring

This is my favorite time of year! I think I said that about fall and winter too… anyhoo, I love all of the seasons but in different ways. Spring is so nice because all the trees are budding and the flowers are popping out of the ground to say hello! :)

My future Mom-in-law posted some thoughts about spring, flowers and a Christian's spiritual life. I thought they were very good you can read about it at Apple Slices of our Life and see a picture of her budding Crocus as well, they are such friendly flowers.

Anyways I hope your enjoying spring where your at and if it hasn’t come quite yet for you don’t worry its just around the corner!

Thankful Thursday - Church Family

Last night at church Kenny asked for prayer about my car situation and mentioned that I needed to find a replacement vehicle a.s.a.p. My parents have been taking me to and from work and graciously letting me borrow their car to run errands and go to church.

Well after the service, Adam, one of the men in our church came to me and asked if I wanted to borrow his wife’s car until I found another vehicle. (his wife, Ms. Joy, just had back surgery and won’t be driving for several weeks, pray for her recovery if you think about it, I’m sure she would appreciate that!) I was in shock…. Kenny said he felt like reaching over and closing my mouth when Adam asked if I wanted to borrow their car. :)

If I’m not able to find a car this weekend, I think we’re going to work something out for me to pick up the Tahoe from the Harmon’s on Sunday.

Romans 8:26 – Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us…

This is something I’ve been praying a lot here recently, I didn’t expect the Harmon’s to offer their car for me to use but I am definitely glad for it because it gives me more time to car shop and I am thankful because it was something that God did. I didn’t ask for it or expect it, God laid it on their hearts and that makes it even more special to me!

Thanksgiving...On Monday

Ok, I know its not Thursday but I believe that we should be thankful all the time.

I Chronicles 16:8 Give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good; for his mercy endureth forever.

I Corinthians 15:57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

To make a longing a story short my Dad thinks my car threw a rod. Now for all the ladies out there who, like me, don’t know what that means, it costs a lot to get it fixed! Anyways I’ll be honest and say that I’ve been a little bummed about it, not knowing what to do, should I try to get it fixed or put the money into a buying a different car? If I go for a different car, how much can I afford to spend? You know how it goes, a million and one questions are going through my mind.

The thankful part: I was reading some of the blogs I’m following this morning and came across Mrs. Lockhart’s blog A Home is a House Full of Love and read Monday's Manna. She did a little piece about following God’s leading. It just got me thinking about these verses in Psalms:

Psalms 139:1-10,14 –

1. O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.

2. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.

3. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.

4. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.

5. Thou has beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.

6. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.

7. Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?

8. If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.

9. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;

10. Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.

14. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

I’m so glad that I am a Christian and that my Heavenly Father doesn’t forget about me, He knows where I am, He knows my problems, and verse 10 says that his hand will lead me and his right hand will hold me.

Thankful Thursday

Today I’m very thankful for our youth group!

 Sorry I didn’t actually get a picture of our teens :s

Working with the teens has been fun, exciting, and challenging both physically (you try keeping up with sugar high 12-17 year olds and let me know your physical state afterward) and Spiritually.

If you ever get the chance, volunteer to help with the youth group at your church, then just listen to the questions, problems and idea’s they have. I promise you will laugh, be astounded, get stumped by questions, cry, and pray so much harder about the circumstances they face daily. I love our teens and am thankful for the encouragement they are and the challenges they bring.

Thankful Thursday

With our wedding just around the corner (113 days, 21 hours, 17 minutes and an odd number of seconds to be exact… but who’s counting right?) and weekly marriage counseling I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about, and praising the Lord for a Godly heritage. But not just for mine, I am EXTREMELY thankful for the family/ heritage I am marrying into!

Today I was reading Mom Godby’s blog: Apple Slices of Our Life, she did a wonderful piece about Grandpa Paul for his birthday and shared a little about his life, salvation and how he continues to walk with the Lord daily and share that walk with others, even the hearing impaired! You can read what she wrote here I promise you will enjoy it! I have to say as I was reading it I thought about the song “I have never lost the wonder of it all!”

I can’t say that I know everything about my future family but I do know that they love the Lord and strive to serve Him with their lives, they also encourage us to do the same. It is a blessing to know that Kenny’s parents and grandparents pray for us on a regular basis.

I stole, borrowed some pictures from their blogs to show everyone what they look like.

 

This is Kenny and Grams Godby, Gramps went on to be with the Lord back in August but I had the opportunity to meet him and Grams at the Godby Family reunion in June.

This is Grandpa and Grandma Paul, Kenny and I got to see them when we went to CO around Christmas.

 

 

 

This is Wally and Sherry Godby at his surprise birthday party in December.

What kind of heritage do you have? Better yet what kind are you leaving behind? The second is what I’ve been asking myself a lot recently… just some food for thought!

Thankful Thursday

I wasn’t really planning on doing a post today because I haven’t really had extra time to spend on blogging recently, but I found myself next to the computer with time to spare just now! Guess I’ll Blog!!!

The past several days I’ve been reading emails and different blogs when I had some spare time and there have been a couple that have just been an extra special blessing. I don’t know if you’ll be interested at all in them but I wanted to share some of them with you. Maybe you can grab a cup of coffee and read some of this as you have time.

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Lockhart Life in Brazil - Thoughts on a Missionary Wife

Esther once was my piano teacher when she was first married to Jeremy. It has been neat to see their family grow and follow the Lord’s leading to Brazil. She just posted something another lady wrote about being a missionary wife but I thought it could also apply to any wife who’s husband is in the ministry.  It was a good reminder that these are just women, they don’t have super powers just because they have chosen to live on the mission field.

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A Home is a House Full of Love - 12 Keys to your Husbands Heart

Mrs. Lockhart was my Sunday School teacher when I was twelve. She has been a godly example and influence on my life and she continues to do so through her blog. I’m not married yet but Mrs. Lockhart shares things all the time about raising your children for the glory of the Lord among jokes, scripture, pictures of the grandkids, coupons and savings. This post is another way she encourages her readers to hold the heart of their husbands.

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Random Issues - Homemade Laundry Detergent

Andrea is my soon to be Sister-In-Law who lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband and little girl. Andrea is an encouragement to me in many ways. She finds ways to make her house an organized and inviting home on a budget and even applies a lot of everyday things to scripture. I must confess after reading her post this morning about Laundry Detergent I felt like crying. I find myself desiring what everyone else has and not being content with what the Lord has given me to work with.

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There are several more things that I was planning on posting but because of time I’ll have to save them for later. But I want to thank those, whether I mentioned you today or not, who are trying to live for the Lord. You have been an encouragement to me.