I don’t normally unfriend anybody. Unless I decide that maybe we’re not really anything beyond acquaintances and I’d rather my feed have more space for people I know well and want to keep up with. Even then, I usually just don’t. But if sugar were a human “friend,” I’d probably have to make an exception, even though I know sugar pretty well. Because I don’t think sugar is my friend or yours.
Continue readingA new commandment. Sounds so simple, right?? After volumes of laws detailing how we treat one another had already been narrowed down in Matthew 7:12 to “do to others as you would have them do to you,” then come three simple words: Love one another.
Unfortunately, simple doesn’t equal easy. Where laws had been previously written on stone, Jesus meant for us to wear the law on our hearts. Good deeds and flowery speech don’t cut it. 1 Corinthians 13 reminds us that those things are only a lot of noise unless done in love. No amount of outward law-keeping gestures measure up. It’s the simplest yet hardest command ever, akin to “be perfect as your father in heaven is perfect.”
Continue readingFor many of us, marriage is an essential element of our tranquil or not-so-tranquil homelife. Since it’s the season of hearts, candies, flowers, and love, my Valentine’s gift to you is to share four principles that I pray may be an encouragement to you in your marriage.
This timeless marriage speech was of course from the movie the Princess Bride for a marriage (between Prince Humperdinck and Buttercup) that was never to be. The speech-impeded clergyman made a couple of good points, however. Marriage is a blessed arrangement, and one to be treasured.
Continue readingDo you love a good make-over like I do?? I love all kinds, but especially home transformations. I plan to use my love of all things makeover to inspire myself to show some love mostly to the interior of my home this year, since I haven’t done so in a minute (that means YEARS!!).
I’m starting this month, since I’ve used January to try to pick myself up and dust myself off from 2020, as well as to PLAN! So let’s think of this as the Extreme Home Makeover: Low Budget Edition. Imagine if Ty Pennington were working alone and only with the money in his pocket… one room at a time, and he didn’t have any serious carpentry skills…
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