Here’s a funny, short video clip of a Night Before Christmas reading for you to enjoy! 🙂 (click here if you have trouble viewing)
“But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night…” (like Santa! …my rendition of course–that part’s not in the bible!) 2 Peter 3:10 (KJV)
“So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.” Matthew 19:6 (NIV)
Eric and I just recently celebrated our 15 year wedding anniversary. I thought it might be fun to share what 15 years of marriage has taught me. So I invited Eric to write this post with me to share some of the things we’ve learned over the years. Some things are fun, and some are serious.
One of the first things that 15 years of marriage has taught me is that when you’ve been married this long and have gone through a lot together, you’ll do some crazy stuff! In honor of our anniversary we decided to celebrate by getting “ring tattoos”. A friend of mine said, “Pain to symbolize the pain of 15 years?” 🙂 Like many marriages, we really have had our fair share of pain though. I’d do it all over again, pain and all–that’s how much I love this man!
15 years celebrated with ring tattoos–Shout out to Josh at Davis Street Tattoo in Dallas for taking such great care of us!
So THIS is how you become a Mechanical Engineer? I think the real degree plan is that you can get a degree if you can figure the plan out! Leave it to Mechanical Engineers to come up with something like this. My husband brought this degree plan home from his advisor. He tried to explain this to me, and I was like “What?!?” He sarcastically said, “Just follow the arrows.” OK.
“Amazed and perplexed, they asked one another, “What does this mean?”” Acts 2:12 (NIV)
I had anticipated sharing some of the things that I’m thankful for this year in last week’s post, but it didn’t seem to fit in very well with 6 Ways to Stay Thankful Year Round. So this week, I thought I’d share some of those things with you. This has been a pretty big year for me with lots of changes and scary new opportunities. I’ve experienced a whole lot of new ways to be brave this year. Maybe you have too?
I’m thankful for the usual 🙂 …my husband, my children, my family, my church, my job, my strong friends, my volunteer work and for God’s faithfulness (He ALWAYS comes through).
I’m thankful for being able to cultivate some relationships this year and to make some new friends.
I’m thankful for God always bringing me through some hard and seemingly impossible situations this year (financial, career, and relational).
I’m thankful for new abilities, new courage, new opportunities, and teachable moments (both for me to be taught and for me to teach others).
I’m thankful for the strength and Continue reading
An elderly man in Phoenix calls his son in New York and says, “I hate to ruin your day, but I have to tell you that your mother and I are divorcing—45 years of misery is enough.”
“Pop, what are you talking about?” the son asks.
“We can’t stand the sight of each other any longer,” the old man says. “We’re sick of each other, and I’m sick of talking about this, so you call your sister in Chicago and tell her.”
Frantic, the son calls his sister, who explodes on the phone. “Like heck they’re getting divorced,” she shouts. “I’ll take care of this.”
She calls Phoenix immediately and screams at her father, “You are NOT getting divorced. Don’t do a single thing until I get there. I’m calling my brother back, and we’ll both be there tomorrow. Until then, don’t do a thing.”
The old man hangs up the phone and turns to his wife. “Okay,” he says, “They’re coming for Thanksgiving and paying their own fares.”
“He honors the childless wife in her home; he makes her happy by giving her children. Praise the Lord!” Psalm 113:9 (GNT)
May your Thanksgiving not be filled with unappetizing fails such as this “turd”key cake! 🙂 Have a Happy Thanksgiving next this next week!
“Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.” 1 Thessalonians 5:18 (ESV)
The measuring stick of society and others around us cause many of us to deal with insecurity. Not measuring up to the standards of others is one of the 9 Common Causes of Insecurity. Everywhere we turn culture and society are telling us what we should and shouldn’t be. Society says you need a degree or some type of formal education to succeed. Commercials and reality TV show us the right car, the best house, and the perfect décor. Every magazine will tell us the right designer to wear, the cool shoes to have and even the best products that will apparently make us a “somebody”. Movies show the ideal family or what a “perfect” relationship/marriage looks like. All forms of media exhibit disgusting displays of what the perfect body of a man or woman should look like.
It’s amazing to me the amount of marketing dollars spent on advertisements to fix any flaw you could imagine. This isn’t just a modern issue either. Look at these old advertisements I found…
Vintage Vanity!
Many of us are surrounded with critical voices in our lives too. Expectations are thrust upon us from every direction—in our homes, in our jobs, in our schools, in our volunteering, with our families, with our friends, and on and on. We’re made to feel that if we don’t measure up to the standards of others we are somehow inferior.
So how do we overcome this? Continue reading
Image courtesy of John Atkinson, Wrong Hands
To go along with our previous discussion this week: 9 Tips for Overcoming Procrastination, I thought I’d share a fun cartoon with you. Maybe you can relate?
“They wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another” Psalms 105:13 (NLT)
Sounds like procrastination to me! 🙂
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