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The Blessed Life- in Marriage

Our church is doing a series called “The Blessed Life”.   It is about how you end up living a blessed life by giving your first and your best to God, and then your life is blessed.   By choosing to have a heart for the Lord, even when times are rough and seeing the blessings that God pours out of you.   One of the main things they have been hammering home is that you don’t give your best to have your life be blessed, you do it because your heart is wanting more of God and naturally, His blessings flow from that.   In simpler terms, you do not give to get.   I have had multiple people talk to me this week about marital struggles.   I have seen eyes rolled at husbands and heard of wives being just down right mean to their husbands and yelling at them over phone conversations.   Today is my 10 th wedding anniversary.   YAY!   My husband and I do not see eye to eye on everything, but we try. I can honestly say this is the happiest I have ever been in my marriage and I look forward

Parenting Predicament

Really fast, before I start, MY BOOK IS OUT NOW!!!   The Whisper in the Waterfall is available at these sites: the physical copy here, https://www.createspace.com/4360794 ; and the e-version here, http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DZ1EV42 .   I am very excited about this…   Now onto my thoughts…   There is so much we are not supposed to say to our children anymore.   We can’t call our daughters princesses because it establishes a male dominated society.   We can’t say, “hurry up” to our children because it makes them think that we don’t have time for them.   We can’t tell them that we look fat because they will have a negative body image. We can’t let our kids read certain books, or play with certain toys because we want them to “be themselves”.   We can’t call a paper bag lunch a “brown bag lunch” because it is racist.   We can’t yell at our children in public, even when they are being 100% bad.   We can’t spank our children.   Society is always telling that we can’t do all these t