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We have a manufactured home. Therefore it was built in a factory and brought to our lad and placed on here.  There are some definite advantages to this, our house doesn't look like a manufactured home, doesn't feel like the typical old school one, but there are also some major disadvantages to it.  One thing that we have noticed is that our pipes get clogged ALL the time.  Currently our stand up shower has become more like a 3 inch bath tub.  Prior to that, our sinks were filling up with water.  My handy and handsome hubby was able to take the drain off and clean it all out so that our sinks weren't overflowing while washing our faces or brushing our teeth or just washing our hands...  Unfortunately, there is no real good way to get to the drain under the shower.  We have tried different approaches. but it is perpetually clogged up and I think that we may even go the plumber route.  It is nasty what comes out of the clogs, it is gross stuff- hai...

So I have learned that some people are just photogenic.  You can catch them in the middle of anything and they look like a million bucks doing whatever they are doing.  I, however, could never be a model.  I don't have that "photogenic" quality.  If you catch me in the middle of doing something, I do not look quite right.  Even during some staged photos, my appearance is not quite what I want it to be.  Unfortunately, photographs are what people usually look at if they don't know you.  They can judge you by the photographs.  Even when you think that you are having an "on" day, something might be off and it doesn't end up how you want it.  You don't come across how you want to. Just recently my little sister got married.  HURRAY!!!!  I had a great time at the wedding, but all the pictures of me look 100% awful.  I don't know if it was how I had my hair or what, but I looked terrible.  Now I have had my share of good pictu...

You know  this past week we had company and i didn't want to ditch them in the morning times to sit at my computer and type out my entire devotion.  Is that bad?  In a way i think that it is because I didn't express my thoughts on paper as I do love to do.  In another way, it was amazing because the friends that I had staying here have an incredible heart for the Lord and I was encouraged through everything that we did together.  They live in a different world, well really just a different country, but in their world, the Muslims are the dominating force.  They have very few Christian friends that surround them and people persecute the Christians that are there.  They were explaining to me that so much of the population in Asia doesn't even know who Jesus is.  Could that be?  Is that possible, people today still don't know who Jesus is?  A story that they told at our open house really struck me.  There was this intelligent young wo...

Sometimes you have the best intentions are heart.   You offer to do something thinking that you will have the time, energy and effort to be able to do it without a problem, but then those good intentions come back and bit you in the butt.   You end us with issues that you weren’t intending, kids sick, time being sucked away.   Then people get upset or angry even or you just feel like you have failed.   Sometimes, even with the best intentions, things just don’t work out how you planned.   Even if the people that you were working with do not get upset, you do because you know that you said that you were going to do one thing, and didn’t end up doing it and it just eats at you. I can’t tell you the number of times I have been in this situation.   The most memorable is when I was meeting someone for the first time and I offered to help them with a power point presentation.   She gave me all these pictures and asked me to do it and I told her that I could...

Has anyone else ever noticed that it is the people that we are the most similar with that we sometimes can’t get along with AT ALL…   Well for me, that is the case.   Those that are leaders and bossy (like me) can’t handle being bossed around unless they want to be.   Those that are quiet and don’t take charge, can’t hang out with others that are that way because they get bored.   Some people are middle of the road and can get along with everyone, man how I wish that was my chemistry make up. I had a revelation yesterday – my oldest daughter is JUST like me.   She wants what she wants, when she wants it and wont listen to anything, or anyone telling her no.   She will do what she wants, how she wants to.   She is strong willed.   I am strong willed.   It leads to quite a few personality clashes.   There isn’t anything wrong with being strong willed.   It can be quite an amazing quality.   Some of the greatest leaders have been...

It is so easy to have doubt.   Doubt that Jesus was really who we believe that He is or that He was really the ONE.   I know that I have had my fair share of doubt and it has only come recently too.   Satan is trying to get me to stop pursuing a relationship with Christ, and so he is implanting these seeds of doubt in my mind.   Like, “was Jesus really THAT arrogant to think that HE was the son of God?” or “People like Joseph Smith claimed to be the be-all-end-all for his religion – Mormons only really look at his good things that he did, not the bad (of which there was plenty…)”   It is so easy to say – “why do I believe that Jesus is the son of God?” You know- the Bible wasn’t always the Bible.   It was written all over the place, it was brought together by people to give us a glimpse into who and what God really is and was and is to come.   It was written all over the world, in different parts of the world at different times in the world. ...

“ Jacob was a cheater, Peter had a temper, David had an affair, Noah got drunk, Jonah ran from God, Paul was a murderer, Gideon was insecure, Miriam was a gossiper, Martha was a worrier, Thomas was a doubter, Sara was impatient, Elijah was moody, Moses stuttered, Zaccheus was short, Abraham was old… and Lazarus was dead...God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the CALLED!!” My friend had it on their facebook and it hit home.   I am no where near perfect, so far from I can hardly see perfect in the distance.   Seeing perfect is a dot for me, but the fact is that God loves me, he has called me and has qualified me to do what needs to be done. David was no where near perfect either, he had brought a married woman into his bed, had her husband killed in battle, and so many other things, yet he was a great king and a great servant of God.   I think that he was such a great servant because of verses like this.   Psalm 143: 9-12 “Rescue me from my enemies...