September 20, 2008

• On this Day.

  Mend a quarrel.

  Search out a forgotten friend.

  Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust.

  Write a love letter.

  Share some treasure.

  Give a soft answer.

  Encourage youth.

  Manifest your loyalty in a word or deed.

  Keep a promise.

  Find the time.

  Forego a grudge.

  Forgive an enemy.

  Listen.

  Apologize if you were wrong.

  Try to understand.

  Flout envy.

  Examine your demands on others.

  Think first of someone else.

  Appreciate.

  Be kind.

  Be gentle.

  Laugh.

  Deserve confidence.

  Take up arms against malice.

  Decry complacency.

  Express your gratitude.

  Worship your God.

  Gladden the heart of a child.

  Take pleasure in the beauty and wonder of earth.

  Speak your love.

  Speak it again.

  Speak it still again…then speak it still once more.

   

   

  Go on…the day isn’t over yet. You still have time to do all this!! I’m kidding. I was wondering if someone actually COULD do all of this in one day…hmmm…I think it’s just a good pattern on how to live life.

   

   

  

  They float…

  

   

  

  I’ve decided they’re fairy blankets…sparkly…diamond, fairy blankets. SOME people would think they’re just spider webs with dew, but that’s just them. Because they don’t know any better.

   

  My brothers taught the youth guys here how to wear their hats the “right” way lol. They’re inside-out and backwards. Cool, huh?=)

  

     

  I know you people will eventually get tired of all the pics I take of the moon…but I’ve decided I’ll post them anyway. Deal with it.

  I’ve started a baby-sitting job. Only go once a week, and it’s for my aunt’s church. They do Bible study every Tuesday morning and I get to take care of some pretty sweet kids while the mommies are inside…I’ve only gone once, and decided I love it (which i knew I would=), and here are some pics of my newest little “kiddos”. Don’t know most of their names yet…still working on it.

  

  Kylie. I think of her as “Annie”. Don’t she look just like little orphan Annie on the movies? She’s so cute!

  

  

  This little girl is a little dynamo. Everywhere at once. So tiny and cute…and not to be contained.=)

  

  

  

  Don’t remember this little guy’s name…but ain’t he just the cutest?=)  

  

  She was seriously munching on her play-dough. And when I put my hand under her chin, she obligingly opened her little mouth daintily and let the slimey ball of it fall into my hand…She astounded me with her intelligence…and she never really said anything at all. Just quietly let me know what she wanted. So cute!

  

   

  My little niece Hannah is still the cutest of them all…

   

  We have cats!! They’re black and have some weird personalities…and I love them.=)

  

  I like to torture them. *evil grin*

  

  This is my kittie–”wearing a glass of milk” Ok. i know this is slightly gross, but I sat there and couldn’t contain my glee as I took pics and tried not to giggle. “Scrawny” (as I’ve aptly named this little kitten) was straining every nerve and muscle to get to that milk. He never did. I served him a meal afterwards to make up for being so mean to him…=)

  

  Interesting spider.

  

  

  I’m incredibely proud of this pic. 

  

   

   Ryan with our “lawnmower”.=)

   

  “I am wondering if we don’t usually have it all backwards…that the trials are terrible is a fairly normal mindset, at least–if you’re in the middle of one…

  “But what if they’re not? What if they’re really mercy? And grace? Just gift-wrapped in a hard circumstance? And maybe, without that circumstance, we could not ever come into the gain of the grace, love, and mercy…or faith.”     –Bethany

   

  Ok. Have a wonderful week everyone…live every minute to the fullest…in Christ.=)

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