Hi all,
Just a quick update we have MOVED IN!!! The house isn’t fully complete BUT we have moved in. There is still a BUNCH of painting and some bathroom work to do though! Don’t worry we have fully functioning ones! 🙂
Pics are coming after the inspection NEXT WEEK! Wait until you see the Before and After! It’s amazing and we are feeling so very blessed AND the kids have adjusted better than I had ever expected! Thanks for praying for us!
These guys are AWESOME! Note there is heavy sarcasm but it is well worth your time. Highly convicting! A great way to talk to teens. The kids in our Youth group LOVE these guys!
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Hi my name is Mary (Most of you already knew that 🙂 )
I am 31 years old (almost 32)
I am a Christian (for nearly 28 years)
I am a wife (for almost 9 years)
I am a mommy to for 4 (since 2005)
I am creative (in many ways)
I am a pastor’s wife (for almost 6 years)
I am also a daughter, sister, friend, niece, grand-daughter, and cousin.
I am a blogger (for nearly 4 years)
This is who I am…This is what makes me…ME!
But what you may not know about me is…
I have been to China.
I am legally blind.
I am a realist.
I am a reader.
I am not perfect.
I make mistakes.
I have hazel eyes.
I like to teach teen girls and ladies Sunday school classes.
These things do not define me, they describe me. These things do not tell you what kind of person I am BUT these things have been a part of me.
Let’s just say I may make some enemies on this one. I have felt God’s leading on this subject since Bible College where I took a “Counseling Women” course. Our Professor Mr. M challenged our thoughts on said subject.
Now I am by no means here to TICKLE your ears with what I think you want to hear. I am here to grow in my walk and to share my journey and why I am convicted in certain ways. So here it is…whether you like it or Not!
So let’s start at the beginning. Let’s differentiate between Christian and secular……As a believer we should NOT be putting in our minds the SMUT of secular romance novels. There is a lot of pre-marital and extra-marital affairs, profane language, and details we do not need to be thinking about outside our own husband/wife relationship (notice the singular). We should not be thinking on such things. Philippians 4:8-9 tells us that we need to think on good things and not on things that go directly against what the Bible says. Sin is sin and we are to have NO part in it!
OK so that being said, you might be thinking SOOO Christian ones are okay right? Well let’s talk about that!
NOW let’s talk about how each of the sexes gets turned on (I think I don’t need to get more obvious)!! Guys are turned on by sight, that’s why pornography is so big amongst the male species (I know some girls struggle too). But what turns on the female species..can you guess it…..WORDS. Our minds just run with words so even though the smut isn’t talked about that is where our minds run. We automatically start going down that road. Did you know that romance novels trigger the same portion of the female brain that pornography does the male brain. NO JOKE! Same emotions, same thoughts. (I know I will have lots of those who say NOT ME! Well let’s give it a little test. Pick up the romance novel you just set down and read an emotionally driven portion that ends in kissing. Now tonight when you are getting ready for bed and kiss you hubby compare the feelings…the feeling you had that morning while reading that portion of the romance novel will trigger feelings that weren’t there when you kissed your hubby that night. THAT should NOT BE!! Not to mention the dangers it has on a relationship, romance novels give the “perfect outcome” in most books. And I have seen on more than one occasion that a marriage or two or a dating relationship has been taxed because the wife feels her hubby cannot match up to the ideal of Joe Shmoe from such and such novel.
Continue reading “Romance Novels Yay or Nay? (Discretion is advised tough subjects)”
We all need it and I am no different. I am so excited…yes excited because this is something I have been praying about for almost years now. God will bring someone to mind and I will pray about it, then talk to them. I get two major responses with some varied in between.
#! No time, I’m too busy!
#2 Yes I’ll do that for you –AND IT NEVER HAPPENS!
It’s not Like i am some half- hearted believer. I am a pastor’s wife. I NEED to be held accountable. For the things I do,say and believe! Well after many “rejections”(it starts wearing on you after a year and a half) God provides someone I believe will do the job well…NOT half- heartedly! She is a pastor’s wife and she is busy too. BUT we make time for the things and people that are most important to us! And would you believe we haven’t seen each other or talked in nearly 5 years!
We were talking on FB she wanted to share some really exciting news she had going on in her life ….Sowe chatted for awhile. Reminisced about Seminary WivesFellowshipand the Disciplines Bible Study class we took together! She lives in Ohio and I in New York We had talked about our families and what we were doing now and at the end I just felt God prodding me…Ask her..ask her…So instead of holding off and praying about it first. I took a leap of faith and stepped out on the proverbial water….You know what i found out….BOTH of us have been living and experiencing the same thing! We then discussed what we expected out of this and how we were going to go about it…WE MADE A PLAN! First call tonight during Awana.
So I am very thankful for a coupleofthings concerning this..
there is so much more that goes into this story and I wish I could share it all BUT alas I can’t and I shouldn’t…SO happy thankful Thursday!
