"Life"

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.

Life is beauty, admire it.

Life is a dream, realize it.

Life is a challenge, meet it.

Life is a duty, complete it.

Life is a game, play it.

Life is a promise, fulfill it.

Life is sorrow, overcome it.

Life is a song, sing it.

Life is a struggle, accept it.

Life is a tragedy, confront it.

Life is an adventure, dare it.

Life is luck, make it.

Life is too precious, do not destroy it.

Life is life, fight for it.

By: Mother Teresa

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~Mother Teresa of Calcutta
(August 26, 1910 – September 5, 1997)

Born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, she was an Albanian Roman Catholic nun with Indian citizenship.

In 1950, Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata (Calcutta) in India. For over forty five years she ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying, while guiding the Missionaries of Charity's expansion, first throughout India and then in other countries.

*I really enjoy anything that Mother Teresa writes, it is Pure Simplicity. Especially for anyone like myself that has a hard time understanding and following the use of Large words :)

I hope you find God and inspiration in this poem.

This Is The Time; This Is The Hour

The Lord our God will say to us
To not limit what He can do
For He is a God of the unlimited
There’s nothing He can’t do through you

For God is doing a new thing
In our lives, today, this hour
To raise us up to be His army
Clothing us with His power

Remember not the former things
The things that are in the past
Behold, He is doing a new thing
And will capture human hearts

It’s time now to go out and gather
In the harvest of the Lord
For there are many whose souls are ready
More than we’ve known before

So take His light into those places
Of darkness and misery
That they may know the God of love
To give hope and a destiny

Then they may shine right where they are
So others may come to the light
And they in turn may come to know
The saving grace of Christ

Then Jesus’ light may radiate there
Like a beacon in the night
No longer groping in the darkness
But shining forth God’s light

May the spirit of God arise in you
And empower you much more
So His glory may be seen with you
As you proclaim the risen Lord

© By M.S.Lowndes

*I found this poem, and I gave it to a few young ladies at their passage into womanhood. I really felt God in this poem, and wanted to share it with whoever come across my blog.

*We, the Church are in one of the Biggest Spiritual Wars that we will face. The Spirit of this Age is calling out to us to join with them! But We must stand strong for those we Love.

*And we need no to put off anything that has been given to us to do, because Now is the Time to do what God has given us.

*7 out of 10 of your problems will disappear, if you did the things God is Asking you right Now.

~Weird Illness & Lesson Being Learned~

Well, knowing it has been awhile since my last post. I have had my daughter Subria randomly loose her stomach one day, and two days later she is doing it again. I have no idea what is happening. Earlier this morning, my youngest Jasmine, was very hot too touch...I gave her tyleno and seemed to help some. But, my question is, what is God wanting to show me? I have been home all week...I like to be on the go, if you understand. So, this has been rough for me. I am noticing that I have a short circuit fuse, where it really concerns a toddler and infant, of those not feeling well. Constantly fussy, well...almost. And Subria enjoys torturing her sister. Not my style of fun ;( I have yet to pass that test in raising children. I will post more later.

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~Godincidence~

Godincidence...I just looked up this word online.

Just to see if there is such a word; and to my surprise of course someone beat me to the punch. The definition I seem to think of would be, God Ordained Incident

So you see, before Christmas I had this notion to call my friend Becky, (who is very pregnant and is due any day, please pray for safe delivery) and I asked her if her parents lived in Nashville and if it were okay to crash the nite there. And it turns out that she and her family were headed there the following day, and would be there until after Christmas. Who would have arranged my brain to think of calling Becky?

None other than God! And I ended up calling it

Godincidence!!!!

Well, today it had happened again, only on a different scale. My husband and I were going down to see Tony & Marie White (dear parent like figures to me) and Elazar and I had talked about calling up our friends John & Yvonne Cullimore, to see if they wanted to go to Tupelo today. So we could let our girls play at the indoor play area. It was fun, Subria had a blast and she was actually very well behaved, especially around tons of children. I later had asked Elazar if he called, and it turned out that Elazar nor I had called John or Yvonne, due to trying to get out of the house and head that way. So, we are done with the play area and went into the bookstore, (of course we were not there long enough for my liking) to take our daughter to the restroom. And we are browsing around, trying to mind our business, when two young girls start coming our way.We look up, and Godincidence!!!! John & Yvonne were in the same bookstore as we were, and they both had forgotten their phones at home!

We stood and talked for a few, before heading out.

Now, what would you call that?!

I am not so sure I believe in Coincidence, but I do believe in Godincidence!!!

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~Encouragement~

Have you been encouraged of how you are raising your children?

And what a difference has been noticed?

Well, I was given that chance...from Tina, a friend that I truly admire.

Tina, you do not know how much that touched me. Thank-you so much.

What Tina had spoke to me a week ago, was that she has noticed how well Subria is doing, and that we were doing a good job at raising her. And that it has been noticable. It really meant a lot to me, being so young in the whole raising children area; that it really made me to want to go after spiritual ladies and get wisdom from them.

And I want to thank everyone that has been in my life, from childhood into marriage

Thank you all!

Here is a quote that I saw awhile ago, and I laughed at it just thinking, how true it was.

"They say, "It takes a Village to raise a child", only they never told me where to find the place!" (Now, picture a young woman holding a baby in a car with her diaper bag, and looking at a map.) I found it very amusing and thought provoking, What if there really were young mothers wandering around, wanting help with raising their little one? Would you help, or just brush them off?

To read more, check this out!

Just a follow up from my post of Dec 14th.

Subria did get better after two days of fever and ear aches. We gave her Congaplex and Echinacea and put some Dr. Christoper Ear & Nerve in those little ears of hers.

I did notice how little she was pulling on her ear, after two days. And Subria told me it was all better.

Although today Subria seems to be starting to fight it again. And guess what? That's right, I have already started her on those herbs again.

~A Life of Purpose~

I am not sure how to sum up my last two months, but I will try.

God has really been working on me about purpose and generally taking care of everyone around me. And trying to communicate clearly, so my language (for those of you that know me) is clear enough for others. Especially my husband :)

Generally, I am one who really focuses on getting something done, IF I put my mind to it. But in that I am really finding that I hurt people around me, with the personality that I have. And thinking about it, I look in my famous Bible and Something jumped out at me. It totally explains what I have been doing, and after reading the study topic and the Bible passage, I do not think I want to continue in that way...Rather choose to be different.

~A Life of Purpose~

2Kings 22:1-20

If your life were condensed into a short synopis - one brief sentence - what would be said of you? How our lives are summarized depends on the choices we make each day. We have a tendency to be distracted with the cares and responsibilites of life. Laundry piles up. Bills need to be paid. Children get sick. As we care for our families and do our work, it's easy to become sidetracked from our primary purpose: pleasing God. It is easier to give lip service to spiritual things than to stay on course, keeping in step with the Spirit.

So how will you be remembered? What will be said of you? Most important, how will God Summarize your life?

Just a few questions:

What is one sentence you could use to summarize your life so far?

What might God want to change in your life so that your life summary will be different?

What steps will you take today to walk in God's way?

Word to take with you today: Purpose (Although I think it should be, God's Purpose)

Now I hope to post more this week, I should be better at staying on track. It really is amazing to wonder what God does think of you and what you are doing. It very eye opening to read that passage. You can do everything you are "Supossed to do" and not be doing God's Purpose. That is something I need to really focus on.

I hope this is encouraging to you as well as I found it to be...

~Believe it or not...~

Believe it or not it has been almost a month since my last post!

Having gone through a number of small battles of different obstacles.

I will try to post as I have time, again.

I now have a feverish daughter, Subria. And it would be great if you could keep her in your prayers. It has been almost a year since she was sick with Flu A & B, along with Strep, which lasted close to 2 weeks.

~Words That Build~

Okay, so I know it has been a few days since my last post. It has been crazy!! In my learning how to be a mother of two, doing household chores, and sewing. I seem to have resently found that I am very pretty poor at encouraging people. Believe it or not, but I have found it be true. I am working on it as well, as all the other issuses in life. So, with that in mind, I took a look through my Bible and found something very helpful for me to try to walk steadily, in hopes of "not killing" people w/my lack of encouragements.

~Words That Build~ study topic

1Thessalonians 5:8-24

If others listened in on your conversations, would their lives be changed for better or worse? Would they hear you speaking about the character flaws of others as if they were phisical defects, or would they hear that you consider others beauitful in God's eyes? Ask yourself if your words build up or tear down. Do your words push others away from you or draw others near? Most important, do they draw near to God?

Just a few questions:

In what ways are you guilty of hurting others with your words?

How have you been on receiving end of end of encouraging words?

Who is someone who could use your encouragement?

Word to take with you today: Uplift

That study topic really kicked me in the backside. Just thinking how I am so, task orientated that I fail to see the people in front of me. My habit of, "Everything has a place" and "Everything needs to be Cleaned" needs to change. Just a small picture, I live here in a house w/ Ray and Ashley and four single guys. And my whole mind setting is, focused on things not being put away properly or areas in the house, being a wreck. I see the task, and not the people that God created for to be here for a reason. I could probally think of quite a few people that need encouragement from me. Hopefully I can work toward doing that more often. I hope this touches you, as it did me.

And just a small update, I have for the last few days, made it out of bed before 7am!!! Okay, so that is something big for me, and I hope I can continue

~Discerning Differences~

I just posted the most resent bible study topic of Discerning Differences in:

Learning to be A Mother

"In order to be Irreplaceable one must always be Different"

-Coco Chanel

So, you see... We want our children to irreplaceable!!!