Progress

I’ve been at work on my graduation ceremony outfit.
Beginning with this:

So far, I have this:

And this:

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It don’t matter

This is one of my all-time favorite songs. This haunting, wistful melody really encourages me when I’m feeling homesick for my eternal home.
It truly “don’t matter where you bury me, I’ll be home, and I’ll be free.”

Note: this post was published automatically. I’m still out of town, in case you are [...]

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Willingness

I sat down on my bed with a sigh, feeling very tired. After spending nearly all day working outside in the yard, and making many trips back and forth with a wheelbarrow that was overflowing with dirt, and having an exceedingly difficult time deciding what to wear to church in the morning, I was very [...]

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“Let your conversations always be full of grace…”

Let your conversations always be full of grace.” 
Colossians 3:1

While reading through Colossians a few days ago, I read this verse, and have been puzzled about what exactly it means. I’ve been thinking about this verse a lot in the past days.
Perhaps, it means to always speak “gracefully,” meaning courteously or kindly, giving grace to the [...]

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When Jane Austen gets a Facebook…

…you get Austenbook!
This is the most hilarious thing I’ve read in a long time!
Do read it all the way through; it is frightfully funny , if you are at all familiar with Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, and especially so if you are at all familiar with Facebook. I nearly died laughing!!
 
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Charles Bingley is renting a house [...]

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Senior picture

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Austen entertainment

After attempting to get the most recent version of Austen’s Emma on DVD from our local library, and instead getting a most horrid version of it, we were discussing its horridness in comparison to the one I had tried to get.
I said,
This one had a lot more discussion in it. They just sat around talking and didn’t [...]

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Let us resolve

To be ambassadors and represtatives of the King of kings — what an awesome privilege, and a fearful resposibility!
By taking His precious, holy Name — Christ-ian — we are acknowledging and proclaiming that we belong to Him.
We — our lives — may be the only way a person ever hears about Christ.

Let us resolve to [...]

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Potential

My graduation ceremony outfit to-be.
The skirt will be black with a floral print, and the top will be creamy-tan with black accents.

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What a glorious day!

What a glorious day it is today! It seems like the sun is God smiling down on the world, and His very breath is warming up the air for spring.
I can almost hear Him saying to me:

Because of the [My] great love [you] are not consumed,
       for [My] compassions never fail.

 They are new every [...]

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Comfort for the weary heart

I’ve been wrestling with many questions and doubts recently.  I’ve been struggling to cheerfully follow the commitments I’ve made to the Lord. It’s hard to be different.  It’s hard to be seventeen and wonder, when people ask me if I date or whatever, if the one God has destined for me will ever come; if he’ll [...]

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