tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1464052331532680062024-03-05T21:51:36.991-05:00Yada YadahYADA: To perceive, understand, acquire knowledge, know, discern, to be known, make oneself known, to be familiar, to distinguish between right & wrong.
YADAH: to acknowledge the nature & work of God - ie. praise, sing, give thanks, speak out, confessMYstory of HIStoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06938436011404677610noreply@blogger.comBlogger853125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-146405233153268006.post-62673376002894457582013-12-16T11:52:00.003-05:002013-12-17T12:50:37.964-05:00Let us slow. Let us s-l-o-w. Let us s--l--o--w ...<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><br /></span>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">And, on that slow day midway thru’ Advent, “it just so happened” that <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Greatest-Gift-Unwrapping-Christmas/dp/1414387083/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1387213010&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Greatest+Gift">The Greatest Gift</a> Advent devo was much about the difference between how The LORD and we look at and see things. And how the way we see things strangely affects us “from housekeeping to soul-keeping.”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">I Samuel 16:7b (NIV) …The LORD does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance but the LORD looks at the heart.”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Pretty convicting stuff for a perfectionist and precisely why I particularly appreciated some things Ann Voskamp pointed out. And with the understanding found in the passage above, perhaps it shouldn’t surprise me so much that in the “Upside Down” (relatively speaking) Kingdom of God, the Good King continually turns things “inside out” so to speak, to see the heart of a particular person. And that, it seems, essentially being the “why” behind why God raised up Abel instead of Cain, Jacob instead of Esau, Isaac instead of Ishmael, Moses instead of Aaron, David instead of Eliab, Sarah instead of Hagar, Leah instead of Rachel. Tamar. Hannah. Ruth. Rahab. etc. And that also, it seems, essentially being at least in in part, the reason He eventually raised up His Own Son, The Savior! Down here - upon this earth. And up on the cross. And - from the dead!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">And when I stop here and now to ponder how my story fits into HIStory … well – it all gets pretty personal. Especially when I picture how dark, dirty and cold the stable must've been and consider how odd it seems that the Creator/KING OF KINGS & LORD of LORDS would choose, from all of creation, such a place to be the perfect place to make His presence known. Yet the better I get to know Him, the more I understand about the why behind where He chose to make His earthly debut - so perhaps it shouldn't surprise me so much that he would choose such a similar place - that being my heart – for essentially the same purpose. Nonetheless, I still can't help but wonder "Why!?" It is a profound Mystory of HIStory! Yet He, in that uniquely His “upside down and inside out” way of His, has somehow managed to transform my skeptical "Why?!" into the very reason why I celebrate Christmas.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">And with all of the individual “inside out” stories woven consistently with what seems to me to be to quite possibly be a red thread (a strand of three cords perhaps?) into HIStory, I do believe I “see” an a-MaZiNg “tapestry of Grace" unfolding. Tho’ I can’t help but w*o.n*d.e*r … if, since that sinful snag snarled things so soon after “In the beginning …”, might the tapestry need to be turned "upside down" in order to put things into proper perspective and so to get the a-MazInG Grace-FULL effect - in the end?! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">All this on that day set aside, in part, to slow down so as to attempt to refrain from profaning, in the mundane, that which is meaningful and hallowed in what Ann Voskamp describes as "... the divine design of a day that unfolds with a grace that is not to be missed.” </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Mere coincidence? Or minute miracle?! I know what I believe. But will allow you to decide that for yourself ; )</span>MYstory of HIStoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06938436011404677610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-146405233153268006.post-81065031876763267352013-12-14T21:02:00.000-05:002013-12-15T06:45:24.358-05:00mere coincidence or minute miracle?<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><br /></span>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"> “Forever is composed of nows.” (Emily Dickenson is credited with penning those words l-o-ng before I put them here) - and because I tend to see things, especially The LORD’s hand in things, most clearly in hindsight - and that being a perspective we’re not privy to in the present, I’m so incredibly grateful for God’s Word/Record of HIStory since it affords the advantage of clear vision (They say hindsight is 20/20) to see "coincidence" upon "coincidence" all add up to so much more than one could ever reasonably attribute to mere coincidence!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">This morning, In Day 12 of The Greatest Gift Advent devo by Ann Voskamp, I read a WoNdEr-full example of just such a “chapter” in HIStory regarding Ruth (the outsider grafted in) and Naomi. If you haven't yet, you really should read</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"> it! Here's just a brief excerpt of it from the NIV version of God's Word:<br /><br />But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Ruth 1:16 (NIV)<br /><br />And, in a nutshell, it goes kinda like this: Once upon a time w-a-a-y too many “just so happenends” happened to reasonably conclude in “the end” (which, by the way, is really STILL continuing!) that it all “just so happened!”<br /><br />And when I contemplate how at least in so far as she was concerned, Ruth’s faith and obedience seemed to be critical components in the continual “coincidences” - Well … that’s a whole other story! But I’m kinda convicted actually - to pause here. Now. To ponder this ...<br /><br />The next time I consider something to be rather “coincidental”, perhaps I should instead be compelled to reconsider that, in proper context, it very well may have been a minute miracle in an otherwise mundane moment! - And promptly ascribe credit (and praise and glory too!) to Whom All Credit (and Praise and Glory) Is Due.</span>MYstory of HIStoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06938436011404677610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-146405233153268006.post-26133103549605397432013-12-14T20:57:00.000-05:002013-12-14T20:57:36.063-05:00upside down and inside out<h5 class="uiStreamMessage userContentWrapper" data-ft="{"type":1,"tn":"K"}" style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;">
<span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3,"tn":"K"}" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.38;">I Samuel 16:7b (NIV) …The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance but the Lord looks at the heart.”<br /><br />Well, I'm here. Tho' not quite like I said I wouldn’t be today, my self declared Official Slow Day; ) But wanted to share ..<br /><br />Day 12 in The Greatest Gift Advent Devo is much about the difference between how The LORD and we look at and see things. And how the way we see things strangely affects us “from housekeeping to soul-keeping.” Pretty convicting stuff for a perfectionist - which is precisely why I appreciate some things Ann Voskamp points out, perhaps more than some others would. Will try to summarize the way I understand what she shares: <span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><br /><br />With the understanding found in I Samuel 16:7b (above), perhaps it shouldn’t surprise me so much that in the “Upside Down” Kingdom of God, He continually turns things “inside out” to see the heart – and that, it seems, essentially being the “why” behind why God raised up Abel instead of Cain, Jacob instead of Esau, Isaac instead of Ishamel, Moses instead of Aaron, David instead of Eliab, Sarah instead of Hagar, Leah instead of Rachel. Tamar. Hannah. Ruth. Rahab. etc. ... And even His Own Son, The Savior!<br /><br />And, well - with all of the individual “inside out” examples/stories that can be found woven consistently into HIStory, I do believe that I “see” an a-mazing "tapestry of Grace" unfolding. Tho’ I can’t help but w*o.n*d.e*r ... if perhaps it may need to be turned "upside down", in order to get the (grace)full effect, in the end?!<br /><br />And all this – today, of all days. A day I specifically set aside to slow down so as to refrain from profaning, in the mundane, that which is meaningful and hallowed in what Ann Voskamp describes as "... the divine design of a day that unfolds with a grace that is not to be missed.” <i class="_4-k1 img sp_8acw43 sx_ad8c6d" style="background-image: url(https://fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net/rsrc.php/v2/yx/r/82hRtF5gWWf.png); background-position: -51px -773px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: auto; display: inline-block; height: 16px; vertical-align: -3px; width: 16px;"></i><br /><br />Mere coincidence? Or minute miracle?! I know what I believe! But will allow you to decide that for yourself ; )<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Gift-Unwrapping-Story-Christmas/dp/1414387083/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1386954774&sr=1-1&keywords=the+greatest+gift" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>Greatest-Gift-Unwrapping-Story-<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>Christmas/dp/1414387083/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>1386954774&sr=1-1&keywords=the<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>+greatest+gift</a></span></span></h5>
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MYstory of HIStoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06938436011404677610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-146405233153268006.post-64567275350282228232013-12-14T20:53:00.002-05:002013-12-14T20:53:44.882-05:00let us slow, let us s-l-o-w, let u-s s-l-o-w
In Day 8 of The Greatest Gift, Ann Voskamp suggests that we profane Advent with fleshly performances, frantic pushing and futile preoccupations – and she shares this: “Profanity, writes Elisabeth Elliot, is “treating as meaningless that which is freighted with meaning. Treating as common that which is hallowed. Regarding as a mere triviality what is really a divine design. ...“”
Tho’ Day 8 still seems timely to me, surely the fact that I’m behind is a sign, among others I’ve seen, that I should take some time to s-lo-w down so as not to miss Him in all the hustle and bustle of the holidays. And so - I’m declaring this Friday to be an official “Slow Day.” Tho’ I’m quite certain I’ll wake up feeling like I often do … that there's so much I could/would/should be doing, I’m determined to be so determined to not to do it all on that day. And instead, and assuming all goes according to plan, to CeLeBrAte by popping something simple for dinner into my slow cooker, enjoying a cyber "sabbath" of sorts, and planting myself at home sweet home in pajama pants … that being something I typically reserve for celebrating such things as official S*n.O*w Days - but that seems practically perfect for just such a time as this since I wouldn’t want to wear pajamas out in public! ; )
And .. You're invited! (No pressure tho') to my "Pajama Party." Hope you'll join me - by staying home, of course ; )
Tho’ it’s already on the fast track to becoming a new tradition, I’m so looking forward to setting aside my "could/would/should do lists" in order to celebrate my first ever official S-l-o-w Day - and all essentially in an attempt to train myself to refrain from profaning, in the mundane, that which Ann Voskamp so eloquently describes as "... the divine design of a day that unfolds with a grace that is not to be missed.”
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Genesis 28:16 (NIV) When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he thought, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I was not aware of it.”MYstory of HIStoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06938436011404677610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-146405233153268006.post-72526757745314084812013-12-14T20:46:00.001-05:002013-12-14T20:46:47.073-05:00reflecting on here & now & there & then<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Those words struck me, as I tend to wrestle here (somewhere between fear and faith and not enough and too much) with perfectionism, and especially in areas I seem to have some measure of control over. They took me back to a time when I pondered perfection from perplexing perspectives and penned (blogged) a few points that I tho’t to polish up and put here.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">WOW! (consider pausing here to ponder that!) ... essentially I understand it to mean that Christ died to do what I was dying to do! And with that understanding it’s heartbreaking (and appropriately so) to think of all the editing/red ink (blood!) my “story” required in order to make me perfect forever! But it seems the transfusion was/has been/is continually transforming - to the point that when I received (believed!) it, I stopped dying & started really living. And tho' doubt still creeps in and so I still wrestle here, somewhere between 'LORD, I believe - & - LORD, please help me overcome my unbelief!”, and tho' it's even more perplexing than all the others, Hebrews 10:14 is definitely the perspective from which I prefer to ponder perfection.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Over the long weekend we were busy restoring order to rooms in our home that had pretty much been turned upside down as our teenage daughter moved out of one bedroom and into another and even as we tried to maintain order in the rest of the house. And we did it! Even managed to put up a few Christmas decorations as well. In just the nick of time for Advent we transformed our home from a bit cluttered & chaotic into more peaceful and pretty. Evenso, I still woke yesterday to the startling realization that it was already here! Advent! Somehow I seemed to think we had a bit more time to prepare. Nonetheless I was grateful for what we’d already done toward that end, tho’ still felt rushed into it all and perhaps a bit guilty for being so wrapped up in organizing and decorating. But with it </span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">being the first day of Advent, at some point I picked up “The Greatest Gift” and read the first chapters in which Ann Voskamp took me a-l-l the w-a-a -y back to “In the beginning … “ – to words from the very first chapter of recorded HIStory in Genesis. And I pondered ... that here & now I was, thousands of years later, feebly attempting to restore into my little corner of the world some semblance of the initial order that God so beautifully wove into and throughout creation with PeRfECt precision, pattern and purpose - and I felt a little better about the organizing and decorating we'd done recently. I guess I figured then that we must be doing something right, since that’s essentially what I get the impression God took great pleasure in doing in the beginning too ; )<br /><br />Anyhow - now I'm attempting to shift my focus from “preparing rooms” to preparing Him room.</span>MYstory of HIStoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06938436011404677610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-146405233153268006.post-15070931776236273422013-12-14T20:28:00.000-05:002013-12-14T20:28:15.459-05:00let every heart prepare Him room, & heaven and nature sing!<br />
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And this too on the page of the <a href="http://www.bibletools.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Lexicon.show/ID/h3034/page/2" style="color: rgb(84, 170, 182) !important; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Strong’s Concordance</a>:</div>
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via: A Holy Experience. <a href="http://www.aholyexperience.com/2013/11/why-the-best-response-to-life-the-holidays-anything-is-yada-yada-yada/">Why the Best Response to Life, the Holidays, Anything is Yada, Yada, Yada</a>:<br />
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FITCHBURG -- The Monty Tech softball team took a big step forward in its pursuit of a playoff berth Monday, riding a 10-run first inning to a 15-1 five-inning, mercy-shortened victory over Colonial Athletic League rival Nashoba Tech.</div>
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The Bulldogs (6-5, 5-3) will continue their crucial stretch of four games in as many days Tuesday when they host Gardner High. Nashoba Tech falls to 4-8 (2-6).</div>
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"We knew going in that the competition was not as strong as it has been, or will be, and we had to jump on them early and get some runs, which we did," Monty Tech head coach Dave Reid said. "We stopped running after the first two batters, we were going to score only on hits. It worked out well."</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">going 2 for 3 with two RBIs,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> and junior Kelsey Bosselait provided a spark off the bench, as she went 1 for 1 with two RBIs.</span><br />
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"(Raymond) has been hitting all year," Reid said. "Her goal is to hit well. Bosselait is a junior, but she's playing behind another junior, Taylor (Bacigalupo), who is our leading hitter on the team this year, so she's not getting her playing time. But she's a decent defensive player and swung the bat well when she got in there today."</div>
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The talent gap between the Bulldogs and Nashoba Tech showed early. After a leadoff walk and single put runners on the corners to start the game, Monica Pucko lifted a floater to left field to put the first Bulldog run on the board. Raymond tallied her first of three hits next on an RBI single to left field, and then a walk loaded the bases.</div>
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Shelby Roussel, a freshman, made it a three-run advantage on an infield hit, then Emilee Flynn drove in a run on an error. The bottom of the order kept the streak going when Paige Girouard chipped a base hit to center field and Landfried plated two runs on a similar hit to center that made it 7-0.</div>
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In all, 10 batters stepped to the plate before the Vikings could even record an out. During that stretch, the Bulldogs recorded six hits. The out drought finally ended as leadoff hitter Brandi Richard came around for her second at-bat and skied a sacrifice fly to left field to plate the hosts' eighth run.</div>
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Following the seventh hit of the inning, the Vikings recorded the second out. Raymond then drilled a liner to left that was bobbled, leading to a run scored and two runners advancing into scoring position. Bacigalupo reached on an error at first base next, which capped off the inning at 10-0.</div>
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The Vikings avoided the shutout in the top half of the third, when Molly Eagan connected on a groundout, which cut the deficit to 10-1.</div>
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Monty Tech rebounded after a quiet second inning with a pair of runs in the bottom of the third. After a handful of substitutions, Bosselait entered the game and came through with an RBI single. Flynn later connected on a groundout to extend the lead to 12-1.</div>
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The fourth inning put the Bulldogs in a position to end the game early. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Landfried started with a double, then, following two walks, an error plated a run to reach the 12-run mercy threshold.</span> Raymond kept momentum going with an RBI on an infield hit, before Bosselait capped off the scoring with a sacrifice groundout.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“The letters of the name of God in Hebrew… are infrequently pronounced Yahweh. But in truth they are inutterable….<br /><strong style="color: black; font-weight: 400 !important;">This word {YHWH} is the sound of breathing.</strong><strong style="color: black; font-weight: 400 !important;">The holiest name in the world, the Name of Creator, is the sound of your own breathing. </strong>That these letters are unpronounceable is no accident. Just as it is no accident that they are also the root letters of the Hebrew verb ‘to be’… <strong style="color: black; font-weight: 400 !important;">God’s name is name of Being itself.</strong>”</span></blockquote>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The most appropriate attire for this particular party just so happened to be brand new P.J.'s <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This year our entire tree is simply covered in sparkling snowflakes and stars ...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...with the exception of one special ornament I found in our mailbox recently. I placed it in plain view bc it whisks me back to the warm Arizona sunshine where I grew up in the desert with my friend who made it. She has a rather unique way of warming me up from the inside out w/ her melted glass he-artwork. After Christmas I'm adding this to my collection of ReAlLy warm stuff! :)</td></tr>
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We searched high & low & I don't think there's a sweater out there that would look ugly<br />
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Little did we know how timely and almost prophetic the "speech" the heavens proclaimed would be for us personally. Just<span class="indent-1" style="font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="text Ps-19-6" style="position: relative;"> hours later and only a little further up the seashore our daughter's utterance of the word "y-e-s", in response to a question proposed to her, transformed her best friend into her fiance'</span></span> right before her eyes. </div>
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I'm so very pleased at what we've seen and been told in this regard. Yet these past several days I've withdrawn to some degree from social circles in order to ponder these good tidings of great joy privately and to treasure this time when Alexis' dreams are becoming reality and she begins to plan and prepare for the future. </div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 17px;">This is a card David made with help from his parents and gave to Alexis for her 15th birthday. The first time I posted this back in 2009 was the first time David was mentioned here on my blog as Alexis' boyfriend. I cut, pasted and polished up a bit below some of what I shared back then in regards to this photo:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">... while David and Alexis were celebrating his birthday just this past weekend, David asked Alexis for her hand in marriage. A picture speaks a thousand words so click on the photo above if you'd like to link to their sweet engagement story. There is something though that one might not realize <i>unless </i>someone with access to the inside story told them :) That being how beautifully this precious stone reflects the sparkle in Alexis' beautiful blue eyes when she and David are together. It's s</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 17px;">imply stunning. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">And w</span><span style="font-size: 17px;">hat if</span><span style="font-size: 17px; font-style: italic;"> </span><span style="font-size: 17px;">we grew up <i>first</i> instead of growing up <i>together?</i> The only possible advantages I can see to that are that we</span><span style="font-size: 17px; font-style: italic;"> might </span><span style="font-size: 17px;">have always had more than enough money & <span style="font-style: italic;">maybe</span> we would have made less mistakes. There are certainly some things we'd go back and do differently if we could, but within them is where we did so much growing up together. </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">And in growing up together Jeff and I learned so much we couldn't have possibly understood nearly as well any other way, and were therefore able to gently (& sometimes <i>not</i> so gently) guide and encourage this delightful young couple toward becoming much more mature in ways that we were not, ...</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Sunday my best friend (my husband) & I woke at 4:30AM and headed out to the ocean to watch the sunrise. Some might say we skipped church. I think not ...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">On their way home they too went to the beach. Alexis wanted to go where her Daddy and I had been earlier but David instead stopped a short ways from there at a beach familiar to them both. Together they walked until David got down on one knee in the very same spot where the two exchanged the words "I love you" with each other for the very first time while celebrating her 15th birthday, and asked Alexis for what he wanted for his<i> </i>birthday.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> And now it is my pleasure to introduce you </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">David & Alexis!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><span class="text Num-6-24" id="en-NIV-3848" style="position: relative;">“‘“The <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> bless you</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Num-6-24" style="position: relative;">and keep you;</span></span><br /><span class="text Num-6-25" id="en-NIV-3849" style="position: relative;"><sup class="versenum" style="display: block; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; vertical-align: top;"> </sup>the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> make his face shine on you</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Num-6-25" style="position: relative;">and be gracious to you;</span></span><br /><span class="text Num-6-26" id="en-NIV-3850" style="position: relative;"><sup class="versenum" style="display: block; font-weight: bold; left: -4.8em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; vertical-align: top;"> </sup>the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> turn his face toward you</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Num-6-26" style="position: relative;">and give you peace.”’</span></span></i></span></div>
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