My BFF has a gold band

This month I’ve been thinking about how content the ones I love make me.  I have a small group of close friends and I like it that way.  I like to be a really good friend who has time & I think you can get to know people better that way.  This weekend we celebrated [...]

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WELCA close

Tonight I went to my first WELCA meeting ever.  It was like going home.  I was with many women all older than me.  We sang some hymns, heard a speaker pastor who had been to Haiti and ate some desserts and chatted.  It was nice.  After all the drama at my church it was nice [...]

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Keeping connected

I wish I could say that after a whole month of thinking about twitter & facebook that I could say it’s made me more content with my life.  They have connected me to more people I wouldn’t normally interact with on a daily basis.  But I have felt the need to be more present there [...]

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Weekend Fast

So I am definately an internet addict.  Friday was a hectic day for me.  My aunt was in hospital and I sat with her, I needed to meet up with a friend later in the day to go to a memorial service and my in laws arrived that day. So I came home Friday night [...]

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September social networking

So a big part of my life and the lives of many others these days is social networking.  Everyone it seems is on facebook, young and old.  It was not too long ago that I read an article about how facebook was used more bycollege educated people and myspace was used more by non-college people.  [...]

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Afterthoughts the next morning

So I wrote about how I went to Target and bought a bunch of stuff we don’t need.  The rush was short lived as I woke up the next day and knew I ruined the budget, didn’t help my debt and now had even more stuff than I did the day before.  So the next [...]

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Stop, think and don’t spend

So in an effort to figure out why I feel like I need to buy buy buy all the time.  I made a little sticky note of my debt total and put it on my debit card, to remind me each time I am tempted to just spend a little.  So far it’s working.  I [...]

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Being Content

I know Paul meant well when he was talking about being content with what he had and what his circumstances were.  I know he was trying to encourage and offer support to the new churches and believers.  I want to be content.  I’m not talking about the coveting contentness, where you want a yard like [...]

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Mary or Martha

I am Martha.  I am the planner, the doer, the person who is trying to make sure everything is done and everything looks good and everyone is happy.  I am the person who makes really cool cupcakes and then misses the birthday candles being blown out, because I am in the kitchen finishing up the [...]

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Faithfully Content

This month I am exploring my faith and contentment.  There have been times in my life when I feel very close to God and very active in my faith and very content.  There have been other times when I feel so far away and not sure if I am going on the right path.  There [...]

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