Liz's Letters

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Just for fun Friday...it is time for Friday Fill In! To join in, visit: 1. I'd really like to be on vacation right now . 2. OUCH is the word you'd most often hear me say (YELL) if I stubbed my toe. 3. Possession is not something that I have, it is all God's. 4. I really like Captain Jack Sparrow. 5. Marshmallows and fire go together like man and woman: very opposite but come together to make something really good. 6. My prayers for healing in a broken friendship will continue to go on and on. 7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to hanging out with two of my very best girlfriends for dinner and a collage making party, tomorrow my plans include Step Study class number 3, lunch with my sponsor, a nail appointment and worship service . And Sunday, I want to have a grand time at the Superbowl party at my house! Go Cardinals! (post on that later!)

My son's girlfriend, Thien , is an absolute blessing! One of the things that I love about her is that she diligently emails me. And when she emails me, it is a lovely, well thought out letter and usually with pictures! This is a picture that she sent me of the Thanksgiving meal that she and Adam prepared for her family. I was jealous because the turkey they made sounded like it was mouth watering good. It was fun for Adam and Thien to merge each of their cultures and traditions into the American holiday, Thanksgiving. Also new to Thien was the Christmas tradition of Santa filling the Christmas stockings for all to open bright and early on Christmas morning! She was slightly unprepared to have her photo taken at such a ghastly hour of the morning. She remedied that with the above idea! *I found out that is not her under that blanket...but my other son (who does NOT like to have his picture taken, Aaron) HaHa...joke was on Mom!* But more than anything, I love her letters. They ar...

It's Thursday! I love Thursdays because I take special time to ponder and pray about the verses in God's word that have meant a lot to me as I walk with Him. I was excited to get to "Y" because of of my very favorite scriptures begins with "Y", using the word "Your" as we talk to God about how wonderful His love is. This particular scripture is one that I go to whenever I feel that I have wondered away from Him and it is a song (by Third Day) that I sing when I want to praise Him for how deep, how wide, how big His love really is! More than I can imagine! Your love, O LORD, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies. Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, your justice like the great deep. O LORD, you preserve both man and beast. How priceless is your unfailing love! Both high and low among men find refuge in the shadow of your wings. Psalm 36:5-7 (NIV) For more ABC's of the Word visit Grey Like Snuffie

It is Yes To God Tuesdays, and time for my summary of Chapter 4. The title is Speaking Truth To Your Issues. One of the thought questions at the end of the chapter is: What kind of issues crowd your thought closet? Mistakes I have made. Relationships that are unreconciled. I am not good enough. When those are the thoughts that dominate my thinking, I know that I am not allowing the Holy Spirit to control my thoughts, I am not taking every thought captive. (sigh) It is sometimes so hard. Last week, I said "I could practice switching a negative thought to a positive thought, but that won't help me as much as discovering where the negative thought came from in the first place and taking care of that." The answer was in this chapter! It is about my faith! Jennifer writes, " By faith we receive truth. By faith we believe truth. And by faith we act on that truth. Soul talk can never be a substitute for faith.... ...Soul talk is faith's companion, not its replacem...

Been cleaning out my thought closet and let me tell you what, I am so eager to throw some of this old, dirty stuff away. While I go through some of these toxic thoughts, God is also good enough to me to add to it some areas where I need to confess sin. As I throw out the negative thoughts, there are memories attached to them that I need to deal with. The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; they go down to a man's inmost parts. Proverbs 26:22 Sometimes my faulty thinking has allowed me to make grave errors in judgement. Pain has sometimes influenced my wanting to take revenge. Sometimes, I have given in to the temptation. And like the scripture says, the consequenses went deep into who I WAS. (not who I am) Gossip is so big in our society that we have created an entire industry around it. Gossip magazines, newspapers, and television shows air out all kinds of stuff that is not our business. It makes it difficult to tell the difference between what is okay to talk about and wh...

While doing a little blog browsing the other day, I ran across the blog Musings of a Future Pastor's Wife , by Rachel. Her blog title caught my attention. Upon visiting her blog I decided that I might be missing out on something very entertaining by not watching the television show Lost. Another thing that I decided was it would be fun to play a little letter game. When I am not feeling necessarily creative, and my brain is just a little tired, I love these fun little games. Check it out: If you want to play, leave a comment on this post letting me know, and I’ll assign you a letter. You write about ten things you love that begin with your assigned letter, and post it at your place. When people comment on your list, you give them a letter, and the chain continues on and on... Rachel assigned me the letter "B". I don't know why the letter "B" but here I go........ 1. Barnes and Noble bookstore. I am crazy about books, and music, and coffee. This ...