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Today...

Sunday, November 8th, 09 4:51pm

 
Outside my window..

  It's pretting dark out now and 57 degress (not bad).  But wow, dark at this time of day already!!

  
I am thinking...

  About this post and the salad I am eating. 

  I am thankful for...

   All the blessings and health we've had!

I am wearing...

 jeans and a green t-shirt

  I am reading..

  2 Corinthians & Proverbs (KJV)

  16# in the original Elsie Dinsmore series (sort of, right now I'm mostly rereading the Winnie the Horse Gentler series)

 "So Much More" By Anna Sofia Botkin and Elizabeth Botkin

"Blue Denim And Lace" By Dr. Jack Hyles

 The Girlhood Home Companion Magazine


I am creating...
  An old-time dress, a quilt.  And I was doing a knitting project but I've hit a snag.

 
One of my favorite things...

  Bible Quizzing

   For education this week...

   All regular school things, along with teaching young children (AWANA), sewing, horse riding, and probably other life skills.

A keeper at home skill I am using/learning...

     I'm sewing a small quilt for Home Ec. class.  I also feel like baking this week.  Oh, and I'll probably be cleaning too.

A godly character trait I plan to work on...

  Oh, there's so many I should work on... meekness, not being so shy but not doing all the talking either (I don't know if that will ever happen though :-) being a Godly sister and daughter...

Scripture I am memorizing...

  1Cor. 10, and keeping 1Cor 2 and 9 fresh in my memory.

I am praying for...

  Prayer requests from our church, our country, and others that come up... 

For the rest of the week...

  Wednesday: AWANA (my mom, sister, and I do the 3-5 year olds).  Friday: the long awaited day - we're getting our little Leonberger puppy!!!  And I'm sure other things will arise.
 
A picture thought I'd like to share...
As some of you may know or have hinted from my mentions of it - our church has started a Bible Quizzing team!  We memorize chapters (this year from 1 & 2 Cor. and Titus) and then every first Saturday of the month we compete against other teams.  Well, last time we didn't do so well - let's just our team got 3rd place (last place) every time and I only answered two questions correctly.  This time we got four 3rd places, one 2nd places, and two 1st places!!  And this time I got fourteen questions answered correctly!!!  Anna got five!  So just to say, we are having allot more fun now!!  Below is a picture of us quizzing last month, sorry, no pictures of this time.  
 


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Marianne Dashwood--a romantic, poetic, young lady who is easily swayed by any man who can recite poetry with feeling.

In the movie sense and sensiblity, we meet this young lady and immediately love her. We know she always has best intentions at heart, and she loves her family more than anything in the world, but her romantic side makes us laugh.

When they move to a small cottage, Marianne meets a certain heartbroken colonel who falls in love with her. She likes him, but he's not as romantic as she has always dreamed of. Because of some rumours which have been spread about the two of them, when he calls she takes a walk to escape from the house--and consequently changes her entire life.

It begins to rain, and she slips and sprains her ankle. Out of nowhere, the most charming, dashing man she's ever seen runs over to help her up. He carries her back to her house where they realize that they both love poetry, and in the blink of an eye Marianne falls in love.

Willoughby and Marianne do not care what other people think about them, but show their love to each other more openly than anyone else in the entire area they lived in, and rumours began to spread like wildfire--but Marianne is too in love to notice.

Suddenly, the formerly rich willoughby loses all of his fortune, and he runs to London on urgent business--leaving Marianne.

Marianne does not give up. She thoroughly believes that he will come back, and continues to write him letter after letter with no reply. Suddenly, the perfect oppurtunity comes up! They are all invited to London! she goes, and sees Willoughby at a dance where she sees him with other ladies. She goes to talk to him, but he is indifferent to her, and treats her the same as he treats her sister. She spends days after days crying, and her heartbreak eventually leads her to putting herself in danger of death. Eventually she learns that Willoughby lost all of his inheritance because of an affair he had with a girl which he then abandoned, so she was now alone with his child she bore.

The Colonel has not given up on his beautiful Marianne, though, and through it all he helps her. I always start crying when he runs out to save her while she is standing in the pouring rain on the hill overlooking Willoughby's house--even though he knows that she's only going because of her love for his enemy. While she is on the brink of death he does whatever he can, and at the end they get married.

How often are we like Marianne, girls? How often can we look past a man's character and only see the romantic outside? How often do we focus on the sweet things he whispers to us or the hugs he gives and look past the past relationships he's had and what he did to them?

We may say "he loves me. He'll change." But he might not. "How do you know, wife, whether you will save your  husband? And how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?" we don't know. that's the point. Don't open yourself up for heartbreak. To quote Taylor Swift, "Look before you fall."

Even if someone is the most romantic, sweet guy you've ever met, they can hide terrible things. Some of the most amazing looking guys are great actors. Be careful. Guard your hearts, for they are the wellspring of life.

But there is a happy side! There will be a perfect husband for you. God is preparing him for you right now. Save yourself for him, mind, body, and soul.

If the guy you have a huge crush on right now is the one for you, HE CAN WAIT. Hear that? If you're 14, and you think you're in love with someone, give him the biggest test of love in the world -- TELL HIM TO WAIT FOR YOU.

I'm praying for you all girls! Don't give yourself to a guy who doesn't deserve you. Wait for the perfect prince.

BeCcA