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Name: Laura
Country: United States
State: Maryland
Birthday: 11/25/1980
Gender: Female
Interests: volleyball, creative memories, loving my husband, baking, playing with my boys
Expertise: listening
Occupation: stay at home mommy
Message: message me
Member Since:
9/13/2003
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| Since it's been a couple of years since I wrote on my xanga I figured
it's about time to write something, right? Elijah and I were
talking about the things we are thankful for at lunch. Wow!
we really do have a lot to be thankful for. We are thankful for a
dry, warm home on this rainy day! Thankful for food.
Thankful for a husband/daddy who is committed to loving God and
loving others, which of course means loving us!! We are thankful
for family, thankful for friends, thankful for grace that God has
poured over our lives just like the rain that is pouring down
today. His grace continues to pour down on our lives. It
doesn't stop! Thank you God for showing us love when we don't
deserve it. There is so much to be thankful for. It's easy
to forget the blessings that we have. How about you? What
are you thankful for?
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| It's been fooorrreeevvveeerrr since i last wrote. I wanted to
write a few thoughts about China. God revealed some of my
sinfulness to me. It can be painful and humiliating but oh, it is
so good to once again see how much grace and love is poured out on my
life by God. He loved me when I was dead in my sin. Thank
you, thank you, thank you Father.
It was amazing to see people who have nothing, I mean nothing, and yet
they smile and find enjoyment in playing in a stream. They may
live in a cave in the ground but they have little worries. Oh
God, teach me to simplify my life in such a material culture.
I have been blessed with so much. I have opportunities and
resources that most of these poeople in the village will never
experience. God has blessed me to make me a blessing to other
people so that God will get the glory. Oh God, help me to be
faithful with what You have entrusted to me.
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| I think my son is going to have calluses on his hands when he comes out because he's holding on so tight. I am more and more ready to meet my son face to face. It is wonderful to think about this human life God has knit together inside my womb. Ed and I are being entrusted with the awesome privilage and responsibility of raising this child. Our prayer is that he will grow up to fear the Lord.
The example of Jesus' life of humility has been standing out to me as I have been reading the book "Humility" by Andrew Murray and as I have been reading through John in my personal devotions. Jesus' life exemplified one of reliance upon His Father. It stood out to me the other day in John 7 where the crowd was astonished at Jesus' teaching. They commented on how great a teacher He was for not receiving education (vs. 14, 15). This would have been a great opportunity for Jesus to boast about Himself or to point out their foolishness for not recognizing that He was God. Instead, He answered "My teaching is not Mine, but His who sent Me." He eagerly recognized and declared His dependence upon His Father. Murray states regarding the example of Jesus, "He teaches us where true humility begins and finds its strength--in the knowledge that it is God who works all in all, that our place is to yield to Him in perfect resignation and dependence, in full consent to be and to do nothing of ourselves." Doesn't this goes against our own natural tendency to want to be independent and "prove" ourselves to those around us? Lord, help us to learn the joy and freedom and necessity of depending on You! When we truly see ourselves in light of who God is, then our only response is to come before Him with humble dependence. | | |
| Yesturday I felt the baby move for the first time!! It has been so amazing learning about the process of the development of the baby. Every time I think about it I am in awe at the incredible intelligence of our CREATOR!
"For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother's womb. I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, and my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth; Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; and in Your book were all written the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there was not one of them." Ps. 139:13-16
Amazing! God formed you and knew you before you were even a thought in your mom and dad's mind. You are wonderful because God designed you. You are His beautiful creation. | | |
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