~ Penny Girl

I had a wonderful Christmas.  I feel sorry for all of you
who don’t live with children.  They make it so fun!  Not that
I don’t sometimes want to pull my hair out from living with so many
people who don’t share my love for clean, neat, and quiet (some of
grown ones are just as bad), but honestly, I wouldn’t trade any of
it.  It’s been such a joy learning and growing in my family this
year.  And Christmas was the holiday of all holidays.  God
just filled my heart.  I’m so grateful to remain untouched by the pervasive commercializing of this celebration.

Christmas night I got to talk to one of my sailor-boy cousins.  He’s at a Navy
school up in Chicago until March.  (He just finished boot camp in
Nov.).  Then he has three weeks off to spend with us (and his
family–yeah, we might share him with his mom and dad), and then he’s
off to his first assignment.  And because he’s going to be at the
top of his class, he has his choice of locations.  I admit, his
other choice would have been amazing for those of us who want to see
him and Italy (two for the price of one!), but we told him he
should pick for himself, not us.  So…he picked Japan.  How
cool is that?  Hmmm…maybe I would like to see the “far east.”

Now to get rid of this cold so I can sing (and practice) properly for a certain wedding.

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  4. The blessing of family, wish I could empathize.  I heard that statement^^ on afr, american family radio.  no spite intended, do you think that people mentally assent to granting Jesus deity by choosing to follow him, i.e. making him lord?  Or are they coming to the acknowledgement of it, and referring to obedience?  It seems symantical to correct people with statements like, christianity isnt religion, Jesus is already lord, who can know the mind of God…things like that.
    Here’s my sincere question… do you think these clever symantics have a place in provoking christians to thought, a necessary place….  and do you think they could be insulting?

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