tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75446406431566559552024-03-14T12:49:03.536-06:00Took It... Making It... Living It... My LifeMy sequel to Taking Back My Life ~ Making It My Own. ...
"...Maybe this will help {my loved ones} one day understand, why I tick the way I do." My continued daily posts {well over 365 days in a row of blogging!}... just seeing where it takes me,Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07134003363496303167noreply@blogger.comBlogger563125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7544640643156655955.post-28846547004394630892012-12-22T21:35:00.000-07:002012-12-23T09:56:08.488-07:00Day 563 ~ On the Tenth Day of Christmas . . .<br />
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<li><i><span style="color: #cc0000;"><strike><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This year I was invited by Doug Bender to write four posts about his book </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/live-second-doug-bender/1111384154" target="_blank">Live Second: 365 Ways to Make Jesus First</a> </span></strike><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strike> from December 9th through the 12th</strike> . .</span></span></i></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="color: #cc0000;"><strike>Soooo. . . I have decided that throught the 8th I would share the top Seven things I love about December</strike> . . . </span></i></span></li>
<li><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And for the last six days of the year, a look back at 2012.</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></i></li>
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<li><i><span style="color: #cc0000;"><strike><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This year I was invited by Doug Bender to write four posts about his book </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/live-second-doug-bender/1111384154" target="_blank">Live Second: 365 Ways to Make Jesus First</a> </span></strike><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strike> from December 9th through the 12th</strike> . .</span></span></i></li>
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<li><i><span style="color: #cc0000;"><strike><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This year I was invited by Doug Bender to write four posts about his book </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/live-second-doug-bender/1111384154" target="_blank">Live Second: 365 Ways to Make Jesus First</a> </span></strike><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strike> from December 9th through the 12th</strike> . .</span></span></i></li>
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<li><i><span style="color: #cc0000;"><strike><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This year I was invited by Doug Bender to write four posts about his book </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/live-second-doug-bender/1111384154" target="_blank">Live Second: 365 Ways to Make Jesus First</a> </span></strike><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strike> from December 9th through the 12th</strike> . .</span></span></i></li>
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<li><i><span style="color: #cc0000;"><strike><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This year I was invited by Doug Bender to write four posts about his book </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/live-second-doug-bender/1111384154" target="_blank">Live Second: 365 Ways to Make Jesus First</a> </span></strike><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strike> from December 9th through the 12th</strike> . .</span></span></i></li>
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<li><i><span style="color: #cc0000;"><strike><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This year I was invited by Doug Bender to write four posts about his book </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/live-second-doug-bender/1111384154" target="_blank">Live Second: 365 Ways to Make Jesus First</a> </span></strike><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strike> from December 9th through the 12th</strike> . .</span></span></i></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="color: #cc0000;"><strike>Soooo. . . I have decided that throught the 8th I would share the top Seven things I love about December</strike> . . . </span></i></span></li>
<li><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And for the last six days of the year, a look back at 2012.</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></i></li>
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<li><i><span style="color: #cc0000;"><strike><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This year I was invited by Doug Bender to write four posts about his book </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/live-second-doug-bender/1111384154" target="_blank">Live Second: 365 Ways to Make Jesus First</a> </span></strike><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strike> from December 9th through the 12th</strike> . .</span></span></i></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="color: #cc0000;"><strike>Soooo. . . I have decided that throught the 8th I would share the top Seven things I love about December</strike> . . . </span></i></span></li>
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<li><i><span style="color: #cc0000;"><strike><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This year I was invited by Doug Bender to write four posts about his book </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/live-second-doug-bender/1111384154" target="_blank">Live Second: 365 Ways to Make Jesus First</a> </span></strike><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strike> from December 9th through the 12th</strike> . .</span></span></i></li>
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<li><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And for the last six days of the year, a look back at 2012.</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></i></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><i style="color: #cc0000; text-align: justify;">You have searched me, Lord, </i><i style="color: #cc0000; text-align: justify;">and you know me. </i><i style="color: #cc0000; text-align: justify;">You know when I sit and when I rise; </i><i style="color: #cc0000; text-align: justify;">you perceive my thoughts from afar. </i><i style="color: #cc0000; text-align: justify;">You discern my going out and my lying down; </i><i style="color: #cc0000; text-align: justify;">you are familiar with all my ways. </i><i style="color: #cc0000; text-align: justify;">Before a word is on my tongue, </i><i style="color: #cc0000; text-align: justify;">you, Lord, know it completely. </i><i style="color: #cc0000; text-align: justify;">You hem me in behind and before, </i><i style="color: #cc0000; text-align: justify;">and you lay your hand upon me. </i><i style="color: #cc0000; text-align: justify;">Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, </i><i style="color: #cc0000; text-align: justify;">too lofty for me to attain. </i><span style="color: #cc0000; text-align: justify;">~ Psalm 139:1–6</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #cc0000; text-align: justify;">Nothing is hidden, nothing is secret, nothing escapes God’s eyes. </span><span style="color: #cc0000; text-align: justify;">He knows us, even better than we know ourselves. So there is no </span><span style="color: #cc0000; text-align: justify;">sense in trying to hide our failures or mask our complaints. Come </span><span style="color: #cc0000; text-align: justify;">to God knowing that he already knows. Speak with him believing </span><span style="color: #cc0000; text-align: justify;">he knows our words before we do. Tell him what you struggle with. </span><span style="color: #cc0000; text-align: justify;">Ask him your questions and give him your concerns.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">No one knows us better than Him. He knows us better than we know ourselves. He knows the choices he will give us, and the choice we will make. He makes it all available to us, giving us an opportunity each and every time to do what's right, to do what's best. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Heavenly Father . . . You know everything about me, including what is in my heart. There is no need to tell You what I know You know, because You know it already. I think that it is important for me to tell You that I accept the challenges and choices you laid out for me. I not only accept the life you have given me, but I embrace it! For it is all that you have taught me that has made me who I am today. . . </i></span></blockquote>
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<i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">For it has been You, my Heavenly Father that has always been by my side teaching me and giving me new found strengths which has made me into the compassionate, giving person that I am today. You were the one that had faith in me, so much so that you knew all along that I would "get it" and find my blessed spoon.</span></i></blockquote>
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<li><i><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This year I was invited by Doug Bender to write four posts about his book </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/live-second-doug-bender/1111384154" target="_blank">Live Second: 365 Ways to Make Jesus First</a> </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> from December 9th through the 12th . .</span></span></i></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="color: #cc0000;"><strike>Soooo. . . I have decided that throught the 8th I would share the top Seven things I love about December</strike> . . . </span></i></span></li>
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<i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Two things I ask of you, Lord; d</span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">o not refuse me before I die: </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Keep falsehood and lies far from me; </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">give me neither poverty nor riches, </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">but give me only my daily bread. </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and say, “Who is the Lord?” </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Or I may become poor and steal, </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and so dishonor the name of my God.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>God, I need for you to continue to bless our lives and watch over us. Please keep my family and loved ones out of harms way... protect us. Please continue to bless us with our home, good running cars, and food on our table. Please continue to bless Dean with work and give me favor and bless everything I do with <a href="http://www.theblessedspoon.org/" target="_blank">The Blessed Spoon</a>. Heavenly Father, I need you to continue to watch over my sons, protect them and keep them out of harms way. Continue to bless them with all that they do, Please also watch over my brother, keeping him out of harm's way. Finally . . . all my loved ones, those who are near to my heart,protect them and keep them our of harm's way, bless them with food on their table and favor in all they do. </i></span></blockquote>
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<b style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fifteen days</b><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> until Christmas! Oh my!!</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">Last year I did the 12 days of Christmas, which I will do again starting the 14th- which I am sure doesn't make any sense starting on the 14th that is, but if you count the 14th, then the 25th is the twelth day.</span></i></span></li>
<li><i><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This year I was invited by Doug Bender to write four posts about his book </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/live-second-doug-bender/1111384154" target="_blank">Live Second: 365 Ways to Make Jesus First</a> </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> from December 9th through the 12th . .</span></span></i></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="color: #cc0000;"><strike>Soooo. . . I have decided that throught the 8th I would share the top Seven things I love about December</strike> . . . </span></i></span></li>
<li><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And for the last six days of the year, a look back at 2012.</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></i></li>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>My instructions</u> are to: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana;"><i><b>1.)</b> You select 4 readings within Session 2 (pg 37-66) of the book to write about and </i></span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana;"><b>2.)</b> During Launch Week, December 9-15, you write four (4) blog entries telling the story of your spiritual journey as you read and interact with the Live Second book and the four readings you choose.</i></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">My second (of four) post is from (<span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>quoted from the book</i></span>) <span style="color: #cc0000;">week 7, Day 7: Unity</span></span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">will believe in me through their message, that all of them </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">May they also be in us so that the world may believe that </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">me, that they may be one as we are one—I in them and you </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">the world will know that you sent me and have loved them </span></i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>even as you have loved me.</i> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Love is the sign of our faith. Unity is the motif of our spirituality. </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">As the Father and the Son are one, so must we be. Bitterness and </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">resentment should have no place in our lives. Unforgiveness and </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">prejudice should find no home in our community. Our lives and </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">our prayers should be littered with concern for others and care for </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">those around us.</span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: justify;">I could have chosen to writen about 'forgiveness' because Lord knows that there are a few people I need to truly <i>forgive</i> . . . I could have chosen to write about 'letting go', once again Lord knows that I need to 'let go' of a few things [FOR GOOD] . . . I could have chosen to write about 'love' which we all know that it is 'love' all that I want to feel . . . I could have even chosen to wrrite about 'humbling' experiences . . . or 'love defined' . . . YET . . . what I did choose to write about is unitting. </span></blockquote>
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<i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I ask that you remove all resentment from my life, let alone I ask that you bring my family together as one, as we should be. To look out for one another, as we build each other up. I ask you to remove all resentment from my family's heart and bring us all together.</i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Sixteen days</b> until Christmas! Oh my!!</span><br />
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<li><i><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This year I was invited by Doug Bender to write four posts about his book </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/live-second-doug-bender/1111384154" target="_blank">Live Second: 365 Ways to Make Jesus First</a> </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> from December 9th through the 12th . .</span></span></i></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="color: #cc0000;"><strike>Soooo. . . I have decided that throught the 8th I would share the top Seven things I love about December</strike> . . . </span></i></span></li>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSjH9WaTx3Ovb6wmCpyUpmg9QTKP1Wxy5FmSRjojZw7c5QfkpzIZeAAgD8na3R9MP9OfDFhn9QEsfNFYthQZQEzv0-SuXNGkbrBKHdmmu4JHQvMIhovhyphenhyphenu32g0xWpo8jrh7moieGS6tq4/s1600/LiveSecond+book+cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSjH9WaTx3Ovb6wmCpyUpmg9QTKP1Wxy5FmSRjojZw7c5QfkpzIZeAAgD8na3R9MP9OfDFhn9QEsfNFYthQZQEzv0-SuXNGkbrBKHdmmu4JHQvMIhovhyphenhyphenu32g0xWpo8jrh7moieGS6tq4/s200/LiveSecond+book+cover.jpg" width="135" /></a><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Okay so here I start the first of four posts on <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/live-second-doug-bender/1111384154" style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank">Live Second: 365 Ways to Make Jesus First</a>, see number two </span><span style="font-size: x-small; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">above.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">My first post is from (<span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>quoted from the book</i></span>) <span style="color: #cc0000;">week 6, Day 7: Undeserved</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I can't tell you how many times I have heard, thought or been told "</span><i><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">you need to forgive yourself</span></b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>In the interest of time, the only thing I need to "let go" or "forgive myself for" is for not fighting for my boys longer. Funny thing is . . . I did all I could do with the resources I had available to me; I always kept my son's best interest in mind; I did it all alone . . . and still I feel I should have faught longer. I should not have settled. I felt/feel that I gave in. I felt cornered. I felt alone. So on and so on . . . and so on . . . </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>You know all I went through with my boys. You know that what I wrote above does not even begin to scratch the surface as to what my sons and I went through. I also know that You know that I didn't lean on you then as much as I should have. </i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>As I learn to walk with you and what it is to be your child, each day my faith grows more and more. I know today that if I would have leaned on you more then. . . allowed you to take the steerwheel in my life . . . surrendered to you . . . that You, my Heavenly Father would have seen me through my fight for my children.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>God forgive me for being so hard on myself . . . for beating myself up for things I could not control . . . for allowing this to affect me to this day and for not forgiving myself (.) </i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I learn the importance of surrendering, I understand more and more about "faith" and the reality of being second. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Part of my lesson here is that I really need to let it all go. Let it go in a balloon. Give it all to God. I understand that by surrendering to Him, I will finally be able to let go and heal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">my favorite thing to do is look at decorated trees!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">everyone is always in such a wonderful mood!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">all those great recipes get dusted off and served!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">my absolutely favorite song!</span><br />
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<li><i><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This year I was invited to write four posts the #IAS, Doug Bender's book </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/live-second-doug-bender/1111384154" target="_blank">Live Second: 365 Ways to Make Jesus First</a> </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> from December 9th through the 12th . .</span></span></i></li>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>a beautifully decorated tree</b>!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">everyone is always in such a wonderful mood!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">all those great recipes get dusted off and served!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">my absolutely favorite song!</span><br />
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<li><i><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This year I was invited to write four posts the #IAS, Doug Bender's book </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/live-second-doug-bender/1111384154" target="_blank">Live Second: 365 Ways to Make Jesus First</a> </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> from December 9th through the 12th . .</span></span></i></li>
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<li><i><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This year I was invited to write four posts the #IAS, Doug Bender's book </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/live-second-doug-bender/1111384154" target="_blank">Live Second: 365 Ways to Make Jesus First</a> </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> from December 9th through the 12th . .</span></span></i></li>
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<li><i><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This year I was invited to write four posts the #IAS, Doug Bender's book </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/live-second-doug-bender/1111384154" target="_blank">Live Second: 365 Ways to Make Jesus First</a> </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> from December 9th through the 12th . .</span></span></i></li>
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<li><i><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This year I was invited to write four posts the #IAS, Doug Bender's book </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/live-second-doug-bender/1111384154" target="_blank">Live Second: 365 Ways to Make Jesus First</a> </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> from December 9th through the 12th . . </span></span></i></li>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Twenty-three days until Christmas! Oh my!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">As a child I was taught to always paint the sky blue and the grass green. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Why did they do that?</span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Life is too full of possibilities to conform to unimportant rules that in the end don't matter.</span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Rules like these stifle our creativity and halt our progress to acheiving our full potential.</span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">SO go ahead, splash violet, melon, and chartreuse all over your work . . .</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">For now is the time to embrace your creativity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some people feel that 'good' friendships just happen . . . without effort . . . picking up where you always leave off. <i>I have a couple of friends where months can go by, even years at times, and when we speak next. . . well . . . needless to say it was as if we had not skipped a beat! Love my girls!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then there are friendships that. . . well . . . you wonder . . . what the . . . where did . . . huh?!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I met a gal a handful of years ago, in passing. Next thing I knew she was around every corner. She would claim things about me where I would say "</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">what the . . . where did . . . huh?! . . . " I guess you could say that she made herself my <strike>best</strike> friend.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Weeks and months went by, with apprehension and hesitation on my part, well . . . I did not turn my back on her, I was there for her. I figured she needed a friend. After all she was in a bad place in her life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After a bit more time went by I felt her dominance, even putting words in my mouth that were no where near the words that needed to come out of my mouth. She would say one thing, and then leave me hanging with her actions . . . time and time again. She would say how important I was to her, yet would think of me last or leave me out all together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well to make a long story short this person that called herself "my {Christian} sister <b>for</b> life" did a very ugly thing. She even came across thinking that she was better than me, talking down to me. {and} . . . </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the first time in my life I did not let this person know what I really thought. Funny. Yes I am chuckling. Because most of my life when push came to shove I have never held back from letting anyone know what I really thought. SO, yeah, it's funny.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bottom line . . . I did not allow myself to go down to her level.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But, an even more BOTTOM LINE than that . . . she truly hurt my feelings. Everything she had ever told me . . . [bottom line] were all lies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Regardless of how a person may initially feel about another person . . . how they treat you when they are friends with you and when they are [I guess] angry with you . . . well it all leaves an impression, <b>a mark</b>. Which can hurt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What hurts even worse is that I had given this person my word that I would help her . . . that I would look out for her . . . even including her in my 'master plan' whole heartedly. I was going to watch out for her and her needs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I said that "friendships are like marriages". . . "just as complicated ... and rewarding."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When a friendship has found its "end" . . . it hurts. You have shared with this person. . . opened up to this person and shared personal thoughts . . . and regardless of initial feelings you called this person a friend and grew to count on her. No different than sharing with a spouse and counting on them to always be there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Marriages and friendships alike can be very rewarding . . . painful . . . fun . . . humbling . . . loving . . . eventful . . . and so much more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Above all, the most important thing to remember in a relationship is to treat others how you would want to be treated. If we always can remember this golden rule . . . we should always feel loved and be happy. . . regardless of its journey or destination.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It all comes down to integrity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I am sure that you have gathered by now. . . I haven't been feeling too hot this week. Gosh darn allergies!! I guess I should be grateful that up until we moved to this part of the country I never knew what allergies were like. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes . . . my butt was handed to me on a platter this week and was not even able to handle <i>day light</i> let alone sitting in front of my lap top. . . it took all of my energy to post what I did end up posting! lol! Call me wimp if you want. . . I don't care . . . I felt like crap and was barely able to keep my eyes open, let alone take my Calley-girl to school each morning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ok . . . enough venting and whining. Big smile.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Needless to say that when I wasn't sleeping or blowing my nose, my thoughts were <strike>getting the best of me.</strike> Maybe not getting the best of me. . . let's just say that the subject matter was very thought provoking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This can be a subject that can take you through thick or thin . . . better or worse . . . in sickness or in health . . . 'bad hair' days . . . 'best news in the world' days . . . </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'best day in my life' days . . . </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'heart ache' days . . . 'break-up' days . . . 'love at first sight' days . . . as well as all the 'you can count on me' days . . . and 'I need a friend' days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Almost sounds like 'vows,' doesn't it?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Friendships can be like marriages . . . just as</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> complicated and just as rewarding.</span></div>
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