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I think we are gonna get wet! (Taken with picplz.)

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Invasion!!!

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Ya know....this looks like an excellent way to spend a Saturday morning! Wait...let me hide my to-do list!!! (Taken with picplz.)

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Gosh I'm tired but it looks good! Now....shelling time! (Taken with picplz.)

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I want to see this movie!

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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great person is one who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson (via thesearepeopleyouknow)

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The smell of fresh peaches always makes me think of this!

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One of my favorite shows!  Hawaii 5-0

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judgment

Did you know that we all have the potential for influencing others?  Of course you know that because you are blogging.  We all know how influential blogging can be and the number of possible encounters is overwhelming.  Today in Sunday School we were discussing the fact that we are often placed in certain situations that require us to take a stand for the positive; actions that have an influence on others.  All of us have had a mentor, teacher, parent or other person that helped to mold the person we have become.  Let's be honest, the influence can be positive or negative depending on the person.  Hopefully we have seen the positive and now know how to block the negative.  One person in class was negative about a certain social network and made a broad (& negative) statement about it.  It is my belief that you can use anything in your life for positive or negative.  Food, for example, can be use negatively to help someone cope with the issues of life.  Money can cause people to have issues with greed and status.  We should seek to find the balance within our lives and know that we have the potential to be more than what we could have ever imaged.  We have the potential to cause change and to help others find their potential.  I know that this sounds like a promotional blog, but I really never thought of myself as having this type of "potential" throughout the day to help others. Challenge:  try to find one way during the day to have a positive influence on others. 

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Special Report

Osama Bin Laden is dead.  I can't imagine how the families of the 9/11 victims feel at this time.

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So....Mollie actually working with the camera...normally a snob turning her head. (Taken with picplz.)

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what was I thinking?

Have you ever done something just because you thought it was the right thing?  However, in hindsight you are so aggravated with yourself for sayingdoing it.  In times past I would say "yes" to any and everything related to my job.  Now, I am extremely protected over my time, and what I want to do in my life.  The simple joys are those that I don't want to miss.  There was a show on tv the other night...."Magic of Ordinary Days".  Today we are living so faced paced that we truly forget to look at each day as a blessing. I hope that my response isn't ill-fated in that I can't look at each day as magical.

So, while writing this, I concluded that this would be a wonderful topic to blog about daily....Magic of Ordinary Days.  What do you think?

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Siesta Scripture Memory Team--Verse 8

These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. John 16:33 KJV

Join the team here.

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Hopes and Dreams

Be careful when sharing your hopes and dreams with another.  He or she may decide to take the same path and steal them.  I have learned in the past two weeks that you have to be protective of what you want to do with your life and the goals that you set.

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"Most of us have no problem with wishbone; it's backbone that we are lacking." Joyce Meyer

A Leader in the Making

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broken pottery

"I am forgotten by them as though I were dead;  I have become like broken pottery." Psalms 31:12

During these times, broken pottery was used to scrap up the dirt.  This week has been extremely difficult and many times I felt like broken pottery.  I also felt a connection with this chapter in that it travels back and forth between God's faithfulness and sorrow/anguish.  I know that God is faithful, yet this week I have suffered through sorrow, anguish and anger.  In the end, I know that His ways are not my ways, and although I might be disappointed, there is something better for me in his plan.  My job is to be attentive and know that "in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose". (Romans 8:28).

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Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted. ~Mark Twain

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