[font=Trebuchet]For the benefit of newbies and forgetful oldies, I thought I'd give a bitty bio here.



* Met the Lord 28 years ago
* Love Him more than anything
* Moved all over the USA
* Been in many different religious groups and learned lots
* Happily married almost 28 years to the kindest and most wonderful man in the world
* Mother of 4 sons (one still at home)
* Been a stay at home/ homeschooling mom for most of those years
* Grandmother to 5
* Love to shuffle words
* Tender hearted and bruise easily
* I have occasional regrets. (One of them is the sad fact that I am not brilliant.) [/font]

[font=Trebuchet]* But I can love[/font]

I rubuke that because..



[font=Verdana]1Co 13:1 If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don't love, I'm nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate.
1Co 13:2 If I speak God's Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, "Jump," and it jumps, but I don't love, I'm nothing.
1Co 13:3 If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don't love, I've gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I'm bankrupt without love.
1Co 13:4 Love never gives up. Love cares more for others than for self. Love doesn't want what it doesn't have. Love doesn't strut, Doesn't have a swelled head,
1Co 13:5 Doesn't force itself on others, Isn't always "me first," Doesn't fly off the handle, Doesn't keep score of the sins of others,
1Co 13:6 Doesn't revel when others grovel, Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
1Co 13:7 Puts up with anything, Trusts God always, Always looks for the best, Never looks back, But keeps going to the end.
1Co 13:8 Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit.
1Co 13:9 We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete.
1Co 13:10 But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled.
1Co 13:11 When I was an infant at my mother's breast, I gurgled and cooed like any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good.
1Co 13:12 We don't yet see things clearly. We're squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won't be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We'll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!
1Co 13:13 But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.

Seems to me - you are more blessed than what you think and I have certainly come to know you as a kind loving person. IMO it is the small things that count and are actually inverse in the Father's eyes - IOW it is BIG

Blessings[/font]

Hi there!
- Byron

Well, I'm not brillant either, Holly, but that doesn't stop me from jumping in when I think I have something to say. I just read what others say, mosly, because I still feel like I need to grow a lot more before I participate.

Please, Holly, chime in at times. You never know when what you think will be just what someone else needed to hear.