I know this guy online who is a writer so I suggested that he write romance novels. A man who writes romance novels definitely scores high on my charts. Most women I know are hopeless romantics in life, but then I find many guys are not. I have a friend who wrote a Science Fiction chapter, but I’ve not gotten around to looking at it yet. I have always liked Science Fiction, but romance tops that. He said he may put his writing on CD since he knows I’m better about listening to books on CD. Here is my friend’s attempt at my suggestion in writing a romance novel.
“Hey! Yeah, I'm a yang in as usual! Thanks for the encouragement. Ya know, I don't believe I've ever thought about romance novels or any sort of fiction, but I should at least kick the idea around. I'll do that. Let's see, just to take a quick stab at it...”
He is my Yin or my Yang…provides me inspiration in life. I have a few other friends like that too. For the Greeks it was a Muse. God knew we needed the opposite sex for inspiration in life. They call it Adam’s “Wow” factor. When Adam saw Eve, he said, “Wow.”
I watched a movie last night Couple’s Retreat with my daughter. One man got the mule prize. If I was going to receive any prize in life I think the stubborn race horse prize or the mule prize would fit in well with my personality. I was listening to K-Love radio, and they were talking about personality types and cars and they said if you have a red car than your personality is energetic. Well that fit my husband because he had a reddish SUV. He was rugged/energetic man and hairy. Reminded me of Esau in the Bible as far as being an outdoors man. One of my friends and I like hairy men. One time I tried to embarrass my husband in trying to get him to compete for the hairiest man on a Carnival Cruise when we went to the Bahamas with my sister and her family. He said there was "no way" he was going take his shirt off on the promenade deck in front of everyone. I was shocked that there could be another man more hairy that won the contest!
If you own a silver car than you are supposed to have a more calm spirit. If you have a black car than you are rebellious. I remember when I bought my new Equinox SUV, I wanted a black car because I did not want to be like everyone else and I saw too many silver Equinox SUVs on the street already. It was the same in high school. I rebelled against conformity and peer pressure and instead of wearing the popular in clothes; I wore jeans with holes in them (now those are popular). If gothic would have been popular in my generation I would have worn all black.
I’m the son in the Bible that says, God I’m not going to that single’s Bible study, and I’m not having any more single socials. I hate being single and I hate this cross of being a young widow. Then I end up doing the things I hate doing in life.
"'I will not," he answered, but later he changed his mind and went. Then the father went to the other son and said the same thing. He answered, 'I will, sir,' but he did not go. Which of the two did what his father wanted?" "The first," they answered. Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of you. Matthew 21:29-31
When my husband passed away, God got an earful from me, because I knew how hard it was to meet my husband after being divorced, and I don’t consider the options have gotten any better in the last 18 years, but that is where trusting in God’s provision…not a man to bail you out. If God does not build the house, they labor in vain that build it. God built my last house and I sure don’t want a house built by me. I’m not good at house building. My husband was an engineer and his grandfather actually built his own home. I think it was one of those manufactured Sears homes you could buy and put together. His grandfather built a pool table and he made his own furniture. Jesus was a carpenter. Jesus builds better homes and gardens.
Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchmen stand guard in vain. Psalm 127:1
Pet Peeves or Soft Spots
A pet peeve (or pet hate) is a minor annoyance that an individual identifies as particularly annoying to him or her, to a greater degree than others may find it.
When there is annoying habit that someone does as a friend that bothers me, I can usually identify it with a person in my past who has done me harm. It can be a close relative, ex-spouse or a former girlfriend.
When a baby is born, there is a soft spot on the babies head and you have to be cautious to allow the soft spot to grow together so the baby does not have brain damage. When I went through a divorce there were two soft spots I had from a previous marriage. The soft spots included a man who did not work a job and the lack of a physical/affection in the relationship. I entered a second marriage that went through a divorce faster because my second husband purposely pushed my soft spots (hot buttons) by threatening to quit a job so I could support him and then he denied me affection while I was pregnant, although he wanted to have a child. My dad was an unbeliever his whole life up until his death bed, but he worked hard to support his family and offered to help pay for my college. I did not see this type of commitment to provide for their family as believers that my unsaved dad had.
If anyone does not provide for his relatives,and especially for his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. 1 Timothy 5:8
My deceased husband always had that type of commitment to provide for his family. It was not hard for me to see his soft spots when we were dating. They were apparent, his son who was adopted and the physical relationship.
God has soft spots. God’s soft spots include complaining, disobedience, and putting other things before him. Satan knows my soft spot now and he likes to hit it all the time. With marrying an engineer, it was a lack of romance and the lack of affection at music concerts. I felt very lonely for awhile being married. That changed over time when my husband grew to be more affectionate. His dad was not affectionate to his mother. My soft spot gets attacked now with watching couples in public showing affection.
For my husband, he always wanted a big family. I provided that dream for him. For me, I grew up with two Catholic families of seven children each and I wanted to be adopted into their family. God why did you put me in such a small family? My sister was 12 years older and married when I was six years old, and my brother was five years older and was away to college when I entered high school. My having five children and two step-children created a lot of activity is what I thrive on. Some people could not handle a social event with a lot of people, I look at it as “more the merrier.” I had a single woman who accidentally sent me an email that said, “I won’t come to that party with all those strangers.”
There are many scriptures that talk about widows given to hospitality so I’m following God’s word. Not just being a hearer of God’s word, but a doer of God’s word. I do have one pet peeve is people who don’t clean after themselves. Another soft spot created from my past. I was teasing my friend that I could put cameras around the house and see who are the culprits, but I don’t have to do that because whatever we do in life, God sees what we do. If we are disrespectful and tear up other’s people’s property than God sees that too.
I have to sometimes take a step back in life to take care of my yard---missed a Memorial Day picnic at my friend’s Joan because I was busy working on my yard all week, clean my car and maintain it, and take care of my house. My last single’s party I spent so much time on the outside yard, I realized I had not done all the outside and neglected the inside and I rather paniced that my house did not look like I wanted. I thought that is like life, don’t spend too much time on the outward appearance, but take care of the inward things first as far as what God wants and take care of God’s house.
If you don’t take care of yourself and your body, how can you take care of another person? It says that a man is to take care of his body and it says that Christ takes care and feeds his Body (the Body of Christ)
In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church—Ephesians 5:28-29
God does care, in fact it says God even cares about a little sparrow that falls to the ground. How much more for us when God has every hair on our head is numbered.
Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God. Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don't be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows. Luke 12:6-7
Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father. Matthew 10:29
Growing up I was a perfectionist. My brother liked to tease me by tearing my Barbie doll heads off. If you were going to interview my mother if she was still alive she would tell you that my room was always clean and spotless. What happened to me is when I had twin daughters is I realized I could not do it all anymore. That spirit of perfectionism broke over my life. It was not as bad as if I broke a nail I would freak out especially since my finger nails are very fragile so that was never an issue in life, but I was a “neat freak.” Since my twins I’ve become a lot more easy going as far as it bothers me if there are dishes in the sink, but I’m not going to let it spoil having fun in life.
I find that overwhelming can’t do it all feeling comes back on me now in being widowed. It was much like raising my twin daughters as babies. There are a lot of singles that take pride in that they can do it all, but I’m not going to boast that I can do it all, because I can’t do it all. I remember being so overwhelmed in raising twins and I would pray and then a "second wind" would come over me and it was a supernatural strength. That is what I depend on many times in life. In doing some of the 2D/3D animation projects for college, I would pray for that strength and stay up two nights in a row to get those bigger projects done. Samson when the "spirit of the Lord" came upon him, he killed a lion and he he also killed several Philistines.
When I broke my ankle in September, from running down my stairs and I missed the last step, I laid hands on my own ankle and prayed. I was going to wait to put my boat up the next day, but the Lord spoke to me, "Go put your boat up now." I walked 45 minutes on a broken foot to drive and take my boat over to my step-daughter's house and then backed it up twice to get it right and unhooked it and rehooked it twice, walked up steps to see if my step-daughter was home and then went to the BMV kiosk to renew my license plates. Came back to my house and when I walked in my door, I could no longer walk. I know the spirit of God was overpowering my broken ankle. There is a supernatural strength that comes from God's spirit and there is a promise if we wait on God He will renew our strength.
And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you. Romans 8:11
But those who trust inthe LORD will find new strength.They will soar high on wings like eagles.They will run and not grow weary.They will walk and not faint. Isaiah 40:31
I’ve been praying for God’s wisdom on how he would have me handle situations that I have no idea what I am supposed to do. God where is your way to escape this trial in my life if it is related to finances or pressure? I’ve had several attacks when I’m getting ready to minister in music or have a single’s party and then after I minister. It’s spiritual warfare and I've put more prayer power behind the ministry that God is leading me to do. I noticed the difference when I put more prayer behind everything I do in life. Sometimes I think I’m crazy to volunteer to do anything, because it is so much easier to float around in life.
Pray for patience. Christians put fear on other Christians that if you pray for patience that you will have trials. God told me not to give into my fears. Pray for patience! Patience is important in life.
We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised. Hebrews 6:12
Rather strange to glory or brag in our sufferings, but it says that suffering produces patience.
But that's not all. We also brag when we are suffering. We know that suffering creates endurance.
Brothers, as an example of patience in the face of suffering, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. James 5:10
I like what one person said, “God I want patience and I want it right now.” It always irritated me when I would tell my children you are going to do something or they asked for something and they had to have it right away if I was in the middle of doing something. They can wait a minute. One of my twin daughters when she was three years old and I told her to pick up her toys. When I asked her to pick up her toys she said, “Wait a minute.” I know she got that from me, but I wanted her toys picked up now! I read where you should give children a “ten-minute” warning. In ten minutes, you have to put those toys up and you are going to bed. I do that with my grandson. I’m not sure if it works any better, but I decided to not do to my kids what I hated them doing to me.
Maybe like I hated it when my children wanted everything “right now” God is the same way? Maybe at five years old we want the keys to the car? A five year old said he was going to drive my boat on Saturday. Is that the way we are? God’s timing is not our timing. Jesus waited three days to raise Lazarus from the dead. We are in a hurry, but God is not in a hurry. It took Abraham and Sara 25 years to conceive Isaac and Isaac and Rebecca 18 years to conceive Jacob and Esau. My flesh gets impatient about a number of things. I also get discouraged where I know Jesus never got discouraged.
Wait patiently for the Lord. Be brave and courageous. Yes, wait patiently for the Lord. Psalm 27:14
Be strong and courageous, because you will lead these people to inherit the land I swore to their forefathers to give them. Joshua 1:6
“Hey! Yeah, I'm a yang in as usual! Thanks for the encouragement. Ya know, I don't believe I've ever thought about romance novels or any sort of fiction, but I should at least kick the idea around. I'll do that. Let's see, just to take a quick stab at it...”
I didn't even say a word. It was just a glance. His chiseled face, a scar just under his chin, his piercing, though not invasive blue eyes, and a subtle smile, as if he knew I, tried as I might not to, couldn't help but turn toward him directly...all in moment, but as if we'd conversed for hours on a walk along the beach, letting the waves wash our feet and I, suddenly become care free. And I didn't care that I had. My God, will I ever see him again?
I told him he “had me” at Hey or hello. He is my Yin or my Yang…provides me inspiration in life. I have a few other friends like that too. For the Greeks it was a Muse. God knew we needed the opposite sex for inspiration in life. They call it Adam’s “Wow” factor. When Adam saw Eve, he said, “Wow.”
I watched a movie last night Couple’s Retreat with my daughter. One man got the mule prize. If I was going to receive any prize in life I think the stubborn race horse prize or the mule prize would fit in well with my personality. I was listening to K-Love radio, and they were talking about personality types and cars and they said if you have a red car than your personality is energetic. Well that fit my husband because he had a reddish SUV. He was rugged/energetic man and hairy. Reminded me of Esau in the Bible as far as being an outdoors man. One of my friends and I like hairy men. One time I tried to embarrass my husband in trying to get him to compete for the hairiest man on a Carnival Cruise when we went to the Bahamas with my sister and her family. He said there was "no way" he was going take his shirt off on the promenade deck in front of everyone. I was shocked that there could be another man more hairy that won the contest!
If you own a silver car than you are supposed to have a more calm spirit. If you have a black car than you are rebellious. I remember when I bought my new Equinox SUV, I wanted a black car because I did not want to be like everyone else and I saw too many silver Equinox SUVs on the street already. It was the same in high school. I rebelled against conformity and peer pressure and instead of wearing the popular in clothes; I wore jeans with holes in them (now those are popular). If gothic would have been popular in my generation I would have worn all black.
I’m the son in the Bible that says, God I’m not going to that single’s Bible study, and I’m not having any more single socials. I hate being single and I hate this cross of being a young widow. Then I end up doing the things I hate doing in life.
"'I will not," he answered, but later he changed his mind and went. Then the father went to the other son and said the same thing. He answered, 'I will, sir,' but he did not go. Which of the two did what his father wanted?" "The first," they answered. Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of you. Matthew 21:29-31
When my husband passed away, God got an earful from me, because I knew how hard it was to meet my husband after being divorced, and I don’t consider the options have gotten any better in the last 18 years, but that is where trusting in God’s provision…not a man to bail you out. If God does not build the house, they labor in vain that build it. God built my last house and I sure don’t want a house built by me. I’m not good at house building. My husband was an engineer and his grandfather actually built his own home. I think it was one of those manufactured Sears homes you could buy and put together. His grandfather built a pool table and he made his own furniture. Jesus was a carpenter. Jesus builds better homes and gardens.
Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchmen stand guard in vain. Psalm 127:1
Pet Peeves or Soft Spots
A pet peeve (or pet hate) is a minor annoyance that an individual identifies as particularly annoying to him or her, to a greater degree than others may find it.
When there is annoying habit that someone does as a friend that bothers me, I can usually identify it with a person in my past who has done me harm. It can be a close relative, ex-spouse or a former girlfriend.
When a baby is born, there is a soft spot on the babies head and you have to be cautious to allow the soft spot to grow together so the baby does not have brain damage. When I went through a divorce there were two soft spots I had from a previous marriage. The soft spots included a man who did not work a job and the lack of a physical/affection in the relationship. I entered a second marriage that went through a divorce faster because my second husband purposely pushed my soft spots (hot buttons) by threatening to quit a job so I could support him and then he denied me affection while I was pregnant, although he wanted to have a child. My dad was an unbeliever his whole life up until his death bed, but he worked hard to support his family and offered to help pay for my college. I did not see this type of commitment to provide for their family as believers that my unsaved dad had.
If anyone does not provide for his relatives,and especially for his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. 1 Timothy 5:8
My deceased husband always had that type of commitment to provide for his family. It was not hard for me to see his soft spots when we were dating. They were apparent, his son who was adopted and the physical relationship.
God has soft spots. God’s soft spots include complaining, disobedience, and putting other things before him. Satan knows my soft spot now and he likes to hit it all the time. With marrying an engineer, it was a lack of romance and the lack of affection at music concerts. I felt very lonely for awhile being married. That changed over time when my husband grew to be more affectionate. His dad was not affectionate to his mother. My soft spot gets attacked now with watching couples in public showing affection.
For my husband, he always wanted a big family. I provided that dream for him. For me, I grew up with two Catholic families of seven children each and I wanted to be adopted into their family. God why did you put me in such a small family? My sister was 12 years older and married when I was six years old, and my brother was five years older and was away to college when I entered high school. My having five children and two step-children created a lot of activity is what I thrive on. Some people could not handle a social event with a lot of people, I look at it as “more the merrier.” I had a single woman who accidentally sent me an email that said, “I won’t come to that party with all those strangers.”
There are many scriptures that talk about widows given to hospitality so I’m following God’s word. Not just being a hearer of God’s word, but a doer of God’s word. I do have one pet peeve is people who don’t clean after themselves. Another soft spot created from my past. I was teasing my friend that I could put cameras around the house and see who are the culprits, but I don’t have to do that because whatever we do in life, God sees what we do. If we are disrespectful and tear up other’s people’s property than God sees that too.
I have to sometimes take a step back in life to take care of my yard---missed a Memorial Day picnic at my friend’s Joan because I was busy working on my yard all week, clean my car and maintain it, and take care of my house. My last single’s party I spent so much time on the outside yard, I realized I had not done all the outside and neglected the inside and I rather paniced that my house did not look like I wanted. I thought that is like life, don’t spend too much time on the outward appearance, but take care of the inward things first as far as what God wants and take care of God’s house.
If you don’t take care of yourself and your body, how can you take care of another person? It says that a man is to take care of his body and it says that Christ takes care and feeds his Body (the Body of Christ)
In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church—Ephesians 5:28-29
God does care, in fact it says God even cares about a little sparrow that falls to the ground. How much more for us when God has every hair on our head is numbered.
Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God. Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don't be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows. Luke 12:6-7
Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father. Matthew 10:29
Growing up I was a perfectionist. My brother liked to tease me by tearing my Barbie doll heads off. If you were going to interview my mother if she was still alive she would tell you that my room was always clean and spotless. What happened to me is when I had twin daughters is I realized I could not do it all anymore. That spirit of perfectionism broke over my life. It was not as bad as if I broke a nail I would freak out especially since my finger nails are very fragile so that was never an issue in life, but I was a “neat freak.” Since my twins I’ve become a lot more easy going as far as it bothers me if there are dishes in the sink, but I’m not going to let it spoil having fun in life.
I find that overwhelming can’t do it all feeling comes back on me now in being widowed. It was much like raising my twin daughters as babies. There are a lot of singles that take pride in that they can do it all, but I’m not going to boast that I can do it all, because I can’t do it all. I remember being so overwhelmed in raising twins and I would pray and then a "second wind" would come over me and it was a supernatural strength. That is what I depend on many times in life. In doing some of the 2D/3D animation projects for college, I would pray for that strength and stay up two nights in a row to get those bigger projects done. Samson when the "spirit of the Lord" came upon him, he killed a lion and he he also killed several Philistines.
When I broke my ankle in September, from running down my stairs and I missed the last step, I laid hands on my own ankle and prayed. I was going to wait to put my boat up the next day, but the Lord spoke to me, "Go put your boat up now." I walked 45 minutes on a broken foot to drive and take my boat over to my step-daughter's house and then backed it up twice to get it right and unhooked it and rehooked it twice, walked up steps to see if my step-daughter was home and then went to the BMV kiosk to renew my license plates. Came back to my house and when I walked in my door, I could no longer walk. I know the spirit of God was overpowering my broken ankle. There is a supernatural strength that comes from God's spirit and there is a promise if we wait on God He will renew our strength.
And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you. Romans 8:11
But those who trust inthe LORD will find new strength.They will soar high on wings like eagles.They will run and not grow weary.They will walk and not faint. Isaiah 40:31
I’ve been praying for God’s wisdom on how he would have me handle situations that I have no idea what I am supposed to do. God where is your way to escape this trial in my life if it is related to finances or pressure? I’ve had several attacks when I’m getting ready to minister in music or have a single’s party and then after I minister. It’s spiritual warfare and I've put more prayer power behind the ministry that God is leading me to do. I noticed the difference when I put more prayer behind everything I do in life. Sometimes I think I’m crazy to volunteer to do anything, because it is so much easier to float around in life.
Pray for patience. Christians put fear on other Christians that if you pray for patience that you will have trials. God told me not to give into my fears. Pray for patience! Patience is important in life.
We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised. Hebrews 6:12
Rather strange to glory or brag in our sufferings, but it says that suffering produces patience.
But that's not all. We also brag when we are suffering. We know that suffering creates endurance.
Brothers, as an example of patience in the face of suffering, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. James 5:10
I like what one person said, “God I want patience and I want it right now.” It always irritated me when I would tell my children you are going to do something or they asked for something and they had to have it right away if I was in the middle of doing something. They can wait a minute. One of my twin daughters when she was three years old and I told her to pick up her toys. When I asked her to pick up her toys she said, “Wait a minute.” I know she got that from me, but I wanted her toys picked up now! I read where you should give children a “ten-minute” warning. In ten minutes, you have to put those toys up and you are going to bed. I do that with my grandson. I’m not sure if it works any better, but I decided to not do to my kids what I hated them doing to me.
Maybe like I hated it when my children wanted everything “right now” God is the same way? Maybe at five years old we want the keys to the car? A five year old said he was going to drive my boat on Saturday. Is that the way we are? God’s timing is not our timing. Jesus waited three days to raise Lazarus from the dead. We are in a hurry, but God is not in a hurry. It took Abraham and Sara 25 years to conceive Isaac and Isaac and Rebecca 18 years to conceive Jacob and Esau. My flesh gets impatient about a number of things. I also get discouraged where I know Jesus never got discouraged.
Wait patiently for the Lord. Be brave and courageous. Yes, wait patiently for the Lord. Psalm 27:14
Be strong and courageous, because you will lead these people to inherit the land I swore to their forefathers to give them. Joshua 1:6
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