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  photo credit: Eddi van W. via photopin cc   A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.     ~~ Charles Spurgeon ~~

Have you ever had a dream that you were witnessing to someone, and you turned to a familiar passage of Scripture, only to find it missing from your Bible? No matter how much you searched for it, it just wasn't there? No? Maybe I'm the only one who has had a dream like that, but maybe in real life, you've wondered where to find a certain Scripture for a specific problem, but you couldn't remember where to find it. Yes, there are concordances to look up key words, but it would be nice if you just had your own topical reference so you could look up Scripture passages that mean the most to you and the issues you face in daily life. I reviewed the book What Do I Know about My God? by Mardi Collier several weeks ago. I am convinced this is the best book I've ever read on making God and His Word real in your life. Mrs. Collier writes about getting to know God better through writing out Scripture verses that have to do with His character and attributes. Begin...

photo credit: paul bica via photopin cc God's mercy is so great  that you may sooner drain the sea of its water, or deprive the sun of its light, or make space too narrow, than diminish the great mercy of God . ~~ Charles Spurgeon ~~

Photo by iampeas I do a lot of reading about time management. So much reading, in fact, that I sometimes don't manage my time very well. Ahem. I've finally realized that for any time management advice to work, I . . . umm . . I have to work. And one way I've learned to work is The Miracle of 15 Minutes . I call it a miracle because it doesn't seem like you could get much of anything done in only 15 minutes. That's how I thought before I discovered FlyLady way back in 2000. She is a huge advocate of The Miracle of 15 Minutes . Have you ever timed yourself to see just what you can get done in 15 minutes? I'd see my dishes in the sink and think, "That will take too long; I'll wait till tomorrow morning when I have more energy." Or I'd put off mopping the floor, thinking it would take SO long to move the chairs, sweep, fill the bucket, get out the mop, mop the floor, rinse out the bucket and mop and put them away.  Clean o...

photo credit: origamidon via photopin cc Recently, as I was organizing my sewing/guest room , I found quite a bit of stuff that I knew I needed to get rid of, but the agonizing thing for me was that I had paid so much for all of it. I just couldn't throw it away, but I didn't want to try to sell it all either. Then I remembered this verse in Proverbs: Proverbs 11:24,25 "There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty. The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself." It's one of the paradoxes of Scripture - give and it shall be given you; he that watereth shall be watered also himself; whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap. These verses are an encouragement to more readily let things go. Donate them to a thrift store or give them to someone who needs or wants them. Be generous; be liberal. You'll find being a blessing d...