Tuesday, July 08, 2008

One new blog


I have been, as you know, streamlining all three of my blogs into one. I decided to stick with the name, "the way I say" because all three blogs can be combined under that title and still make sense.


The original blog, bringing up daniels, began when I started getting questions from friends on raising kids through biblical, common sense parenting. I found such a hungry audience that it encouraged me to keep going. Many gracious people have kept me going on this. Thank you for also teaching me many things.


I have always been interested in stimulating my sister's in Christ to spiritual growth and in return being challenged by them. Sister got slapped was born out of this blessed interaction.


Then I found I had no place to put things like poems, song lyrics, quotes and otherwise good-feelings-causing inspirations and/or things that cause outrage in me (videos, pictures etc.) So I created, the way i say.


It became chaos! I started spreading like a disease, and taking up too much space on the Internet. Simplifying things became a necessity.


All new blog posts, on the way i say, will be categorized according to what the old blogs were called. For example when I post about raising kids it will be labeled bringing up daniels: then the title of the post. The same with sister got slapped: and The way I say.


For those who have been so kind to even read my ramblings, I hope this makes it easier for you. Thanks for your patience,
Amy

Saturday, July 05, 2008

The new triple combo coming soon.

It has been suggested to me that I combine my three blogs into one big mega blog. I have decided to do that to have mercy on those who faithfully check my latest posts.I am working on a new blog to replace Bringing up Daniels, Sister got Slapped and The way I say. I will leave my original blogs up for a few months with a link to my new one before closing them out. More information to come. Please feel free to comment on this blog or the other two until it no longer appears online. Thanks for all of the encouragement you have given me.

Thursday, July 03, 2008

A great quote

The following is cut from my friend's blog (Betsey Dirkse). It slapped me. Enjoy.

She wrote:
This morning in my devotions I came across this quote. It is by Hannah Whitall Smith. I highlighted the part that was most convicting.

"I have noticed that wherever there has been a faithful following of the
Lord in a consecrated soul, several things have, sooner or later, inevitably
followed. Meekness and quietness of spirit become in time the characteristics of
the daily life. A submissive acceptance of the will of God, as it comes in the
hourly event of each day is manifested; pliability in the hand of God to do or
to suffer all the good pleasure of His will; sweetness under provocation;
calmness in the midst of turmoil and bustle; a yielding to the wishes of others,
and an insensibility to slights and affronts; abscence of worry or anxiety;
deliverance from care and fear. All these, and many other similar graces. are
invariably found to be the natural outward development of that inward life which
is hid with Christ in God."

Betsey wrote:
Sweetness when provoked,Calmness in turmoil,Yielding to the wishes of others,Unmoved by hurtful comments,Free from worries, anxiousness, cares, or fears.
Lord, do this miracle in me today.

Friday, June 13, 2008

Sunday, May 25, 2008

I was challenged by this

An article by Daniel J. Phillips entitled, Questions For a Godly Wife, really slapped me. It is definately worth checking out.
Read it here

Sunday, May 18, 2008

Same Difference

I have heard people say things like. "We just can't get along we're too different." or "How can we have a relationship, we have nothing in common?" How very sad it is when people get to this point.

May I say that this is a sorry excuse? And not only that, but it is the very reason why there should be a growing, thriving relationship existing here.

Have you ever met two individuals more different, in every way, than you and God? That didn't stop Him from bridging the eternal gap of hell for you and me and for His own glory.

The church was built in defiance of cultural differences bringing together not only Jews and Greeks but every nation tribe and tongue. She is being built of multicolored bricks by the hands of God. It is not just variety of culture that is brought together to coexist. As if we weren't dissimilar enough, God gave us all diverse gifts to further emphasize our uniqueness. Add personality to this and you have something so completely impossible to unite, that it can only be done by God.

The unifying factor: Christ.

If you are prepared to say that Christ's blood is not enough to save and unite His church, then you may refuse any relationship you want with another believer who is different from you.