Friday, August 31, 2012

Happy Friday!!!!!

I'm off to Michigan for this fabulous Labor Day weekend!!!!!  Yeah!!!!  My train leaves tomorrow morning at 7:30 a.m. which means an early day for the girl with curly hair!  I have the yarn purchased and a book packed.  :)

Speaking of a good book packed...this morning on my break, I was reading the chapter titled What Kind of Unglued Am I?  Lysa TerKeurst wrote:

"...it must grieve God to see plastic versions of godliness that aren't reined in by honesty.  That's what we do when we stuff and pretend everything is okay.  The upside of stuffing is that we have the semblance of peacemakers.  But when we do this at the expense of honesty, we harbor corrosive bitterness that will eventually emerge.  Either it will erode our health and later present itself in a host of emotional and physical anxiety-induced illnesses, or it will accumulate over time and surprise everyone when the peacemaker eventually erupts.  Saying 'I'm fine' to keep the peace, when we're really not fine, isn't honest.  It may seem godly in the moment, but it's false godliness.  Truth and godliness always walk hand in hand."  p. 53

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