tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6173030954625307472024-03-12T19:43:36.402-05:00My world in a totebagUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger290125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-617303095462530747.post-20011365682257029562012-06-16T11:03:00.001-05:002012-06-16T11:03:59.233-05:00Bags of summer 2012I have regretted no blogging lately. Exploring doing via an app <br />
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Camp was first, four oldest Deevers attended kids camp at our beloved falls creek this year . Massive baggage led to massive laundry. <br />
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The blue backpack belongs to our beloved Sarah Mcgough , summer children's minister -love her!<br />
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Red bag was an birthday present/announcement to my parents about sent last week. Informed them of our gift to dad for his 70th bday- a week in Florida with his 17 progeny. <br />
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And the cute blue purse belongs to my tween girl , we are dating this summer..more later on that! <br />
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Go see my mom. Go on to see my friend in Joplin and attend an event she organized. Then come back through Tulsa and see my mom actually on mother's day. Get away from my schedule for a few days.</div>
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Home is worth the investment, day in and day out. </div>
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"Do two walk together unless they are agreed?" says Amos 3:2.<br />
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I agreed to walk with another <a href="http://deevers.blogspot.com/2010/08/story-of-us-proposal.html">by the snow covered oak tree several years ago </a>.<br />
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I am grateful for the things that move me in that direction. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=187ck8_dwTE">Songs.</a> Movies. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Pioneer-Woman-Tractor-Wheels-A/dp/0061997161" target="_blank">Stories</a>. Real People.<br />
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We dated this weekend. We are learning to date well. With a little help <a href="http://www.thedatingdivas.com/" target="_blank">from some online sources.</a><br />
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Love is a choice,<a href="http://www.karenkingsbury.com/books/series/redemption-series" target="_blank"> I read it here.</a><br />
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But not till this weekend did it click. I made a promise. So did HE.<br />
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God bless Aunt Mandy. My soul needed this. This quiet. This morning of mine.<br />
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It was confirmed several times. So I made the surrender....coffee.....till Easter, or the end of lent, or passover, I was slightly confused. Thank goodness for google.<br />
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Born a gentile. Raised under grace. Lots of grace. I love the grace. Named a kid after the grace.<br />
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Thank goodness for the grace, tried to lead the Wed. night girls through <a href="http://www.thrivingfamily.com/Features/Magazine/2012/from-the-passover-lamb-to-the-lamb-of-god.aspx" target="_blank">the Seder/Passover Service.</a> I will not disclose the animal name in which the bone came from. I am no professional at this. As Katie said 2 weeks ago while talking our way through Deuteronomy, "I would've been stoned by now". Grace is a beautiful thing. I am studier of the law not a slave.<br />
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So lent. A time of fasting from something. What do I love? Coffee.<br />
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First week was rough. But I love Jesus more. I wanted to want him more than coffee.<br />
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That's what I've learned. Rarely does God want to deny us good things forever, he just wants us to want him more.<br />
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So again I google...End of lent.....turns out it's not a set thing.<br />
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A Sunrise Easter Service....just me and God. A throw back to my childhood at <a href="http://www.opendoorlife.com/" target="_blank">Open Door Bible Fellowship.</a><br />
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For my friend, I've learned got "make-ya-mad" news last night.<br />
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For my babies who need a momma to be momma not superhero.<br />
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Cheers!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-617303095462530747.post-5561997952024589452012-04-03T20:52:00.002-05:002012-04-04T23:13:23.995-05:00Easy come, easy goShe should be landing soon. Learning to walk on Asian soil. Not for a week but a year.<br />
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Sara and her family about to leave for the airport.<br />
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And so am I, regardless of what little lies I give thinking time to, God has me right where he wants me, totebags and all. When it's time to do something different he'll inform me. Until then I'll keep trusting his plan and being a missionary right here praying for my friend on the other side of the world.<br />
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Follow Sara at <a href="http://reachnepal.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://reachnepal.wordpress.com/</a><br />
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Good stuff. Have I said that I LOVE a good true story?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-617303095462530747.post-10578735621902414662012-04-03T20:16:00.000-05:002012-04-03T20:18:28.398-05:00One powerful mealTomorrow night I will celebrate the passover seder meal with the wed. night girls. We'll remember the last supper Jesus had with his friends and the promise that he will drink that fourth cup with us again at the marriage supper of the Lamb.<br />
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I fixed chicken fried steak for the adults and steak bites for the kiddos. Corn and asparagus, a fresh citrus salad, gravy and buiscuits and my husband's mother's recipe for green stuff (a cool whip/cottage cheese/lime jello/pineapple thing). Complete with 3 different kinds of desserts. It was good.<br />
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It will be my life long mission- set the table, bring the food, & watch God show up!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-617303095462530747.post-22911173395872820102012-04-02T22:28:00.001-05:002012-04-02T22:28:19.345-05:00The bags of my life....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's where I see God. </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-617303095462530747.post-65077252186984458112012-03-29T22:27:00.003-05:002012-03-29T22:29:27.212-05:00Saying Hello and Goodbye<i>"Guess what? First child due in Sept, " </i>The message said. I am happy.<br />
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A photograph of a girl from long ago grown up before us now on facebook displaying her proud bump.<br />
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Another picture, the cake says "cut to find out what the baby will be" , Blue cake and proud papa's and daddy's smiling wide. Finally a boy!<br />
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A picture via text of a mom with her newborn. Home from the hospital with a child not of her blood. Faith made sight. A name is given and praise goes out to the Creator of all life. My heart feels like it's gonna explode. A mother recovering at home after abdomen cut, with arms empty.<br />
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Mothers in prayer for their kids. Tears for the hard, hands for help. Scripture for life. Friendship for the journey.<br />
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A hug from a student, moving to Texas. Last lesson.<br />
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Prayer for our neighbor. Ready to spread wings and fly to Nepal. Called to serve away from us.<br />
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I finally see Michael's Goodbye on the Office from last year.<br />
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That was my day.<br />
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Tears following a phone call. He died during the night. Oh how my friend loved her daddy. No more conversations, no more trips to grandpa's, no more Christmas' or dinners out. An abrupt end. I hurt for my friend.<br />
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Three new princess for my friend's home. Sisters together after months apart. Caring for the least of these. Pictures of fairytale plays and dancing to the praise music. God is good.<br />
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I try and hide tears during a lesson."<i> I have to work and let some things go. I don't know how to tell you. </i>" says the boy becoming man. We had a date every week for 7 years to make music, how could I not tear up at the end? I have taught and loved and pushed and watched and applauded....and I must say goodbye ?<br />
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I hold a hand of another mother as she tears up, waves of grief from the loss of a mother. There are no answers only childlike faith from long blond haired girls that seem to know nana's ok in heaven with all those who have died before.<br />
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That was my week, so far....<br />
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We are always saying hello and goodbye. People come, people go. This is life. Yet the realization brings no less hurt.<br />
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I have to come to believe loving means letting go.<br />
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To love your child is said to be like having your heart pulled out of you and walking around, and eventually walking away. As soon as we are born we are destined to die. It is fact. The time between, that's our lives. The people we love along the way are gifts. But we will at some point have to let them go.<br />
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Loving means letting them grow up.<br />
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Loving means trusting God when fears rise and they are half a world away.<br />
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Loving means letting them leave this world.<br />
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For whatever reason I have been reading like crazy recently. So here's what's in the bag...<br />
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I am also listening to the Bible on my smart phone too, usually during commutes- our small group is reading through the Bible this year together.<br />
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This isn't a true "read" it's a Bible Study but there is more reading in this study than her other ones, none the less this one is changing me...if I let it....some days are easier than others but James is packed full of proverb like verses on how to live out your faith.<br />
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The only fiction I've read, Kingsbury is often predictable, but very modern and a quick read. Several years ago I started the <a href="http://www.karenkingsbury.com/books/series/redemption-series" target="_blank">REdemption Series</a>. I read all 14 books in 3 months. Since then she's done 2 more series and this is the third book in the Bailey series. I'd love to sit and talk to anyone who's read it, there's one more book due out end of the month and I have so many ideas as to how this epic love story is going to end....</div>
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One of the ladies that proof read my book suggested it. WOW. James McBride grew up as the 8th son of Ruth McBride JOrdan. She was a Russian immigrant and grew up Orthodox Jewish in Sulfolk, VA in the 30's. Her story and her son's (growing up with 11 brothers and sisters after losing their dad to cancer with mixed race in the climax of the American civil rights movement) are told simultaneously. What I didn't expect was the faith aspect that was clearly how they survived. </div>
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From a friend at church. NOT DISAPPOINTING!! So glad I read it before seeing the movie. The book is their story of a God ordained courtship, real tragedy and the real people who God used to help them keep their original vows when she lost every memory of her husband but not her faith. Somehow I doubt all that makes it to the big screen. The reviews of the movie don't look good and Channing Tatum was terribly disappointing in Dear John (Nicolas Sparks book) 2 years ago. But the book!! Read it in one evening, LOVED the fact that they are from the same decade that I fell in love, their 2nd wedding was same summer as my own. <a href="http://deevers.blogspot.com/p/story-of-us.html" target="_blank">When you are falling in love </a> you are kinda tuned out to everything else going on in the world. It amazes me that I missed this story that year.</div>
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So proud.... (Doug Finley, student, on the far right)</div>
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Cody and I went to opening night of The Music Man in Duncan Friday.</div>
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I had never seen the show before and loved the storyline. The heroine is played by a friend, Sarah Adkins, (on right) (my friend Leigh McEntire is on the left, she played Sarah's mother with a cute Irish accent :)</div>
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It's been one of my favorites. </div>
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To open their hearts to another child. </div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> It's not too late, they are forming world views that will last a lifetime. They need good information. I am a Christ follower. We read the Bible with them, give them good information, talk about spiritual questions in the car, at the table and in bed- anywhere they want to talk about it. We don't shy away from the hard questions and let them know we don't have all the answers. </span></div>
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While I was there I taught the children a little dramatization to Chris Tomlin's "How Great is Our God"<br />
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The children learned it in English immediately and performed it the next day.<br />
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When I saw this video the other day I was in awe of how if captured the same feeling I felt there...<br />
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Together the days become years and the years form a lifetime. </div>
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I do not see the complete picture for my years are not done. </div>
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Yes he succeeded, it's completely gone, the net that is.<br />
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1. Science night- chemicals galore...directions off the internet, we are doing a mountain dew glow in the dark experiment, coal crystals and slime.<br />
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I love that these feet hit the floor each day spreading the gospel to toddlers, patients, students, foster kids, co-workers, brothers, sisters, neighbors, schoolmates, roommates, husbands, & boyfriends</div>
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A week ago I decided I wanted to try and search for ornaments for my students that are performing their first recital this season, I had several.<br />
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They come from <a href="http://www.howdoesshe.com/10-things-to-do-with-a-block-10-ornament">this original site</a> and I made them fit my need. And of course I found the website on pinterest :)<br />
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I took their music and scanned it and made it itty bitty!! So they'll know what they performed that year!<br />
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Lovin my students,<br />
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And if she's passionate about music she'll likely be passionate about other things...<br />
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Like people...<br />
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And if she's passionate about a particular person she'll likely marry him and have babies....<br />
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That she'll occasionally want to leave at home to spend time making music (and money)<br />
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And if she leaves home for a few hours she'll put a roast in the crock pot for those hungry babies....<br />
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And they'll probably ask her to make cookies....<br />
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And when they are thinking about cookies they'll ask for cookie monsters with ice cream on top...<br />
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The littlest "person"in that house will decide to don the scarves and hats.....<br />
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And she'll have to get the paints out and get to crafting...<br />
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And she'll keep on painting even when 3 friends come knocking at the door....<br />
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And when the friends leave the little people will beg for something more to do and they may want some presents under the tree.....<br />
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And with all that excitement about presents under the tree one may just fall and bust her lip....<br />
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And chances are if the littlest "person" picks the sister's frame she'll need a picture of her sister to go in it...<br />
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And when she finds the jeans she may decide her nephew may want a worn out pair of Abercrombie's....<br />
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Chances are she won't really remember what to do....<br />
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And if she gets on the internet she may accidentally click facebook and have to reply to a message...<br />
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And if she gets on facebook it may be a few minutes till she's off....<br />
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Or blog about it....Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-617303095462530747.post-65211709113295636452011-12-07T08:53:00.001-06:002011-12-07T09:28:50.288-06:00Chocolate Goodness<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It was a good afternoon treat!</div>
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I get lonely in self employment. I needed motivation.</div>
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To do lists just weren't cutting it. </div>
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I should be on a plane to Israel today with my father and these two...</div>
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I will pour over 1 Chronicles (in pursuit of finishing the Bible by the end of the year!!) and conjure up places in my mind that I won't be seeing with my family in the next 10 days.</div>
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Dad has always loved sweets. </div>
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I remember him fixing this often in a coffee cup. </div>
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When Wendy's came out with the frosty it was very similar but this version has a ice milk crunch that is distinct and oh so nostalgic to me :)</div>
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Start with a cup, not a bowl, this is very essential. </div>
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You can stir it immediately. It will resemble this texture and is oh so delicious. Something magical happens when the milk hits the cold ice cream and little ice crystals form. So simple yet so good.</div>
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The one who made me a momma. </div>
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Oh how I love this kid. </div>
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I love when I say, "Let's take pictures" he shows up with a koolaid mustache and says, </div>
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"What's wrong with that?"</div>
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I love it when he says, "Come take a picture of this..."</div>
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It means something has been formed in creative hours spent with legos. </div>
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I love his enthusiasm for life.</div>
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I love that his daddy is teaching him to be a good man.</div>
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To be a Christ follower.</div>
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To be honest and hardworking.</div>
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What we haven't had to teach him is this....</div>
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He's in white on the left...</div>
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keep watching...</div>
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sorry Ms. Pruitt....</div>
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He was so excited about this concert!</div>
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And we never had to teach him that he should wave when the spotlight comes on him...</div>
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I love how they all look to the conductor...</div>
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Reminds me to look intently at THE CONDUCTOR of all of life for the rhythm to which I should live.</div>
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YWHW, the breathe of life.</div>
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Breathed into this instrument of flesh each day.</div>
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May all our songs of advent bring HIM praise!</div>
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Go <a href="http://tarajill.blogspot.com/2011/12/no-41.html?spref=fb">here</a></div>
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There are bags involved!</div>
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Be inspired.</div>
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Do something, start somewhere.</div>
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Know whom you believe.</div>
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Trust him with all you got.</div>
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