Sane, Simple, Sacred: A Few, Good Blogs--Continued

A Few, Good Blogs--Continued

While out looking for a "few, good blogs" yesterday, I came across Melissa's post, "Living An Authentic Life: My Journey". This post said it ALL and said it WELL! I didn't find pictures "to reference and inspire" me. I found words to reinforce what I already know deep down in my heart. I have been given a life and don't have to look at others to get my "clues"!

The Bible verse from which my blog is named tells me that God has given me EVERYTHING I need for life...AND godliness. A look around my house tells me I have been given MUCH. My "satisfaction, contentment and fulfillment" (Melissa's words) are not out there in someone's blog, but right here where I live and move and have my being (Acts 17:28).

By my loose definition, authentic living is living a life that works for you, instead of struggling against the one you have been given. It is finding satisfaction, contentment and fulfillment in the present. It is living on purpose and with purpose. And, perhaps more importantly, it is a life where we are useful to people around us because we are able to give of ourselves in the way we want to. (Melissa)

Now, in all honesty, I AM still looking for "a few, good blogs". Surely there are a few casual English/French (or whatEVER it is that I like) interiors out there in blogland!

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DeeMay 22, 2010 at 8:49 AM
It took me a long time to find acceptance with being me and living the life that the Lord has given me. I know longer look at others with a comparing heart and struggle with it. I look at your life as a blessed life..You have been given much and you glorify God with it.:)
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RebeccaMay 22, 2010 at 9:10 AM
I AM blessed, Dee! And I DO want to glorify God with it.
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DianaMay 22, 2010 at 10:58 AM
Melissa's words were very wise! I love my life but also am always trying to improve it in someway. I think that's what we are supposed to do. Love Di ♥
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myletterstoemilyMay 22, 2010 at 5:15 PM
a 'few' good blogs? i stumble across the
most beautiful ones by accident but can
never remember their names.

sorry.
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myletterstoemilyMay 22, 2010 at 6:43 PM
oh dear, no offense taken, i promise! :)

i did find a blog you might like. you will
have to dig back a bit, because she doesn't
always feature design.
a-cottage-in-the-woods.blogspot.com

hope you like it.
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DeniseMay 22, 2010 at 8:44 PM
You and your blog blesses me.
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GratefulPrayerThankfulHeartMay 23, 2010 at 8:41 AM
Good Morning, Rebecca!

What a joy to come by and visit you. I have perused many of your posts and really enjoyed reading each one. I have had time to look at only two of your blogs and became a follower of both :) Planning to return to see the others.

Kindly, ldh
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Jacquelyn StagerMay 24, 2010 at 3:15 PM
Oh Rebecca, so so true. I think many of us eventually discover that we are uniquely created and uniquely gifted in different ways and it is all good. Like I'm fond of saying when people tell me I don't "have a life" (because I'm so busy with my grands and my mom) ... I prefer to say "this IS my life" ...when we get to that place where we truly accept that even down to our family of origin, that God knew all along exactly what He was doing, we find we truly do have all we need for "life and godliness". Thanks so much for the reminder!
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and see a fine picture every day of his life,
in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul."

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Contentment makes poor men rich.

-Benjamin Franklin

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~~"Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting."~~Edmund Burke

C.S. Lewis: "To trust Him means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in trusting a person if you wouldn't take his advice. Thus if you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him."

"To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common--this is my symphony." William Henry Channing

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FIVE CERTAINTIES
WITH WHICH TO
START YOUR DAY

God holds you. Each day he carries us in his arms. Psalm 68:19 NLT
God sustains you. THE LORD is my Shepherd [to feed, guide, and shield me], I shall not lack. Psalm 23:1 AMP
God covers you. He will cover you with His pinions, and under His wings shall you trust. Psalm 91:4 AMP
God pours His love upon you. Through each day the Lord pours his unfailing love upon me. Psalm 42:8 NLT
God will not fail you. The unfailing love of the Lord never ends! Lamentations 3:22 NLT

THE BLOGGER'S PRAYER Lord, help me to learn to spell without spellcheck, manage to visit all that visit me, and post regularly - all in 5 minutes a day, so that I can clean house and take care of my family. Help me to not look at every occurrence in my life as a blog post, and to quit taking pictures of weird things to share as well. Please Lord, help me to stop talking about my blog friends as though they are next door neighbors or someone I have known all of my life. And help me, dear Lord, to think of something witty and wise to post tomorrow.
Love, The Dust Bunny Hostage

Sane, Simple, Sacred

Mercy

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