Phylicia | November 30, 2008
I kind of liked that it is the last day of November and this is my 100th post; it seemed to fit together so nicely. It would be even better if it were the last day of the year, but I really don’t want to wait a month to arrange that, so the 100th post [...]
Category: Personally... |
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Tags: birthday, Christ, hundred, relative truth, standard
Phylicia | November 29, 2008
This blog isn’t really a personal blog, but since I am a person, some events from my own life will make it on here. Over Thanksgiving I got to see my cousins again — all four of them, all boys — and especially my eldest cousin, Brandon. Brandon is nineteen, a little older than me. [...]
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Tags: army, basic training, bittersweet, family, soldier, thanksgiving, together
Phylicia | November 28, 2008
There is a song that we used to sing in church called ‘Give Thanks’:
Give thanks with a grateful heart/Give thanks to the Holy One/Give thanks, for He has given Jesus Christ, His Son/Now let the weak say I am strong/Let the poor say I am rich/Because of what the Lord has done/For us… Give thanks…
Perhaps [...]
Category: Godly Womanhood |
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Tags: Christ, compass, confusion, give thanks, hope, thanksgiving
Phylicia | November 26, 2008
Since we are discussing friendships, I am going to turn from the blessing of female friends to the delicate matter of having male ones. We have already talked about the extent a friendship should go with a man, where and how to spend time with one and all the other logistics of such situations. But [...]
Category: Flirtation |
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Tags: Biblical womanhood, dating, deceit, Flirtation, girls, guys, leading on
Phylicia | November 25, 2008
In Beth Moore’s “Praying God’s Word” she has a chapter on feeling ‘unloved’. Within that chapter are so many verses that assure God’s faithful love to us: his everlasting, never ending love. I read and pray these verses whenever I feel tempted to throw a pity party for myself. Yet out of all the verses, there [...]
Category: Singleness/Dating |
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Tags: alone, Bible, Boaz, comfort, hope, love, redeemer, Ruth
Phylicia | November 22, 2008
I have had several comments on the posts about girl friends from ladies who are at a time in their lives where their circle of friends is very small — or even nonexistent. For these women, going out for coffee isn’t always possible. The facts are, we all will probably have a time in our [...]
Category: Godly Womanhood |
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Tags: alone, family, friends, girlfriends, lonliness