quote to ……. well, something
“That’s not right. It’s just wrong!”
–Anna
she’s turning twenty!!!!
an afternoon with my sister
We did errands, 
and found the perfect sweaters for the flowers girls!
I bought the sheet music for a song for the wedding: Great Is Thy Faithfulness. The version John and I chose is by Fernando Ortega. He completely rewrote the music, but kept all the lyrics the same. It is so lovely!
Then we got our makeup done
and did some preliminary price checking on paper goods for the wedding.
There were several other errands in the midst of all that, so we had a long, yet wonderful day together.
Date Night
Friday, December 21, 2008
We picked up my wedding band, finished our Christmas shopping, and went out to eat at Chipotle. It was a lovely evening!!! Anna went with us, and we had an “adventure” on the way home.
chaperon
http://picasaweb.google.com/lizibeth/20071221WeddingBandsAndChipotle
Bella
“If you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans.”
-Jose in the movie Bella
-Jose in the movie Bella
Anna, Mom, some friends and I went to go see Bella on Monday night. It’s a good movie, a very good movie. It is a movie about despair about hope, about joy, love, about life. It is about grace. It is a movie that you should definitely consider seeing.
What plans have you made? Has God laughed?
“..you say, ‘Today or tomorrow, we shall go to such and such a city, … yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. … You ought to say, ‘If the Lord wills, we shall live and also do this or that.'”
-James 4:13-15
What plans have I made? Have I considered that the result of “my” plans is ultimately in the Lord’s hands? The movie gave me things to ponder, to think about. For example, the idea that a tragedy doesn’t have to end as a tragedy, but can become a source of beauty. It can become bella.
Sisters and Friends
Anna, Lizzie, and Leitha
learning from my sister
Sometimes you learn the most from the one you used to teach. Last night Anna – my little sister – wrote about hope. She expressed wonderfully some of the things that I have been feeling, but unable to say. Her words also brought conviction:
“When my desires are disappointed, it becomes apparent that the fault does not lie in others, but in my own heart.”
When have my desires been disappointed recently? Oh, yesterday (or was it this morning?). The root of that disappointment was in my own heart. My own childish and immature heart.
“When I place heavy expectations on others to satisfy my needs, not only do I wrong them, but I also starve myself of what God desires to freely give.” She is right. God designed me to be satisfied in Him, Him alone. Nothing else even comes close, and that is very, very good.
A Bit Of Time Together (away from home)
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Daniel, Anna, Leitha (a friend), and I went up to Lake Tahoe on Friday. We met the rest of the family at a friend’s cabin, and spent two very wonderful days with them. It was a short break from the normal routine of work, school, ministry, work, school, ………………
I only wish it had been longer!
Sisters @ Tahoe
Twirling
Anna, Twirling
I am convinced that there is something unique to girls that causes them to long to be beautiful. They dress up when they they are little (and when they are grown) and want to know “how they look”.
Little girls want others to appreciate the effort that they have gone through to “be pretty”. They need you to notice their daisy crown and the washable marker on their fingernails. Even if they are prancing around in shoes that are too big, an outfit that doesn’t match, and have grass in their hair from a quick tumble, little girls need you to look at them with wonder. They need to be the beautiful princess, need to know that there is a prince somewhere who sees their beauty and will fight to protect it.
Little girls are precious and precocious things. They need to be taken seriously and treated gently. Telling her she is beautiful makes her day. Asking her out on a “date” makes her week. And if you want her to open her heart to you? Open your heart to her.
And they twirl (remember Kathleen Kelly in You’ve Got Mail?). There is something very feminine and joyful about twirling. Maybe it has to do with wearing a full and swishy skirt, or the way it makes you feel as if you are a dancing princess, and a beautiful one at that. Maybe it is just pure joy. But whatever it is, every little girl has done it, and any truthful woman will admit to twirling occasionally herself.
How do I know? Because I was a little girl not too long ago, and yes, I still twirl.
How do I know? Because I was a little girl not too long ago, and yes, I still twirl.
Dancing Slippers