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thriftymamabutton Ordering Your Private World: Driven Versus Called

Tuesday Testimony We're reading through the book, Ordering Your Private World, by Gordan MacDonald.  This week is chapter three, Caught in a Golden Cage. The last time I read this book, was my freshman year of college.  It irrevocably changed my inner life and relationship with the Lord.  Since reading it, I have experienced so many things ...

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thriftymamabutton Order Your Inner Life

Tuesday Testimony Ordering Your Private World, by Gordan MacDonald.  Chapters 1-2. "Are you taking the time regularly to order your inner life? (16)" What is the inner life?  If I ask "how is your quiet time," you would know exactly what I am asking.  I love the metaphor for the heart that MacDonald uses at the beginning of ...

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 Read Along With Me: Ordering Your Private World

Tuesday Testimony I've picked out an incredible book that transformed my life and I believe will transform yours.  Ordering Your Private World by Gordon MacDonald talks about the inner life and how it must be transformed.  What goes on inside of us truly affects our lives and the people around us.  Let me give you a ...

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thriftymamabutton Excellence Versus Perfectionism

Tuesday Testimony Being  a perfectionist myself (or maybe even a little obsessive compulsive), I know what it's like to deal with something needing to be absolutely perfect. I remember times I would break down and cry because of a tiny mistake I would make.  In college I drove my professors crazy with it.  If I didn't ...

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thriftymamabutton Ive Got Issues

Tuesday Testimony You know those commercials where the people are yelling out their home and car windows  "It's my money and I need it now!"? This may seem so weird, but sometimes when I am driving down the road I just want to yell out "I've Got Issues!"  It seems like we're all expected to put ...

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Enjoy the Beauty

by Crystal Collins on May 12, 2009

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Tuesday Testimony I was enjoying looking at the things in our yard today, and thinking that God is such an artist.  He has to be in order to create so many beautiful things.  It's one of the reasons why humans are creative and imaginative.  We were made in His image. There are so many beautiful things in ...

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thriftymamabutton The Wages of Sin

In The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens, a tale is told of a girl and her grandfather.  Nell is a virtuous girl of fourteen, that has nothing but love for her grandfather.  But the tale is tragic, as her grandfather suffers from a severe addiction to gambling.  Eventually the two become beggars as a ...

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thriftymamabutton Forgive My Disorganization

This post just snuck up on me this week.  As it turns out, my husband's day off will be on Tuesdays from now on (he works most of the weekend usually).  I decided that we needed to spend extra time with him today, so I have not worked on my Tuesday Testimony post at all. ...

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