What do you do...
What if you long for something, but you have a spiritual conviction not to pursue that something... but you see other Christians pursuing it and validating their reasons.... and you feel your reasons look foolish to them, and you feel foolish for standing in what you believe to be true... yet you know you still cannot pursue it, because you have no doubt it is wrong? How does anyone make a stand anymore in this world? There are compromises right and left and people rushing to validate their reasons, and ready to shout "don't you dare judge me!" When I'm not judging, just stating my own stand. If they feel hurt... "socked in the stomach"... isn't it perhaps because the Spirit is convicting them? If there is no truth to my stance, why should it phase them? We are usually hurt most by the truth, when we are not standing in it, but our spirit knows we should be. If someone says "your daughter is a brat" and you know she is not, it doesn...
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Popped over by way of One Thing (Jenni) and couldn't help but stop on these precious photos!
One of my girls had hair something like that. Those pictures are priceless. Eventually, as you know from your older girls and yourself, they figure out how to use some kind of product to tame it.
I love that oblivious stage, when life is not about flat irons and curling irons and hairspray.
Big yawns and static-y hair.
Those are the best years--so uncomplicated!