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Feminine Appeal: 7 Virtues of a Godly Wife and Mother
By Carolyn Mahaney

This is such a good book. I am trying to finish it off. Dad got it for me last Christmas and I really used it for the Winter Gathering last year. I am always interested in learning and this lady has good things to say about the home and family. I am really enjoying this book.

Yesterday I decorated the deck in the lobby with Heidi. We strung lights all over the trees. I looked out the window and snow was falling to the Christmas music we had playing. It was beautiful.

Today I awoke after hitting my alarm at least 5 times I sleepily looked out my window to see a dusting of white snow on the streets and on the rooftops. So pretty! This gets me in the Christmas mood.

So today I brought a candle with me to the Front Desk to burn while I do my work here and look at all the lights in the lobby. It’s beautiful and I am thankful today.

“Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed upon Thee because he trusteth in Thee” Isaiah 26:3

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Wednesday, November 16, 2005

This morning I read the whole book of Colossians and that is one good book of the Bible. It’s small, only four chapters, but very full of good verses that really made me think.

I really suggest sitting down and just reading the whole book at one time. I found so many good verses related to seeking and putting Christ first, what He did for me, and how we are to act here on earth to glorify Christ.

One thing that stands out to me is this verse — “That in all things He might have the preeminence”1:18 Amy Carmichael had this verse on a plaque hanging on her wall.

A neat thing happened the other day I wrote about my friend Karen. That very day Mom brought me the mail and there was yet another birth announcement she had another little girl! I thought that was so amazing that I had just written about her and then I heard from her after maybe 2 years that very same day. Now she has a little girl for Christmas, Kaira Sage.

They are decorating the lobby for Christmas today. So I am listening to Christmas music for the first time this season as I work, but after this I won’t until Thanksgiving because that is only right. There are so many things to look forward to coming up soon with the holiday season.

I am really hoping to go shopping the day after thanksgiving! I have always wanted to do that and I don’t think we ever have. Of course I have always felt left out on that day when everyone else is shopping and I am not so this year I hope to start I tradition with our girls that we go shopping that day. Elizabeth does with her family all the girls go shopping and I think that is so neat. So…..hopefully this year we will all go shopping unless I have to do Front Desk.

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Monday, November 14, 2005

Today is Monday… I am going to coffee with a sweet friend today and I am looking forward to that.

The leaves are all gone now. It’s looking bare and gray now but it’s still pretty I think.

I love this time of year. I love to get a good book out and light my candles one by my bed and the one on the windowsill. Today looks like the perfect day just for that.

Soon I want to get my Christmas stationary and write my Christmas letter and get that out to family and long time friends. I always like to stay in touch with old friends and at Christmas it seems to be the best time for that.

I have been writing to Karen now for years. We used to love to play together back in Ohio. We lived not more than maybe five country miles from her. She’s Amish and lived on a farm. We played in the barn hayloft and with the kittens (I actually have a picture of this) and rode the horse and buggy to town once too.

Not long ago she sent me a birth announcement in the mail. She is married and now has a little boy. Amazing how time flies and life changes so drastically.

Another lady who stands out in my mind was my teacher for a few days a week. Kyle and I would go to our little country church and in the basement we would meet with a few other kids for school, we loved it.

She was always so nice and friendly and loving she would help me with my work.I loved her because she was so friendly and nice. Beautiful on the outside and on the inside. My family would make fun of me because they said I would come home talking like her. I think of her this time of year and other friends I haven’t seen in such a long time brings back good memories….

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