tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34042092532514753072024-03-13T10:38:20.512-06:00Christie OLittle bits of me, my life, my creativity.Christie Ortmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18378030732622832210noreply@blogger.comBlogger574125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3404209253251475307.post-76270114645838844502013-09-17T22:16:00.000-06:002013-09-17T22:16:12.563-06:00ForgivenessSo here's the thing - how do you let go of the pain and anger when it is so deep, so real, so justified? Make a choice, yep make a choice, but not just to let go and forgive, but also to release all of the pain and anger to God and let Him heal it. Sometimes forgiveness doesn't always mean having a relationship or contact with the person who hurt you but it does ALWAYS mean releasing that person to God. Let HIM deal with them, let HIM be the one to visit justice in whatever way He sees fit. You will never ever be able to pay back the pain so let it go. <br />
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To forgive is to let a prisoner go free, and discover that the prisoner was you. -Lewis B. Smedes <br />
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/386/9E420B42DC2EBADE43848D22788A9EE1.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;"/></a></div>Christie Ortmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18378030732622832210noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3404209253251475307.post-80034536232397866382013-06-15T15:08:00.002-06:002013-06-15T15:08:26.963-06:00Finally Time for Me!Now that my 4 little birds are a little bit older, I finally have some time to focus on me and I've started by trying to update my wardrobe and accessories. I'm super excited to announce that I have decided to start selling Stella & Dot jewelry!<br />
Their pieces are divine and such nice quality. They can be worn with jeans or with a ball gown or anything in between - hek, I might even wear them with my jammies - LOL! <br />
Click <a href="http://www.stelladot.com/sites/christieortman" target="_blank">HERE</a> to visit my personal website. Have a look and feel free to order online! If you have any questions, I'd love to help you style a look that is all your own. Feel free to <a href="mailto:christieortman@ymail.com" target="_blank">email</a> me!<br />
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Here are a few of my favorite peices that I KNOW will look great on any lady!<br />
This is the beautiful Madeline pearl necklace! <br />
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Pair it with these Maddie pearl earrings for a stunning look for daytime which is easily carried into the evening!</div>
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Another favorite is the Sanibel pendant:<br />
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This pendant looks amazing with the sanibel chandeliers:<br />
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Then choose from an array of our beautiful bracelets and rings and you have created the perfect jewelry outfit to go with shorts and a tank, jeans and a t-shirt or a more elegant work or evening outfit!</div>
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Stampin Up just came out with this new stamp set that I think is SO cute! Its called Sent with Love and they have bundled it for us with matching bakers twine and designer series paper! From now until </div>
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April 30th, you can order this bundle for 20% off! </div>
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<a href="mailto:christieortman@ymail.com" target="_blank">Email me</a> today to order yours!<br />
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HOW FUN!!! I remember many of these images from years ago and how much I enjoyed playing with them! Hmmm, maybe I'll see if I can find some of those pics and post them here!!<br />
Remember each of these sets comes with a sticker and when you have collected 6 stickers you can get a free stamp set! <a href="mailto:christieortman@ymail.com" target="_blank">Email me</a> to order your Febuary set today!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/386/9E420B42DC2EBADE43848D22788A9EE1.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;"/></a></div>Christie Ortmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18378030732622832210noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3404209253251475307.post-62452786594590864672013-01-24T20:25:00.005-06:002013-01-24T20:32:24.853-06:00There's Love in the AirOr at least on the shelf - LOL! I've been busy doing some Valentine's Day decorating. Wanna see:<br />
Ok, my first inspiration was this banner I made:<br />
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I've been thinking about it since Christmas and all the great banners I've seen on pinterest definitely inspired me! </div>
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I found this great free printable<a href="http://libby-bonjour.blogspot.ca/2011/01/photobucket_26.html" target="_blank"> here</a>: </div>
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Then I added some candy dishes and candies. I couldn't resist adding a little heart shaped frame of Andy and I kissing in the back of the limo on our wedding day which usually resides on a shelf above my dresser. </div>
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Finally, I needed some height on the right side behind the candy dishes so I made this little banner:</div>
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And finally Voila:</div>
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I'd love to hear what you think!<br />
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PS - I'm selling the banners for 12.50! If you're interested in purchasing one, you can email me <a href="mailto:christieortman@ymail.com" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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And here are the layouts with pics!</div>
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One of the things that I'm doing to head in that direction is to incorporate smoothie's into the boys breakfasts every other day! <br />
They seem to be liking them and I'm going to try some new ones next week.<br />
The boys love helping out! Here is Eli helping me make the morning smoothie!<br />
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Here is my recipe for the smoothies that have been a hit at our house:<br />
Makes 3:<br />
3 c vanilla almond milk<br />
3 tbsp honey flavored greek yogurt<br />
2 cups frozen berries<br />
1 frozen banana<br />
1 large handful of spinach (like large - as much as you can hold with the leaves sticking out between your fingers)<br />
3 tbsp ground flax seed<br />
3 tbsp chia seed<br />
6 mushrooms<br />
1 capful of Starbucks vanilla syrup<br />
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He likes it!!! It makes my heart happy to know the boys are going to school full of nourishment to start their busy days! <br />
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MOM TIP: If you are having a hard time getting the kids to eat/drink something healthy you are making them, involve them in the process - it makes a world of difference! If that and/or common sense and gentle discipline don't help - hide your veggies by pureeing them and adding them to other concoctions! My boys would seriously have never known there were spinach and mushrooms in this smoothie if they wouldn't have helped make it!<br />
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BUT remember, you can only get these images until March 31st so <a href="mailto:christieortman@ymail.com" target="_blank">email me</a> today to order yours!</div>
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For family and friends, or any of you that are interested, here is our 2012 in a very quick recap:<br />
Jan to Mar - found Isaiah in Chile doing a Skate and Surf outreach with Youth with a Mission and I was working away frantically on the Perioperative Nursing Program<br />
March - Andy and I were off to LA for Isaiah's grad! He shone - just like he always does - yep, I can say that, I'm his Mom! and we were so proud of him!<br />
April to June- found me in the city doing my practicum and Andy and the boys left to fend for themselves - OIY! Without the help of amazing friends, we could have never done this! Jacob, Eli and Benjamin were playing baseball and what great little players they are! WOW did I ever miss them but so glad to have accomplished this goal in my career. I now work in the Operating Room!<br />
May - Isaiah headed back to California to do the School of Ministry Development with Youth With a Mission again!<br />
July - Isaiah came home after finishing the SOMD and we had a whirlwind family overnight vacation (pics of that are posted below in another post)<br />
August - December went by in a blur and flurry of ALOT of work. <br />
September - back to school for J, E and B - Jacob and Eli are in grade 4 this year and Benjamin in grade 2 - wow - didn't they just turn 1 last year?<br />
November - hockey started again and all three little guys are playing again<br />
December - things finally slowed down and we were able to enjoy a really nice Christmas together before Isaiah moved away just last week!<br />
After all of that - here are our Christmas pictures, I was just thrilled when I got to finally sit down and look at them!<br />
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We had such a nice relaxing holiday season together! Reminds me to be thankful for such great times!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/386/9E420B42DC2EBADE43848D22788A9EE1.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;"/></a></div>Christie Ortmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18378030732622832210noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3404209253251475307.post-70453083372756895812013-01-16T00:00:00.000-06:002013-01-16T00:00:06.689-06:00Valentines Bundles!!<br />
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From January 3 through January 21, you will have the opportunity to purchase the exclusive Valentine Treat Bundle. This bundle, created specifically for this special offer, contains the brand-new <a href="http://www.stampinup.com/ca/documents/HappyValentineHeart_artworkpdf_demo_Jan13_NA.pdf.pdf" style="color: #73695d; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: initial;" target="_">Happy Valentine Heart Single Stamp</a> (<u>English only</u>) and a package of 1" x 8" cellophane bags.</div>
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<li style="font-size: 11px;">The promotion will run January 3-21, 2013.</li>
<li style="font-size: 11px;">The Happy Valentine Heart Single Stamp coordinates with the Full Heart Punch (item 119883; $22.95), but the punch is not included in the bundle.</li>
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<li style="font-size: 11px;">The promotion will run January 3-21, 2013.</li>
<li style="font-size: 11px;">For every My Little Valentine Set that you purchase,you will get a Sealed with Love Simply Sent Kit FREE!</li>
<li style="font-size: 11px;">There are no limits to the number of My Little Valentine Sets that you can order and the number of Sealed with Love Simply Sent Kits they can earn for free.</li>
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As part of Stampin' Up!'s 25-year anniversary celebration, they are bringing back some of our favorite stamp images from the last quarter century and combining them into 12 sets, which will release-one set per month-during 2013. Even better, along with some great classic images, each "Best of" set will also include a never-before-seen image!<br /><br />Available starting today, the January theme is Best of Birthdays!<br /><br /><div style="clear: both; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">
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<li>While we are releasing just one Best of stamp set per month (with a new theme each month), all of the Best of sets will be available until March 31, 2014.</li>
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<b>This is my favorite part!!</b> As a special incentive to collect the Best of stamps, starting in February we're including a collector's card and 25-year proof of purchase sticker with every Best of set. Collect six stickers, and send it in to redeem a FREE set of your choice valued up to $17.95! (Free sets must be redeemed no later than April 30, 2014.) Click <a href="http://www.stampinup.com/ca/documents/Collectors_Card.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">here</span> </a>to download a Collectors' Card.</div>
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Dude, You're Welcome . . . New Kit from Stampin' Up!</h2>
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This kit debuts today! I like it! Here's the video we watched at Leadership when this kit was revealed. Enjoy!</div>
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As a guy, it’s not always easy to express yourself. You know you want to say it, but you just don’t know how. That’s why we’ve created the Dude, You’re Welcome! Kit. Quickly build a card that says just what you want it to say, whether it’s “#%&@!” because you messed up (when does that happen?), for a Special Occasion (you know the occasion), “I _____ You” (love, adore, miss, see?), or a simple “Thank You.”</div>
<br />We’ve got your back. Dude, you’re welcome.<br /><br />Kit includes:<br /><br />* Four wood-mount stamps (double-mounted) with the perfect sentiment for every occasion<br />* Twelve 4" x 6" postcards in four different (manly) colors<br />* Twelve gray envelopes<br />* A Basic Gray Classic Stampin’ Pad<br />* An instructional guide (for the most novice stamper!)<br /><div style="clear: both; margin: 0px;">
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My Paper Pumpkin is a GREAT Paper Escape</h1>
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I'm Paper Pumpkin . . .</div>
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I come to your door each month (a fully decked-out creativity carriage). I'll help you to escape your life with some paper fun.</div>
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I come in a sweet box, but you'll really love what you find on the inside:</div>
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All the stamps, ink, paper, and accessories to create your projects. Create stuff like cards, journals, décor, and more!</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Paper Pumpkin</strong> by Stampin' Up! is a new monthly kit program that anyone can enjoy!</div>
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How to Get Started .....</div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Helvetica Neue, Nimbus Sans L, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20.796875px;">It's so easy to get started. Simply sign up for the program starting Monday, January 14 by visiting </span></span><span style="color: #e85a86; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Helvetica Neue, Nimbus Sans L, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20.787500381469727px;"><b><u>https://mypaperpumpkin.com </u></b></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Helvetica Neue, Nimbus Sans L, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20.796875px;">and click Get it. Select me (Christie Ortman) as your demonstrator and then every month a new, surprise project kit arrives at your doorstep. Just think of the anticipation of creating a fun project to pin, showoff, and share with your friends and family-every month!</span></span></div>
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Here's the nitty gritty:</div>
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The Welcome Kit is the very first Paper Pumpkin you will receive in your first month of membership.</div>
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The Welcome Kit includes a free gift-a clear acrylic block!</div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I'm super excited about this and I think it is a great option for those of you who want to paper craft but don't want to collect a bunch of stamps, etc.</span></div>
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Having said all of that, I stumbled across this site: <a href="http://www.goodmorninggirls.org/" target="_blank">Good Morning Girls</a>. It is a web site devoted to women studing the bible and being accountable to each other by sharing what God has shown them through the particular passage they are studying! Each morning - Monday thru Friday, you post on our private fb group what God has shown you, what you have learned, prayer requests, etc. As a group we support each other and will sharpen each other as iron sharpens iron and become all that God has intended us to be!<br />
I have started my own facebook group to lead to the study and I'd love to have you join me. We will be studying Luke 1-8, Living like Jesus.<br />
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Strange name for a Christmasy type post hey? That's what I'm feeling I need this season. Rest and Peace. I VERY easily get caught up in the hustle and bustle that is Christmas. Shopping, spending, baking, decorating, carols, lights, concerts, banquets, parties, etc etc etc. The list goes on and on and as fun and festive as the time is - at the end of it we feel exhausted. We have overspent, over extended, and over eaten. We begin our new year with over working to try to pay the bills for all the shopping we did and acru more bills by joining the gym to try to deal with all the over eating that went on for the last 2 months.<br />
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I love all the festivity that goes with Christmas but I don't love the Christmas hangover. I don't love the pressure of perfection that takes over at this time of the year. The perfect gift, the perfect tree, the perfect turkey, the perfect lights, the perfect hostess, the perfect outfit and of course the pressure you put on your family to have the perfect husband who gives the perfect gift and the perfect children who have a hard time even remaining sane because of all the sensory overload that takes place at this time of the year.<br />
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WOW - is that what its really all about? When I think about the Reason we even have Christmas - I don't see any perfection - except in the peace. The journey wasn't perfect, the marriage wasn't perfect, the accomodations CERTAINLY weren't perfect but that day the PRINCE OF PEACE came to dwell among men to bring us Peace. Not peace on earth, not peace among men but peace and rest to our spirits. Peace between God and man...<br />
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I'm turning myself around this Christmas - that pattern is coming to a screeching halt! While I will still give gifts, bake for my family, enjoy the festivities, and listen to carolls; I will rest. I will encourage my family to rest and relax and have peace this season. I WILL NOT take on the pressure of having to be at every party, concert, banquet, take part in every secret santa, etc. I may send my Christmas cards out in March - lol. I will celebrate the gift of peace that God sent that day. The peace that we so easily forget in the hustle and bustle of life.<br />
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I don't think the night Jesus was born there were cherabim and seraphim in that stable, with kings and wisemen with all kinds of elaborate gifts; those came later - but what I think the scene looked more like was this:</div>
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A husband and wife, in awe of the miraculous gift that had been given to them. Probably an amazing feeling of overwhelming responsibility but I'm pretty sure there was peace and joy. And, after Jesus was born, I'm sure they all laid down together to rest.</div>
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I LOVE Christmas, but this year, starting today, I'm going to focus on the Peace that Jesus came to give, the rest that we so need at the end of the year and I'm not going to put pressure on myself to attain perfection, instead, I'm going to rest. I'm going to spend time with Jesus - the source of my peace and let Him renew and restore me at the end of this year in preparation for all the great things that lie ahead in 2013. I'm going to love on my family and friends and try to be a blessing to them by not putting the pressure of perfection on them. I'm going to try to focus on the beauty around me, the gift of Christmas and remember to breathe.</div>
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Will you join me in celebrating the peace that Jesus brought and rest this season. Be good to yourself and those around you and don't forget to rest...<br />
<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/386/9E420B42DC2EBADE43848D22788A9EE1.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;"/></a></div>Christie Ortmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18378030732622832210noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3404209253251475307.post-49708995294423833552012-11-06T22:06:00.000-06:002012-11-06T22:06:00.587-06:00Project Beauty and a ChallengeI've recently introduced you to Jessica Hover. Her blog continues to challenge me and so now I'm inviting you to take up a challenge with her and I as well. Project Beauty!<br />
Project beauty is a journey to discover who God created me to be and to see myself the way He sees me! I want you to join us as well and we want to hear about what you discover!<br />
You can read more about the challenge and what Jess is going through <a href="http://jessicahover.blogspot.ca/2012/10/project-beauty.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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Imagine what could happen if the amazing daughters of God began to discover their destiny in Him and began taking that destiny to the world showing it the beauty of God!<br />
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Here's what to do to take the challenge: (FROM JESSICA'S BLOG)<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 16px;">It's day one of the project and here is where I am at.... </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 16px;"> </b><br style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 16px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 16px;">ENCOURAGEMENT.</b><br style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 16px;">I am choosing today to encourage myself. The same way I would encourage a struggling friend.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 16px;">Everytime I look in the mirror I will think of at least one thing I love about myself, and I will thank God for that thing.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 16px;">And when I lay down for bed I will thank God for 5 things I like about myself.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 16px;">I did it last night... and again this morning when I woke up.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 16px;">That's all. Day one of project beauty is encouragement. Simple.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 16px;">The Bible says in Genesis 50:20--</span><br />
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<b>"But as for you, you meant evil against me; </b></div>
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<b>but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, </b></div>
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<b>to save many people alive."</b> </div>
<br style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 16px;">Satan wants to destroy us through our insecurities and perversions of beauty. He wants to convince us that we will never be good enough. But here is what I have decided... the more the enemy lies to me... the more I will pursue truth... and the more truth I find ... the more truth I will share... which means more freedom for both myself and others.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Century Gothic;">Join us! Leave me a comment and keep us up to date in what God is showing you about your own identity and beauty!</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/386/9E420B42DC2EBADE43848D22788A9EE1.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;"/></a></div>Christie Ortmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18378030732622832210noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3404209253251475307.post-79645943520091925562012-11-05T21:59:00.000-06:002012-11-05T21:59:00.100-06:00DiscoverySo based on my last post I felt compelled to begin a list of what or whom I think God created me to be. I started by thinking back to the things I've always loved, even as a little girl. Here is the list I've begun, in no particular order:<br />
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<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-24" style="position: relative;">I love my boys - all 4 of them! I love their smiles, their faces, their victories and accomplishments, I love their failures because I know it teaches them to overcome adversity and that their worth is not based on what they do;</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-24" style="position: relative;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-24" style="position: relative;">I love my husband - I believe with all my heart that God purposely placed him in my life to teach me about love. Unconditional, I'll never give up on you - I love you even when you're ugly kind of love. I love that he is honorable, that he desires to please God with all his heart, that he wants to make me happy, that he thinks I'm beautiful. I love the deep, genuine love he has for people - all people. I love how nonjudgemental and gracious he is - GRACE - that's his super power!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-24" style="position: relative;">I love animals - especially bunnies - but pretty much any baby animal - except bugs!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-24" style="position: relative;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-24" style="position: relative;">I love to worship - no, I mean I REALLY LOVE to worship God - it refreshes and re-energizes my soul without exception</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-24" style="position: relative;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-24" style="position: relative;">I love to dance - with out reservation or fear of judgement or worry of how I look - to dance with utter abandon - like David did. I love to dance at weddings, in church, in my living room - I love to dance.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-24" style="position: relative;">I love pink and blue and I love pink and blue together!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-24" style="position: relative;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-24" style="position: relative;">I love flowers - almost all flowers but ESPECIALLY the full kind like peonies and roses!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-24" style="position: relative;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-24" style="position: relative;">I love dresses! I might wear them everyday if I could - the very simple sun dresses and the very fancy ball gowns.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">I love weddings - everything about them - planning them, attending them, being a part of them, having them - all of it - the love - the celebration, the dressing up, the party, all of it!</span></div>
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<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-24" style="position: relative;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-24" style="position: relative;">I love sweats - yep, I know I said I love dresses but I also love sweats, not the lulu lemon dressy yoga pants that you can wear out to the store, but the old grey baggy sweats that feel WAAAAAYYYYY toooo big, even when its you're period and you've just eaten four helpings of icecream! </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-24" style="position: relative;">I love high heels - especially stilettos! (I don't love how I'm scared of breaking an ankle whenever I wear them - LOL)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-24" style="position: relative;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-24" style="position: relative;">I love long hair!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-24" style="position: relative;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-24" style="position: relative;">I love to travel!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-24" style="position: relative;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-24" style="position: relative;">I love decorating and I love color!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-24" style="position: relative;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-24" style="position: relative;">I love to laugh! Not the small, grin kind of laugh but the belly, I can't breathe, no noise is coming out and I sit here and clap my hands looking like a retarded seal kind of laugh!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-24" style="position: relative;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-24" style="position: relative;">I love romantic comedies - not the kind that make you feel sad at the end and have unrealistic expectations for your husband and marriage but the kind that make you celebrate the love you have in your own life.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-24" style="position: relative;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-24" style="position: relative;">I love seeing people love and pursue God! Not because the bible tells them to but because they genuinely love Him - because they have a relationship with Him and have decided that their lives are no longer their own, not out of compulsion, but because of a realization of His crazy, over the top love for them.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-24" style="position: relative;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-24" style="position: relative;">I love the mountains and I love the water.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-24" style="position: relative;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-24" style="position: relative;">I love wood burning fire places.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-24" style="position: relative;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-24" style="position: relative;">I love cleaning my house. It makes me feel like I'm honoring God by taking care of what He has blessed me with and it makes me feel like I'm creating a great place for my family to come home to everyday.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-24" style="position: relative;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-24" style="position: relative;">So, these are a few of my favorite things - whether they are popular or not is irrelevant - they are MY favorite things. And, as I read over the list above - I think I might be starting to like this little girl God created - maybe even uncovering layers of expectation and disappointments to uncover the beauty He created.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-24" style="position: relative;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-24" style="position: relative;">What are a few of your favorite things?</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-24" style="position: relative;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/386/9E420B42DC2EBADE43848D22788A9EE1.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;"/></a></div>Christie Ortmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18378030732622832210noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3404209253251475307.post-74792776211005582912012-11-04T21:49:00.004-06:002012-11-04T21:49:54.761-06:00Identity<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Identity - the condition of being oneself and not another; the sense of self; the state of having unique identifying characteristics held by no other person or thing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Do you know who you are? Do you know why you are here and what God created you to do? I'm not entirely sure I do, so I've determined that I'm going to figure it out. Here's where I started:</span><br />
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Psalm 139<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">O Lord, you have searched me thoroughly and have known me</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">I’m an open book to you;</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">(</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 16px;">God knows me - thoroughly, better than I know myself - there is nothing about me or in me, that He doesn't know</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">)</span><br />
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<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Ps-139-1-Ps-139-6" style="position: relative;">even from a distance, you know what I’m thinking.</span></span><br />
<span class="text Ps-139-1-Ps-139-6" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">You know when I leave and when I get back;</span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Ps-139-1-Ps-139-6" style="position: relative;">I’m never out of your sight.</span></span><br />
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(He is Always watching over me and watching out for me)<br />
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<span class="text Ps-139-1-Ps-139-6" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">You know everything I’m going to say</span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Ps-139-1-Ps-139-6" style="position: relative;">before I start the first sentence.</span></span><br />
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(He knows my past, present, and future and is already there)<br />
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<span class="text Ps-139-1-Ps-139-6" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">I look behind me and you’re there,</span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Ps-139-1-Ps-139-6" style="position: relative;">then up ahead and you’re there, too—</span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Ps-139-1-Ps-139-6" style="position: relative;">your reassuring presence, coming and going</span></span><br />
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(the comfort of his presence always around me)<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">This is too much, too wonderful—</span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Ps-139-1-Ps-139-6" style="position: relative;">I can’t take it all in!</span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-1-Ps-139-6" style="position: relative;"><br /></span></span>
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-1-Ps-139-6" style="position: relative;"><span style="font-family: Charis SIL, charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">How can His love for me be understood?)</span></span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-1-Ps-139-6" style="position: relative;"><br /></span></span>
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-1-Ps-139-6" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-7" id="en-NLT-16223" style="position: relative;">I can never escape from your Spirit!</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Ps-139-7" style="position: relative;">I can never get away from your presence!</span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-1-Ps-139-6" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-7" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-8" id="en-NLT-16224" style="font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; position: relative;">If I go up to heaven, you are there;</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1-breaks" style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Ps-139-8" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">if I go down to the grave, you are there.</span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-1-Ps-139-6" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-7" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-8" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-7-Ps-139-12" style="position: relative;">If I flew on morning’s wings</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Ps-139-7-Ps-139-12" style="position: relative;">to the far western horizon,</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-139-7-Ps-139-12" style="position: relative;">You’d find me in a minute—</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-1-Ps-139-6" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-7" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-8" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-7-Ps-139-12" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-10" id="en-NLT-16226" style="position: relative;">even there your hand will guide me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Ps-139-10" style="position: relative;">and your strength will support me.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-1-Ps-139-6" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-7" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-8" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-7-Ps-139-12" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-10" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-11" id="en-NLT-16227" style="position: relative;">I could ask the darkness to hide me</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Ps-139-11" style="position: relative;">and the light around me to become night—</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-1-Ps-139-6" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-7" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-8" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-7-Ps-139-12" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-10" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-11" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-12" id="en-NLT-16228" style="position: relative;">but even in darkness I cannot hide from you.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-1-Ps-139-6" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-7" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-8" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-7-Ps-139-12" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-10" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-11" style="position: relative;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-1-Ps-139-6" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-7" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-8" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-7-Ps-139-12" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-10" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-11" style="position: relative;">(</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;">Even if I tried, even if I run, even if I hide, I cannot escape His love for me</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">)</span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-1-Ps-139-6" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-7" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-8" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-7-Ps-139-12" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-10" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-11" style="position: relative;"><br /><span class="text Ps-139-12" style="position: relative;">To you the night shines as bright as day.</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Ps-139-12" style="position: relative;">Darkness and light are all the same to you.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-1-Ps-139-6" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-7" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-8" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-7-Ps-139-12" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-10" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-11" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-12" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-13" id="en-NLT-16229" style="position: relative;">You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Ps-139-13" style="position: relative;">and knit me together in my mother’s womb.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-1-Ps-139-6" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-7" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-8" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-7-Ps-139-12" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-10" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-11" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-12" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-13" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;">I thank you, High God—you’re breathtaking!</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;">Body and soul, I am marvelously made!</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;">I worship in adoration—what a creation!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-1-Ps-139-6" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-7" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-8" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-7-Ps-139-12" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-10" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-11" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-12" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-13" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-1-Ps-139-6" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-7" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-8" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-7-Ps-139-12" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-10" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-11" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-12" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-13" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span style="font-family: Charis SIL, charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Being in health care we only touched on the miraculous way our bodies were created, have the ability to heal themselves and function on a regular basis, only a master craftsman could have designed such awesomeness</span><span style="font-family: Charis SIL, charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-1-Ps-139-6" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-7" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-8" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-7-Ps-139-12" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-10" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-11" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-12" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-13" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">My frame was not hidden from You when I was being formed in secret and intricately </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">and</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> curiously wrought as if embroidered with various colors in the depths of the earth a region of darkness and mystery</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">(</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">"being formed in secret", it was a secret, the shame of my conception, the fear regarding my life, the weight I was on the future, the desperation and dispair); </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">(various colors, curiously wrought - it seems He took pleasure in the creative process of my being, that it somehow brought the creator joy to see his creation)</span></span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit,</span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;">how I was sculpted from nothing into something.</span></span><br />
<span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth;</span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;">all the stages of my life were spread out before you,</span></span><br />
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(He saw the expanse of my days - past present and future and is there in it all - He is I AM)<br />
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<span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">The days of my life all prepared</span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;">before I’d even lived one day.</span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><br /></span></span>
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span style="font-family: Charis SIL, charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Soverignty in my life - the thought that His protection, love and guidance, have always been a part of my life, even when I was unaware of them</span><span style="font-family: Charis SIL, charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">) </span></span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><br /></span></span>
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17" id="en-NLT-16233" style="position: relative;">How precious are your thoughts about me,<sup class="footnote" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="[<a href="#fen-NLT-16233b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]">[<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=psalm%20139&version=AMP;MSG;NLT#fen-NLT-16233b" style="color: #b37162; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</sup> O God.</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;">They cannot be numbered!</span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;">I couldn’t even begin to count them—</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;">any more than I could count the sand of the sea.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span style="font-family: Charis SIL, charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">God obsessively thinks about me - I am ALWAYS on His mind, the object of His affection, the center of His universe so to speak</span><span style="font-family: Charis SIL, charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">)</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><br /><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;">Oh, let me rise in the morning and live always with you!</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span>
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><span style="font-family: Charis SIL, charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">sustain my life and let it glorify and tell the world about you</span><span style="font-family: Charis SIL, charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">)</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><span style="font-family: Charis SIL, charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;">Search me [thoroughly], O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my anxious thoughts!</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span>
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><span style="font-family: Charis SIL, charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Look in all the dark, ugly dust filled corners of my heart and change me, clean me, transform me - make me like you - take over those areas until they are exactly the way you want them to be</span><span style="font-family: Charis SIL, charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">)</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><span style="font-family: Charis SIL, charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-24" id="en-NLT-16240" style="position: relative;">Point out anything in me that offends you,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Ps-139-24" style="position: relative;">and lead me along the path of everlasting life.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-24" style="position: relative;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-24" style="position: relative;">Why do the messages of failure, of defeat, of fear, of dissappointment and regret play so loudly in my head on a regular basis. Why does comparison consistently steal my joy and why is perfection the standard to which I hold myself?</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-24" style="position: relative;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-24" style="position: relative;">I find myself asking, "Who am I Lord? Who am I really? Who is it you created me to be?" I need You to show me, change me, recreate me. Heal me. Help me to be all that you created me to be. Help me to see what it is that you are so in love with.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-24" style="position: relative;">Help me to be me - help me to see what it is that is unique about me - what are my gifts and talents, what is it that you really created me for. Allow me to see the beauty you see when you look at me. Clear away all that fogs my vision and help me to see clearly what you see when you see me.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Charis SIL, charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What do you hear when you ask God who He created you to be?</span><br />
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<span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-139-13-Ps-139-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="text Ps-139-17-Ps-139-22" style="position: relative;"><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-24" style="position: relative;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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The sweetest things I see everyday - I am blessed so much more than I deserve!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/386/9E420B42DC2EBADE43848D22788A9EE1.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;"/></a></div>Christie Ortmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18378030732622832210noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3404209253251475307.post-32850623744858372532012-10-15T22:52:00.001-06:002012-10-15T22:52:46.600-06:00Just to encourage you today that His love for us NEVER EVER changes or fails - he sees more than a beautiful mess when He looks at us!<br />
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This was a recent post by Jess that I especially loved and a message I think we all need to hear more so I'm posting it here for you to read. I hope it encourages you as much as it encourages me!<br />
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Celebration. Not comparison.</h3>
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That's something I'm learning.<br /><br />Celebrating a person means that when someone else achieves something great or receives something wonderful... I get excited with them. If they look particularly good, or happen to be gifted with a certain strength then my job is to encourage them in it.<br /><br />If they sing well then I promote them. If they cook well, then I tell them.<br />If they have an awesome body, I can affirm them in that.<br /><br />It's so common to feel insecure about someone else's successes... But that is comparison... And it's rooted in lies.<br /><br />The success of another person is NOT a mark of our failure, and it doesn't have to make us feel bad.<br /><br />I read this cute story recently:<br /><br />3 caterpillars were crawling through a field. Seeing a butterfly pass over them, the first said, "Look at that smart aleck up there, flitting around, making us feel stupid." The second caterpillar said, "You know, some days I wish I could fly." The third caterpillar said excitedly, "I know that guy! He used to be one of us! If he can fly then I know I can fly too!"<br /><br />Where do we fit in the story? How do we respond when we see strengths in other people?<br /><br />God designed us so that when we walk in our gifts & strengths, with confidence and humility, it will actually inspire other people to embrace their own gifts & strengths too.<br /><br />God's word says in 1 Peter 4:10, "As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God."<br /><br />Meaning our focus isn't on whether or not we are better than the people around us. Our focus is on using what we have been given to bless, serve, encourage, inspire, and LOVE the people around us.<br /><br />Comparison is a thief.<br /><br />Celebration is a love-filled-life-giving party!<br />So.... Let's party! :) </div>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">These stamps are available on any order type, at a club or workshop. </span></span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">You can find the stamp item numbers & prices for each on the flyers here, plus they tell you which size clear block they will fit on.</span></span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">These single stamps will be packaged in cello bags. If you'd like a case for your stamp, you can buy our Clear-Mount Stamp Cases that come in packs of four (item 119105).</span></span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">This offer is available for clear-mount stamps only and runs through January 2nd, 2013. </span></span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">The stamps won't come with a Clear-Mount Block, so you'll need to buy a block separately if you don't already have one. The recommended block sizes can be found on the above graphic.</span></span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">There's no limit on how many pieces you can buy! These make great, easy to mail gifts, too!</span></span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><a href="mailto:christieortman@ymail.com" target="_blank">Contact me</a> today to order yours!</span></span></li>
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Promotion Details:</span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"> It's only October, but Stampin' Claus is
coming to town! Get a </span><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">FREE</span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Festive Paper-Piercing Pack when you
purchase the Ornament Keepsakes Set and Candlelight Christmas Specialty
Designer Series Paper.<br />
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let you create perfect designs every time! 3 unique templates: ea. 6" x
6". Templates coordinate with the Window Frames Collection Framelits Dies,
Holiday Ornaments Framelits Dies, and the LabelsCollection </span><span style="color: #820055; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_3"
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<div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/386/9E420B42DC2EBADE43848D22788A9EE1.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;"/></a></div>Christie Ortmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18378030732622832210noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3404209253251475307.post-87598101561402144172012-08-15T05:00:00.006-06:002012-08-15T05:00:00.114-06:00Easy Peasy Oven Breezy and FREE Shaklee Scour OffI love letting people know when I find amazing products, first because I love finding them - they make our lives so much easier which I am ALL about because it allows me more time to do the things that are important to me - like spending time with my boys! Secondly, there are so many things in this world that we can find to complain about, I love being able to promote a product that a company stands behind and works well!<br />
We have a flat top stove, which I am IN LOVE with! SO much easier to clean than the coil burner kinds. However, when something spills or boils over you are left with this:<br />
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The above pics were taken after scrubbing the stove top with a normal dish rag. You are not supposed to use SOS pads or other abrasive cleaners on these ceramic stove tops so I was reluctantly content to leave it that way thinking that I guess that's just how they look when you use them.<br />
Then one day I came home and saw this:<br />
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My dear husband often will tackle the really tough cleaning jobs in our place while I do all of the normal household maintenance and daily chores. When I saw how amazingly clean and like new the stove top looked I asked how he did it. I expected an answer that revolved around some very foul smelling toxic but new and amazing oven cleaner, but what he showed me instead was this:<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vknga6V0SCo/UCqKih3A6aI/AAAAAAAAC_c/dk7WVYE166U/s1600/Shaklee-Scour-Off.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vknga6V0SCo/UCqKih3A6aI/AAAAAAAAC_c/dk7WVYE166U/s320/Shaklee-Scour-Off.jpg" width="236" /></a></div><br />
This is a Shaklee product. I haven't used very much of Shaklee's things yet but I am SOLD on this product! It is all natural made from ground up cherry pits. NO harsh smells, chemicals or toxins!<br />
Here is what the shaklee site says about it:<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 13px;">Here’s an exclusive scouring cleanser that sets a new standard. It’s a paste, so it doesn’t form dust clouds. It cleans stuck-on messes. It even cleans burnt-on food in your oven. And it doesn’t burn off your nose hairs in the process.</span> <br />
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<div style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Rivals Ajax<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><sup>®</sup></span> with Bleach Powder Cleanser and Comet<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><sup>®</sup></span> with Bleach Disinfectant Cleanser in the removal of kitchen grease and grime.*</div><ul style="background-color: white; border: none; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; list-style: url(http://images.shaklee.com/shaklee/31/images/arrow3.gif); margin-left: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 20px; padding: 0px;">Natural ingredients remove the toughest dried-on splatters and spills, burned-on grease, baked-on food, and sticky messes without hazardous chemicals or toxic fumes</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 20px; padding: 0px;">Scour Off is made from natural mineral abrasives and biodegradable cleaning agents; it does not contain chlorine, bleach, or dye</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 20px; padding: 0px;">Scour Off gently removes stains other cleansers can't and is great for cleaning tubs, ovens, sinks, and tiles</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 20px; padding: 0px;">It will even remove rust, and is great for cleaning these surfaces: copper, grout, cement, ceramic, and imitation marble</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 20px; padding: 0px;">Wide-mouth jar makes it easy to use</li>
</ul><div style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><strong>Clean credentials:</strong></div><ul style="background-color: white; border: none; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; list-style: url(http://images.shaklee.com/shaklee/31/images/arrow3.gif); margin-left: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 20px; padding: 0px;">Non-toxic</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 20px; padding: 0px;">Natural abrasives</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 20px; padding: 0px;">No harsh chemicals</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 20px; padding: 0px;">Biodegradable surfactants</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 20px; padding: 0px;">No phosphates</li>
</ul><span style="font-family: inherit;">I LOVE finding a great product that is all natural THAT WORKS for cleaning my house - it makes my heart happy to use products that aren't harmful to my family or the environment. Here's what it looks like:</span><br />
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All you do is use a clean dry rag and apply the paste in small circular fashion scrubbing as you go. </span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gRRWT5BGgF0/UCqJWFd6fLI/AAAAAAAAC-w/lJp2kfz32Rw/s1600/DSC_0258.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="365" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gRRWT5BGgF0/UCqJWFd6fLI/AAAAAAAAC-w/lJp2kfz32Rw/s400/DSC_0258.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AuOt5o1OLE8/UCqJZjBdgkI/AAAAAAAAC_A/WcZ4l-bBcbo/s1600/DSC_0260.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AuOt5o1OLE8/UCqJZjBdgkI/AAAAAAAAC_A/WcZ4l-bBcbo/s400/DSC_0260.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Let it sit for a couple of minutes, squeeze some hot water onto it and t<span style="font-family: inherit;">hen wipe it off with a damp rag. That's it! Easy Peasy Oven Breezy!</span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;">My good friend Kyla sells Shaklee.</span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SuxyhXRrxzw/UCqJLMdgTlI/AAAAAAAAC-Q/D7um4Deuqrs/s1600/6408_141253372673_2666651_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SuxyhXRrxzw/UCqJLMdgTlI/AAAAAAAAC-Q/D7um4Deuqrs/s1600/6408_141253372673_2666651_n.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">You can email Kyla <a href="mailto:snowboard_chick_6927@hotmail.com" target="_blank">HERE</a> with your order and when you email her be sure to let her know that you found her on Christie's blog. Then she'll enter your name for a draw and one lucky winner will receive a FREE scour off a $9.40 retail value - try and find a coupon worth that much - LOL!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Let me know what you think once you get a chance to use your Scour Off! I love mine and I think you will too!</div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/386/9E420B42DC2EBADE43848D22788A9EE1.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;"/></a></div>Christie Ortmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18378030732622832210noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3404209253251475307.post-90828465443075752062012-08-14T10:17:00.001-06:002012-08-14T10:19:17.593-06:00BorschtMy friend invited me out to her beautiful garden to pick some beets - which I did!<br />
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I have learned that I quite enjoy beets and knowing how good they are for you makes me happy to feed them to my family. I wanted to make borscht and needed a good recipe and another friend of mine posted this one on facebook so I tried it!<br />
I started with 2 of these:<br />
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Then I just started adding veggies. Beets, potatoes<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ozp6tojxrR0/UCp3w9K-sKI/AAAAAAAAC9E/LnpzOXjbdv0/s1600/DSC_0227.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ozp6tojxrR0/UCp3w9K-sKI/AAAAAAAAC9E/LnpzOXjbdv0/s400/DSC_0227.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>I used about 1/2 a head of cabbage coursely chopped:<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LuIF97-GPqs/UCp31P6qJlI/AAAAAAAAC9U/3a8v0BP26q8/s1600/DSC_0230.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LuIF97-GPqs/UCp31P6qJlI/AAAAAAAAC9U/3a8v0BP26q8/s400/DSC_0230.jpg" width="281" /></a></div>I also put some carrots and an onion in. <br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4nlp5nZkqhw/UCp3yYSg8TI/AAAAAAAAC9M/98BM5JuhVmM/s1600/DSC_0229.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4nlp5nZkqhw/UCp3yYSg8TI/AAAAAAAAC9M/98BM5JuhVmM/s400/DSC_0229.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Then I added a can of chopped tomatoes and some tomatoe paste.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aSj5hjgrGGo/UCp32jJjd2I/AAAAAAAAC9c/m8GyDbOvpNI/s1600/DSC_0231.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="255" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aSj5hjgrGGo/UCp32jJjd2I/AAAAAAAAC9c/m8GyDbOvpNI/s400/DSC_0231.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>I realized when I was editing this pic that the tomatoe paste looks like a chicken - LOL - can you see it?<br />
Put it on the stove and let it simmer about 2 hours and you get this:<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sdYYl5X4mik/UCp35luH-vI/AAAAAAAAC9s/V1G2mvaOnPM/s1600/DSC_0239.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="282" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sdYYl5X4mik/UCp35luH-vI/AAAAAAAAC9s/V1G2mvaOnPM/s400/DSC_0239.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>We like ours with sour cream!<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bZvEdpAiQ6Q/UCp34DAZ1aI/AAAAAAAAC9k/DCBxUgk-84U/s1600/DSC_0238.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="321" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bZvEdpAiQ6Q/UCp34DAZ1aI/AAAAAAAAC9k/DCBxUgk-84U/s400/DSC_0238.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>This was so yummy! Doesn't it make you feel good body and soul when you know you are nourishing yourself and your family with something so healthy! <br />
Here's the recipe if you're interested:<br />
2 containers of beef broth - aprox 2 L<br />
4 medium beets chopped into bite size pieces<br />
1 small bag of baby potatoes chopped into bite size pieces<br />
1/2 head of cabbage coursely chopped<br />
1 big handful of carrots chopped<br />
1 onion finely chopped (my kids don't like onions so I have to hide them)<br />
1 can of chopped tomatoes<br />
1 can of tomatoe paste<br />
1 handful of fresh dill<br />
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Put everything in a large pot and bring to a boil. Simmer two hours and serve with a dolop of sour cream! This is even more yummy a day or two later!<br />
Let me know if you try it and what you think and if you have any other beet recipes or beet green recipes I'd LOVE to hear them!<br />
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