The Thing About Real Life Is That

Our Personal Afflictions Involve The Living God; The Only Way In Which Satan Can Persecute Or Afflict God Is Through Attacking The People Of God. The Only Way We Can Have Personal Victory In The Midst Of These Flying Arrows Raining Down On Us Is To Call Upon The Lord For Help. It Is His Strength, Supplied To Us In Our Weakness, That Makes Victory After Victory Possible.

Everyone Who Has Any Talent At All In Sketching, Painting, Sculpturing Or Carving, Should Have The Opportunity To Use That Talent. The Expression Is Important For The Person, And Can Tremendously Enrich The Lives Of Other People. What Can You Do?

There Is Something About Saying, 'we Always Do This,' Which Helps Keep The Years Together. Time Is Such An Elusive Thing That If We Keep On Meaning To Do Something Interesting, But Never Do It, Year Would Follow Year With No Special Thoughtfulness Being Expressed In Making Gifts, Surprises, Charming Table Settings, And Familiar, Favorite Food. Tradition Is A Good Gift Intended To Guard The Best Gifts.

Is A Christian- One Who Communicates Daily With The Creator- To Divorce Himself From The Things God Created And Intended Man To Have, And Which Demonstrate The Fact That Man Has Been Made In The Image Of God? In Other Words, Are We Who Have Been Made In The Image Of Our Creator To Be Less Creative Than Those Who Do Not Know The Creator? The Christian Should Have More Vividly Expressed Creativity In His Daily Life.

If You *stop* Putting Off Homemaking Until Your Hope Of Marriage Develops Into A Reality, And *start* To Develop An Interesting Home Right Now, It Seems To Me Two Things Will Happen: First, You Will Develop Into The Person You Could Be As You Surround Yourself With Things That Express Your Own Tastes And Ideas; And Second, As You Relax And Become Interested In Areas Of Creativity, You Will Develop Into A More Interesting Person To Be With.