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Mrs. Dunwoody’s Guide to Living Beautifully Realize that each new day is a gift from God.  Treat it as such. Focus on life’s blessings, as this is continuously uplifting, and affects who you are as a person. Develop a keen appreciation for the little luxuries in your daily life–the smell of coffee in the morning, the songbirds outside your window, a loved one’s crooked smile. Seek out these “blessings” and take time each day to notice and savor them. Pay attention to your life. Create a home you love to live in. Spend some time outdoors. Nature heals and replenishes the soul. Do something kind for someone at least every week; aim for every day. Do a good deed anonymously. You will find, in time, that the more you give, the more is given back to you. Everything in life is a choice. realize that as you live your life, each moment you are either adding to or taking from the quality of your life. You are either creating and enjoying, or dying and destroying. There...

If you are looking for the way by which you should go,  take Christ, for He is Himself the way. Thomas Aquinas Isaiah 41:13 For I am the Lord your God who takes hold of your right hand  and says to you,  'Do not fear; I will help you.' Jer 32:27 I am the Lord, the God of all mankind.   Is anything too hard for me? Isaiah 40:31 But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength.  They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. Neh 8:10 ...all the people were weeping when they heard the words of the law.  Then he (Nehemiah, the governor; Ezra, the priest and scribe) said to them, "Go, eat of the fat, drink of the sweet, and send portions to him who has nothing prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord.  Do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength." Prov 4:25 Let your eyes look straight ahead; fix your gaze directly before you. Heb 12:1-2 .....

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http://www.desiringgod.org/articles/fearless-women-in-a-world-of-opportunities?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=feedpress.me&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dg-articles This is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands, as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord.     And you are her children,  if you do good and do not fear anything that is frightening .  (1 Peter 3:5–6)   This kind of fearless witness to Christ is a glorious part of “the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet [or serene] spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious”! (1 Peter 3:4)

The apostle Paul was a tremendously restless person, one who said he strained forward and yearned for God’s final future (Philippians  3:13 –14). And yet he also said that he had learned the secret of contentment in any circumstance (Philippians  4:12 ). The two are intimately related after all. The reason we grow discontent in our singleness, or our job, or marriage, or car, or children (or anything else) is because that person or thing (whatever it is) looks so big and eternity looks so small. If you hold a coin close enough to your face, it will obscure an entire city skyline. When our present circumstances look bigger than eternity, we have lost perspective. When we lose perspective, we tend to load too much of our contentment onto something never designed to bear the weight.  Stephen Witmer

"O Lord, be gracious to us; we long for you.  Be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of distress...  He will be a sure foundation for your times, a rich store of salvation and wisdom and knowledge; the fear of the Lord is the key to this treasure."  (from Isaiah 33)

Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul... William Hazlitt

Oh, magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together! Psalm 34:3

- Luke 9 -  And He said, "The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and He must be killed and on the third day be raised to life." Then He said to them all: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.  For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it.  What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit his very self?  If anyone is ashamed of me or my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and the holy angels." To go after Him means what?  To deny one's self.  To take up one's cross (daily!).  To follow Him.  He's asking me to do what HE did.  To be willing to suffer or to be rejected, to die.   He denied self. "Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; ...