A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS, DALE TURNER

"If our vocabulary did not contain the words trouble, adversity, calamity and grief, it could not contain the words, bravery, patience and self-sacrifice. Those who face no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the human characteristics we admire most grow in a soil with a strong mixture of trouble."

A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS, MOTHER TERESA

"But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child - a direct killing of the innocent child - murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love, and we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts. Jesus gave even his life to love us. So the mother who is thinking of abortion, should be helped to love - that is, to give until it hurts her plans, or her free time, to respect the life of her child. The father of that child, whoever he is, must also give until it hurts. By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems. And by abortion, the father is told that he does not have to take any responsibility at all for the child he has brought into the world. That father is likely to put other women into the same trouble. So abortion just leads to more abortion. Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching the people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want. That is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion. "

SHE MADE HER LIST...SHE CHECKED IT 2x...

earrings... jewelry... trampoline... brother... baby doll... microphone... doctor kit... curtain (Oliver ripped hers)... 1012 books...
DSi... guinea pig... 3 dogs... 2 cats... laptop... rat... Tinkerbell... 20 fish... game... TV... 100 Pet Shop (toys)...
She realized she left SISTER and PIANO off the list, so she shimmied them in...
When reminded that sisters and brothers take a long time to grow in a belly, she said, "Uh, HE'S SANTA! I need a brother and sister to be my friends so we can play..."

WRITING - JUST BECAUSE SHE CAN

Miss King entertained herself on Thanksgiving morning by writing a few stories...
-I Wish I Was A Bird-
I can fly like a bird.
If I can fly like a bird,
I can zoom as a bird.
It would be fun as a bird
flying across the air.
-Cat's Hat-
Cat's hat was a very fat hat.
The other cats weren't wearing fur,
but one day there was a cat
wearing the same kind of hat!!!!!!...

She said there wasn't room for a picutre
because the exclamation points took up
all of the room on the page.

She puts a smile in my heart!

SO...WHAT?

"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."
~ Jeremiah 29:11

SO when we do suffer harm,
WHAT are we to make of this promise?

In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.
~1 Peter 1:6-7