The Life of Mrs. Miles

BITS AND BOBS ELEMENT

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This element should be fun! I created it after looking at some beads that were in a wreath - they sort of wrapped around it in a chaotic manner. I thought that if I provided the bits and pieces you can then join them however you would like them to go on your layouts. Please send me a link to see? Honestly I know that some of my kits and elements are being downloaded as much as 800 times but I only recieve less than 3 invites to see what you made. :( I know we are all busy, but it would make my day!

I have some VERY exciting news! Miles and I have a dear friend - Penny, who, like Miles has a talent for singing and making beautiful music. We used to be on a worship team together. Penny called me yesterday to tell me that she has completed her very first album!!! What an accomplishment - this project has been in the works for as long as we have known her. I know her brother Jason helped her a great deal, and her children are also involved. Penny and her husband Del are homeschoolers to five children. Besides this, Penny teaches piano lessons through "music for young children" and the family runs a mini - golf & consession stand in the summer all the way over in Saskatchewan. Miles and I have often felt we are part of their extended family as they make us so welcome in their home. We are looking forward to see where your music takes you Penny, and that the Lord would bless your journey. To hear Penny's album and order (just in time for Holiday Giving... ) you can click on the following link:

SOULMATES FOREVER

Remember yesterday I mentioned that my friend Rose impuslively comes and drags me off to spend time together? Well, she hit me twice in two days - yesterday being a quick trip to the thrift store. While there I bought a few items, one with taking photos in mind. You will see three pictures on my blog today. Can you guess what I bought? I will reveal it what it is on my blog tomorrow. Now, if your one of my friends who I showed already then shhhhhh.....

Here's your oxymorons for the day:

daily special

dangerously safe

dark day

dark light

dark star

dark victory

dead livestock

dead right

deaf listener

debugged program

defensive strike

Deficit spending

definite maybe

degradable plastic

deliberate mistake

deliberate speed

deliberately thoughtless

delicious torment

demanding patient

democratic congress

democratic leadership

democratic machine

department of interior (responsible for everything outside)

deregulation law

designer beer

designer jeans

desktop publishing

detailed summary

devilish angel

devout atheist

diet ice cream

different pattern

diligent sloth

diminished confidence

diminishing growth

diminutive giants

dim light

dimwit

dining hall food

direct circumvention

disaster preparedness

disciplined gluttony

discretionary rules

disposable income

disposable products with a lifetime guarantee

distant relative

divided unity

divorce court

doing nothing

dollar value

domestic cooperation

domestic violence

doorstop

double solitaire

doubting believers

drawing a blank

dress pants

dressy casual

driving pleasure

droning silence

dry beer

dry creek

dry humor

dry Ice

dry Lake

dry martini

dry pond

dry snow

dry wine

dull acupuncturists

dull knife

dull needle

dull roar

dull shine

dying is a part of life

dynamic monotone

dynamic stability

In offering these oxymorons each day, it has caused me to think of it in broader sense, of faith. Is your life an oxymoron? Do our lips preach a faithful life, but our actions live out differently. Would someone looking in on our lives as Christians clearly set us apart from the world? Our lives as Christians should never be an oxymoron to an outsider. My desire is to be accountable to you - should I not be so, I ask you to bring me in line. Our standards should be higher than those of the world today.

It is not guided missiles

but guided morals

that is our great need today.

George L. Ford

TITUS 2:11-12 NIV

"For the grace of God that brings salvation

has appeared to all men. It teaches us to say

'No' to ungodliness and worldly passions,

and to live self-controlled, upright and

godly lives in this present age."

BARB'S HANDY TIP #132

Snuff it Safely

Do you hate blowing out candles and having to choke the smoke and odors down for several minutes after? I discovered a very easy solution (quite by accident!) You won't need to buy a snuffer and lurk over the wick. Simply take a toothpick and placing it on the side of the wick, press it quickly into the hot pool of wax at it's base. The flame will extinguished almost immediately without any smoke at all!