30 Day True Woman Make-Over: Day 5

Day 5
A Godly Woman's Work

Do you realize that the work you do today is important to God? Learn how you can glorify God in the way you work, and in where you work.

• It is a privilege and a high calling to tend to the practical, physical affairs of your home.
• Your good works ought first to be done at home, ministering to the needs of your family. Then as God gives you time, opportunity, available resources--or in a different season of life--take those gifts and abilities and expand them.
• As you handle the practical details related to the care of your family, there is profit. Work is good!
  

p.s. I could not post this Saturday because we had a Jr. High and HS football game in Dayton, OH, so we were gone all day.

30 Day True Woman Make-Over: Day 4

Day 4
Committed to Marriage

Marriage is a covenant. Learn more about this life-long commitment.

• A wife has a permanent, unconditional commitment to act in a way that is according to her husband's best interests--not to serve herself, but to serve her husband.
• A husband can trust a godly wife to speak well of him and to keep confidences. He can trust her in the way she speaks about him. He can trust her to protect his reputation.
• A godly wife inspires a man to be worthy of her devotion. He rises to that because he knows he has a woman who is an asset, not a liability--a woman who supports, encourages, and helps him in every way possible.
  

30 Day True Woman Make-Over: Day 3

Day 3
Modeling Humility

Does being a true woman mean you are perfect? Hardly! A true woman is simply different from most, but it is those differences that are the secret of her great influence.

• It is more important that you model humility than that you model perfection.
• As you allow yourself to be made and molded into the image of God's kind of woman, you will function at peace and at rest-not without problems-but with joy.
• Do you want your husband to be a man of virtue, a noble man, a man of spiritual strength and character? Then set out not to change him, but to be the kind of woman with the kind of character that you want him to have.
  

30 Day True Woman Make-Over: Day 2

On September 24 & 25 my mom and I attended the True Woman Conference by Nancy Leigh DeMoss. It started on the 23, but we were not able to attend that night because of Andrew's football game against the Indiana Deaf School.

I enjoyed it very much! I went to Nancy's breakout session on Daily Devotions: Duty or Delight. It was so encouraging. She gave everyone a 30 day challenge to have devotions every day for the next 30 days. I have taken that challenge twice and have failed twice. But I started again on Monday and by the grace of God I will finish the 30 day challenge and continue to have daily devotions after the 30 days.

I have started receiving e-mails for the 30 Day True Woman Make-Over. I will be posting the e-mails here as I receive them.

The first day was just a review of what we learned that weekend and to encourage us to continue on the paths of becoming God's true woman.



Day 2
A Virtuous Woman

When you here the phrase "A godly woman," does an actual woman come to mind? Better yet, do you think that could ever describe you?

• The Proverbs 31 woman deals with the same stuff you do!
• I can tell you this-she did not get there overnight, and she has not arrived yet. She is a woman in progress. She is a woman who, like most of us, often finds herself taking three steps forward and two steps back.
• The world tells you that if you look out for yourself, then you will be happy. But it is the woman who lives for God and others who is truly joyful.

Listen to or read more here.

Wallace Family Reunion

On Saturday we had our Wallace family reunion in Illinois. I had not seen this side of the family for quite some time and most of them I had never met before.

My Grandma and Grandpa Wallace had come up from Kentucky on Thursday. My Aunt Lynn (my Dad's older sister) flew in from Florida on Friday. They all stayed at our house.



Saturday morning we drove into Illinois for the reunion. My Aunt Missy (my Dad's younger sister) Came down from Chicago.


I was pleasantly surprised that I actually enjoyed the reunion. We got to catch up with people that we already knew and I got to meet new family members. We had a good time and a lot of laughs.

There were a few people who had brithdays in October, my Aunt Lynn included. Her birthday was actually on Saturday. She turned 53.

My grandpa is on the far left. His older sister, Dorothy, is sitting in the chair. The rest are cousins.

Grandma is now standing with grandpa. Dad is on the far left with Aunt Lynn sitting below him in the orange shirt, and Aunt Missy is to her right.














After pictures, we had to rush to Heritage Christian for Andrew's game against Dayton Falcons.

First Cheerleading Game

Today was our first cheerleading/football game. I coach the Homeschool Lions Cheer Squad. Our Jr. High played Heritage Christian at noon today. We lost by two points, the total score being 12-14. It was a really close game. There were 14 seconds on the clock in the fourth quarter and we were going for a two point conversion after making our second touchdown. We did not make the conversion. The boys played very well, especially since this was their first game. It was also Heritage's first game. Pictured: Emily (the mascot) and Kylie.

My old babysitter, Ashley, coaches the Jr. High cheer squad. During half time her squad came over to ours to say hello. We got to talk for the whole half time, and so did the cheerleaders. It was very fun.

I have eight girls and one mascot. Unfortunately three of the girls were not able to make it to the first game. Also, the four new girls did not have their uniforms yet. That was my fault. I did not get the girls measured soon enough and I also did not know that they (Varsity) does not ship out the uniforms until they have been paid. It will take about four weeks for the uniforms to arrive. For now they have to wear my old uniform and two other previous cheerleaders uniforms. Otherwise, they have to wear a black or dark blue skirt with a black or dark blue shirt. I also had two pairs of old poms for the girls, and Emily (the mascot), had her old pair of poms so all the girls were able to use poms. Pictured: Elle, Autumn (Kylie's older sister, also the captain), and Evelyn.

Jordan

Andrew got to play today. Although, I did not recognize him at first because he has a new number this year. He is actually a freshman this but is playing down so he can have more playing time. He is a lineman.

Not pictured: Amelia, Katie, and Nicole.

WAIT

Desperately, helplessly, longingly I cried:
Quietly, patiently, lovingly God replied.
I plead and I wept for a clue to my fate,
And the Master so gently said,
"Child, you must wait."

"Wait? You say, wait!" my indignant reply.
"Lord, I need answers, I need to know why!
Is your hand shorthanded? Or have You not heard?
By faith, I have asked, and am claiming Your Word.

My future and all to which I can relate
Hangs in the balance, and YOU tell me to WAIT?
I'm needing a "Yes", a go-ahead sign,
Or even a "No" to which I can resign.

And Lord, You promised that if we believe
We need but to ask and we will receive.
And Lord, I've been asking, and this is my cry:
"I'm weary of asking! I need a reply!"

Then quietly, softly, I learned of my fate
As my Master replied once again, "You must wait."
So, I slumped in my chair, defeated and taut
And grumbled to God, "So I'm waiting...for what?"

He seemed, then, to kneel
And His eyes wept with mine
And He tenderly said, "I could give you a sign
I could shake the heavens, and darken the sun
I could raise the dead, and cause mountains to run

All you seek, I could give, and pleased you would be.
You would have what you want-
But, you wouldn't know Me.
You'd not know the depth of My love for each saint;
You'd not know the power I give to the faint;

You'd not learn to see through the clouds of despair;
You'd not learn to trust just by knowing I'm there;
You'd not know the joy of resting in Me;
When darkness and silence were all you could see.

You'd never experience that fullness of love
As the peace of My Spirit descends like a dove;
You'd know that I give and I save, for a start,
But you'd not know the depth of the beat of My heart.

The glow of My comfort late into the night,
The faith that I give when you walk without sight,
The depth that's beyond just getting what you asked
Of an infinite God, who makes what you have last.

You'd never know, should you pain quickly flee,
What it means that, "My grace is sufficient for thee."
Yes, your dream for your loved one
Overnight would come true,

But, Oh, the Loss! If I lost what I'm doing in you!

So, be silent, My child, in time you will see
That the greatest of gifts is to get to know Me.
And though oft' may My answers seem terribly late,
My most precious answer of all is still, "Wait."

--Unknown