Happy Monday!!!

Can I get an AMEN????????

AHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!

AHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!

AHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!

AHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!

NOT MY HAIR!!!

Last weekend I was sitting next to my brother and I was like Oh wowwww it looks like your hair is growing back really good!!! Buuuuuuuuuuuut he had a hat on and he was liiiiiiiike well yeah on the bottom but not on the top of my head and he pulls it off and his hair is very light and completely white on top!!! I was liiiiiiiike OH IT'S WHIIIIIIIIITE!!!

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He's like yeah that's thanks to YOU!!! I was liiiiiiiiike whaaaaaaaaaaaat??? He's like yeah cuz NOW I have the DNA of a 38-year-old female, so i'm looking older!!!

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I was liiiiiiiike weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeellllll for your info...

THAT IS NOT MY HAIR!!!! 

DO YOU GUYS SEE THE SAME HAIR???

No, YOU D ON'T!!!! LOLOLOL I have some grays buuuuuuuuuuuut not like that!!!! 

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Did I tell you guys that he now has 99% of my cells in him???? The transplant is working annnnnnd...I'm TAKING OVER!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!!! (Evil Dr. Blackaard laugh!)And that he OFFICIALLY has the DNA of a female??? He said he's still keeping his he/him pronouns!!! LOL 

♥Mary Frances :)

YOU SMELL LIIIIIIIIIKE...

Soooooooooo this past Sunday, I was hanging out with my family, and while we were there, I was making ALL MY BOY nephews come and give Aunt Mary Hugs!!! Annnnnnd they were PRETENDING that this was such a travesty when in ACTUALITY they loooooooove my Mar-Bear Hugs!!! I mean lets be honest, THE SNUGGLE IS REAL!!!! 

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Weeeeeeeeellll while I had snatched up Tony in a hug as he was running by, Jeremiah yells out, I'LL GIVE YOU A HUG!!! So I'm like get over here then!!! So I'm giving him a tight-squeezy hug and says, YOU SMELL LIKE JESUS!!!

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I was like awwwwwwwwwww!!!! 

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Buuuuuuuuut then I was like, WAIT, Jesus is a MAN...and men have a tendency to SMELL MORE THAN WOMAN!!! I'm NOT being sexist, it is a biological fact, men SMELL MORE THAN WOMAN...this is well known!!! 

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And i'm not being disrespectful, I'm just saying, Jesus is A MAN...annnnnnnnnnd HISTORICALLY speaking, they did NOT have as good of hygiene in the Bible days...this is TRUTH, plus aside from not bathing everyday, they did NOT have deodorant...if I had lived in the Bible days, that ALONE is the reason WHY I would still be single-because of NO DEODORANT...I don't have clue what they reason is now...buuuuuuuut in the Bible days, that would have been the reason...have I told you guys I have a very sensitive nose?? ;) 

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Looooooooooooong story short, I want to BE LIKE JESUS in every way characteristically, buuuuuuuut IF he smelled like a MAN, I do NOT want to SMELL LIKE A MAN!!!

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Sooooooooo after my initial awwwwwwwwwww, I said, WAIT, 

WHAT DOES JESUS SMELL LIKE???

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Without hesitating he says, 

LIKE AN ANGEL!!!

I was liiiiiiiike, AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!! THANK YOU JER-BEAR!!!! That is liiiiiiiiiiiiike THE SWEETEST COMPLIMENT EVERRRRRR!!!!! Isn't that just THE SWEEEEEEETEST EVERRRRR?!?!?!?!? You guys, I smell like an ANGEL!!!👼 ♥♥♥ My heart just got all warm and fuzzy!!!! ♥♥♥♥♥♥

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♥Mary Frances :)

Happy Monday!!!!

Weeeeeeeelllllll that'll preach!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

Proving your love!!!

"I want to prove my love to God!" Have you ever heard anyone say that before? I HAVE!!! And then they go on to give some huge thing or way they want to prove their love to God! Sometimes they are good, sacrificial things annnnnnnnd sometimes they're just CRAZY!!! Hee, hee!!!

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Buuuuuuuuuuuut 

what does Jesus say about proving our love to Him???

Although their are many scriptures in the Bible about loving God, there are two specific things that Jesus tells his disciples to prove their love to him! In John 14, at the last supper before his crucifixion, Jesus speaks to the disciples about what they can do to prove their love to him!!! 

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1. Keep my commandments

"If ye love me, keep my commandments." (John 14:15)

There was A LOT about to happen to Jesus...buuuuuut he didn't tell his disciples if you love me beat up my enemies, or cut off their ears, or defend me or argue with people about who I am...He simply said, IF YOU LOVE ME, KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS!!! Obedience!!! I saw a sign that says, I love Jesus buuuuuut I also cuss. WELL, If you LOVED JESUS...You would keep his commandments!!! Or you hear someone say, I love Jesus buuuuuuut I don't think I have to go to church or dress a certain way...I still listen to gospel music...weeeeeelllll good...buuuuuut Jesus said, IF YOU LOVE ME, keep my commandments!!! You can't prove your love for God while still living in sin. 

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2. Feed my sheep

15 So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs.16 He saith to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my sheep.17 He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.

I think Jesus is pretty straight forward about this matter and I really don't need to expound on it!!! FEED HIS SHEEP!!!

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If you love God, there are two ways to prove your love to him, that doesn't involve arguing with agnostics or graffitting I love Jesus at the local pot shop, just KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS AND FEED HIS SHEEP!!!! 

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Buuuuuuuuuut God DOES give us one more way that we can prove to THE WORLD that we are his disciples...annnnnnnd often THIS can be harder than them all!!!!

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3. Love one to another!!!

"By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another." (1 John 13:35) So often it's hard to love each other when we see all the character flaws of our own church family- personalities clash, oppinons differ, some people don't know how to bite their tongue, some people don't know how to talk, some people don't know how to shut up, some people don't know how to ask for help, some people ask for TOO MUCH help, You know how it is...we can't ALL BE MARYS...hahahahahahaaaa!!! ;)  Good thing too, cuz I don't get along with people that are LIKE ME!!! Hee, hee!!! 

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You know THAT ONE PERSON that you just think is sooooo annoying??? WEEEEEELLLLLL just remember, we're ALL GOING TO HEAVEN TOGETHER...soooooo for good practice, would hurt to eat together down here too????

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BUUUUUUUT JESUS SAYS...

Everyone WILL KNOW we are His disciples, by our LOVE ONE TO ANOTHER!!! Loving each other despite all our differences, is ACTUALLY one of our greatest witnessing tools!!! We need to LOVE EACH OTHER!!!

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Soooooooooo you wanna prove your love

 to God and all the world?????

1. Keep His commandments

2. Feed His sheep

3. Love one another

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"Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." (Matthew 22: 37-39)

♥Mary Frances :)

Odd Mary Fact!!!

When ever I see 238...

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I HAVE TO QUOTE ACTS 2:38...even if it's JUST IN MY HEAD!!!! 

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Liiiiiiike if it's a hotel room number or license plate number and it has 238 in a row OR most often if THE TIME is 2:38!!! annnnnnnd it's sooooooooo weird, I almost ALWAYS just randomly look at the clock or my watch now when it's 2:38...it's kinda strange BUUUUUUT COOL!!!! 

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TRY IT!!! You'll be amaZed at how often you notice it...and IF I had my own kids, I think it would be a fuuuuuuuuunnnnn way to incorporate Bible scriptures into their every day life!!! 

♥Mary Frances :)

Tasty Thursday!!!

Let's go on a Food Adventure today!!! Soooooooo we did!!! It started out as a boring Saturday with nothing to do buuuuuuut then everything changed!!!

Cajeta is a small mom and pop shop with a whole lotta deliciousness. I was wondering in my mind, can a Mexican sho do really good boba?!? Well they sure did!!! 

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The bobas were so nice and soft and just a little bit chewy. I got the almond flavored milk tea and it was soooooooo nice. My sister got a freshly squeezed lemonade, I tried it and it was lite and refreshing and not to sour! My niece and nephew got the taro milk teas and those were very good as well!

Also after seeing the picture on the wall, I HAD to try their hot chocolate!!!! It was the perfect combination of cinnamon and chocolate and not to thick!!!! It was soooooooo nice and would really be perfect to cozy up with on extra cold winter day!!!

Best Mexican Hot Chocolate EVERRRR!!!

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We each got our own churros annnnnnd wow, jus WOW!!! Noooooooo actually, WOWWWWWW!!! That's more like it!!!! They were so, so, SOOOOOOO GOOOOOOD!!! Perfect crispness on the outside and soft on the inside! Warm and sweet and cinnamon goodness all over!!! Annnnnnnnd dipping sauces!!! We got the caramel dip and you can tell they as well are house-made!!!

Yummmmmminesssss!!!

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They were very hardworking and friendly people! While some people may complain that their orders don't come out instantly, I just stood there so impressed and watched the man making our churros fresh!!!!

FRESHNESSSSS!!!!

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If you want an instant churro go to Costco or Taco Bell but if you want quality, fresh and delicious amazingness go to to Cajetas!!!
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Today Cajetas turned our plain and boring Saturday into a delicious Food Adventure! We can't always be world travelers buuuuuuut today we got to experience a little piece of Mexico and I can't wait to go back!!!! 

♥Mary Frances :)

P.S. Now I wanna learn how to make churros...ANY CHURRO TEACHERS??? ;)

If you’re grouchy and you know it…

Sooooooooo i'm NOT grouchy a lot...buuuuuuuut I have my moments...as we all do right?!?!?!? Weeeeeeeeeeeeelllllll one day, a few months or so ago...I was just in SUCH A BAAAAAAAD MOOD!!! It just felt like fog in my brain when I tried to think and no amount of coffee was gonna change that 

and everyone was just being sooooooooooo ANNOYING...well in my mind...cuz ya know I was being grouchy!!!

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Annnnnd I was out running around doing errands and I was just thinking... I JUST need to listen to Adventure's in Odyssey!!! And I was pulling up the AIO App on my phone when a prodding in my mind was liiiiiiiiiike...OR MAYBE YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO THE BIBLE!!! I was liiiiiike...Oh yeah...I could do that!!! I don't remember if I had already done my Bible time for the day...

My routine is I normally listen to it for the 30 minutes in the morning before I let myself listen to any other story on Audible OR listen to AIO...and at night, I read two pages before I go to sleep...Its just what works for me....buuuuuuut I don't think i had listened that day...I just went into the GETTIN STUFF DONE MODE and then when i was grouchy I was turning to Odyssey to soothe myself!!!

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BUUUUUUUUUUUUUT...I turned on THE BIBLE!!! Annnnnnnd ya know, my day just got better after that!!!! There's just something about God's Word!!!! It could be the book of Leviticus talking about the jealousy offerings and hairs on the face and it just brings peace into my life!!!! 

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I've said this before buuuuuuuuut when I was a kid and I had a bad dream, my mom would tell me to put my Bible under my pillow and I wouldn't have  bad dreams with God's word near my mind...annnnnnnnnd it sounds cRaZy buuuuuuuut to this day, I've neverrrrrr had a bad dream with God's Word under my pillow!!! There is sooooo much power in God's Word and it brings peace into our life!!!!

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Soooooooooooooooooooo...

IF YOUR GROUCHY AND YOU KNOW IT...

READ YOUR BIBLE!!!

Better TO TRY!!!

I saw this saying the other day that said, "It's better to TRY and FAIL, than to NOT TRY and SUCCEED!!!" I thought, YA KNOW, I LIIIIIIIIKE THAT!!!! 

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This is the part of this blog post where YOU ALL THINK I'm going to say that, THAT is how I feel about publishing my book...it's better to TRY this endeavor out and for the book to not succeed, buuuuuuuuuuuuut YOUR WRONG!!! Buuuuuuuuuuuut your wrong!!! If the gospel message gets to ONE PERSON, then it's been a success in my world...I may be a broke...;)...but still a success...sooooo NO this is NOT about the book endeavor!!! 

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BUUUUUUUUUUT what I AM GOING TO SAY IS THIS...

IF you've been thinking about pursuing a relationship with me...

It's BETTER TO TRY AND FAIL

Than to NOT TRY

 annnnnnd SUCCEED!!!

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAAA!!!

Jus sayin! ;)

♥Mary Frances :)

Happy Monday!!!

Sooooooo true!!!

sOOOOOOO EYERONIC...get it guys??? AHAHAHHAAHAHAAA 

BUUUUUUUUUUT SOOOOOOOOO TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!    

CAN I GET AN AMEN

 FROM MY AMEN CORNER????

P.S. Happy Monday! Current goal for the week is getting my taxes done, buying tickets...well travel tickets...NOT SPEEDING TICKETS annnnd not getting any speeding tickets!!! 😝

What are my options??? That is a question that we ask quite frequently. We are living in a day and age and a society that is BIG on alternatives...Options...choices. You could be on the airplane getting a meal and there is going to be someone that doesn't like what they are being given and they will say, What's my alternative??? Resturaunt menus are filled with OPTIONS for all the different eaters.

There is a vegetarian section, gluten free, low-carb, fat free... People want OPTIONS!!! People want ALTERNATIVES!!!

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Everyone wants to hear an alternative to what they should do. A girl gets pregnant and people will tell her, these are YOUR OPTIONS!!! There is alternative music, alternative thinking, alternative schools, alternative educations, alternative lifestyles, alternative religions, alternative marriage there is EVEN alternative meat for vegetarians!!!😕😝

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What really perturbs me is when people think of living for God as just an option. That alternative thinking seeps into our everyday living. But there has to be a time in our life that we decide when it comes to living for God, there are NO ALTERNATIVIVES!!! There are NO OTHER OPTIONS. If things don't turn out the way I planned, OH WELL, I'm gonna KEEP ON LIVING FOR GOD!!! My heart is Fixed! It bothers me so much when I hear people say, "I hope I don't backslide!"

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I don't say that to sound holier-than-thou, I say it because it is worrisome to me. It means that somewhere in their mind backsliding IS an option in their life. They don't want to buuuuuuuuuut...IF...We can't live in a way that says, well I WANT to live for God, buuuuuuuuut if it doesn't work out, I guess I'll jus go back to the world! 

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There is a bumper sticker that says, "Try Jesus, if you don't like Him, the devil will always take you back!" We can't live with that mentality, we can't just TRY Jesus!!! We have to BURN all of our bridges of alternatives and options in our life till we can say, I can't go back, BECAUSE I HAVE NOTHING LEFT TO GO BACK TOO!!! We have to say, THIS IS IT!!! This is my ONLY OPTION!!! There is NO PLAN B!!! I have NO ALTERNATIVES!!!

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 Its like what Peter said to Jesus, "Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away? Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life." (John 6: 67:68)

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Don't say, I'll TRY to pray...just PRAY!!!! Don't say I'll TRY to go to church...GO TO CHURCH!!! Don't say ill TRY to live for God...LIVE FOR GOD!!!! Obviously, life happens, buuuuuut we can't live in that TRYING, mentality, but the I WILL and I AM going to live for God!!!!

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Yes, there are times that its HARD!!! Yes there are times that there are times of repentance in my life! Yes there are times that I need an attitude adjustment!!! Yes there are times that I'm confused, bewildered, frustrated, sad, mad, devastated, heartbroken... Buuuuut i'm NOT LOOKING for another way!!! its like Peter says, TO WHOM SHALL I GO???  I have no alternative for myself outside of a life devoted to living for my God!!! 

WHAT ELSE IS THERE??? I have NO other plans! I have NO other options! 

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 LIVE FOR GOD???

I have NO alternatives!!!

"My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed:  I will sing and give praise" (Psalm 57:7) 

♥Mary Frances :)

Things that bring me joy!!!

This list I would like to say is NON-spiritual things that bring me joy-before everyone is like, what about God and church and the Bible and the Holy Ghost-of course you guys- those are a GIVEN and my reason for living...LIIIIIIKE DUH!!!!

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1. Little girls with beautiful hair

2. flowers 🌺 

3. rain-as long as I'm NOT driving in it, I LOOOOOOOOVE rain!!!

4. emojis- please insert them into texts when writing to me

5. Good smells-Ok you guys, i'm like a really total NOSE SNOB!!! I just like for everything to smell good!!!The smell of rain, and freshly cut grass and roses...buuuuuut above all else...ORANGE BLOSSOMS!!!

6. yellow-its just so cheerful and happy

7. writing -well DUH!!!

8. seeing bugs die-need i explain any further???

9. surprises

10. Beautiful nature and landscapes

11. Snow-capped mountains

12. Cute outfits

2 in 1-cute outfits & hiking!!!

13. Hiking

14. The outdoors- when the weather is beautiful!!! 

15. Food Adventures

16. Exploring annnnnd ADVENTURES in general!!! 

♥Mary Frances :)