Eve was a blond!

I was thinking about it the other day and I think that Eve was a blond! She HAD to be! I mean THINK about it...

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She was in a garden of absolute PERFECTNESS. Her and her husband are the ONLY humans, which means they are the ONLY ones that have ever talked to each other because animals do NOT talk. Then one day a snake/serpent comes along(Now just seeing the snake would have me SCEAMING)and then the snake starts talking to Eve...Now I don't know about you all, but if ANY animal EVER started talking to me I would be SCARED TO DEATH, you would NOT want to be around to see what happened!( Probabley anyone near would for sure need hearing aides)

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However, did Eve scream or run away? NO!!! Without EVEN hesitating, Eve just starts talking right BACK to the snake. I mean read it in Genesis three and they are just having this TOTAL, nonchalant conversation with each other. I was thinking about that and I was like okaaaaay who just starts talking to a SNAKE?! ONLY a blond, ONLY a blond! (AKA- My best friend JACQUI!;)

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But I realized that there was a reason why Eve talked to the snake, and in reality it probabley wasn't because she was a blond! ;) (According to my pastor Eve was probabley a brunette-woot, woot!) It was because she wasn't scared of the snake. She had NO reason to because first of all sin had never entered into the world, but it was more than just that.  As odd as it may seem to us, seeing an animal talk was not a scary thing to her. The devil knew this, and he just the exact way he could make an apeal to her. He knew that like a typical woman she would have no problem talking to him.

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Isn't that just the way it is when the devil tempts us today. Its never a scary thing when its happening. It seems so normal, so natural. One day when I was riding home with some of the African girls we bring to church they started telling me about this really nice man they knew. They said that they never knew him in Africa, but that he could tell them things that had happened to them while they were there and he could tell them what they were thinking. And one of the girls said, he was soooo nice but I don't know why but for some reason I just ran away from him. I was like, you guys that man is probabley involved in whichcraft you really need to stay away from him. They were like OH NO Mary! Whichcraft is BAD and evil, but this man was sooooooooo NICE!!! I was like, you guys, the devil isn't going to come to you  in a way thats scary to you! I said if come scary angel with a pitfork and a tail came to you and said to steal something would you do it?!?! They were like NOOOOO!!! (But they would if OPRAH told them to! LOL)

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The devil has a way of making sin look fun and glamerous. It doesn't look dirty and trashy. Think about the things you may be tempted by or that you struggle with. I mean there has NEVER been a snake that came to me and said, "Mary, why don't you do some gossiping!!!" But I definateley have found myself in that position quite a few times, and there was NOTHING scary about it at the moment! Like Eve, we're all a little blond when it comes to failing God, or perhaps I should say ignorant.  Our only hope is to stay close to God in prayer, “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death” (Romans 8)

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I guess without prayer we're kind of like spiritual blonds! We become ingnorant and blinded to the evil that is around us. But heeeeeey WHY stay a blond, when  you can be a brunette?! ;)

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 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.  Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. Hebrews 4:15-16

Happy 57th birthday...

Happy BIRTHDAAAAAAAAAY MOM!!!

I have the world's GREATEST EVER!!!
AND NO ONE CAN COOK LIKE MY MAMMA!!!

This is romantic!!!

It happened after a long, hot summer day. We were finally all done cleaning up from our church yard sale. Everyone else was going home until church that night, but I decided to just hang out at the church with the Abbott's until prayer that evening. But since it had been A REALLY HOT day, I wanted to freshen up and fix my hair. So I walking through our foyer, to the ladies room, when Bro. Abbott calls out to me...

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"See THIS Mary, now THIS IS ROMANTIC!!!" Soooooo I look over and there is my pastor just kinda lounged back on a chair, Sis. Abbott is sitting in front of him and he has his feet in her lap and she is MASSAGING THEM!!! Sooooo I am like uuuuuuhhhhhh YEAH!!! But in my head I am like EWWWWWW and I know my pastor was telling me cause he KNOWS that I am a HOPELESS romantic and I am thinkin, yeah, yeah, TYPICAL guy, thinks its ROMANTIC cause his WIFE is doing something for him...HA!

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So I freshen up. Do my hair and about 20 minutes later I come out and walk back through the foyer. This time what I saw made me catch my breath cause it really WAS romantic!! Now, there was my pastor massaging his wife's feet! I was like AWWWWWWWW! I just thought it was SOOOOO sweet! Not because it was the wife that was now getting the massage, but because they were both WILLING to do it for each other.

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I don't think the Abbott's ever even realized that I walked through that second time, because they were lost in their own little world. But they taught me a lesson that day. I learned that love is NOT all about flowers, chocolate and long walks on the beach. It's NOT about what I'm gonna get from my spouse, but what am I going to give to the person I love. Obviousley being single, I am NOT an expert on marriage, BUT, I believe that one of the keys to a strong relationship with anyone, is learning to continually serve each other.

Even as the Son of man came not to be served

but to serve...

( Matthew 20:27)

Blessed are the Peacemakers...

As the middle child of five children, I often find myself playing the job of THE PEACEMAKER!!! I'm usually that one, that all my siblings come to telling me THEIR side of the arguement and I just kinda like nod my head, not taking either side cause I KNOW what will happen if I do! LOL I hate argueing and fighting so for the most part I have learned to JUST KEEP my mouth shut---Which I know may seem hard to believe---but if  you think about it, most of the time all my big mouth is doing is talking about myself, crazy adventures, cute guys or LAUGHING!!! So I've learned that one of the best ways to ease the tension in a sticky situations is by acting STUPID!!! Something, I am VERY good at! :)

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Soooooooo this one time several years ago our youth group was on an outreach trip to William's AZ and on the drive up we stopped at McDonald's to eat. Now before we had even let for the trip, Bro. Abbott had given us a good talking to about behaving and that we were on the trip to do the work of GOD, not just to have fun! So you know, I'm trying my best to be good! ;) SO the way it was working was that everyone ordered their food and then Bro. Abbott was paying the bill at the end cause it was coming out of our money that we had paid for the trip. Which was fine, EXCEPT for the fact that this meant that ALL of our food was like TOTALLY mixed up when it was given to us---which cause a little bit of a tussle!!!

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My SISTER Theresa, and my BEST FRIEND Jacqui, like GOT IN TO IT!!! LOL (They always let me say it was them when I tell the story!) So they are like having this like all out arguement about FRENCH FRIES!!! AND I am like OMW!!! What do I do?!?! I've GOTTA distract them from fighting----So what's the best distraction?!?! ACTING STUPID of course!!! ;) So I start SINGING!!!

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Now I don't know if you all have heard the song that Timothy Spell sings called, Nothing like being able to touch the Lord?! Wellll I like that song ALOT, sooooooooo I decided that would be a good song to sing, BUT I decided to change the words around just a litttle!!! So I am sitting there, I close my eyes, throw my head back, start swinging my neck and start belting out the words, "THERE AIN'T NOTHING LIKE BEING ABLE...TO FLIRT WITH GUYS!!! Ooooooooooooo!!! YEAAAAAH!!!"

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And the girls just crack up laughing. So I am thinking oh yeah, its working, the tension is being eased. So I think, Ooooo better sing it again, JUST to make sure I really ease away the tension. i keep my eyes shut and go into round two of the song, "THERE AIN'T NOTHING LIKE BEING ABLE TO FLIRT WITH GUYS!!!" BUT this time,  my song is met with total, and utter SILENCE!!! I am like hmmmm...thats weird...I wonder why they are not laughing this time?!

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With my head still thrown back, I just kinda peek one eye open to see what's going on...I was like OOOPS!!! Cause standing above me was MY PASTOR, Bro Abbott!!! I was like OMW!!! I was like sooooooo scared, because I mean I am singing a song about FLIRTING with GUYS and we're like on this OUTREACH trip AND I had a BOYFRIEND at the time. Soooo I am just like OH no! What's he gonna do?!?! So I am like looking up at him and he just kinda raises his eyebrows, gets this like half smirk on his face and just says, "OH REALLY?!" Then he just saunters off.

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Our WHOLE table just busted up into HYSTERICAL laughter! I mean I was laughing SOOOOOO hard I couldn't even breath and tears were coming out of my eyes. FINALLY I thought I was done laughing, so I grab my Dr. Pepper and take a big ol drink, ONLY I wasn't REALLY done laughing, so the Dr. Pepper goes like up my nose and then like flying out my mouth, my nose and across the whole table and onto Janelle's GLASSES!!! It was ABSOLUTLE craziness and resulted in us all going once again into hysterical laughter.

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NEEDLESS to say...
the tension at our table was long FORGOTTEN!!!

Mission ACCOMPLISHED!
P.S. This story is ALOT funnier when I tell it in person!!! ;)

I LOVE this song!!!

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Here is the song with the lyrics! Just IMAGINE the one you love singing this to you!!! OMW!!! I think I would faint on the spot!!!

Love offering?

You know how like when someone is trying to take up a REALLY good offering they will say lets take up a LOVE offering!!!!!!! AND I am always like OOOOOOOOO yeah, lets do that!!! HAHAHA! (Like only I can do right!;)

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 BUT todaaaaaaaaay i was reading in Numbers and I just cracked up LAUGHING...and I got inspired!!! Next time we're at a youth conference, instead of taking up a LOVE offering they should try  taking a..

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JEALOUSEY offering!!!

HAHAHA!!! Okaaaaaaaay seriousley people, this is BIBLICAL... Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the offering before the LORD, and offer it upon the altar( Numbers 5:25)

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JUST think how much MORE money they could bring in if people had to give cause they were jealous of someone!!! MAN, they might only have to take up one offering the WHOLE time! LOL AND who knows, it may even cure some of us of our jealousy! HAHA!!! See, it would just be and ALL around BLESSING!!! :D

Valentine Bashers...

I have to say that I am KINDA amaZed at JUST how much people go out of their way to NOT like Valentine's day! I mean Okaaaaaaaaay can understand the fact that Valentine's day isn't quite as wonderful if your single or whatever BUT STILL...

.Check some of this stuff out..

HAHAHAHA!!!

This above one is kinda like REALLY funny!

Okaaaaaaaaay this has ISSUES written all over it!!!

Awwwww!

I LOVE Valentine's day! I mean NO matter what, I try and make it FUN!

Last year me and Jac spent the whole day together and we both ACtually RODE AN eLephant! It was cRaZy fun! This year was cool cause the WHOLE day was basically spent at church, which in my opinion WAS an AWESOME way to spend the holiday! One thing that I have learned, is that the BEST WAY to stop feeling down is to help lift someone else up!!! I talk about that in a story I wrote called Reaching Back  I think that sometimes we waste A LOT of time feeling sorry for ourselves, but the thing that can help us feel better is when we start caring for the well being of another.

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Anyone that hates Valentine's day should listen to Adventure's in Odyessy! I listened today to The Last I Do and it really changes how you look at the holiday!

God made us outta...

So one time in Wednesday night bible class, one of the black girls in my class said she ONLY wanted to be partners with a white girl...NOT a black girl...i am like uh, what do I do?! LOL so I had to come up with a little skin-color lesson on the spot in class. So I am like heeeey girls! We don't pick our partners by what their skin color is. It doesn't matter what your skin color is...it's like ice cream... it doesn't REALLY matter what the flavor is...Chocolate or Vanilla as long as its SWEET! And its the same way with people...it doesn't matter what color your skin is- Chocolate, Carmel or Vanilla, as long as YOUR SWEET! (Awww!)

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One Wednesday night we were having a special kids service. Bro. Jimmy had led songs and now we're getting ready for the preaching. SO Jimmy is introducing the preacher but in the process he gets a little carried away and starts his OWN little sermon. He is talking to the kids about how it is just soooooo AMAZING that God created us. He is just like, think about how God breathed into us and gave us life. He is like just think about God reaching down and getting a handful of dirt to make us. He says you know thats what we're made out of right guys...just DIRT!!! All of the sudden one of the little African girls shouts out...Nuh uh...CHOCOLATE!!! I'M made outta chocolate... 

AND the whole church just busts up laughing! It was sooooooooo ADORABLEY funny!!! Bro. Jimmy is like, uh yeah, God made some of us outta dirt and some of us outta chocolate!!! AND the kids are like WELL thats what Sis. MARY says!!!

What can I say...come be in my class...its FUN!!!

I got roses!!!

OMW!

I got a dozen roses!!!

RED roses!!!

I have NEVER gotten red roses before!

Red stands for LOVE...

Ooooooooo!!!

Isn't that sooooooooo sweet?!?!

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Now before all you guys out there,start getting yourselves all worked up and worried about if I am taken now or what, let me just say this...

I have an AWESOME big brother and it looks like he LOVES me!

AwwwThank you Joe! :)

♥Mary

Don't forget...

Whenever you vote, CHOOSE LIFE!!!

Single GIRLS Valentine Party INVITE

GIRLFRIENDS!!!

YOU ARE INVITED!!!

WHEN: Friday February 12th @ 7pm @ my place email me for directions

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1. First of all this is an ALL girls party!!! LOL SOMEONE, I won't mention ANY names was not going to come cause they said  it would be weird cause they had a boy friend...I was like OKAAAAAAY!...so I am just like TRYING not to be rude or anything but I am just thinkin you got a problem with you hanging out with a buncha girls?!?! HAHAHA!!! Finally they are like WAIT MARY is this an all girls party...I am like uh DUH!!!!! Whatda ya think, I am gonna be invitin all the single mchotties over to my house for a Valentine's party...she is like, with you YES!!!! HAHA! (Whatever...like Bro Abbott would just be cool with THAT!)~~~Sooooo just makin it clear...

It's an ALL GIRLS PARTY! ;)

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2. Please come hungry! I am cookin and there is nothing that makes me happier(Well aside from hot guys tellin me I look good)then when everyone pigs out on my food!!!

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3. Come dressed TOTALLY babelicious! Like you have a really HOT date! LOL Or if your just gettin off work come as you are cause I mean lets face it, there really won't be any hot guys!!! LOL

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4. We're gonna do a Valentine gift exchange- so bring a valentine present---whatever you want to bring- stuffed animal, candy, accessories...blah, blah, blah!

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5. If you want, I just thought this would be fun, you could bring those ghetto little valentines that we gave out in elementary school with our name and email addy on them so that we can ya know keep in touch with new people. (If you wanna do this just everyone bring their own pre-written)

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6. Bring your cameras and get ready to have fun...

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*Ooooooo and I WILL be reading exerpts from my teenage diary!!! Its BEYOND hysterical!!!

Obama Love!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Ask Mar Bear! (Fashion advice column ;)

Dear Mar Bear,
I have a BIG dilema and I need your awesome opinion.Valentines day is coming up soon and I have NOTHING to wear.I mean all my friends say that I HAVE to wear pink or red, because those are the holiday colors. But my purse got stolen and now I have NO money to buy I new outfit. I have a lot of cute clothes already and I had planned on wearing this blue outfit, but I don't know, do you think its ok to wear BLUE on VALENTINE'S day?! I know that you would know what to do!
Sincerley,
Confused about blue-blue-hearted gal! :,(
P.S. I don't know if this matters but I have blue eyes too! *Sob!
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Dear Confused about Blue,
Your blue-hearted days are about to be OVER!!! Mar bear has some AWESOME news! If you wanna wear blue, WEAR blue girl! Embrace your blue outfit! It sooooooooo does NOT matter if your wearing red or pink or even neon green on Valentine's day! The ONLY thing that matters is that you look GOOOOOOOOD!!! If you look good in blue then WHERE IT!!!
Mar Bear
P.S. There is no reason to sob over having blue eyes, I have blue eyes too and I hear the guys like em! ;)

Do you have a fashion question for Mar Bear?
Leave a comment or shoot me and email!

Broken Hearts...

Shattered. Seperated. Crushed. Smashed. Ragged. Uneven. Tattered. Like an old forgotten teddy bear that had lost all its stuffing, thats how I felt. On the outside, I apeared the same, but on the inside I was different. Broken. Even though it had been over a year and a half since my big break-up, I still felt heart broken. I really couldn't understand why I still felt this way. I didn't even want to be with him anymore. I had liked a million guys since then and yet I couldn't deny the fact that there was a sadness inside my heart. For two years he had been my best friend. We talked every night before I went to bed. I had shared all my hopes and dreams with him. No matter how hard I tried to push that feeling away, it remained intact. I still had a broken heart....
* To finish reading this story click HERE

This is kind of a pretty personal story for me to write, But for me it's a thing of the past...

 I feel that there are people that perhaps this story could help.

 Special thanks to Stephanie Flores for the pictures.

If you continue reading the story you will see a picture at the very bottom that she created special for me!

Playing Hard-To-Get

"Mary, if you want that guy you NEED to play hard to get! I am telling you it works...just try it!"

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I don't kow HOW many times  people (females)have told me this, and in my not-so-humble-opinion, I think it is some of the dumbest adivice I have ever heard! The jist of playing-hard-to-get is basically where you ignore or show disinterest in a guy that you really, REALLY like, when they communicate with you...ummm...okaaaaaay...that makes A LOT of sense...cause I always thought that was called; BEING RUDE!!!!
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One time we were at church setting up for a youth rummage(JUNK!) sale we were having the next day. So I am standing there talking to one of the married woman, (someone that is my age but has been married since she was 19) and this woman, who is one of my friends, is like Mary, this year at Heritage, you GOTTA play hard to get! And I am just like, "yeah, yeah, whatever... and she is like IT WORKS! That is how I got MY husband! I played hard-to-get! So at this point her husband is like WHAT are you guys talking about?! I am like, Oh NOTHING, your wife is just telling me about how she played hard-to-get for you and that it worked and that I should do the same. Her husband was like, OH WHATEVER!!! You were just falling all OVER me...she is like I was NOT...so they are like "discussin" this and I am like, ok, ok, ok guys, I really don't care, let me just say this...
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The problem with us girls, in THIS church, is you can ONLY play hard-to-get, if there is someone that ACTUALLY wants to play with you!!! At this point Bro. Abbott walks by and just cracks up laughing at my statement! I guess just cause it was SOOOO true!!! LOL But I mean SERIOUSLEY, HOW can you play hard-to-get if they don't even know you exist?! It's like heeeeeey! I am ignoring you!!! Oh btw-My name is MARY!!! HAHA! Then these same girls will tell you, WELL...you need to talk to them...then play-hard-to-get! (OH brother!) The guys in my church say that girls that play-hard-to-get are just ANNOYING!!! LOL They said that yes guys like a good chase, BUT not girls that play games. One of my guy friends once told me that, girls need to find a place between forward and hard-to-get. That made me think...hmmm...what is that place?!
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In THE MEANTIME... I did try playing hard -to-get..ONE time!!! ONE TIME!!! There was this guy I really liked, that didn't like me back, but he was still my friend and he was always really cool with me. (cause I mean, I am totally awesome NO matter what! even if you don't like me like THAT;) So one time I just decided to ignore my friend. Like, he gave me a COMPLIMENT and I just acted like I didn't even hear-So then he asked me about it and ALL the girls were like SEE it works! It works!!! HE noticed! And I was like, Oh yeah, it soooooo worked... I think he is about to PROPOSE....HAHA! Of course he NOTICED- I mean I WAS RUDE!!! I felt sooooooooo bad about it!
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So I decided playing hard-to-get just isn't for me! I would end up apologizing for it!!! I figure if a guy doesn't wanna like me cause i'm nice, then he is probabley a doofus anyways! If playing-hard-to-get works for you, thats GREAT, but thats just NOT the way Mar Bear rolls. Plus ignoring guys is SOOOO boring! Its soooo much funner being able to all just hang out, goof off and enjoy each others company. After thinking about it for awhile, I think I found the in-between forward and hard-to-get...

Its a place called
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FRIENDLY!!! ;)

A look good cookie

At my last job I was a nanny for two kids and their mom was a professional wedding and event planner. Now I am not talking your typical Apostolic wedding planner-she did HUGE elaborate weddings catering toward high end brides. Usually the budgets for the weddings were about $50.000 dollars and quite a few weddings had NO budget at all. Companies were always giving stuff to my boss hoping that she would try their product and promote it to her clients, so she was always coming home with flower arangments or cake samples and sometimes cookies. However these were NOT just your ordinary chocolate chip cookie. These cookies were FANCY!!! They would have beautiful intricate designs on them and my boss would show them to me. "Mary, look at these cookies! They just look AMAZING!" And I would of course agree with her... BUT what I really wanted to do was just eat one of the cookies! Cause I mean as far as I am concerned, cookies are for eating. So as soon as she would leave for work I would eat one. I remember thinkin man this cookie is gonna be SOOOOO good...then I took a bite! I was sooooo disapointed! It was hard and didn't have any flavor. After that when she would bring them home I just looked at them-and she would be saying look at how beautiful they are...and in my head I would be thinkin...SO!!! Who cares how beautiful they are!!! They don't even taste good!!! If a cookie don't taste GOOD- it's POINTLESS!!!

I think sometimes thats the way we are. We know how to look oh so good. Apostolic girls KNOW how too look Awesome. We know how to do our hair! Apostolic guys know how to dress sharp and look manly. And this is good. But how is our flavor? How are we acting? How are we treating each other?  I know some really good-looking people... I mean MAN do they look good- but it ENDS there! They talk trash about their peers and you wouldn't catch them DEAD hanging out with certain people. Well I don't care HOW good you look, THATS WRONG! Thats being a pointless christian. It's like when we get ready for the day, I mean I don't know about you all, BUT I like looking in the mirror!!! :) Because a mirror tells us if we look ok. We have to use God's word as a mirror to examine our hearts. One of my favorite things to pray is Psalm 51:10, Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. That means getting rid of all the junk inside our hearts and askin God to give us a GOOD attitude. Quite often I can look at myself in the mirror, give myself the little nod, wink, yeah girl, you got it GOING ON!!! BUT...

I want to be MORE than just a LOOK-GOOD-COOKIE...

I wanna taste good too!!!

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And be ye kind one to another,

 tenderhearted, forgiving one another,

even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

Epesians 4:32

I wanna say this!!!

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So the other day a friend from ANOTHER church was visiting our church. They leave like a MINUTE before us...and then we pull out onto Shea and we see flashing lights...We're like I wonder if thats them...naw...WAIT...thatstheir tan mini van!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!So I send my friend a text...SOOOOO is he like HOT OR WHAT?! She writes back, while he is STILL there...YES!!! I was like AW man...come on Jac...lets go get us a ticket too!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!So then my friend calls me and she is like MARY you would have been FREAKING out...He was SOOOOOO hot!!I am like okaaaaaaay did you invite him to our church?!?! She said no but he asked where it was and she gave him the location! She said that he was really nice and did not right her a ticket AND she said that he looked like he was around 25ish....WOW!!! I am feelin such a burden for the Scottsdale police right now!!! MAN!!!! I hope NEXT Sunday he is ready to  WRITE us all out some VALENTINES!!! ;) 

Your DREAM

Have you ever wanted something?I mean really, really, REALLY wanted something!!!The desire for this thing is so strong and so deep you don't think you could be whole without it.With each and every passing day the desire for your dream seems to intensify even more.You wait and you wait and you wait but it never happens.Your dream never comes true...but still...YOU WAIT! 
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Eventually, you sorta put the dream aside.It's NOT that you have wanting this dream to come true.It's NOT that you have given up ALL hope! Your just getting on with your life...living life to the fullest...AND you THINK it's ok...you'll make it...but then you see it AGAIN...YOUR DREAM!!!

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It's right there in front of you. EVERYTHING you ever wanted...Its REAL!!!Only...It's NOT for you. It belongs to someone else. You can't believe it! You don't understand! You waited SOOOOO long for this...and now they have it...YOUR dream!

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They are holding it in their arms. Rocking it slowly...back and forth...back and forth.They cradle your dream to their heart as they whisper sweet I love you's. You wonder if they know just how blessed they are to have your dream.

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You try NOT to be jealous. You try to be happy for them. You try to push away the envy that is overwhelming you...but it's still there. Once again your aware of the empty, gaping whole in your heart...The aching in your arms.You try to hold back the tears...but you can't.When no one is looking you let the tears fall...Your body shakes as you cry...you sob.You don't understand...it's NOT fair!HOW DID THEY GET YOUR DREAM?

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But then...Then they hand it to you...The dream.You hold the dream in your arms...and it's PERFECT! Better than you could have ever imagined, You feel every teeny, tiny breath as it peacfully sleeps. SUDDENLY it begins to move...stretching...then it opens it's eyes...AND it looks at you...and you can't help but smile just a little. The dream raise it's little eybrows...crinckling it's forhead...you smile a little bigger. It raises it's arm and yawns...you can't help but giggle...It moves it's lips...you laugh...you just have to! It just looks at you and you laugh some more.

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You hold it to your  heart and cuddle it....the dream.You put your cheek on it's cheek...and your dream quickley falls back asleep. You can't help but feel so happy.The joy of the dream overflows your heart. It's still not your dream...so you hand it back...smiling...envy washed away.It's not as if you don't still have the desire for your dream...it's still there...burning in your heart...

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But your learning...

Learning as you wait, to enjoy someone else's dream.

Thats what I call CONTENTMENT.

Leveticus...EW!!!

Okaaaaaaaaaay!!! Sooooooo I don't know where everyone is right now in their bible reading...but I happen to be in Leveticus. What a WEIRD book! I mean some of this stuff I am just like WHAT?! Like I know the whole thing with the sacrafices is for the pushing forward of sins and pointing to Calvary...But THEN Leveticus gets into the clean, and Unclean stuff and I am just like OMW!!! Read this from Leveticus 13

And in the place of the boil there be a white rising, or a bright spot, white, and somewhat reddish, and it be shewed to the priest;  And if, when the priest seeth it, behold, it [be] in sight lower than the skin, and the hair thereof be turned white; the priest shall pronounce him unclean:

I'm just like WHAT?!?! Can you imagine having to do that?!

Let me put this to you in modern day English...

Close your eyes and imagine...

(Well don't really close your eyes cause then you can't read this!)

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It's a typical Sunday morning after service when you head over to greet your pastor...

"Hey Pastor! That was a good message!"

"Thank you Mary!" then he starts walking away.

"Wait! Wait! Bro. Abbott, I just had something I wanted to ask you."

Pastor turns back, "Yes, Mary, So which guy NOW is it that you want me to get to preach over here?"

"Oh no, no! Bro. Abbott, it's not EVEN about a guy this time!"

Pastor looks SHOCKED!

"See I like have this sore, on my face and like in the middle of the sore, there is like, this hair and like I was just wondering if you could look at the hair and tell me what color it is...black, white or yellow?!

Pastor takes out his glasses...squints..clears his throat...

"Uh, I'm sorry Mary, I'm not sure WHAT color that hair is but THATS NASTY girl!

 Please do NOT come back to church until that thing is GONE!!!"

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Heeeeeeeeeeey you guys thats BIBLE right there!!!

Leveticus 13...Go  read it for yourselves if ya don't believe me!!!

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Heeey you guys! 
Here is a fun little game that is going on at Bordem Buster's 
The host of this blog Is Allana Shrekisz (Totally botched that sp!:) She refers to herself as Honduranchicka Since she currently resides in Honduras where her parent's are missionaries. So have some fun across the world and join in this little game! Its fun, easy and gets HILARIOUS!
When the story is OVER i'll post the whole story on my blog!


To play click HERE


Here is the rules...
1. Only one line at a time.
2. You can't comment twice in a row.
3. Be Apostolic.
4. Be Creative.
5. Have Fun.
This is the FIRST line to start out the story....He was a dark and stormy knight, one day he was walking down the mean streets of New York City...

Apostolic Male Model #2 ( A Monthly Feature)

Apostolic Male Model

Last month the featured Male Model...

Hot Chocolate (Which you can read about by clickin HERE) has been melting the girls hearts!

This sweet month of February...
 I would like to present before you all another Apostolic-Heart-Throbber

Maybe you have heard of him and maybe you haven't...

But once you meet this sweetheart...

You''ll NEVER forget the ONE AND ONLY...

DANNY ROBINSON!!!

Known by his buddies and adoring fans at LPC as
"MAIN MAN!"

Why "Main Man"?

"Because, although Danny is tied down to no particular girl...

All girls still wanna claim him!

Cause he is EVERYONE'S Main Man!

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I myself have ALWAYS felt like I had a little bit of the upper hand with Danny...

Since he asked me to be his Valentine date last year, which you can read about HERE and

Got dumped by him...which you can read about HERE! ;)

Even being dumped by Danny is an honor girls!!!

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Some guys are just worth that BROKEN HEART!!!

Girls, don't be shy!

If you see "Main Man" at a conference or youth rally, go talk to him!

He is ALWAYS ready and willing to pose in a picture with you!!!

Be sure to come back next month to check out the new male model!

You NEVER know guys...it just might be YOU!!!

♥Mary ;)

My love story...

I think its kinda cool and also a little humorous, that today, if things had gone the way I HAD planned, I would have been celebrating my three year wedding anniversary. Instead I was at my church, at our monthly Ladies of Legacy meeting, collecting compliments on my cooking, goofing off with the girls AND listening to my pastor teach to us young ladies on "Letting God Write Your LOVE STORY!"  (Check out When God Writes Your Love Story by Eric and Leslie Ludy)You know when I graduated from high school my supreme goal in life was, Get married!!! Then when all my friends did actually start getting married, the goal became even more desperate! I felt like I had to get married or else I would be left behind and I wouldn't have any friends. So I got my wish, I found my man, we "fell in love" and quickley began making plans for marriage. However, our plans soon fell through and our relationship disolved like sugar in hot water. I tried to make it all work out, but everything kept slipping through my fingers. I couldn't make it work. Finally, I just gave up...and I would like to tell you all that I got a man...but no....I've simply learned to trust in God. AND i've learned to just keep on enjoying life! I've had a lot of people, give a lot of advice on how to get a man... someone made a comment to me recently that perhaps Married woman know something I don't know, Like HOW TO GET A MAN! I wan't sure what to say, so I asked one of my closest friends Janelle, who is recently married, I said, Janelle, is there really a way to "Get a man? Was it something you did or said? How did you "GET SAM?!" And Janelle just laughed and said, "It just happened! It was God!" I think that soooo often we forget...GOD! I am soooo glad that things did not go as I planned. Every tear I have shed from that broken heart, is worth the life I am living right now as a single person. (I mean just think, If i had gotten married i probabley NEVER would have had this blog...gasp! I know, sad, sad, SAD!!!) For those of you that don't know my testimony you can read it here.  Holding His Hand is my testimony. This is what God did for me. Last year on Valentine's day we had testimony service at our church, and I thanked God that I was STILL single! (I know cRaZy huh!!!) My words were; "I thank God that I am single! Not because I want to be, BUT because God is watching out for me!!! Because God has kept me from marrying the wrong person and because I am BLESSED beyond words!!!"  I know that sometimes, ESPECIALLY for us girls, its hard NOT to get into that desperate mode! I remember even after my big break up feeling DETERMINED to find someone else and get married. I even asked my pastor if I could get on Apostolic Singles Network, since this other couple we knew had found each other and it was SOOOO perfect...my pastor thought about it for like a minute then said...FOR ME...NO! (HAHA! My pastor knows me SOOOO WELL!) I just wanted to be an encouragement to all my single friends, guys, gals...wait on God. He has better things planned than we can even imagine! My pastor's wife always told us growing up, "God gives the best to those that leave the choice to him!" As you all probabley know from this blog, writing is one of my biggest passions, but when it comes to ROMANCE...