2016...Here I be!!!!

Heeeeeeeeeey everyone!!! I just wanted to give all my readers an update on ME and whats going on with me! As you may have noticed my blog posts haven't been up quite as frequently. The reason for that is because my mom has been very, very, VERY sick! We pretty much almost lost her in December! We didn't know what was wrong with her, she was just getting weaker and weaker, and couldn't stop sleeping and starting to say really loopy things.

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She refused to let us call the paramedics but finally all five of us kids convinced her to let us and when they took her into the ER we found out that she had kidney failure and would have to begin dialysis immediately...buuuuut if we hadn't called she would have just died from the poisons that were filling her body. The toxins were also the reason WHY she was constantly sleeping and having so much confusion in her mind. After several treatments, her mind began to clear and eventually she was able to leave the hospital but has been in a rehab center to try and get some of her mobility back!

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 Right now she has been having severe pain in her legs so that's an added complication to things,  If you all could pray for her I would GREATLY appreciate that! Between the insurance company, the rehab center and the dialysis center, there is a LOT of disorganization, miscommunication and a lot of red tape...annnnd SOME LAZINESS on worker's parts...sooooo just pray that these people step it up a notch and that these people figure out what needs to get done!!! My mom's name is Frances Ginty...just soooo you know when you pray!!! Thank you guys, I greatly appreciate it!!!

See my lil mommy poo, isn't she soooooo cuuuuuute???

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I always tell her that and she says, "adorable Mary"....you have know how she says it tho...you know sarcastic New Yorker...LOL She still purrs at me when I purr....even when she was soooooooo sick she ALWAYS DID!!! Awwwwww I LOOOOOVE HER!!!

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Anywayz, I've spent every night since the 16th of December with her at the hospital, I'm the only child that has no responsibilities to another human being...you know children or a spouse!!! Soooooo yeah, my routine has been a little off and will continue to be for a little while but I'm trying to get a NEW routine for blogging, soooo yeah, bear with me folks!!!!

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Soooooooooooooooooo let me give you all an update on my 2016 THUS FAR!!! First of all, I ACTUALLY BOUGHT A PLANNER!!!

Now, I just have to write in it!!!!! AHAHHA!!!

Annnnnnnnnnnnd I DID!!! WOW!!!

Now I just can't lose it...HA!!! We'll see how that goes!!! LOL

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This was a really, really cool house with lights I went and saw by myself...Am I the only person that loves to take myself on dates??? Its FUNNNNNN!!!!!

Its sooooooo cool!!! I was just driving by it and they had all kinds of stuff set up and hot chocolate you could buy, they had Christmas music, it was sooooooo COOL!!!!

Last week I went to Conqueror's Conference with Tommy, Kelsey and Stultz, well we just went for the last day! Stultz did the Fresh Fire preaching at night...Very good job I must say, especially with only having a few hours notice...must of been the fact that I convinced him to break down and get some coffee...bahahahaha...JK...I'm pretty sure he did good cuz of the anointing...LOL buuuuuut he did get a TALL Starbucks, I was like, WOW!!! I felt a kindred spirit with him when I saw him drinking it...it broke tho when he said he only drank half of it and threw the rest out...I was like, THREW IT OUT???? I coulda drinken that!!! LOL Friends don't let friends, WASTE STARBUCKS!!! BAHAHAHA!!!

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Anywayz, here he is preaching!!!!

Afterwards we all ditched the AHEM, $17 banquet at Golden Corral and went to BJ's...which was funny cuz it was like the banquet got extended over there...People weren't eatin their food cuz they were nervous...I was like, I mean, IF I HAD KNOWN, you weren't going to eat, cuz you liked the person you were sitting next to, I wouldn't of ordered food and just eaten yours!!! AHAHA!!!
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 Annnnnnd apparently I was sitting in THE WRONG SPOT, I'm like, Okaaaaay I don't even have to be the girl that the guy likes so she gets her meal paid for, BUUUUUT can't I be THE GIRL, sitting NEXT TO THE GIRL, that the guy likes so he pays for her MEAL annnnnd the girl she is sitting next to...you know they pay for both to try and be subtle... Like they're just sooooo generous...duuuuude, unless you get EVERYONE'S BILL...you ain't generous...LOL...buuuuut its NOT soooo subtle... just in case you guys were wondering... you like her... WE ALL KNOW... BAHAHAHA!!! Anywayz, I just wanna be THE GIRL SITTING NEXT TO THE GIRL!!! LOL 

Here are all of us chicas, Grace, Megan, me, Kelsey and Kylie, See Kylie...I know your name now...Your NOT just the tall, slender beautiful girl from Bro. Brown's church, your now, KYLIE!!! :))))

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Me and Grace, isn't she adorable??? LOOK AT HER DIMPLES!!!

Anywayz, back home, I bought this pitcher to remind me of the one at Sis. Mary's where Hanna lives, Crystal light tastes so much better from here...FOR REALZ PEEPS!!!

Annnnnnnd this is my new travel cup...isn't that soooooo ME????

Annnnnnnd this is my new cup to drink from at the house, isn't it sooooooo PRETTY!!!

I love everything I have to be pretty and cute...even my pens I like to be cute...its just BETTER like that!!! LOL

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I bought a tie for my FH at Savers!!! buuuuut not just any tie, a THANSGIVING TIE!!! See, it has little turkey all over it!!! I was like, AWWWWW!!! He has to have it, and when I give it to him I'll say, I got you a Thanksgiving tie, BECAUSE, I'm already THANKFUL FOR YOU!!!! Isn't that soooooo sweet!!!! Weeeeelllll, I'm touched and I'm not even the one getting the tie!!! LOL

It hailed the other day here in AZ, I waslike driving and the rain kept coming in through my window that won't go up harder and harder, then I was like, OUCH!!! Yeah, us Arizonan's were pretty much freaking out to see WHITE!!! LOL

I had to get a pic with the "SNOW" !!!!

Please take note that my hair looks slightly reddish and I've always wanted to be a REDHEAD!!!! Wooooooooooooooooooohoooooooooo!!!!

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This was completely cracking me up!!!! At church yesterday...One of the kids got their SOUP on a PLATE!!! I was like laughing soooooo HARD when I saw it!!! AHAHAHAHA!!!

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Did pin rolls in my hair for Sunday....

Thought the results turned out pretty well!!!!

 

That's pretty much it!!!! I still have to do posts on WCC 2015 and A Ginty Christmas 2015!!! Weeeellllllllll don't forget to be praying for my mom...Sis. Fran!!!! Stay tuned for good things ahead!!! God bless!!! Purrrrrrrrrr!!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

MEANWHILE...

I was listening to a man on Focus on The Family the other day talk about HOW he thought he would never really amount to anything cuz he wasn't really that book smart! He's like, you know IN HIGHSCHOOL, I was still doing those math word problems!!! You know, Bob's at the store and he buys three apples and two pears and 20 watermelon...

I'm thinking like, OH YEAH, you think THATS BAD doing that kind of stuff in HIGH SCHOOL...

MEANWHILE Mary's IN COLLEGE...

Doing THE SAME KIND of word problems, Aunt Sue is  at the store and she buys three apples and two pears and 20 watermelon, she. hands the cashier a $20... how much change does the cashier give Aunt Sue????

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And Mary's like, hmmmm...

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I wonder if the cashier was CUTE???

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

 

You broke my heart!!!

I was asking Joseph the other day to puleeeeeeeeze give his cRaZy Aunt Mary a hug and a kiss!!! He said he couldn't because he needed to go play his game!!!! I was like, JOSEPH!!! This is my heart, and I made the heart shape with my hands, annnnnnnd I said, and you just broke it!!!! Annnnnnnnnnd I split my hands apart!!!! You broke it Joseph, YOU BROKE IT!!!! 

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Without even blinking an eye he says, annnnnnnd I'll FIX IT with some tape Aunt Mary!!!!! Ahahahahahahaha!!!! Spoken like a true man!!!! Although, one day he'll learn that you really can't fix a girls heart WITH TAPE!!!!!

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BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT....

KISSES SOOOOOOOO HELP!!!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

National Spaghetti Day!!!!

One of THE BEST DAYS EVERRRRRR!!!!

I looooooooooooove SPAGHETTI!!!

 

 

ALWAYS HAVE!!!

ALWAYS WILL!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

Starting it out...LIKE MARY!!!!

So last evening we had a New Year's Eve party at my brother's house. Well after midnight, we were getting ready to go home, so I carry out a ton of stuff to my sister's van before her and MJ come out. However, as I'm carrying the stuff out, I realize I, OF COURSE don't have my purse with me!!!
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So I unload all the stuff and start heading back to the house and my sis and MJ are coming out and they're like, WHERE are you going? We're LEAVING!!!! I'm like, I gotta go get my purse!!! My sis just looks at me, then is like...
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YOUR WEARING IT YOU REJECT!!!

I'm like,

OOOOOOOOOH!!!!

Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!!!!

Starting the new year out with a CLASSIC MARY MOMENT...

RIGHT...Starting it out...

 LIKE MARY!!!

Happy

♥Mary Frances :)

What you really, REALLY NEED!!!

"You will never know that Jesus is all you need....

...until Jesus is all you've got."

♥Mary Frances :)

Ghetto Chivalry!!!

THAT Ghettolicious MOMENT...

When your going thru the drive thru...

and your window on the driver's side is broken...

SOOOOOOOOOO you have to open the car door to pay and get your stuff...Annnnnnnnnnnnnd the McDonald's worker so kindly holds your car door open for you while you reach out to get your stuff!!!

Heeeeeeeeeeeeyyyyy!!!

Yes, I was impressed!!! Hee, hee!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

It's NOT the puppet!!!

I was thinking about puppets one day, i'm not into puppetry, but I know some people that are! and I always enjoy watching a GOOD PUPPET SHOW!!! BUUUUUUT I was thinking about how it works with puppets. If you see a really LAME puppet show, its NOT the puppet's fault, its the PUPPETEERS fault! And you don't have to have an AMAZING puppet to have an AWESOME show!!! A really GOOD PUPPETEER can do a good show with ANYTHING!!!
 

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I've seen awesome puppet shows with SOCK PUPPETS before!!! Yes, SOCKS!!! Was it the socks that made the show awesome??? NO!! It was the puppeteer, MAKING THE PUPPET SOCKS do awesome things. You know WHY??? Because IF your a good puppeteer, you don't need the biggest and the best puppet around to do a great show, because YOUR skills as a puppeteer will make whatever you are using good!

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 This got me to thinking about our own lives. If we put our lives into this world's puppeteers, we'll end up involved in all the wrong things. Hollywood, drugs, imorality and ultimately a life of misery and emptiness! Thats the devil's puppetry in your life...DESTRUCTION!!!

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However, IF we'll put our life into GOD'S HANDS, he can make something beautiful out of our life!!! Sometimes we think that God can't use us because we're a NOBODY! We think WHO AM I that God could use for his glory? I wasn't raised in church, I come from a broken home, i'm  the only one in my family living for God, my dad's gone,I feel inferior, i have no experiance, I don't know how to dress, I don't know how to act!

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 Maybe you feel like that one lone,

 dirty sock, with a hole in the toe,

 it doesn't matter!!!
God has a plan FOR YOU!!!

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Its NOT the puppet that is amazing...its an AMAZING PUPPETEER!!! You don't need to be an amazing person to do great things, you just need to put YOUR LIFE in the hands of an AMAZING GOD!!! :)

    "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end."(Jeremiah 29:11)

♥Mary Frances :)

Happpppppyyyy Monday!!!!

I'll tell you whaaaaat,  I slept GOOOOOOD last night, despite the million times nurses and CNAs came in the hospital room last night to do stuff with my mom...Mommy poo is in the hospital...long story I'll tell you all about later!!! You sho don't need an alarm when your in the hospital!!! LOL Buuuuut for those of you that are at home, Time to wakey-wake yo self up!!! :))))

"This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it." (Psalm 118:24)

♥Mary Frances :)

#HappyHolidays

Ahahahahahahaha!!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

FIXED!!!

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

What did David mean when he said this?

 I looked up the word fixed in the dictionary. It says;

fastened, attached, or placed so as to be firm and not readily movable; firmly implanted; stationary; rigid.rendered stable or permanent, as color. set or intent upon something; steadily directed: a fixed stare.

definitely and permanently placed: a fixed buoy; a fixed line of defense.

not fluctuating or varying; definite: a fixed purpose.

WOW! When you read the scriptures before this in the Bible you will see that David cried out this prayer to God at a time in his life where he felt like everything was falling apart, yet he was still holding on to God. He was litarally living his life on the run! He was hiding out in a cave from the APPOINTED, CHOSEN, ANNOINTED man of God that had been put over the children of Israel!

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Can you imagine how David must have felt knowing that THE KING of Israel wanted to take his life?! We know that David didn't like it or understood it, YET he told God, MY HEART IS FIXED!!!

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There have been times in my life were i just didn't get it!!! I didn't LIKE the things that were going on. Things that in my heart I knew, I KNEW they wern't right! There have been times in my life where I have told God, I'm sooooo confused, I don't understand, I'm unsure of EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING...all I KNOW, is that I LOVE YOU JESUS!!! OH I LOVE YOU JESUS!!!

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"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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This scripture has been on my mind all day today- I just keep thinking about it. Driving to church I  started crying...I just couldn't help myself. I told God, I HAVE NOTHING outside of you!  I can't imagine EVER leaving! Others may leave, but I won't, I CAN'T, because like Peter said, TO WHOM SHALL I GO???

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I've had some HARD times this past year. I've hurt, i've cried, I've wondered, I've questions, I've pondered and I've cried SOME MORE!!! Buuuuuuuut even in it all, I've NEVER wanted to leave God!!! NOT because I'm UTLRA spiritual, BUUUUUT BECAUSE I KNOW in my heart, beyond a shadow of a doubt...

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 Life without God is MEANINGLESS, POINTLESS, WORTHLESS to me. God IS MY LIFE!!! I have NO HOPE except IN HIM!!! I don't understand when people leave God. I just don't get it! I can understand what has made them upset or sad or depressed or confused...buuuuut WHY LEAVE??? You may not like your circumstances, BUUUUUUT you may as well just stick with Him, because we have NOTHING outside of God anyways!!! In Jesus are the words of ETERNAL LIFE!!!.

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I think that in life, in our walk with God we all come to a place that we have to make up our mind. A time where we stop wondering IF we are gonna make it and JUST decide I AM gonna make it!!! It doesn't mean that we don't have struggles or questions. It doesn't mean that we won't make mistakes or trip. It just means that IF I do fall, I'm gonna get back up!!! I am gonna HOLD on to God NO MATTER what!!!

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"My heart is fixed..."

FIXED!!! What does it mean??? 

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fastened, attached, or placed so as to be firm and not readily movable; firmly implanted; stationary; rigid.rendered stable or permanent, as color.set or intent upon something; steadily directed: a fixed stare.definitely and permanently placed: a fixed buoy; a fixed line of defense.

not fluctuating or varying; definite: a fixed purpose.

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It means even though people have done you wrong, even though you don't understand, even though you don't like your situation, even though your confused, even though your hurting, YOUR GOING TO STICK IT OUT...your gonna keep praising him...Your going to live right...Your gonna KEEP ON, KEEPING ON!!! If you re-wrote the scripture to go with the dictionary definition to make it more clear what David was saying, I think it would go like this-

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My heart is fastened and attached to you God. It is planted firmly and cannot be moved. It is stable and permanent. My mind is intent on You and steadily directed by You. It is definite, permanent, not changing from moment to moment or by the circumstances around me. My purpose is to praise you God, therefore, I will!!! 

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My heart is fixed, 

O God, my heart is fixed:

 I will sing and give praise (Psalm 57:7)

♥Mary Frances :)

THIS WOULD SOOOOOO BE ME!!!

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Baby mosquito came back after 1st time flying, Her mom asked her "How do you feel?" She replied:

"It was wonderful...

Everyone kept clapping for me!"

AHAHAHAHA!!!

Sooooo ME!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

IF Bishop Abbott were Santa...

Annnnnnnnnnnnd he was playing Scrabble with his reindeer...

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

Juuuuuust passing emissions!!!

(Since I NEED to get my emissions done THIS MONTH on my car, I thought this would be a good REPOST from a few years ago...ANNNND A REMINDER!!! To get it done! Anyone know where Im supposed to go to do this???LOL)

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Just passing emissions...you JUST GOTTA PASS EMISSIONS!!! Several weeks ago, while lying in bed, about to drift to sleep, that thought kept running through my mind. All you gotta do to keep your car is to get it to PASS EMISSIONS...if it doesn't pass...you gotta get it fixed or get a new car...JUS PASS EMISSIONS. I'm not trying to win any car races, i'm not trying to do any fancy tricks or show off my stuff, I just need a mode of transportation that is reliable, I just need something that will get me from point A to point B and as I lay there with this RANDOM thought running through my mind... I had to get up out of bed to write down the thought that began to formulate in my mind...

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Sometimes that's how we are in our walk with God, we're JUST TRYING TO PASS EMISSIONS!!! We live with mindset of, I just wanna make it to heaven! Now don't get me wrong, I JUST WANT TO MAKE IT TO HEANEN TOO!!! There is NO greater goal that I strive for in this life than t make it to heaven. That is THE HOPE that we live for in this life...HEAVEN!!!

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Everyone will always tell me, JUST MAKE SURE that your check engine light isn't on when you go to get your checked for emissions, because they will NEVER pass a car with that on...

Annnnnd we start to live with that same check engine concept in our own life. Just so long as there is no sin in my life, I'll make it to heaven and we're not striving for anything MORE...I just got to NOT SIN!!! I know we've got to continually live in a state of repentance,However, there is something in my heart that wants to do MORE than, just MAKE IT TO HEAVEN!!! There is a song that we used to listen to as kids, and the lyrics to that song said, ♪You can't get to heaven on roller skates, cuz you'll ROLL right by those pearly gates...♪ And it seems like sometimes that's how we are living our lives, just skating a long. We're NOT sinning, we've obeyed Acts 2:38, buuuuut we're NOT really do anything MORE for God, than JUST MAKING IT TO HEAVEN!!! There is SOMETHING in my heart that says, ITS NOT ENOUGH for me to do just be GOOD!!!

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 I remember my brother's eating the dinner I had cooked one time, and I asked them how it was and they said, yeah it was good. And I said THATS IT??? JUST GOOD??? I wanted to hear them say it was MORE than just good, I wanted them to hear them say it was AWESOME!!! You know sometimes when I have someone take a pic with me and my friends, instead of asking, like A NORMAL person will ask, do I  look good? I like to playfully ask, DO I LOOK AMAZING??? Because there is something in me that's says, WHY settle for JUST LOOKIN GOOD, when I can strive for AMAZING??? Another time, I made these homemade twix bars and I asked the guys at my church to rate them from 1-10 and they came up with an 8.5! I was like, WHAAAAT??? Just an 8.5??? One of them explained to me, that's pretty good! A 5 is AVERAGE, so an 8.5 is definitely ABOVE average. But there is something inside of me that just isn't satisfied with just being ABOVE average...I WANT TO BE A TEN!!! Annnnnd when I finally reach a TEN I'm gonna start going for an 11!!!

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The Bible says that Daniel had an EXCELLENT SPIRIT!!! "Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes, because an excellent spirit was in him..." (Daniel 6:3) I want to have an EXCELLENT spirit within me. I don't want to waste my life living for God. Its not enough for me to just have a GOOD spirit, I'm striving for EXCELLENCE!!!!  I don't want to look back at the end of my life and say, "Weeeeeeeelllll...at least I'm saved!" At least I'm going to make it to heaven!!! Why should I wait till I get to heaven to experience the miraculous, when its RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW!!! There is something in my heart that wants to do MORE than just make it to heaven!!! I want to share this gospel message with as many people as possible! I want to take souls to heaven WITH ME!!! I want to know God to the fullest extent that I can possibly know him here on earth. I want to dig deeper. I want to go further! I want to knock harder! I want to be EVERYTHING that God wants me to be. 

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   In my own life I pray against a spirit of complacency, against a spirit of mediocrity! I don't ever want to get so comfortable that there is not a longing in my heart for something MORE. I don't want to become passive about the things of God! I don't ever want to forget what Jesus did for me, where he brought me from! I don't ever want to become so satisfied in my walk with God that I lose that hunger to talk to him, to be with him, to feel his presence! I don't ever want my life to be SO GOOD, that I begin to FORGET THAT THIS WORLD IS NOT MY HOME!!! I want to live with a dual feeling of homesickness for heaven, yet a desperate knowledge of the fact that there are people all around me on their way to hell.

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There is a quote that says, When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everthing you gave me."I want God to use me to make a difference. I want to be a blessing to those around me! I want my life to bring him glory. I REFUSE TO JUST PASS through this life...Its NOT enough for me to just be passing the emissions of my heart, I want to soar. To one, not just slide my way into heaven, but to have an assurance of knowing that my time on earth is complete and the Lord is going to WELCOME me home...

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"His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord." (Matthew 25:23)

♥Mary Frances :)

Tamale Festival 2015

Finally, THIS YEAR,  2015,

I FINALLY GOT TO GO TO THE FOOD CITY TAMALE FESTIVAL!!!

Every year since I've ever heard about it, I have ALWAYS wanted to go!!! Buuuuuut with it being in December, the Holiday season, something has ALWAYS COME UP!!! Buuuuuuuuuuut NOT THIS YEAR!!!

The streets are just lined up with tamale vendors and they're ALL giving out tamale samples...How cool is that??? 

It was sooooo cold and breezy out tho so we got hot chocolate to warm us up!!!

 

MJ was embracing her Heritage and completely enjoying all the food she could eat here...this is a mango on a stick with chili-lime on it...HANNA...we got get more of that fruit from the fruit man when I come out!!!

These tamale vendors were Apostolics just like us, so I told them I was going to give my business to THEM since they're my sistas!!! :)))

There was soooooo much I wanted to try, Chili Releno in a fresh tortilla, a gordita...The non-taco bell version looked AMAZING, anyways, I couldn't try EVERYTHING but I finally decided on this thing called a Papusa, my Guatamalen friend told me about them and is going to make me one next time I go to the Bay, (Yeah, EAT, laugh and talk, that's pretty much ALL we do when I'm there!!!LOL) So I was like, OH I HAVE to try this papusa  NOW!!! But this one was made by an El Salvadorian woman so I still gotta have the Guatamalen version!!!

HaVE I ever told you all HOW MUCH I looooove tamales??? I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE THEM!!! YUMMMMMMMMM!!!!

 

One day I'll have to tell you about THE FIRST time I ever ate a tamale!! BAHAHAHA!!

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This picture I HAD TO TAKE!!! The man in the black was petioning for people to sign his paper to legalize pot...everyone is just like walking by like whatever and he's like, FINE, just don't care about people and them getting their lives back!

 

 And THEN the bum on the street starts giving him advice on  what to say, he's like, Tell them, STOP CREATING CRIMINALS...LEGALIZE MARAJUANA!!! The guy was like, OH now that's GOOD!!! And then proceeded to say it!!! I was like, WOW!!!

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Overall it was a VERY FUN TIME!!! It's free to get in and besides all the free samples there a lot of free things that you can win and stuff...I got MOST of my stocking stuffers!!! Hee, hee!!!

♥Mary Frances :)



Happy Monday!!!

Surprisingly, I wasn't really too overly tired this morning, DESPITE the late night partying!!! BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Good times, GOOD TIMES!!!

Get some coffee(Unless your NATURALLY CAFFEINATED :P) annnnnnnd have a GREAT DAY WITH JESUS!!!

"This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it." (Psalm 118:24)

 

♥Mary Frances :)

Happy Sunday!!!

"I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord." (Psalm 122:1)

♥Mary Frances :)

One person I REALLY want to meet!!!

A month or so ago, I was thinking about it,

WHO INVENTED

GLITTER???

 I sent a text to all my friends asking them and NONE OF THEM KNEW!!! Annnnnnnnnnnnd NONE them had never even thought about it...I was like, WOW!!!

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I decided to do a little research and find out who this brilliant mind behind this amazing stuff!!! In my mind I figured it was probably some glamorous-girly-girl chick, Annnnnnnnnnd much to my surprise it was NOT!!! It was invented by a man...and not a pansy man buuuuuuuuuuut a manly man.. A RANCHER COWBOY DUDE!!!

(read more about it HERE!)

Henry Rushcmann, YOU are an amazing man!!! I WANT TO MEET YOU!!! I want to shake your hand let you know, you changed my life man!!! And IF you weren't dead, and around my age and lived for God(on fire for God, burden for the lost, has a job, has a car, has good self-esteem, motivated, take charge, spiritual leader, good with finances, kind-hearted, patient with Mary Moments, organizes my Maryness, wants to have at least 7 kids, willing to adopt, tithe paying, pastor obeying, righteous, Apostolic Warrior,  man of prayer) I may have considered us as a couple...I mean, generally speaking, i'm NOT really into cowboys, just NOT my interest...

buuuuuuuuuuuut...

YOU invented GLITTER!!!

Purrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

A dependent!!!

I was thinking recently about the upcoming elections and I was realizing that people tend to lean towards voting for people that can give them what they need. And these people that are running for president present themselves to the people that need them by appealing to their needs financially, ethically and morally. Therefore, the more one is dependent on the government for help, THE MORE THE GOVERNMENT HAS CONTROL OF THEM!!! 

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Meanwhile, the people that are running for presidency are dependent on their sponsors, therefore the sponsors of control over them.  Then there is Donald Trump, he doesn't NEED any sponsors, he depends on himself, therefore he is dependent on himself, which is equally scary when you think about it.

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But it really got me to thinking about how when we are dependent on something, the thing that we are dependent on CONTROLS US!!!  A drug addict is dependent on drugs. An alcoholic is dependent on alcohol. If you live with someone, you are controlled by the rules of their household. Children are controlled by parents. Government controls nations. Bosses control your work. Cars control where you go. Bodies are controlled by nourishment. Fish are controlled by water, temperature is controlled by weather, and the list of control and dependents goes on and on, I'm sure you can think of many more. The fact is, what you are dependent on, CONTROLS YOU!!!

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Then as I was thinking about this, it hit me, The more depenendent you are in God, the more he has control of your life! Think about it, if you depend on God, IN EVERY AREA OF YOUR LIFE, He then in turn has CONTROL of every area of your life.    

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Now I'm NOT promoting sitting around and doing NOTHING, promoting asking God to HELP YOU, to guide you in what to do next. Elisha told the widow woman to borrow all the empty pots from her neighbors and THEN HE FILLED THEM!!! Sometimes God just does it and sometimes We got to put some umph and work into it! But there comes a time when you've done all that you can physically do, AND now you don't depend on other sources to help you, you go to God and you depend on him to help you.

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So often I've heard people say, WHY don't we see miracles in the Unites States that we hear missionaries talking about in foreign countries??? You know WHY??? Because they are dependent on GOD to provide for their needs.

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When there are NO doctors, no medicine, no food banks, no welfare offices, no online dating sites to help them out in their times of needs. They depend on God to help them when they're sick! They depend on God to help them when they're hungry! They depend on God to help them find a spouse. When they need a job, they depend on God to help them find a job!

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Furthermore, when you are dependent on God, He NOT only has control over provision for your needs, he has control of your actions, your choices, guiding your thoughts, helping your attitude.

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 It puzzles me that as humans, we tend to want to depend on someone or something or even in our own self, when we are just mere humans, flawed and imperfect. Why do we tend to depend on creation to help us, instead of THE CREATOR??? Why oh WHY would we want to be controlled by imperfection, by the finite, when the perfect, infinite one is waiting there with a perfectly laid out plan to help us.

"Those who leave it in God's hand will eventually see God's hand in everything."

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 I want to become more dependent on God. My hearts desire is to be so dependent on God that He literally has control of EVERY area of my life! Oh God help me, help us, your creation to become completely dependent on you, our creator!!!

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" Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths." (Proverbs 3:5-6)
♥Mary Frances :)

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