The Social Porcupine

What a surprise Shelby and I got last night!?  This family of seven just walked into our office end of the day - shouting, dramatic, energized, full of fun. Lizzy Evans and her family!!! (Lizzy was a Ruby girl that worked with Shelby.) Lizzy and her nephew, Lemuel.  Come on, Lemuel! Smile! :) Olivia - Lizzy's sister and Lemuel's mom -, me, and Liszt. We are all wearing blue shirts - how weird :/ ;b Cheyenne, a neighbor and friend came to spend the night last night since Lizzy was here :) Just look at that baby! ;) Going for the tail ;) It was so fun having the girls stay with us last night- the rest of the family stayed somewhere else. But they could only stay one night :/ Ah :/ Yet, it was so great meeting them!!!!! Ruby girls - me (current), Lizzy (Sept-Nov. 2015), and Shelby (current).

I am currently working for my second time at Above Rubies. The first time (2014) lasted about 3 months. This last time it has been for about 6 months or so. Still, I get the questions; "What is Above Rubies?" "What do you do exactly?" or "What sort of office work?" The first answer is simple. Above Rubies is a ministry that prints a magazine supported by donations only. The magazine is designed to encourage mothers and wives to follow God's calling in their lives - to be righteous mothers and wives. Nancy Campbell is the founder, editor, and compiler of Above Rubies. She works almost 24/7 to help and encourage women all over the world in many different ways besides the magazines. Office work... and using computers ;) And to the second - what do I do? As Ruby Girls, we come to do volunteer office work. There's normally at least two of us here at a time. We take care of orders (we sell books, DVD's, and shirts to help suppo...

Hey, everyone! I hope you are having a fantastic week. Modesty . It's one of those tricky (stupid, it often seems) things. To dress or not to dress? ( Or how much should I "over dress"? ) I've seen a lot of different opinions on this. Mostly it seems that the issue of modesty is over stressed. -Not saying "Modesty is in my heart, not how I dress" illogical stupidness.- I'm saying that dressing "holy", like Amish or "modest trash" isn't the solution either. Most of those sort of people forget to make allowance to the fact that we are girls and need to dress accordingly. Men and women both need to dress differently , not to make one more or less inferior to the other, but because they are both different. But how can one dress both modestly and femininely? Is it even  possible? Some would say not. (In my opinion) Modesty rules are s...

In my  post, Am I Safe in My Sin?,  I talked about whether or not we as individual Christians ought to sin or not. But that then brings up the question "What is sin?" According to the online dictionary sin is: "An immoral act considered to be a transgression against divine law. 'A sin in the eyes of God' Synonyms: immoral act, wrong, wrongdoing, act of evil/wickedness, transgression, crime, offense, misdeed, misdemeanor." It's funny, that even if though the Bible has set rules and examples of sin it's hard to understand what sin and evil really are. That's because sin and evil aren't things or made-up rules. They are ideas - theological and philosophical concepts. Once you understand that sin is not a thing but an abstract reality, it's easier to answer the following questions; 1. "What is sin?" 2. "Who made sin?" 3. "Who decided what sin is?" 4. "Who punishes sin?" 1. As ...

So, just thought you all would like to see how my mind works... all day these words have been spinning through my mind for no reason whatsoever. :) I say no reason because all I have is not a nightmare, and I want for nothing, and never dream ;)

"Once saved, always saved." What a controversial statement. One that contains so much meaning - and causes so much arguing. It mostly is based from the following passage, Romans 8:31-39 "What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am ...

"What should I do? What am I SUPPOSE to do?" "Just go with the flow." "Trust God. Just see what happens." "No need to worry about it. Everything WILL work out." Now this is all good advice. But it's all missing something. It's lacking the solution to the real question. ACTION There's no action in any of those answers. "It'll happen." How? Yes, it's good to just wait and have patience. Worry never helps. Trust is very good. And it is very, very good to rely on God. But after that? We have to move. Take action. Along with doing that we have to still have patience and trust God. We still need to go with the flow... but we need to make sure we are on the go. We should be passively active. So, keep moving towards more than inactivity. Let's flow towards purposeful outcomes. Never go with the flow - but let's be flowing on the go!!