tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6968479505903674464Fri, 30 Aug 2024 15:25:02 +0000encouragementBrown Bag Marketingeventsnewsfunresourceshttp://women-encouraged.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Linda)Blogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6968479505903674464.post-2496547736668582876Mon, 27 Aug 2012 15:49:00 +00002012-08-27T10:49:56.499-05:00  Usually I write down my thoughts then go back and put them on the blog, but today I have decided to wing it.  Why today you ask? A couple of reasons 1. My house is surrounded by large machines that sound like a 747 is about to land in my backyard 2. I feel like a sandwich with all the plastic that is wrapped around my house. Not to mention that several times a day the doorbell willhttp://women-encouraged.blogspot.com/2012/08/calgon-take-me-away.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Linda)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6968479505903674464.post-7508746248110942642Mon, 20 Aug 2012 17:22:00 +00002012-08-20T12:22:11.008-05:00 Yesterday pastor in his teaching touched on the lack of commitment there is in the world today. Lack of commitment happens to be one of my pet peeves. I guess it can get me angrier then probably anything else. I know we have all dealt with people who do not do what they say they will do, and maybe your one of those who struggle with commitment yourself. Scripture is really clear about how we http://women-encouraged.blogspot.com/2012/08/yes-no-maybe.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Linda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6968479505903674464.post-5442856361201104161Mon, 13 Aug 2012 16:36:00 +00002012-08-13T15:09:09.908-05:00 I never thought I would say this but I love texting. Now I'm not one of those who can text at the speed of light with my eyes closed, but my tablet has the swype and I am pretty good (if I do say so myself) at swyping. It seems like I am always aging myself..but I remember a time that when you swyped something it was not good...it meant you stole it.  :/  Anyway, I love texting http://women-encouraged.blogspot.com/2012/08/are-you-wise.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Linda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6968479505903674464.post-2903112618722736149Mon, 06 Aug 2012 15:13:00 +00002012-08-06T10:13:26.907-05:00It never fails that when I'm having a conversation with a woman or a group of women, the word organized always seems to pop up. It goes one of two ways: I can't seem to get organized or I am so organized I can't enjoy the people in my life. Like everything else there has to be balance. (I know there's  that word again) I use to be a real perfectionist, I would clean, organize, have http://women-encouraged.blogspot.com/2012/08/clutter-control.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Linda)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6968479505903674464.post-6437249061268811445Mon, 30 Jul 2012 15:49:00 +00002012-07-30T11:14:09.280-05:00 Do you ever find yourself becoming aware of how your shoulders are pulled up to your ears, your teeth are grinding, your body is tense?  The moment you become aware of the anxiety, you let your shoulders down, take a deep breath and feel your body relax. Oh! how good that feels.  In today's rush,rush world with so many important things to do, we lose sight as to how much http://women-encouraged.blogspot.com/2012/07/happy-feet.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Linda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6968479505903674464.post-8991615063844580336Mon, 23 Jul 2012 16:05:00 +00002012-07-23T15:14:46.198-05:00 Do you ever feel grumpy? I mean really grumpy. The kind of grumpy that makes you want to "spit nails." Sorry about that picture in your head right now. I have to confess I feel grumpy comin on. I've heard this hot weather can cause people to be irritable, but I am hardly in the heat. Can't be that. We can blame grumpiness on a whole load of things, but if we get http://women-encouraged.blogspot.com/2012/07/i-feel-grumpy-comin-on.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Linda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6968479505903674464.post-2821734015753933323Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:38:00 +00002012-07-16T10:52:48.955-05:00 Many ManMany Many years ago I lived out a ways from the city. It was not my favorite place. I am a city girl by heart. I do have to admit there is a peace that you can never find in the city, the quietness, the sound of the breeze, birds are all a part of the country life. Down the road, over the bridge and around the curve (that's how you find your way in the country) there lived a sheep http://women-encouraged.blogspot.com/2012/07/have-you-any-wool.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Linda)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6968479505903674464.post-4059216226113089022Mon, 09 Jul 2012 15:35:00 +00002012-07-09T10:35:42.212-05:00 As Monday gets closer I start brainstorming in my head as to what topic I want to touch on. This last Saturday was the Women Encouraged "Get Together Saturday" at my house. Our topic was a teaching by Joyce Meyer "Are You Too Busy?" If you've ever listened to her you know she gets right down to the nitty gritty. I have been thinking a lot about some stuff she had to say. Her main point was..arehttp://women-encouraged.blogspot.com/2012/07/hurry-up-i-got-things-to-do.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Linda)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6968479505903674464.post-4574717105119926836Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:23:00 +00002012-07-02T10:23:00.934-05:00 Everyone knows that Wednesday is the Fourth of July. If you doubt that you can look in the sale flyers and see all the stuff you can buy cheaper because its  the fourth. Look at the grocery store shelves where the buns, mustard, hamburger,chips use to be. NADA! Gone! Some have already left this past weekend to start to celebrate by swimming, boating, eating and lots of drinking. And http://women-encouraged.blogspot.com/2012/07/pass-mustard-please.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Linda)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6968479505903674464.post-541750001987712165Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:16:00 +00002012-06-25T10:17:44.005-05:00 I'm sitting at my desk , thinking what topic do I write about today. I noticed the new little sheep toy I bought my greyhound yesterday.  Its on my desk because even though Lizzie Chanee' (standard poodle) got two new toys yesterday, she wants Care Bears. I know kids with fur!!!  I don't want Lizzy to think she can chew up Care Bears toy so I keep taking it away from her and http://women-encouraged.blogspot.com/2012/06/im-sitting-at-my-desk-thinking-what-do.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Linda)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6968479505903674464.post-6034011248593896530Mon, 18 Jun 2012 15:23:00 +00002012-06-18T10:23:25.255-05:00 Last weeks blog was about getting ready for our big garage sale.  Today it is over!!!  Let me say it again...today it is over!!!  yeah!  It went really well. We sold most of it and what we didn't sell, someone came and took it away.  :)  I really do hate the process of getting ready for one of these sales.  Can you say "lots of work"?  We hired movershttp://women-encouraged.blogspot.com/2012/06/its-just-simple-chalkboard.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Linda)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6968479505903674464.post-5839947529823206635Mon, 11 Jun 2012 15:54:00 +00002012-06-11T10:54:18.651-05:00 Is the week-end over already?  This is just too soon for it to be Monday.  Looking at the pile of items in front of me, I have to think.....where did we get all this stuff and why did we keep it?  You see its pre-garage sale week at my house. UGH! Rick (my husband) and I have been threatening to do this for a few years, never had the courage to tackle it. This is tackle weekhttp://women-encouraged.blogspot.com/2012/06/to-sell-or-not-to-sellthat-is-question.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Linda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6968479505903674464.post-417427403601897531Mon, 04 Jun 2012 15:27:00 +00002012-06-04T10:27:53.653-05:00 Last fall I decided that in the spring I was going to plant the beginning of a vegetable garden.  I contacted several seed companies, requested their catalogs and e-mails.  I was ready to dig in (no pun intended) and find out what would be best to start with since it would have to be a raised garden. Our house is 100 years old with a double lot.  Years ago there was (according tohttp://women-encouraged.blogspot.com/2012/06/how-does-your-garden-grow.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Linda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6968479505903674464.post-6115814360703817155Mon, 28 May 2012 13:44:00 +00002012-05-28T08:44:46.074-05:00 Today we celebrate the remembrance of those who died to keep us free.  Here is some history of Memorial Day. On May 5th 1868  the head of the Republic established Decoration Day as a time for the nation to decorate the graves of the war dead with flowers. General John Logan declared that Decoration Day should be observed on May 30th. It is believed that date was chosen http://women-encouraged.blogspot.com/2012/05/freedom-isnt-freedom-unless-your-free.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Linda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6968479505903674464.post-5862199557510127434Mon, 21 May 2012 14:04:00 +00002012-05-21T09:04:44.504-05:00 The other day I was standing on my patio, when something swooped down at a high rate of speed just missing my head.  After regaining my composure( bet the neighbors got a laugh)  I determined it was a hummingbird.  A couple of years ago I had planted a butterfly bush in my garden, around July it is the landing point for every butterfly in the neighborhood.  Gorgeous!! http://women-encouraged.blogspot.com/2012/05/do-hummingbirds-hum.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Linda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6968479505903674464.post-4796624237541038476Mon, 14 May 2012 14:58:00 +00002012-05-14T09:58:12.569-05:00 My morning bible study was on the futility of life...again from James McDonald.  He started at: Ecclesiastes 1:3-9  What does a man gain from all his labor at which he toils under the sun?  Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever.  The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises.  The wind blows to the south and turns http://women-encouraged.blogspot.com/2012/05/everything-is-meaningless.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Linda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6968479505903674464.post-1024265294846676913Mon, 07 May 2012 14:31:00 +00002012-05-07T09:31:57.333-05:00 This is going to be one of those weeks.  I know that sounds like a negative start to a blog that is suppose to encourage, but truthfully that is how I am feeling.  It is jammed packed with everything imaginable.  From painting stakes, cleaning, Live @ 5 (local TV show), pricing, placing flowers...well you get the picture.  In short too much stuff in too little time. This http://women-encouraged.blogspot.com/2012/05/no-place-to-hidereally.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Linda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6968479505903674464.post-7594769815779168560Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:22:00 +00002012-04-30T09:23:23.923-05:00 Friendship!  This is a word so misused and so misunderstood.  Many years ago I heard a teaching on this topic, it stuck and to this day I think about it.  It went something like this...too many times we call people friends who do not qualify as a friend.  This teaching went on to say we should consider only one to two people as true friends.  It takes a lot of time http://women-encouraged.blogspot.com/2012/04/friendship-this-is-word-so-misused-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Linda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6968479505903674464.post-614961697549033315Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:10:00 +00002012-04-24T09:23:05.164-05:00 Ahhh!!! the smell of flowers in bloom, sounds of birds singing, the warmth of the sun, sitting in the swing reading a good book, with a glass of iced tea, what could be.......WAIT!!! whats that sound?  Oh!!! where is that (ACHOOOO!!!!) dust coming from?  Its the neighbors mowing their dirt again, can't they see there is very little grass??? Our hearts can be just like a lawn, either http://women-encouraged.blogspot.com/2012/04/is-your-grass-green.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Linda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6968479505903674464.post-914934387455755429Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:04:00 +00002012-04-16T09:04:17.487-05:00 This last Saturday, April 14th is a Saturday that many will not forget.  The whole week before there was a build up of the possibility that Saturday could bring dreadful storms with a chance for deadly tornadoes.  Saturday turned some peoples lives upside down.....in a matter of minutes. Watching the devastation on the news Sunday, I could not help but be grateful that I was not in http://women-encouraged.blogspot.com/2012/04/where-do-i-go.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Linda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6968479505903674464.post-3009410366834976527Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:55:00 +00002012-04-09T08:55:34.616-05:00This morning in my Bible study time, the topic was "Holiness Means Purity."  Now if your like me I really didn't think that I had a problem in this area.  Don't get me wrong there are other places in my life I really need to work on, but this did not feel like one of those areas. The verses this morning were from Ephesians 5:1-5.  By the way if you have never listened to http://women-encouraged.blogspot.com/2012/04/sometimes-we-just-dont-realize.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Linda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6968479505903674464.post-6216035492199651221Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:59:00 +00002012-04-02T10:59:56.596-05:00Matthew 21:1  As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, saying "Go to the village ahead of you, and at once you will find a donkey tied there, with her colt by her.  Untie them and bring them to me,  If anyone says anything to you, tell him that the Lord needs them, and he will send them right away." Jesus http://women-encouraged.blogspot.com/2012/04/why-donkey.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Linda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6968479505903674464.post-4308764131631519251Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:16:00 +00002012-03-26T09:16:33.766-05:00 Ohhhh Yea!!! Time its on my side, yes it is.... I use to love that song!!!  I think I was in my late teens when that came out.  You know the time in your life when you think you have all the time in the world.  Time when you think things will be like this forever (you'll never get old) you will live forever, all is right in the world kind of time.  Now, I have joined http://women-encouraged.blogspot.com/2012/03/time-is-on-my-side.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Linda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6968479505903674464.post-2693214686758502088Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:44:00 +00002012-03-19T09:44:48.166-05:00  One of my favorite comic strips is "Mutts."  This mornings newspaper comics had a picture of the little dog standing on the porch, ears straight up in the air, the sun starting to rise...the words were: Poor, dear, silly spring preparing her annual surprise - Wallace Stevens I've got to say that this spring has truly been a really big surprise.  The middle of http://women-encouraged.blogspot.com/2012/03/spring-has-sprung-im-pretty-sure.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Linda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6968479505903674464.post-3061350291569522938Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:59:00 +00002012-03-12T11:59:23.775-05:00Did you ever play dress up as a little girl?  Were you a princess waiting for your prince charming to ride in and carry you off into the sunset? I remember a friend and I would put on those plastic high heel shoes you could buy at the store just for such an occasion of playing dress up.  Long dresses, fake fur, ribbons, jewelry and of course the lipstick.  We would http://women-encouraged.blogspot.com/2012/03/someday-my-prince-will-come.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Linda)0