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I cannot believe it's been nearly a year since I last posted.  So much has happened in my Journey to My New Me.  Let's see if I can recap in a nutshell. My husband got offered a full time position with his dream job in the early part of 2015.  He's a software engineer and he's working for a great place. The kids finished well the 6th and 9th grades with straight A's for the year.

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I can't believe it's been nearly 3 months since I last wrote.  I've been meaning to update my blog and I've made a number of new recipes, but have not had time to post them. Life has been crazy busy with both my husband and I working, parents to a teenage daughter and a tween son whom are super active and school and getting great grades.  During the work week, we are filled with work,

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Yesterday at church, it was just an amazing service.   Phil Urena preached and he's a pastor out of a church in Long Island, NY.  We were not able to attend the conference over the weekend, but I'm so glad we were able to be at service. God is definitely moving.  Phil had us do something near the end of the service that I don't ever recall doing at any church, including the Tempe

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All day long I listen to things, see things and I observe.  I love how God speaks to me because sometimes it's so fun.  He knows I'm always looking to see things, to understand things.  God uses often numbers as well as words to speak to me.  He also speaks in dreams when I'm sleeping, but He also uses other people's dreams and often God gives my son dreams and those are

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God has been so incredibly good to us, but the fact is God is good ALL the time despite the not great things that happen in this world.  It has not been easy often to trust and have faith in the Lord, especially when day after day you step out in faith to trust Him and the results still aren't so great. We have learned amidst this to continue to live in faith, to step out not knowing nor

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Sometimes when we think that we are older, or something is older, or that we've made too many mistakes and some things cannot be undone, that it's hopeless, but God says it's different if we put our trust in Him to not only restore, but to bring about things as if they were new. Though I do love new things, I've always been fascinated with taking old things, especially those things that

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This morning while driving back from taking the kids to school to begin my work and to get up the courage to keep going with all the governmental things to deal with.  Some are easier to tackle than others, especially if I don't really have any negative emotional ties.  Today I'm supposed to continue working on my IRS stuff to resolve them, but I really don't want to. My only

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I have learned personally some of the methods in how God speaks to me.  Personally, I have never heard a voice come out of the sky speaking to me.  Instead, often God speaks to me in creative ways - sometimes in numbers, circumstances, things happening around me.  He makes it really relevant to me and He knows I enjoy puzzles and word, number, or color codes. God does speak

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This was my first time hearing this song as when I take the kids to school, I love to listen to KFLR, which is Family Life Radio, a Christian radio station.  I used to not like this station as much in my 30s because the songs were too slow, but I think they changed some of the songs they play and it's a little bit easier than K-LOVE or especially Air1, but it has a really good mix now. &

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Here's an excellent video to help with trigger points. Also, today I acquired some more tools to help me find trigger points in my body.  This time, I went to two Asian markets to get this and all 6 tools cost me a total of under $25.

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I made this quick and dirty video on the tools I use to get rid of trigger points - most are inexpensive tools.

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This morning when I awoke, I asked the Lord what Word He had for me today and the word was, "Diligence" and He took me to Isaiah 28:16-29.  As I read that passage, I wondered how the word Diligence applied to this. I could have pulled out my dictionary, but rather I just went to Google for a definition - careful and persistent work or effort. synonyms:conscientiousness, 

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God is so amazing and patient.  God doesn't want just the bits and pieces that we want to give - He wants every part of us, even the really yucky parts.  Surrendering to the Lord is not easy and it's taken a lot to get to this point for me, to trust Him in everything.  I don't know that I'm totally there yet, but I know I am closer. Quite some time ago, God spoke to me about

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Philippians 4:4 states, "Rejoice in the Lord always, I will say it again:  Rejoice! This morning when I woke up, I asked the Lord what today's word would be and He told me REJOICE!  I felt excited, but as usual, the enemy tries to come and steal that Word from me, making me doubt if I heard God correctly or not.  Disappointed began to flood me and try to overwhelm me and God

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I heard this song today in Children's Ministry during worship, which was my first time hearing it and it reminded me who God is - with Christ we always have hope.  God is so very good.

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Who is the King of your heart?  Look at your time.  How do you spend it?  What do you think of most?  How do you spend your money? I'll have to admit, I wane on this.  Sometimes it has been my dreams and goals in life and God allowed those things to turn to dust to get me to refocus on Him. How often do you start off to do something noble and good and get

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I'm not going to display the whole passage here, rather I'll just provide the link - I John 3. In verses 18-22, it states: 18 Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. 19 This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence: 20 If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater

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I'm still focusing on HOPE, hope in God working in my life and in the lives of my husband and kids, in and around us.  Sometimes it gets tough, those day to day petty things that get to you. My husband expressed to me that he has felt discouraged after so many interviews with so many companies, no job offer yet.  I don't know why, but the interviews continue to come to him and

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My mom, bless her, is an extreme worry wart and on a regular basis, she heaps her worries and fears on me.  Not sure if she does this with my other siblings or not, but this is a very dominant trait in her life, as well as nagging.  She has many great traits, but the two worst ones are worry/fear and nagging. Let's see what the Bible says about worry. Do Not Worry 25 “

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I had been on/off doing structured Bible studies, but I feel at this time, God wants me to go back to less structure and to really listen to what He wants me to hear each day.  Today He had me in Romans 12:1-7. A Living Sacrifice 12 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this

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I think over the past 5-6 years, I've greatly been challenged with remaining hopeful about my life changing for the better.  It's been a real battle and I think when I ended up losing most of what I had minus my children, family, church, friends, it really tore me up.  Recovering has been challenging and I found myself losing hope. But, I have to remind myself that all this is a

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I finally figured out how to add a PRINT feature to my blog entries.   This is especially useful if you want to print out a recipe or for trigger point stuff.   Of course, you can print any of my blog entries out. It also gives you the option to print with our without pictures, which is pretty cool.  You can save as a PDF file also. Yes, I am working on catching up with the

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Today I was comforted by what I read - Psalm 71:19-24New International Version (NIV) 19 Your righteousness, God, reaches to the heavens,     you who have done great things.     Who is like you, God? 20 Though you have made me see troubles,    many and bitter,    you will restore my life again;

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Spending time in song in Worship to the Lord is important to prepare my heart to spend time with the Lord.  Often this will take well more than a song, rather several songs.  This is a beautiful song by Kerrie Roberts that expresses how I feel today.

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It will take me quite some time to get the menu all sorted out and situated.  I'm learning how to do this and I'm liking the looks of this, however, in Blogger, getting this in the order I want isn't quite as easy in terms of maneuverability. I started this blog almost 4 years ago and it has a lot of information with many hundreds of posts.  Thankfully I did do some labeling,

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