"I AM" Changing My Heart

Drumroll Please…

2012-01-07T21:08:00.001-06:00

The Random Number Generator picked…. #11 Lauren Brittany I have sent you an email notification. If you do not receive my email, please contact me with your personal information. Thank you to everyone who entered!

Now Complete

2012-01-04T00:44:00.001-06:00

The blog makeover is finally complete. With the addition of several new pages and the renovation of old ones, the entire site has now been updated. Thank you for your patience during the construction process!

Giveaway: $25 Vision Forum Passport

2012-01-01T12:35:00.001-06:00

In celebration of IACMH’s one year “blogiversary,” I am hosting a giveaway for a… $25 Vision Forum Passport This gift certificate is good for any products carried by Vision Forum. To help get your wish list started, here are my top 5 favorite resources from 2011: How to enter the giveaway ~ Become a new Follower or Subscriber and then

Going Live!

2012-01-01T00:00:00.000-06:00

Happy New Year! Welcome to the new “I AM” Changing My Heart blog. Feel free to explore the new pages and grab my blog button. I want to take this time to thank all of my blog readers from the past year. With thousands of hits from all 50 states and over 60 countries, I am humbled at the responses and comments I have received from you. May God bless you in the coming year

Reflections

2011-12-31T12:00:00.000-06:00

In just a few short hours, the year 2011 will come to a close; and with it, a chapter in each of our lives. The life we lived in those 365 days can never be replayed, replaced, or changed in any way. The things we did, the words we spoke, and the thoughts of our mind will forever be etched exactly as they were, in God’s eternal record; whether for good or bad. As we leave one year and

Under Construction…

2011-12-21T22:31:00.001-06:00

On January 1st, 2012 “I AM” Changing My Heart will celebrate it’s 1 year “blogiversary.” In honor of this occasion, IACMH will be receiving a makeover. Over the next few days, this site will be under construction. Therefore, users may experience difficulty in opening the webpage or loading posts from time to time. Check back on January 1st to see the new blog revealed and enter in a

A Real Woman

2011-12-06T15:17:00.001-06:00

“ To be a real woman, is to bring out the best in a man.” I recently saw this quote embroidered on an antique sampler. It was certainly created many years ago, in a time when women in general understood their powerful influence. As I read the sampler,

Gone Tomorrow

2011-09-27T20:30:00.001-05:00

The bulk of this post was written July 20-25, 2011. Since then, I have debated if I should post something this personal. To even think about this still brings tears to my eyes and an aching sense of loss. However, I have come to the conclusion that this story is a powerful one that must be told. Out of respect and privacy for the family, I have refrained from

Tuesday Thoughts: The Wooden Bowl

2011-09-27T12:17:00.001-05:00

~Author Unknown I guarantee you will remember the tale of the Wooden Bowl tomorrow, a week from now, a month from now, a year from now. A frail old man went to live with his son, daughter-in-law, and four-year-old grandson. The old man’s hands trembled, his eyesight was blurred, and his step faltered. The family ate together at the table. But the elderly grandfather’s shaky

A Great Opportunity

2011-07-24T17:46:00.001-05:00

Hello again! As usual, my mind and computer are filled with thoughts and subjects I want to pursue, so I am not leaving the blogging world. However, as you have seen, I am getting to be a bit more sporadic. I am learning that posting just to post is pointless. I only need to take the time to write when I have something really important I want to say. Hence, the reason for this posting.

Interacting With Young Men

2011-06-05T12:16:00.001-05:00

A question began simmering on the backburner of my mind a couple of years ago. I had just made the decision to pursue marriage through “courtship” instead of recreational dating and was taking a close look at relationships in my life. As a romantically inclined member of the female gender, I had run the gamut from being too nervous and shy around young men to being perhaps a little

Tuesday Thoughts: Mother

2011-05-10T22:29:00.001-05:00

~Author Unknown The young mother set her foot on the path of life. “Is this the long way?” she asked. And the guide said: “Yes, and the way is hard, and you will be old before you reach the end of it, but the end will be better than the beginning.” But the young mother was happy, and she would not believe that anything could be better than these years. So she played with

Tuesday Thoughts: Brownies With A Difference!

2011-04-26T22:20:00.000-05:00

~Author Unknown After the tragedy of “non parenting” evidenced in Littleton, many parents are working hard to explain to their children and teens why some video games, music, movies, books, and magazines are not acceptable material for their youth to see or hear. One parent came up with an original idea that was hard to refute. He listened to all the reasons his children gave for wanting

Tuesday Thoughts: Dear Parents…

2011-04-19T20:03:00.001-05:00

I caught my breath when reading this recently on a blog. Having grown up watching most of these movies, I hadn’t ever considered what the underlying message was. It is definitely easy to label films “clean” and good as long as they are without s*x, violence, nudity, or dirty language. However, do we evaluate the message that it sends along with the actions it condones? The

Tuesday Thoughts: Isn’t Your Bag Heavy Enough?

2011-04-12T11:27:00.000-05:00

~Author Unknown One day, a teacher had each one of his students bring a clear plastic bag and a sack of potatoes. For every person they refused to forgive in their life experience, they were told to choose a potato, write on it the names and date, and put it in the plastic bag. Some of the students’ bags, as you an imagine, were quite heavy. They were then told to carry these bags

Tuesday Thoughts: It Must Have Been the Guns

2011-04-05T06:24:00.001-05:00

~Addison L. Dawson San Angelo, Texas For the life of me, I can’t understand what could have gone wrong in Littleton, Colorado. If only the parents had kept their children away from the guns, we wouldn’t have had such a tragedy. Yeah, it must have been the guns. It couldn’t have been because of half our children being raised in broken homes. It couldn’t have been

Tuesday Thoughts: Not Home Yet

2011-03-29T17:41:00.000-05:00

- Author Unknown An old missionary couple had been working in Africa for years and were returning to New York to retire. They had no pension; their health was broken; they were defeated, discouraged, and afraid. They discovered they were booked on the same ship as President Teddy Roosevelt, who was returning from one of his big-game hunting expeditions. No one paid any attention

The Winner Is…

2011-03-28T09:00:00.000-05:00

#2 Monica from Mid Mo Family Farm! Please send me your email address via email or comment, so that I can have the gift certificate sent to you. Thank you to everyone who entered! The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all . ~ Rev. 22:21 Tosha

Where Do I Begin?

2011-03-24T12:55:00.000-05:00

I feel a special kinship with this post. When I first began mulling over daughterhood, I searched high and low through books and blogs for practical application about this topic. The problem was, I didn’t find one. It seemed that most of the SAHD bloggers had been very blessed with dads who were “on board” from the very beginning. So, you might say, that this is

Tuesday Thoughts: Choose Your Words Well

2011-03-22T06:01:00.000-05:00

~Author Unknown A good woman one day said something that hurt her best friend of many years. She regretted it immediately, and would have done anything to have taken the words back. But they were said, impulsively, in a moment of thoughtlessness, and as close as she and her friend were, she didn’t consider the effects of her words before hand. What she said hurt her friend so much that

Spring Giveaway!!!

2011-03-20T07:54:00.001-05:00

Spring in our household, means rain showers, mud boots, early lettuce, cheerful tulips, sunny daffodils, wobbly legged calves, silky soft lambs, and HUNDREDS of baby chicks. I have been wanting to do a giveaway, and this seems like a perfect time! So, since I couldn’t very well give away rain, boots, or livestock, I decided to give away a $10 gift certificate to Baker Creek Seeds! This is

Tuesday Thoughts: I Am A Soldier

2011-03-15T00:01:00.000-05:00

~ Author Unknown I am a soldier in the army of my God. The Lord Jesus Christ is my Commanding Officer. The Holy Bible is my code of conduct. Faith, Prayer, and the Word are my weapons of warfare. I have been taught by the Holy Spirit, trained by experience, tried by adversity, and tested by fire. I am a volunteer in this army, and I am enlisted for eternity. I will

The Secret to a…

2011-03-04T08:00:00.000-06:00

(Romantically Contented Heart) In love with romance. That short sentence described much of my existence through the preteen and younger teenage years. I wasn’t boy-crazy, as in having actual crushes on particular young men, but I did love to dream about my castles in the sky. I must have been married at least 200 times in my dreams (sometimes more that once a night

Tuesday Thoughts: The Way to God

2011-03-01T00:01:00.000-06:00

~Author Unknown If my days were untroubled and my heart always light - Would I seek that fair land where there is no night; If I never grew weary with the weight of my load - Would I search for God’s Peace at the end of the road; If I never knew sickness and never felt pain - Would I reach for a hand to help and sustain; If I walked not with sorrow and lived without loss - Would my

Teaser Tuesday: A Present Day Truth

2011-02-22T10:05:00.001-06:00

~Author Unknown This is as insightful, as it is scary. A Columbine student wrote it. “The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints; we spend more, but have less; we buy more, but enjoy it less. We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate