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Four Words A Bible Study for College and High School Girls TOMORROW May 26 through FRIDAY May 29 9:00-10:00 each day First Baptist Church  Dickson, TN Cafe (Youth Building) Bring your Bible and Coffee!!! Please let me know you're coming... myleslienotebook@gmail.com

"Oh, that looks just like ____________! I'm getting it for her!" "You look like ________ in that dress." "As soon as I saw this, I knew you would love it." There are few things more fun than knowing a person's taste. I am NOT a good shopper; however, every now and then, I see a gift that I know  will be absolutely perfect for someone I love. It's like the heavens open and sunlight beams onto the gift. It's worth any amount of money. (Okay, so not really. Sometimes I see a perfect gift that is way  too expensive. That's when I take a picture of it and send it to the person who would have loved it. It's the thought that counts, right?) Whose taste do you know? Do you know God's taste? That may seem like an odd question. The last I checked, He really wasn't that into fashion. Or gifts. Or patterns. But don't think He doesn't have taste.  You just watched spring bust out everywhere, with bright colors an

What are you doing this summer? Traveling? Working? Nothing?  All are good. I love travel; plan to do some myself. Work is almost necessary. And surely you plan to do at least a little bit of nothing after a hard year. How about a different question: What has God pointed you toward this summer? Better yet: Have you asked God about His plans for your summer? This may be where many of you click off this screen. Because, I know, you have plans for this summer . And if you go to God, He might mess them up. Right? Well, yes. "But I need this summer to be chill! I need to relax and make a little money and recover!" I get it. I've been there.  But hear me say this with love and compassion and all the kindness I can muster: your plans are not as good as God's. Why? Because God's plans lead to His glory .  I studied the book of Haggai last week to get ready for my Sunday School lesson. Jerusalem had been destroyed by the Babylonians and the inhabitants

I am so excited about Mother's Day this year. I usually scour the cool stores around town looking for the perfect gift for my mom. I am not a shopper; far from it. But this one day of the year, I want to give my mom something she will love that she wouldn't go out and buy for herself. (I usually fail.) But this year I actually just asked my mom what she wanted. And she told me! We found the most awesome gift! (Yes, picked it out together.) She is going to be so excited! PERFECT! Now, this isn't a shopping blog :) Hopefully you know by now that if anything is good enough to get me this excited, there's bound to be some sort of Biblical parallel. Yep. Because I have a confession to make: the first four years I got to celebrate Mother's Day as an actual mom, I hated it . I said it. I hated Mother's Day. Because I was completely exhausted, worn out, behind on sleep, and barely functioning. In all reality, the last thing I wanted to be those first few Mother&

A little over 25 years ago, my dad worked with an unmarried guy. He also knew a single lady at his church. Dad thought they would really get along, so he introduced them to each other. They fell in love and got married.  And every year on their anniversary, they gave my dad a little gift to thank him for the lifelong love they found in each other. Yesterday, on their 25th anniversary, they invited my parents over for a delicious home-cooked meal to honor my dad and say thanks. I'm not usually sentimental, but that story really touched me. Maybe because one person's good idea changed two lives forever. Maybe because it involves my dad, who as far as I know has never set up anybody in his life outside of these two people. Maybe because I've always loved the idea of being a matchmaker :) Or maybe because it demonstrates thankfulness. It wasn't that long ago that I wrote a blog on being thankful . And of course I wrote about being thankful at Thanksgiving , which le