"Let us not therefore judge one another any more; but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling-block or an occasion to fall in his brother's way." Romans 14:13

"My mind was ruffled with small cares today.

And I said pettish words, and did not keep

Long-suffering patience well, and now how deep

My trouble for the sin! In vain I weep

For foolish words I never can unsay."  ~ H.S. Sutton

"A vexation arises, and our expressions of impatience hinder others from taking it patiently. Disappointment, ailment, or even weather depresses us; and our look or tone of depression hinders others from maintaining a cheerful and thankful spirit. We say and unkind thing, and another is hindered in learning the holy lessons of charity that thinks no evil. We say a provoking thing, and our sister or brother is hindered in that day's effort to be meek. How sadly, too, we may hinder without work or act! For wrong feeling is more infectious than wrong doing, especially the various phases of ill temper - gloominess, touchiness, discontent, irritability - do we not know how catching these are?    ~Frances Ridley Havergal

taken from A Gentle Spirit journal

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This was the devotional I read today....YIKES...that really bites! I confess I'm guilty of this all the time! I have never even thought of it as sin! It's just me having a bad hair day.......

I'm hopeful that tomorrow, when I would say a negative thing...I think first.....

Braveheart is one of my favorite movies but one I can't watch again....too sad. Mel Gibson is one of my all-time favorite actors though. I don't like to watch movies or read books where the good guy dies in the end. I always read the last few pages of a book to make sure the characters are alive at the end! 

I'm almost finished reading Ruins....and I see that a movie is being made from the book. I might just have to go see it.

We are planning on going to  Georgia next month. We have to fly AirTran...anybody out there flown on that airline? JetBlue doesn't fly to Georgia at all...what's up with that?

I've been listening to all the Big Band music....putting it on my MP3 player. I have this little problem at work. I like to eat lunch without talking to anybody. Imagine that!....I want to EAT, READ and LISTEN to my music. There is a woman who works with me.....she will waste my whole lunch yakking about stuff that happened 20+ years ago...I just don't know a nice way to tell her to SHUT UP and LEAVE ME ALONE at lunch. She is a very nice person, would do anything to help anybody...I really don't want to hurt her feelings... When summer comes I will just sit in my car and eat. SO...I've been screwing the ear thingies half way to my brain, turning up the music so I can't hear anything else and sticking my nose deep into my book....and most of the time it works. Friday I made the mistake of glancing up from my book when the door opened and that was just enough eye contact to plunge me into having to listen to a big long blah, blah, blah........groan..... I have dropped many very pointed and direct hints....

How about these two??  Mason's eyes look a little strange....but they are both so darn cute. Mason is two now and Zaylana will be two in June. Doesn't seem possible they are so big already!

Well....not much is happening on my end of the world. Sorry I haven't been around. I have been having some problems with my shoulder/back/neck....you know, just old lady stuff....The chilly, damp weather is just awful for me and that seems to be about the only kind of weather we have had all winter....I'll try to do better....

Shalom.......

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I love this picture....but it looks like Mason has something growing out of his hair...and his dad looks like he has something growing out of his ear.....tee hee..... I'm easily amused....

I am NOT going to edit again.....if there are errors, you will all have to live with them.....