Covered kitchen stools

My mother has been wanting some kitchen stools for many years. I have long thought of painting or stenciling some for her and at long last got around to it recently. I was going to paint the legs white, but the raw wood matched so well with the kitchen wood that I ended up just putting a sealer on them. Instead of stenciling the tops, I covered them with the same fabric I used on the kitchen chairs. They are just simply done with a circle of batting and the cloth gathered around the top. There is no doubt a more professional way to do them, but me being me; . . .they are as they are.

Love

To feel pride in your heart when you stand up and sing, that's not love.
To feel sad inside when the mourning bells ring, that's not love.

To enjoy your time when new places adorn, that's not love.
To feel fuzzy within when new life is born, that's not love.

To look in the eyes of someone adore, that's not love.
To feel the feeling you ne'er felt before, that's not love.

That's not love.


To free someone else and you pay the cost, that's love.
To show someone the way when you end up lost, that's love.

To give of yourself when it causes you pain, that's love.
To forgive someone else when they might do it again, that's love.

To give till it hurts, and then keep giving, too, that's love.
To give your own life to save one who hates you, that's love.

That's love.

© Daniel Lorimer - Used with permission.

Can anyone help me find “The First harsh Word”?

There used to be an excellent short article on Titus 2 Ministry entitled "The First Harsh Word." The article emphasized never saying the first harsh word in a marriage and how this would keep from a divorce. Titus 2 Ministry website was recently taken off the web and I know of no way of finding this article. If anyone has it and could send it to me, or could tell me the author and how to find it, I would be so very grateful.

The difference between "true love" and the "near-stuff"

"The difference between true love and the near-stuff is that true love goes out and gets a job when she finds that she has taken her husband for worse, while the near-article hustles to the divoce court." - Edgar A. Guest

Though I'm not in favor of any lady working a regular public job if she can avoid it, Mr. Guest has a thoughtful point. If a husband cannot work due to an accident, or if he refuses to work from laziness, a wife who possesses true love, Bible love, will do whatever is necessary without divorcing him. Being careful what work she did would be important since it is often the public work places where a woman meets someone to casue her to hustle to the divorce court. "True love" never fails; it is for better, for worse, forever.



Update 7/7/11 Linking to A Wise Woman Builds Her Home

Simple skirt

Recently, I made a simple gored skirt from something like cotton twill.

True - - -

The shoemaker sticks to his last and he's right;

By divorce, though, we wouldn't be cursed,

If everyone else in this great world of ours

Would be willing to stick to his first.

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----Edgar A. Guest

Yet all is well since ruled by Thee.

"O let my trembling soul be still,

And wait Thy wise, Thy holy will!

I cannot Lord, Thy purpose see,

Yet all is well since ruled by Thee."