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We value the worth of women and their intrinsic, God-given significance in the Kingdom. We value the distinctive role that women can play in the Body of Christ, whether married or single, parents or childless. We value femininity in all its many expressions. We do not consider any one manifestation of it to define all the rest. Rather we see it as the divinely-crafted opportunity for women to be womanly without compromising their own unique identity. We value creativity, and consider the feminine creative process to be not only worthwhile but normative. Creativity is not something for the few, but should be actively pursued by every believer, knowing that we are created in the image of a Creator. We value beauty as a revelation of God and uphold the importance of recognizing and reflecting God’s beauty in our daily lives. (http://ylcf.org/values/)
fishtail french braid
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"You don’t have to pretend or get affirmation from how you look or what kind of clothes you have." Frumps to Pumps by Sarah Mae
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content with who we are
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Have you seen the lovely "fasincators" from the new @Olive and Jane Millinery ?! (And they're giving one away!) #iloveOliveandJane
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Caroline Kraft {Everly Pleasant} Is that Lanier?
Young Ladies Christian Fellowship Yes, it is--she is a dear friend and model of theirs. :)
Rael I thought it was her! Yay for the beautiful Lanier and the beautiful fascinators!!
DIY flowers
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Melinda’s Curls: i love hair sticks
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“Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.” ― Corrie ten Boom
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Gretchen from citizenkidd.com
3 easy spa recipes - this mask is made with honey, cinnamon & nutmeg
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Homemade shampoo, conditioner and hairspray.
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Beautiful faces are those that wear— It matters little if dark or fair— Whole-souled honesty printed there. Beautiful eyes are those that show, Like crystal panes where hearthfires glow, Beautiful thoughts that burn below. Beautiful lips are those whose words Leap from the heart like songs of birds Yet whose utterance prudence girds... -Ellen P. Allerton
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"The search for recognition hinders faith. We cannot believe so long as we are concerned with the "image" we present to others." -Elisabeth Elliot
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Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again. ~ Beatrix Potter (and I do believe that just might be Peter Rabbit)
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Gretchen from google.com
"When I am an old woman I shall wear purple..."
"To me, a lady is not frilly, flouncy, flippant, frivolous and fluff-brained, but she is gentle. She is gracious. She is godly and she is giving... You and I, if we are women, have the gift of femininity. Very often it is obscured, just as the image of God is obscured in all of us... The more womanly we are, the more manly men will be, and the more God is glorified. As I say to you women, 'Be women. Be only women. Be real women in obedience to God.'" -Elisabeth Elliot (www.cbmw.org/...)
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Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.
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Gretchen from listverse.com
"D.E. Stevenson ... was a Scottish writer of the last century and a descendant of the great Robert Louis. And her books are simply charming. She writes of houses that remember their past and women who understand the art of being womanly. In D.E. Stevenson, you will find well-laid tea tables and rambles over the Scottish hillsides, not to mention engaging plots which are usually fashioned upon a frame of revered domesticity." (laniersbooks.com/...)
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Gretchen from laniersbooks.com
"From 1887 to 1948, Grace Livingston Hill was the author of over 100 books, most of which were written to keep the wolf from the door. Nevertheless, her stories are all different, even though each of them bears certain hallmarks that her readers came to trust and expect: every story highlights the constant, daily reality of good and evil, and every single of one them carries a message of grace. Her books are endearingly old-fashioned and romantic—chivalrously so!—and she delights with an immersion in period detail, from the cut of a dainty 1930’s frock to the setting of an elegant table on limited means... And if Hill’s heroines are a bit idealized, they are absolutely lovely girls and a joy to keep company with throughout the duration of the book. Modern readers, accustomed to the requisite subtlety of our age, may smile over the overt Christian themes of Hill’s books. But I, for one, am an unabashed admirer, in great measure for the quiet delights I received at her hands as a girl and the sweetest dreams which they inspired." (laniersbooks.com/...)
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Gretchen from laniersbooks.com
“Standing up for her man was second nature to Nancy Reagan,” wrote Michael Deaver. She was described as her husband’s “most important ally.” “Unlike so many wives who are always criticizing, always asking their husbands to change, she loved him just the way the he was,” noted Myrna Blyth in a National Review column. “What we were watching, of course," Myrna continued, "was a love story, the real thing, starring a woman who didn’t mind being ‘the woman behind the man,’ not because he was a great man (which he was), but because she truly adored him.”
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@Ashleigh Baker (ashleighbaker.net...)
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“For me, spiritual dryness usually follows an extremely busy period. Air must be still for dew to fall, and I was anything but still.” -Ruth Bell Graham in "It's My Turn"
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There, two stand in the door, And embrace for one last time. War has called one far away to fight, And the other to fight at Home. One will fight on a Sandy Plain, Far across the Sea, She will fight on the home front, Facing battles as great as He. For the Soldier’s wife is a Soldier too, With battles daily to meet. For staying at Home is almost as hard As fighting across the sea. She is home, but she is not Though busy her day will be, A part of her heart is with her man, In the sandy place across the sea. She fights for courage to hope, And for strength to keep going on When she seems all alone- And time seems so very long. Battles to smile, battles to laugh When tears began to run, For the memories made in years past, Before the war had begun. She has more to face than most, For the future is unknown. And praying, longing, she waits For her man to come home (poem by @Chantel, photo of USMC Staff Sergeant John Baker with his wife @Ashleigh Baker)
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@Ashleigh Baker of her gram... "She’s always been known for her poise, her radiance, her beauty. Still in the dark of morning, the depth of pill bottles and oxygen tanks and needing help to take each bite, she shines."
"They are no stronger than you or me just because they are married to a soldier: they must find their strength somewhere, or be crushed under the weight of loneliness. They are new brides, mothers of little children, mothers of teenagers, mothers of soldier boys, women with empty arms, women whose husbands have just received orders, women who are newly widowed, women who are facing countless more lonely days. Let’s pray that they will rest in the strength of He Who is Father and Husband to the lonely." (from ylcf.org/...) photo: @Ashleigh Baker, wife of a U.S. Marine
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"Remember this, for it is as true and true gets: Your body is not a lemon. You are not a machine. The Creator is not a careless mechanic. Human female bodies have the same potential to give birth well as aardvarks, lions, rhinoceri, elephants, moose, and water buffalo. Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body." — Ina May Gaskin (Ina May's Guide to Childbirth)
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"I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always, everywhere, in the deepest depths as well as the highest heights. It is when things go wrong, when good things do not happen, when our prayers seem to have been lost, that God is most present. We do not need the sheltering wings when things go smoothly. We are closest to God in the darkness, stumbling along blindly." — Madeleine L'Engle
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If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. ~ Mother Teresa
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"I have come to believe that the true mystics of the quotidian are not those who contemplate holiness in isolation, reaching godlike illumination in serene silence, but those who manage to find God in a life filled with noise, the demands of other people and relentless daily duties that can consume the self. They may be young parents juggling child-rearing and making a living; they may be monks or nuns in a small community who have to wear three or four "hats" because there are more jobs to fill than people to fill them. If they are wise, they treasure the rare moments of solitude and silence that come their way, and use them not to escape, to distract themselves with television and the like. Instead, they listen for a sign of God's presence and they open their hearts toward prayer." "God is so great that all things give Him glory if you mean that they should." ~ from my much-beloved and dog-eared copy of Kathleen Norris' life-transforming meditation "The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy and Women's Work."
I am not afraid... I was born to do this. Joan of Arc
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“When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.” -Corrie Ten Boom
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Gretchen from google.com
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone. Audrey Hepburn
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from @Sarah Bessey's collection of "wise women"... "Being in a hurry. Getting to the next thing without fully entering the thing in front of me. I cannot think of a single advantage I've ever gained from being in a hurry. But a thousand broken and missed things, tens of thousands, lie in the wake of all the rushing.... Through all that haste I thought I was making up time. It turns out I was throwing it away." — Ann Voskamp
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“I have found that a man will usually be as much of a gentleman as a lady requires and probably no more.” -Elisabeth Elliot
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Gretchen from google.com
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Melissa Pritchett Love this! I used to do this when I had Pocahontis hair!