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We spent a couple of hours at the Tualitin River Wildlife Preserve in Sherwood yesterday.

couple of questions if y'all don't mind

~what do y'all do for swimming?
Even the most modest swimsuit around shows a lot of leg

~do y'all let your girls play w/ Polly Pockets, Barbies or other dolls? Some of them have dresses but a lot of them have pants or shorts. Do you just let them keep the outfits that are dresses?

as far as covering up everything that you don't want "seen or touched", let me tell you, I'd slap the daylights out of some guy if he came up and touched my face! So should I cover my face as well?

yeah also if a woman wants to go skydiving I dont think it would be very modest to wear a dress.

I would say that you have a very accurate observation.

John, it isn't that I said it was frumpy. God did. I had to get rid of most of my jumpers becuase He wouldn't let me wear them anymore.

After my 4th baby, I was dressing like the woman in the first pic Kevin posted. God really got on me about that. He didn't let me go until a)I started losing weight and I quit dressing like a frump and add some updates to my wardrobe.

After I did those 2 things, the Lord began to help me in other areas.

So, there you have it. I am not arguing MY preferences. I am arguing God's leading.

Actually, yes she is. She is a former drug addict, drug dealer, alcoholic, stripper, and even prostitute. This was a result of her extremely troubled past. One day she attempted suicide by taking two bottles of muscle relaxers, but decided she wanted to live. She couldn't move, so she couldn't call for help, so she cried out to God in her heart and her life was spared.

After she moved to this town she got involved in a ministry that mixes the principles of recovery with Biblical principles, and she was indoctrinated in any way. Basically, she had the same problem I did: a lack of discipleship.

She was among them for about 3 years.

No one is talking about frumpy or ugly clothing - but if you want to have Biblical standards for women's clothing' date=' that means not form fitting, but loose and flowing. That comes from the phrase "modest apparel." The Greek word for apparel is the one that means loose and flowing. Vine's is one lexicon that defines that word as such - I am not sure what other dictionaries or lexicons do though.[/quote']

The dress I posted is not form-fitting. The jacket is not either. What it seems to boil down to with some of you is color choice and fabric patterns.

Hmmmm...I guess my polka dot dress is out of the question for you all, even though it isn't form-fitting and it is well below the knee.

Now, one of you brought up the covering of the thigh. That dress is not going to ride up past the knees when a woman is seated.

It seems that much of what is being brought up here is personal taste as opposed to true modesty issues. I knew that when I posted that dress, there would be ways for you to find fault. I personally see nothing wrong with it and I am an uber-modest person.

Ok' date=' thanks for your opinions. Have a blessed day![/quote']

Refusing to validate your accusation against me? You then are become the false accuser that 2 Timothy 3 warns against. You also sound very high-minded and proud of which those verses also warn about. (Please look up the meaning of the words in the concordance.)


1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;


So then, you are finished with our conversation.

If you level any more false accusations against me without validating your claim, I will press the matter with the mods.

Good Morning!


Ahh See you are awake too. I hope you are having a great day thus far. I am not a liberal....LOL, but thank you anyway. My name is Bill, and you are? I think we need to be properly introduced, dont you agree? Oh I also have a few messenger services, feel free to add me, the screen name is the same on all. I have soo much to do today, but maybe I can tell you about it another time.

Talk to you later, hopefully

God bless






Proverbs 20:3 It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.

If you believe you cannot be decieved because you are a Christian. Then I am sorry to say satan has already deceived you and many like you. All through the scripture there are warnings about being decieved. According to your teaching and beliefs what Paul and the other Apostles and even Jesus warned about was in vain.

1 Corinthians 3:18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

your type of teaching is considered circular logic. By the way I thought we were finished with going back and forth at one another? Give any troubles that you may have to the Lord. Not to me or anyone else on here. I gave all the things that were grieving me to the Lord. I have to tell you I feel soo much better. Take the time to do the same :thumb

Where does it say that? And if she is one of these "elect"' date=' why are you worried for her [i']soul?

Hey Buddy! It's because we sit all day with babies on our laps! Yeah, that's it! All that baby dandling we do. :respekt:

We spend time all year long together. Valentine's Day is, to us, pretty much just another day.

Romans 16:17 Now I beseech you' date=' brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.[/quote']

Ezra, kevin is not causing divisions or offenses. He is actually very clearly stating with Scripture what he believes. You are way out of line suppsing that he needs to be avoided for causing divisions.

Perhaps this is a time where you should agree to disagree and let it go. As Christians, we don't all automatically agree on everything. You are going a bit overboard.

Do you know where the saying its raining cats and dogs came from?

They looked for a pastor for over a year before this fellow came. However, he only lasted about 6 months. Please pray. The burden of finding a pastor and filling the pulpit generally falls on my dad.

We start at 9:30. My kids do better when they pick the order they want to do their lessons in. One likes to get her math out of the way...2 like to post-pone it until the end.

My son has to stand next to me the entire time he is working and I have to give him time limits to get things done or he loses focus very quickly.

It's very intense to get it done because we have errands and stuff that have to be done afterward...doctor appointments, grocery shopping, library trips, piano lessons...all after
lunch. So it's important that we just get done. Tossing the baby in the mix complicates things. :bonK:

I'm listening to the Steve Petit team's cd "Higher Ground"...very pleasant.

We voted against gay marriage, but our lovely legislature came in the back door and forced civil unions on us instead.

We couldn't even get it on the ballot because too many names were knocked off the petitions.

My fridge is usually full of left overs - I clean it out once a week on Left-over day (we eat what ever is left), then refill it when I go shopping!

I consider a full fridge and pantry a wonderful blessing from God! I can remember times in my life when there was nothing to eat except maybe a bit of ketchup to smear on a crust of bread. "Ketchup sandwiches" we called them...

Ours is full 2 days a month...after each grocery day. After that it dwindles quickly.

Definitely. Especially the past couple years I've honestly (ok you said be honest) been tempted to ask a dr for a mild pill! Of course I know that will do no good and I wouldn't do it. Its just so hard with the kids to have time to have good devotions and prayer time (you may point out I am online alot but I can be online in small snatches between doing kids and for devotions you need an uninterrupted block of time, with which other chores and errands must compete) and with hormonal changes and such I find depression to be very easy to slip into.

Even times I don't necessarily feel "Oh I'm depressed" if I take one of those online depression things I'll invariably check off quite a few symptoms. I honestly think, from talking to friends, it comes with the "mom of lots of little kids" territory.

I have never been into such a deep depression, though, that an extra few hours of sleep or a small break didn't help with. I've found alot of depression is actually made worse by lack of sleep.

as I sit here in my culottes, a turtleneck and shirt I've had for 20 years...I'm comfy

I don't like loud. I have 5 kids and it is really nice to have church not be the same old same old noise.

I'd rather leave church fed than with a pounding headache.