tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69283078267964018522024-03-27T19:53:23.398-04:00Miss MagnoliaAshlyn Stallingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03831748667772173399noreply@blogger.comBlogger297125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6928307826796401852.post-31650251942829972552013-01-27T23:10:00.000-05:002013-01-27T23:10:29.909-05:00I still like desert stories.<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I study God's word through an international organization called <a href="http://www.bsfinternational.org/" target="_blank">Bible Study Fellowship</a>, of which there are a few groups here in Atlanta. We're working through Genesis this year, hence the Abraham/Sarah post earlier.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Bible scene is set: the important-name characters are doin' their thing, walking through their faith, and God nudges me to look over at the side story.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Maybe it's because my heart recently found out about and now bleeds over t<a href="http://enditmovement.com/" target="_blank">he 27 million human beings trapped in slavery today</a>. 200,000 in my so-called civil and just country. Many woman. Many trafficked for their bodies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Used for sex. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So here we are in BSF, my faith being rocked with the whole Abraham storyline when I re-meet Hagar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Can't you just see her? Dark eyes, dark skin. This Egyptian slave, probably part of the wealth Pharaoh granted Abraham to get the heck out of Egypt in Genesis 12:16. A pagan slave. From a very advanced, sophisticated country. Probably treated well, but at the end of the day, Hagar was about a month's journey of 250 miles from home. This elderly couple was not her family. They worshiped a God that her nation didn't include in their line up of nine gods. Hagar's very name means "stranger."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In his understandable desperation to have the child God promised him, Abraham pulls the ole I'll-solve-it-myself trick. And I'm a big fan of being REAL when we talk about scripture: Sarah pulls in the slave girl. Hagar sits on Sarah's lap while Abraham impregnates her. Because that's how the law said to solve the problem of no-heir. Hagar never had a voice. </span><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And as we need to
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But I'm a woman. And I know how God put it in our hearts to have a family. And my soul can't rest thinking that this is what she had planned when she was a little girl growing up in Egypt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Obviously, things go south. Hagar flees to the desert. Super welcoming spot when you're lonely and pregnant, I bet. Morning sickness was probably only matched with the dizzying nausea that comes from feeling totally used. She's tired. She's alone. Can we see a bit of ourselves in her, sister?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Lord meets her. Looks in her bloodshot <span style="font-size: x-small;">(just surmising)</span> dark eyes and asks "where have you come from, and where are you going?" He continues, "I will give you more children than you can count. You will give birth to a son and name him Ishmael." (Ishmael means 'God hears.') And this broken, exhausted, alien woman looks at Him and gives the Lord a <b>name</b>: "You are the God who sees me ... 'I have now seen 'the One Who Sees Me.'"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It's unparalleled: no other Sunday School felt board character in the Old Testament looks at God and gives him a name. But do you know who does? The peculiar, broken Egyptian maidservant runaway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Because that's how He works. We learn lessons in the desert <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Hosea 2:14)</span>. He takes dirty hands and cleans them. "He turns lullabies into anthems." He sees us where we are. Meets us there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There's a nuance there. Don't miss it: Abram references local custom, local law of the land. He sighs, breathes deep, and shuffles the Rubix cube of prophecies one more time, trying to make all the white dots stay on one side. As he prays in Genesis 15, he vocalizes thoughts to the Lord. "God, was I half crazy when I heard you promise me a child through whom your promises would come? No. I know I wasn't ... So Eliezar, right? That's what you meant. Right? My servant guy? That works with the local custom. So he must be the heir you mentioned, right?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nuzi tablets carefully chisled with Akkadian script spell it out: barren couples could adopt a servant as their own son, and after they died the estate was rightfully his. Potentially a lucky guy, that Eliezar kid.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It only made sense.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But the story goes on, Abram leans into God's promise as God says "NO, my child. HE will come from YOUR body. In fact, he's the beginning of a multitude of children." God so loves Abram that he seals the deal with a covenant. In time, Sarai brings her precious firstborn into the word. Years pass. More years pass. Jesus Christ is born of the same line, and he gives life to multitudes. And God is good on his word.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And my God, how this is our own story: A word, a command, a vision from the Lord and I'm off. At about step three down the path, insert speed bump as Person A doesn't respond like I hoped to the request the Lord said for me to take to Person A's feet. "Ah. Jesus. You are so crazy. I totally see what you did there. Don't you worry! They probably thought I said something weird. Man, are you lucky I'm such a good fixer." And we put that word, that command from the Lord within confines. Politcally correct confines of how you're supposed to behave as educated adult, or supposed to make money, or whatever. Sometimes it's like I'm afraid to be peculiar and more times <span style="font-size: xx-small;">I'm afraid he won't be faithful. And I'm writing this tiny-ly<span style="font-size: xx-small;"> because I am <span style="font-size: xx-small;">so sad I <span style="font-size: xx-small;">ever think that.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Are you ever like that?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But He is so sweetly lately saying, "Oh my daughter. Believe. Just believe me at my WORD for I am good on that word. When, in the history of TIME have I in majesty and justice and peace and love shown myself as faithless? When? Point to a time if so. Even when you are faithless, I'm faithful (2 Timothy 2:13). I promise. Fall into my commands for I will do great things through my children."</span><br />
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We run a little stint over on <a href="http://www.backdownsouth.com/" target="_blank">Back Down South</a> aptly titled 7 in 7.</div>
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From <a href="http://www.backdownsouth.com/2012/04/7-in-7-white/" target="_blank">white-after-Easter</a> to <a href="http://www.backdownsouth.com/2012/02/7-in-7-cowboy-boots/" target="_blank">boots</a>, the series features a bit of little-known info on a Southernism accompanied with some pretty inspiring photography shot by the lovely Caroline.</div>
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Seersucker season is 'bout to close up shop, so <a href="http://www.backdownsouth.com/2012/08/7-in-7-seersucker/" target="_blank">follow along this week</a> for a final toast.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I threw open the box lid, inhaled that comforting new-leather smell, and popped on this pair of Shyannes for a evening jaunt across the state line to Auburnville in support of a music-makin' friend. I must declare, they scuttle quite well across the Sky Bar dance floor. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This Friday, one lucky reader is granted her wish from <a href="http://www.bootbarn.com/Boots/Footwear,default,sc.html?prefn1=brand&prefv1=Shyanne" target="_blank">Boot Barn's Shyanne collection</a>.</span></div>
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"Hey June, </div>
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That’s really nice June. You’ve got a way with words and a way with me as well.</div>
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The fire and excitement may be gone now that we don’t go out there and sing them anymore, but the ring of fire still burns around you and I, keeping our love hotter than a pepper sprout.</div>
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Love John"</div>
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They're so my favorite. Check out <a href="http://www.lettersofnote.com/">Letters of Note</a> to read a whole list of hand-written love letters penned by the rich and famous. Naturally, I'm headed to <a href="http://www.eddiesattic.com/">Eddie's Attic</a> tonight to watch <a href="http://drewholcomb.com/">Drew and Ellie Holcomb</a> take to the stage... Eeee!</div>
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Happy Valentine's Day!</div>
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</span></div>Ashlyn Stallingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03831748667772173399noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6928307826796401852.post-53142833754619192152012-02-01T22:40:00.000-05:002012-02-01T22:45:23.532-05:00Level the mountains.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How's that for "My daughter, you do not need to fight. I'm gonna do it. That's what I'm here for. I am the King and have beautiful secrets and mysteries and desires of your heart to revel for you, in MY time, if you'd only sit back and wait. For I. Love. You. I love you, my child."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It never fails: I can attempt the <a href="http://www.madewell.com/index.jsp">head-to-toe Madewell-look</a> and drool over that <a href="http://atlantic-pacific.blogspot.com/">Atlantic-Pacific blog</a> all winter. But as soon as spring fever washes over me? Man-oh-man and glory be: I crumble.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So OBVIOUSLY, <a href="http://www.lillypulitzer.com/category/Shop-Prints/Lillys-State-of-Mind-Patch/pc/9/162.uts">LP's new State of Mind print</a> makes my little heart race. I'm happy as a hummingbird to be tucked back in the Deep South, but I sho' did love racing around this country last year from Seattle to New York, Austin to Detroit and everywhere in between.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Blog post title: "American Girl" by Tom Petty, again. I know. I named a post after that song once. But when it's your favorite song, you're allowed.</span></div>Ashlyn Stallingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03831748667772173399noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6928307826796401852.post-3243861437524650962012-01-23T13:51:00.000-05:002012-01-23T13:51:24.479-05:00Yup in my white tee.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Or should I say I've only <i>thought </i>it was so fun.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gasp! Of COURSE I want to run 3.1 miles around my pretty city of Atlanta and have colored paint thrown at me! At 9 a.m.! Of course! Brilliant. Now you just tell me that doesn't sound like a blast and a half. THIS IS GONNA RULE. Sistafrands from my small group and I created a team, so after March 31, we shall have thrilling photos like these guys:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://thecolorrun.com/locations/">Check and see if there's one around you</a>: My fave cities Seattle, Austin, Vegas, and Pheonix are some of the locations on the tour de color list.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now then. To a) cross my fingers that dry paint doesn't increase asthma symptoms, and b) progress to the point that I can actually survive this looming Nashville half... Advice? This will be my first!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think our very first picture was snapped on Bridge Pointe Drive. She was in a crisp, mama-sewn pilgrim outfit and I had war paint and a king-sized, fringed pillowcase died brown and my head through a big hole in the top. We were both barefoot in the yard and geared up for Thanksgiving Party day for the <a href="http://www.trinitywildcats.com/">Trinity Presbyterian</a> first grade.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since then? Shoot. We've lost count of memories. And photos.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The following post is form one of my best friends of 17 years, Becca. She's one of my wisest sisters and she carries me. Obviously I was stoked when she approached me with this. Take it away, Bex:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am a dear friend of
Miss Magnolia here. A few weeks ago I approached her about writing a guest
post about some things that were happening in my life. She was so
gracious to allow me the opportunity to speak to y’all, and I pray that what I have
to say strikes a cord in someone’s heart. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You’re probably thinking, “Oh great, another break-up blog post about how Jesus, wine, and the right amount of Kelly Clarkson can
get you through." But that’s not what I have to say. I wish I was just giving out an easy cure to heartbreak,
but darlin', there’s no such thing. This isn’t the first time, and it may not be
the last. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I’ve been dumped. I hang up the phone with my best friend,
put my head on the steering wheel, and cry. Cry doesn’t do it justice--I sob, really. The big heavy tears that seem to come, not from your tear ducts but
from way down in your gut. And they burn the whole way up to the top. So I cry for a
while, and I say a few choice words because I believe in my soul that
sometimes that is the only thing that makes you feel better. And then I pick
up my lead-heavy body and drag it to my bed where I pull out my journal. I open
it up to the newest page, dot it with a few tear drops, and this is the first
thing that comes out of my heart and on to the page:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Why am I always ALMOST good enough?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You see, like I’ve said, I’ve heard it before: a few
versions of “I should love you for reasons A, B, and C, BUT….” I’m sure
the boy thinks he is reassuring. But he always leaves me thinking, “If you SHOULD, then why don’t you?!” And it hurts. You feel like you almost made it, you
almost had what they needed...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I’m sitting on my bed reading, and re-reading, and
processing that statement, yelling at the Lord in my head, beating myself up,
and hurting. When all of a sudden in the quiet ache of my heart I hear this:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Sweet child, I know.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I think, "No, You don’t. You can’t. I asked You, I prayed
that You would not let me hear this again, that You would save me from this
heartbreak. You can’t know how much it hurts to be almost good enough."</span></div>
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good enough to capture my full obedience. I SHOULD love you because of A, B,
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loves </i>us still. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">That no matter how much His heart is broken by our waywardness,
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“For we do not have a High Priest who cannot
sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things <i>as</i> <i>we
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"'Cause that's what He does. He takes little songs, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">little lullabies and turns them into anthems</span>. His eyes are roaming throughout the earth, seeking to show himself to those whose hearts would be fully committed to Him."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's going to take a while for my heart to unpack the imprint that Passion 2012 made. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You just get ready, sweet friend, for the song mentioned above to drop on the album. I've not yet listened to Christy bring life to the lyrics without ending up with little "baby tears" as I call them in the corners of my eyes.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Great God, wrap your arms around this world tonight.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Photo credit: <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/LeahsHandMade?ref=si_shop">1</a></span></div>Ashlyn Stallingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03831748667772173399noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6928307826796401852.post-80059927215101031512012-01-03T08:46:00.001-05:002012-01-03T08:46:46.595-05:00Lessons from choir-singing.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I told you last week that I had musical news to report. The report, which you're aware of if already, is that I'm so humbled to get to be a part of a movement that's turned my life upside-down since sophomore year at <a href="http://www.samford.edu/">Samford</a>.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.268generation.com/2.0/splash1c.htm">Passion Conferences</a> unite a generation--mostly college-students--for Jesus's fame and reknown. This year? The Georgia Dome opened doors to 40,000 pairs of feet shuffling in for opening session.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Passion choir--all 200 of us--is but a drop in the ocean of 40,000, but this experience of ushering in some of the hymns of our generation just stirs my heart. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because the thing is, I'm not <b>that </b>great at singing. Sure, I can carry a tune in a bucket and avidly cheesed it up in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhYu7vqKFYQ">Samford Step Sing</a>, but I'm talkin' we are backing <a href="http://christomlin.com/">Chris Tomlin</a> and <a href="http://www.christynockels.com/">Christy Nockels</a>. Let's just say that not <i>every</i> ounce of blood from the two Baptist ministers of music in the family trickled down to me.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But that's the blessing in this.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Looking <b>out </b>over a wall of faces in the Georgia Dome last night, seeing things from the flipside I'm not used to, it hit me. It just makes you just wanna bless, free, and speak truth over that generation of students--in a <i>desperate</i> kind of way.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"If any message, whether in print or person, was truly His idea and doused in His anointing, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">- Beth Moore, <i>So Long Insecurity</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://ashlynstallings.blogspot.com/2011/12/when-advent-gets-personal.html">Remember that advent season?</a> That time of experiencing <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(still experiencing a bit)</span> a time of binding and captivity? Time of experiencing battle with the enemy? I was <i>just</i> there. That season was doused in His annointing for such a time as this.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because yesterday, today, and until Thursday, I can sing out and look over faces and declare louder than I could six months ago the freedom that is knowing Christ. It's a sharper image to me. It's a story I can actually tell now because God tested that message meticulously on me, the messenger.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I never desire that these posts be about me. I don't. Sometimes, I really don't know how to tell the story otherwise though than through just messily explaining what God's teaching me. But I still think He doesn't want me to keep this lesson to myself.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'Cause when the clouds start to unblur and the sun peaks through, testing always begins to make a lot of sense. I know we all know this, but sister, it's a reminder I think we're going to need to tell each other a lot in this life.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At least someone can keep reminding me!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The war is over / Love has come / Your Love has won."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">- "White Flag," a Passion 2012 song</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here, we have our 2011 Christmas card. Let us take a moment and recognize the use of the Oxford comma... Okay, moment over. Nice work, Mama Sha-nay-nay!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The war is over, the battle is won.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We. Were. RANSOMED.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Somehow, <a href="http://www.worshiptogether.com/songs/songdetail.aspx?iid=1883816">"O Come, O Come Emmanuel"</a> and Israel's advent has made a lot more sense this year, and I can't stop combing through the lyrics. Sometimes those 12th century Latin composers just get it right, ya know?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have been rescued by a King.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sing our for joy for the brave little boy who was king, but made himself nothing!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">p.s. My career holds dear all facets of social media, so of course, I have watched this about six times. Have you seen this? Cool. Very, very cool. Told ya I'm a fan of Elizabeth and Zechariah...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Merry, merry Christmas, y'all!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">2. Mexican food + margs with extra salt.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">The perk of living in Atlanta is that my new home offers sublime opportunities for all the enjoyment of all three. But in this post, I shall address point #3.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://www.andrewripp.com/splash.cfm">Andrew Ripp</a> // <a href="http://drewholcomb.com/">Drew Holcomb + the Neighbors</a>, Buckhead Theatre</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">Christmas at Christchurch concert, <a href="http://christchurchatlanta.org/">Christchurch Presbyterian</a></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://www.nathanangelo.com/">Nathan Angelo</a> // <a href="http://www.ryanhorne.com/">Ryan Horne</a> // Jonathan Rich // <a href="http://micahdalton.com/">Micah Dalton</a>, Eddie's Attic</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"My plan for your life is unfolding before you. Sometimes the road you are traveling seems blocked, or it opens up so painfully slow that you must hold yourself back. Then, when time is right, the way before you suddenly clears--through no effort of your own. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">What you have longed for and worked for I present to you freely, as pure gift.</span> You feel awed by the ease with which I operate in the world, and you glimpse <i>My Power and My Glory</i>.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Do not fear your weakness, for it is the stage on which My Power and Glory perform most brilliantly.</span> As you persevere along the path I have prepared for you, depending on My strenth to sustain you, expect to see miracles--and you will. Miracles are not always visible to the naked eye, but those who <i>live by faith </i>can see them clearly. <i>Living by faith, rather than sight, </i>enables you to see My Glory."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And wing-shadow-singing season is <i>definitely</i> all that it's cracked up to be. Sisters<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> (and brothers? I think there are a few of y'all),</span> would you second that? </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At church on Sunday, in typical form with pen-in-hand, I scribbled down before the talk somethin' along the lines of "Move Spirit. I really need to know what to do about _________."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Louie started talking. Any guesses to what the sermon was on? You get a cookie if you said waiting. <i>Of course. </i>Waiting. When advent gets personal.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And my heart these days mirrors the advent calendar. I can feel the ache for something build in my heart. I don't want to sound too far out in left field, but I feel it physically and just all over--waiting. Waiting, waiting, waiting. Arrrgghghghghghghghgh.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">God heard them--of course He did. But "not now," God said.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I hear you, children, but I will not give you that today."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just the one human on earth that paved the way pure Love to enter the world. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The one who fulfilled ancient prophecies of "the voice of one calling in the desert."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There he was, a cousin born precisely six months before Jesus whose life fulfilled countless prophecies and whose life complemented the work of Christ Jesus. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Worth the wait, right, Elizabeth?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's just little stories like this one that remind me--my God is for me. My God waits with me. I don't "wait for" God. He is mine already. He knows it hurts a little bit for a human heart to yearn, suffer, strain for something. He <i>knows </i>that. So for a cure, He steps in while we wait. To hang out with me and remind me my God is the God who provides. That He is at my right hand. That He "makes all things beautiful in their time."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I picture it like He's sitting beside me. And he pats my back like a Father would and says, "I know, my love. I know. Hold on. I love you, so hold on. You're precious to me and I am for you. I'm so for you, Ashlyn Stallings that I'm not going to give you that right now. You want silver, but my darling I want GOLD for you. We just need everything in my will to align before I give you gold. Okay?"</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I feel like I've had to make that Jaw-jah-to-Bama drive a lot this semester. Holdupwait--I'm in the real world now. I think they just call them "seasons," not semesters.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Regardless, I'm proud to say that due to that, I only missed one home Auburn football game and definitely didn't miss this little darlin's big night.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This post is dedicated to my most devoted reader.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The one who constantly reminds me to "update that blog or no one will ever read it, Ashlyn."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The one who I've known since age 3, when I welcomed her into my life of choreographed dances to Mariah Carey songs.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I mean, as long as I could stay head choreographer. Priorities, people. Priorities.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Happy deb ball, beautiful little sis. You are a BLESSING. Luh you longtime.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The fun fact is there are little princesses of the court aged 5 that run around in French handsewn dresses all night and can't come back until they're presented. Dad looked at me halfway through Saturday with his serious face and pointed to a princess. "You realize that when you were 5 you legitimately thought this was real, right? Like, <i>real.</i> Kings and queens and stuff."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, I mean DUH, Dad.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was talking to God this morning, and thinking about that "knowing that I still n</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">eeded to do what I knew I was supposed to be doing" part.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So then I asked Him this: "um, what story... Yours or mine?"</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(This is when you and I have a mutual agreement that we all have our blonde moments, k? K thanksssss.)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I thought. Baha. They're the same aren't they?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I like to think He smiled again. Yup, my story is forever intertwined with His grace and love and POWER...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I'm making a comeback here. Writing again. Which I had decided I wasn't going to do until my life was 100% glamorously blog-worthy. I've realized that I need to get over myself, because there's people out there--<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">at least I'm pretty sure</span>--that don't always want to see a shimmering little life where my nails are always an unchipped <a href="http://www.amazon.com/OPI-Nail-Polish-Dont-Jacques/dp/B001E25G0W">You Don't Know Jacques</a> and my new little Atlanta home looks like <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/">Pinterest</a> knocked on my door and said "GIRL, get out da way I'm here to decorate." And where it's really easy to be 23-and-a-half because you were pretty good at college and then lived by yourself on the road for a year.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This stage is more like the junior high of adulthood. And that's okay!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because we're constructed to lean on each other. Called as Christians to be the Body of Christ. Called to encourage one another. Called to keep singing even when life doesn't exactly make sense. 'Cause sometimes life's got glitter sprinkled on top, and sometimes not. But either. Way. We. Sing.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cause either way, there's always something to sing about: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">He's on the throne</span>.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And, you know, I think I like that kind of approach to writing a lot better.</span></div>Ashlyn Stallingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03831748667772173399noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6928307826796401852.post-59354991946555083732011-12-02T15:19:00.001-05:002011-12-02T15:51:38.491-05:00There's no way that I'll say no.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A. was the traveling <a href="http://www.alphadeltapi.org/contentmanager/page.asp?webpageid=122">Leadership Consultant</a> who pestered almost every ADPi chapter last year with a worthy college football program asking if I could see their stadium,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">B. have lived in ATL for five months and still never set foot in the Georgia Dome</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> (But uh, go Falcons),</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am <i>beside</i> myself that tomorrow I get to roll out from under my Anthro bedspread and head to witness the graceful athletic prowess that is SEC football. Ask me where I was last year when Auburn played. Okay, I'll tell you: in a dorm room in Lincoln, Ne. Not sure if I'm gonna dress like a corndog or a dawg-dog yet. I'm taking offers though. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Actually, if I'm gonna take offers, then I'll risk my life and wear my Cam jersey if you dare me considering rent in this town is whoa-baby.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But yeah. I'm stoked. War Eagle/Geaux-Tigers-Stop-Bama. But don't forget my first day ever on the job as a consultant last year, my suitcases and I landed on a Milledge Avenue front porch in the Classic City. Aw, shucks. UGA will steal your heart if ya let it.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now. Who knows Erin Andrews and can help me meet her so we can go to <a href="http://purebarre.com/">PureBarre</a> class together and hang out and braid each others' hair? Jokessssss...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Post title: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2gwCyh-Y6c">"Oh Darling" by Plug In Stereo feat. Cady Groves</a>.</span>Ashlyn Stallingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03831748667772173399noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6928307826796401852.post-65329482729075637812011-11-28T22:22:00.001-05:002011-11-28T22:56:41.466-05:00And His glory appears like the light from the sun.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the Lord is GOOD, His steadfast love endures forever and His faithfulness to all generations."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While this adventure-drenched lifestyle spills with excitement, I have discovered a new kind of alone that comes with long stretches of highway.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With nothing but my 4Runner, a backseat full of silks and chiffons, and another pop country song on the radio, this ENFP will readily admit there are days of challenge.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Days when life is so splendid in Nashville that leaving for one more time feels like plucking up the fresh, thin roots of not-quite-yet ripe fruit.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And then He sweetly beckons:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How often do I enter His gates with my heart in the posture of discontentment? Very, very often.<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>I enter with everything <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">but</strong> thanksgiving and praise.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Enter with fear.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Enter with weariness.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Enter with doubt.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Enter with complaints.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Enter with entitlement.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Enter with a fist tightly gripped.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Enter with questions.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, we’re <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>called</i></span> to enter with thanksgiving and praise. To sing loudly in remembrance of his goodness and praise of who He is as we walk straight into His presence!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because the bitter taste of anything else on our tongues turns our hearts away from that which is foundationally true in our lives.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He is faithful for all generations.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His steadfast love endures forever.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We <i>do </i>have a High Priest who sympathizes with our weaknesses and when we arrive in the throne room, we come boldly before Him to have his unrestrained mercy and grace poured out over us.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But in order to get into the throneroom, mustn’t we enter in through the city gates and pass on through the courts? </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I double dare you to try it. To enter in, every time you come to him this week, with thanks on your tongue. It realigns your weary heart. Thanks strengthens your knees. Thanks recognizes the power. The omnipotence. Remembers the faithfulness. The greatness. Of a God whose kingdom’s bells ring "I am with you."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Enter, unlock the gates and step into the courts of the King who adores you, with thankfulness.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Not disregarding or ignoring the pain. </b>Not brushing the weariness, the brokenness, the anger, the fear, the hurt, or the questions under the rug.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But make your first step towards him be grateful, recognize and name the ways He is moving in your midst. Look back down the path and remember his faithfulness, glance down at where your feet are now and praise and declare the same truth over the future.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And it. will. transform. you.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He promises it. He is so good. My gracious... He is so good. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So when the wheels on that airplane curl up into their hiding place and lift me off the Tennessee soil yet again, I will choose to look out that window and enter with thankfulness and praise.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thankful for what he has done, what he is doing, what he will do. And praise. Praise to the one whose fingers spun the gold of the sun and also the chambers of my heart.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I’m no master at this yet, but He’s teaching me the pathways to a life of abiding in His presence and joy.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever and his faithfulness to all generations.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">I love the design. Love that the X fades over the words "drought, thirst, disease." Love that this company declares we're called to be the hands and feet of Jesus in a world that's broken.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">Cool cards. Especially on a Monday that glorifies punching in your credit card digits for stuff that I swear they are marketing not as gifts, but as "to me, from me." Because I'm <i>pretty</i> sure Rush Stallings doesn't the <a href="http://www.millyny.com/">Milly</a> dress I could use my 20% off <a href="http://www.renttherunway.com/rtr_home">Rent the Runway</a> code on...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">But uh, it's "CYBER20" if you're curious.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: xx-small;">Post title: "Someday at Christmas" by Stevie Wonder, but let's all just agree that Justin Bieber kills it.</span><br />
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</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think about <a href="http://sexandmoneyfilm.com/">this documentary</a> about once a week.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because on my sleepy, coffee-in-hand commute down one of Atlanta's biggest thoroughfares, I pass one. Two. Three. Four strip clubs. It's a dirty little nook, known around town for being "that" area.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"GIRLS, GIRLS, GIRLS" say the signs.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sometimes I am switching lanes so fast--being the "Atlanta Driver" I use to roll my eyes over--that it doesn't hit me. Or I'm wound up in my little brownish-blonde headed thoughts. Other times? I lose it. I cry the whole way home. I just don't understand. Or actually, maybe we do understand exactly what it is like to be wrapped in stone-cold-steely chains...</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So many of us are desperate for these women <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">(and men)</span> to meet Jesus, LOVE, and freedom. Chains be broken. I'm noticing this in <a href="http://www.passioncitychurch.com/2.0/#/main/latest-1/">my church family</a>, as we're perched right around the corner from all this in a brand spankin' new building. The wheels are turning and the Spirit is moving on that street, I'll just have you know that. Something will happen there soon.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I am so <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">taken with Jesus</span> and so convinced that abundance is in His wake alone</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">precisely because He has done so much to heal me."</span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">- Beth Moore</span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's all.</span></div>Ashlyn Stallingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03831748667772173399noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6928307826796401852.post-213714913644892432011-09-28T00:37:00.002-04:002011-12-02T15:54:22.156-05:00I have something else to say.<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, two things. Thing 1: I'm sorry I've been gone. Like anything in my life, I cannot breathe/live/move without Him, and right now, God and I are holding off on the put-your-life-on-the-internet thing. <span style="font-size: small;">He said so.</span> So, still shell-shocked by the move, I'm not blogging for a <i>bit </i>longer. The God-notion, coupled with the fact I've realized I'd make the worst famous person ever because I freak. out. when I get recognized or called "Miss Magnolia" (Really? That is not my name, people.) by a stranger. STRANGER DANGER--Ahh! that can't be good in the 9th largest city in America.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And it's been a long time coming. And I may get railed over this. But, welp, it's not like that's ever stopped me.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why? Because we're being "politically correct." We're being "inclusive of other peoples' thoughts and feelings." "Ashlyn, times have changed since 1851," someone told me when I brought this up. Ya think? For the same reason you shouldn't get this former poli sci minor going on Constitutionality and our nations founders, don't get me going on this. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Like our nation, we too have strayed, fellow Greeks.</span> We've strayed because we instead decided to deign to culture and political correctness.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I mean, our founders never declared they were planting the church of [insert Greek letters here], but they <em>did</em> say the organization was going to back itself with a certain faith. A certain code of morality. A certain Love.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Imagine how Love could be spread.</span></div>Ashlyn Stallingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03831748667772173399noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6928307826796401852.post-4827195715506262492011-07-07T07:37:00.000-04:002011-07-07T07:37:08.784-04:00Throw it in the bag.<div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAzPjqq2Bj2M3BaHCrNYFSUevxzggGhUH10vYbZovsZguzj20XQiplK5aroqvXQqXKVxgOesjxY9AO0elxABKv04uGZKHqv9g8GksEUtKlWPB0lsShUF4EexzQ8_pcwIW3PEjFG5Z5O8A/s1600/Suitcase.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAzPjqq2Bj2M3BaHCrNYFSUevxzggGhUH10vYbZovsZguzj20XQiplK5aroqvXQqXKVxgOesjxY9AO0elxABKv04uGZKHqv9g8GksEUtKlWPB0lsShUF4EexzQ8_pcwIW3PEjFG5Z5O8A/s640/Suitcase.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://weheartit.com/entry/10538698">via </a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Towards the end of my travels, I started fielding a lots-a questions from future <a href="http://www.npcwomen.org/">NPC</a> traveling consultants <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Hellooo out there again--pumped for y'all!).</span> One of the biggest/most repeated?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"Um... <em>How</em> exactly do you pack?"</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Ah, yes, dear one. 'Tis an art. An art that includes a 10-lb. shipment home to Mama within month uno. Those Hunter wellies I thought I'd need? Negative ghostrider. You streamline. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">For those wondering, I had to type up an entire packing list for the 2011-2012 ADPi LC group. And for those curious, I'm brave enough to post my personal items on the internet. Wow. New low.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Carry-on/"The Office:"</strong></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicDqfM7a3_EFkczSknLoKPRvQrtRGRJyIWei8ftScxDCUNfz1vsxfllLFf9c8V8DpBMZ8ajKUS_uef1AtVmzWZDpCXf4exoWaSSWbJ_dSScasogCG8Rx2RdWnsY4YlB4y7fwsBdm2PDx0/s1600/P1010966.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicDqfM7a3_EFkczSknLoKPRvQrtRGRJyIWei8ftScxDCUNfz1vsxfllLFf9c8V8DpBMZ8ajKUS_uef1AtVmzWZDpCXf4exoWaSSWbJ_dSScasogCG8Rx2RdWnsY4YlB4y7fwsBdm2PDx0/s640/P1010966.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">20" <a href="http://www.heysusa.com/">Heys</a> piece with 1-liter clear bag with fold-up toothbrush | 3 oz. mini-products (hairspray, toothpaste, lotion, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">deodorant) | <a href="http://www.pgestore.com/Tide-To-Go">Tide To-Go</a> pen (to whom I owe my solidarity) | bobby pins | Emi-jay ponytail holders | lipgloss | laptop | <a href="http://www.hobobags.com/">Hobo</a> wallet | pens | business cards and company stationary | <span style="font-size: small;">ADPi Ritual Book, ha</span> | passport | <a href="http://www.verabradley.com/">Vera Bradley</a> jewelry case | umbrella | the "Emergency Outfit" | camera | a </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.longchamp.com/">Longchamp</a> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">bag | </span><a href="http://www.lillypulitzer.com/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Lilly Pulitzer</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> planner | <span style="font-size: small;">bible/journal/books</span> | iPod | about 20 DVD's | </span><span style="font-size: small;">as much candy as they'd let me bounce through TSA with</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Suitcase #1/"The Closet:"</strong></span><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOLff-iL2DPS98l-bNgly1k4qZyjgDjcENg7yG6l4RoxE2WqmKmkFP3LZWnPSKG4ir2CN5fjV33gz6zD8IPe7O9-DzWP_5oy0zN7FVCx7mLhXqON7cgYtA3yNYzY247rzf_B_IpgKUP1k/s1600/P1010969.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOLff-iL2DPS98l-bNgly1k4qZyjgDjcENg7yG6l4RoxE2WqmKmkFP3LZWnPSKG4ir2CN5fjV33gz6zD8IPe7O9-DzWP_5oy0zN7FVCx7mLhXqON7cgYtA3yNYzY247rzf_B_IpgKUP1k/s640/P1010969.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">3 sports bras | 2 long-sleeved </span><a href="http://www.nike.com/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Nike</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;"> running tops for Yankeeeeeland | 2 running tanks | 2 pairs of </span><a href="http://www.lululemon.com/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Lululemon</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;"> yoga pants | 2 pairs of Hudson jeans | 1 pair of jeggings | 2 </span><a href="http://www.jcrew.com/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">J. Crew</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;"> tanks for layering | 4-5 </span><a href="http://www.jcrew.com/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">J. Crew</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;"> cardi's to throw over dresses | 2-4 fun tops for under a jacket at work or for going out | 6 t-shirts | 1 </span><a href="http://www.alphadeltapi.org/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Alpha Delta Pi</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;"> sweatshirt | 1 </span><a href="http://www.patagonia.com/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Patagonia</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> pull-over | 1 pair of high school football sweatpants | 1 pair of pajama boxers | my bikini, duh | 30 pairs of undies. K, that's as personal as I'm gettin' over here | 2 LBD’s | 1 black </span><a href="http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Urban Outiftters</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> blazer | 7-8 dresses | 4 skirts | </span><a href="http://www.northface.com/"><span style="font-size: x-small;">North Face</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> rainjacket | </span><a href="http://www.francescascollections.com/"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Francesca's</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> peacoat | 3 pashminas | gloves/hats/#ihatethenorthfrigid</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Suitcase #2/"The bathroom cabinet/laundry room/pantry:"</strong></span><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWCbws2_8He2GqTuL2-WjJkosAA9A76Q6CNUMMuCZ0MwUJKKRlNg0ChmCFoJQroATqEmN0kifkgFtrq-ns3XXOqNq0aCOnkftif_CYjpyM5gOZ3QaV4jYNrmRJQSLtneH0W3cXO1J02GQ/s1600/P1010976.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWCbws2_8He2GqTuL2-WjJkosAA9A76Q6CNUMMuCZ0MwUJKKRlNg0ChmCFoJQroATqEmN0kifkgFtrq-ns3XXOqNq0aCOnkftif_CYjpyM5gOZ3QaV4jYNrmRJQSLtneH0W3cXO1J02GQ/s640/P1010976.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">1 large </span><a href="http://www.katespade.com/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Kate Spade</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;"> “Colin Bag” with manicure stuff | q-tips and cotton balls | toothbrush/toothpaste | face lotions | make-up | comb/brushes | 1 </span><a href="http://www.verabradley.com/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Vera Bradley</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;"> Large Cosmetic Bag with vitamins | <span style="font-size: small;">any and every medication ever</span> | band-aids | Airbornne | </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/CrystalLight"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Crystal Light</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> packets</span> | </span><a href="http://www.starbucks.com/"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Starbucks</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Via packets | infinity supply of gum | 1 pair of black Jessica Simpson stilettos | 1 pair of </span><a href="http://www.privategallery.com/"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Private Gallery</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> nude stilettos | 1 pair of </span></span><a href="http://www.jackrogers.com/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Jack Rogers</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;"> | 1 pair of </span><a href="http://www.toryburch.com/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Tory Burch</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;"> Revas | 2 pair of </span><a href="http://www.nike.com/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Nike</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> running shoes | 1 pair of shower shoes | 1 pair of cute boots | <span style="font-size: small;">large Zip-Loc bag of laundry supplies</span> | </span><a href="http://www.downy.com/"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Downy</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Wrinkle Release | lingere bag | roll of quarters | dryer sheets | 1 resistance band | <span style="font-size: small;">2 3-lb. free weights.</span> Yes, I'm crazy.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><strong>5 Tips from a Jetsetter:</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">1. Dryer sheets in your shoes that are going to be right up in your clothes' business for 12 hour travel days.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">2. The heavier, the further to THE WHEELS it goes when packing.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">3. Roll all clothes so you have room to <strike>shop</strike> pack better.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">4. Give old magazines away at airports unless you think 10-lbs in glossy paper sounds fun. And new friends rule.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">5. You'll love yourself more if you travel with baby hairspray, concealer, and lipgloss in your carry-on.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Dang, I'm sorta gonna miss this life.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Just kidding, I get my very first apartment key today after work. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">This is how I feel about that: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</span><br />
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