Quotes!!! :)

I am just having fun!  I decided to look up quotes today, and saw so many that I liked that I decided to post a bunch of  quotes. =D

There are a lot of laughing quotes....that's because I just love to laugh!!! :)  The people who know me, know this to be true!

“Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.” - Dr. Seuss

“How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?” - Dr. Seuss

“Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.” - Dr. Seuss

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.” Dr. Seuss

“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.” - Dr. Seuss

“We don't stop laughing because we grow old; We grow old because we stop laughing” - Michael Pritchard

“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.” - ?

“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” - Elisabeth Foley ( I really like this one!  It is SO true!)

“A laugh is a smile that bursts.” - Mary H. Waldrip

“We don't laugh because we're happy -- we're happy because we laugh.” - William James

“It's kind of fun to do the impossible.” - ?

“Laugh a lot, and when you're older, all your wrinkles will be in the right places” - ?

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. - C. S. Lewis

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis

"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body."  - C. S. Lewis

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."  - C. S. Lewis

"If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans." - Woody Allen

"In the end, it's not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away." - shing xiong

"When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile." - Unknown

The purpose of Christianity is not to avoid difficulty, but to produce a character adequate to meet it when it comes. It does not make life easy; rather it tries to make us great enough for life.
- James L. Christensen

You might as well try to hear without ears or breathe without lungs, as to try to live a Christian life without the Spirit of God in your heart.
- D.L. Moody

Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.
- Corrie ten Boom

A Christian is a keyhole through which other folk see God.
- Robert E. Gibson

Death is not extinguishing the light from the Christian; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
- Author Unknown

We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results.
- R.A. Torrey

Well, I think that's enough for today!  I think I could sit and read inspiring quotes all day...but I do have things to do.  I want to live the truth of these quotes to their fullest!

I am so thankful for words!...for people who speak these words!  :)

If you have any favorite quotes, I'd love to hear them!  They are so much fun! :D

Feel free to comment if you have something you would like to say!  I love to hear from you!

Pure, Raw Honey...Or Not.....?

People talk about honey as so healthy.  "Use it instead of jelly on sandwiches, mix it with other ingredients to add to their health benefits (i.e. cinnamon, or Apple Cider Vinegar)," they tell you.  Well, that is true...to an extent.  Depending on the honey you buy, it can be good, or it can be bad for you.  The honey you buy at your grocery store is NOT good!!!  Here is an example of the process honey usually goes through.  A friend of mine has studied bees/honey, and sent me some information.

"First, What do honey producers feed their bees to make them produce honey faster? They feed them sugar syrup. The other thing they use is a feed supplement which they pour into a box that sit on top of the hive. What is wrong with sugar syrup? Well a honey bee will always go collect its supplies for making honey in the closest, most abundant place. In this case it would be the sugar syrup or the feed supplement that is on top of the hive. So when the a bee makes the honey in the comb it is using sugar syrup as its main supply. This makes the honey in the hive mostly sugar. Yet the honey in the hive does have enzyems in it that are good for you, but wait they still need to process it :) The processing of honey has a step that invloves heating the honey to 130+ degrees F. Heating honey to that temperature keeps it from crystalizing (which is supposedly why they heat it). Alright, so they keep it from crystalizing, what is wrong with that? The other thing that heating honey (to 130+ degrees F) does is that it kills all the enzymes that are good for you (the ones I mentioned before). So what you end up with is plain sugar water. Is “Raw Honey” truly raw? Well since honey producers have no laws governing what the honey should or should not have to be able to be labeled ”raw”. Honey producers can label their honey raw even if it is not raw. So the chances are the honey is not “raw”. Now I am talking about the major honey producers, not the little honeybee farms. To know if they (little honeybee farms) do it or not you would have to talk to them about their processes."

Isn't that sad?  I find it very frustrating.  They also price honey at such high prices...and for what?  Some sugary syrup???  What is even worse, is I have heard - now I don't know for sure - that some honey producers actually add corn syrup/glucose/sugar to the honey.
I find that I can taste a difference in the honey from the grocery store, from the REAL, pure, raw honey.  I know that depending on what the bee eats the honey tastes different, but I think that it has a different taste.
One thing I love is crystallized honey! :)  I don't eat bread because of some wheat problems I've had, but when I did I loved to put butter and/or crystallized honey on my toast!!!  It is so good! :)  If you have never had honey crystallized, you should try it!!!!  The texture is really unique! :)

One other thing is that it is best to buy local honey as it has been produced by bees who have taken the substances they use to make their honey from your area, which contain immune-stimulating properties needed for your body to adapt to it's environment.

Well, I hope at least some of that was helpful.  I really need to study it even more, but it is hard to find the time....and you wouldn't end up reading this post if it was too long!!!  =D

Have a wonderful day!!!

My Bible time this morning

While I was having my Bible time this morning, this verse really stuck out to me.  I have read it before I know, and I liked it, (because I had underlined it), but it just really spoke to me today.  I guess in a different way than before.

I will write it out, then explain why it stood out.

"Your adornment must not be merely external - braiding the hair, and waring jewelry, or putting on dresses; but let it be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit which is precious in the sight of God."

I know that when you read a verse one time, it can speak to you in a totally different way than ever before.  This happened to me today.

Today I really caught that it said "merely."  It doesn't say that you shouldn't braid your hair, wear jewelry, or put on dresses, it say, it must not *merely* be external.  You should have a beauty deeper then what is external.  "Let it be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit.  I really want to work on having a gentle and quiet spirit.  I want people to see Christ in me when they look at me, not my outward appearance.  I think that's what it means here.  You don't have to look plain in how you dress, fix your hair, etc..., but it is about who you are on the inside, not out.  I find, taking the verse parts at a time help me understand them better.  I read verses over and over just to get the whole effect sometimes.  I actually did it today with Colossians 2:7.   

"Having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing with gratitude." Colossians 2:7

I knew that it was a wonderful verse, but I had to read it over and over again so that I could understand the full meaning of it, and just let it sink in.  Sometimes I find it so hard to read much of the Bible at a time, just because by going slowly I can gain so much more!!!  It is so deep and sometimes hard to understand, and I don't just want to skim over it.  I want to know what God is telling me by writing it.

Well, I just got so much out of those two verses today!  I wonder what verses God will show me tomorrow.... :)

Thank you God, for you Word.  Our sword of  Truth!!!