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RE: Here Comes The Bride - 11/19/2008 6:45:30 PM
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2jsmom
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Paul Smith had an incredible amount of talent and perseverance. That was an inspiring video clip.
I like your new background too!
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RE: Here Comes The Bride - 11/20/2008 3:26:04 PM
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..... Wow.... love the new look to your blog, DebbieLynne.
How did I come to Christ?
When I was little.... 5 or 6ish....
I was swinging alone in at the playground behind our apartment complex... feeling very alone.
I started singing a song I had learned in Sunday School class...
Thank you, Lord, for saving my soul... the wind in the trees started gently blowing.
Thank you, Lord, for making me whole... I felt goose bumps on my arms...
Thank you, Lord, for giving to me... I could feel Jesus with me... hugging me.
Thy great salvation so pure and free... I knew Jesus was in my heart...
My journey has been a roller coaster since.... but I will never forget this moment in my life....
(((((DebbieLynne!))))) I hope your day is blessed....
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RE: Here Comes The Bride - 11/20/2008 4:32:48 PM
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Hey Trish, we'll find a wheelchair accessible Italian restataunt in the North End. Then we'll take the Orange Line back to Downtown Crossing, and show you a few spots on the Freedom Trail. (It'll help you walk off the cannolis). Mike will simply need to take a Personal Day! 
It's so cool to live where the American Revolution began! I'm totally fascinated with all the history here! Did I tell you that the first American missionary to Hawaii was sent from Park Street Church, which is next door to Boston Common? It's still an active church...now an Evangelical church (but too liberal for my taste).
Sue, I agree that Paul Smith was amazing! I thought the email from my cousin's husband was a hoax, which is why I did a Google search. The man was a genius, wasn't he? I always tried to "draw" with my typewriter when I was young, and even tried to draw with my early computers. I found Paint Shop Pro just before my 50th birthday, and a year later John got me an e-book that taught me how to draw with it. But Paul Smith apparently figured out typewriter art by himself! What an incredible mind he had!
Thanks for your sweet story, Rachel. Good to have you posting here again!
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RE: Here Comes The Bride - 11/20/2008 10:01:21 PM
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ok, I joined face book. How can I find you
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RE: Here Comes The Bride - 11/21/2008 3:17:38 AM
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I looked at the Paul Smith thread...that is amazing...I'm sorry I've been absent from this thread lately, life seems to have been crazy busy lately..even though there hasn't been any huge events...maybe it just seems that way since our dryer broke, now it's fixed, and now it's been catch up time.
A time in history? I like living now, so I can learn about all the other times. I used to always think the Victorian era, but my grandpa grew up kind of right after that time (he was born in 1900)..and he had a tough time of it)...it's nicer in books...
As to how I came to know the Lord, I was brought up in a christian home, and do not remember not knowing the Lord..I am NOT saying my parents' faith saved me, I know that cannot but I really believe that God drew me to himself so early one, that I can not recall not knowing him..I don't have a dramatic conversion experience..although in some ways I think all of us who are saved have a testimony that never ends until we die.
I am now an aunt for the 3rd time!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My younger sister and her husband had a baby girl, Samantha, on November 1...YEAH!!!!! And this is the last time I will say her name on the 'net, but just had to share!!!
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RE: Here Comes The Bride - 11/21/2008 6:15:04 PM
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Deb, I love your new picture!!!! I think you and my youngest sister resemble each other to some extent (NOT because of being disabled, but the hair color and the face shape..sometime I'll have to post a picture, but I'm not up to it right now...feeling lousy today, very weak and achy).
BTW, Deb, loved your testimony!!! I honestly wish all churches that don't teach the true gospel would just close down...
I don't think I ever answered the question about what I like where I live...I love the fact that it's not a big town, yet because it's in Central CA, I'm not too far from Yosemite, Monterey, Disneyland, San Diego, etc., depending on which direction I want to go. I lived here for grades K-2, and 2 months of 7th grade, and the kids at that school were very cruel to me, and sometimes, I still have to run into them, and although I do not hold a grudge against them, I don't exactly enjoy running into them either...I think they KNOW what they did to me was wrong, and they are civil/friendly, but they have never repented of their behavior either. I do have many good friends here-separate from those people-church friends and former co-workers.
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RE: Here Comes The Bride - 11/21/2008 6:37:24 PM
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I love your new avatar too, Deb!
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RE: Here Comes The Bride - 11/22/2008 12:58:51 PM
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WOW, Park Street too liberal? Hmmm.
Hi Deb and John, things are going ok for me. Not too much happening and it is way too cold out there right now. Are you ready for Thanksgiving?
Hi Trishy, yes we will have to chat again sometime. BTW, you never did respond to my last email at all. 
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RE: Here Comes The Bride - 11/22/2008 4:41:04 PM
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OneOfHisJewels
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Still can't think up a good question. That's bad, huh? I'm also trying to figure out how to show my more playful side in this thread.
Then you have to think up a playful question, ha ha..
Deb, do you like board games (like Scrabble), etc? I know you probably couldn't manage the game pieces yourself, but if someone is assisting you, you could tell them what you want to do.
That reminds me, when you were in school, did you take your exams orally?
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RE: Here Comes The Bride - 11/22/2008 5:08:08 PM
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I play Scrabble on my computer...and now on Facebook (when the application works). (Darcy, I'm getting error messages on Scrabble almost every day now, which is why I haven't been playing much.) Pre-computer, I'd assign numbers to the tiles, and tell my opponent which tiles to pull.
In high school, my guidance counselor would let me sit in her office and she'd find students to write my exams as I dictated. Much the same in college, except it was my responsibilty to enlist friends to take dictation. For my Compehensive Exam senior year, the Chair of the English Department allowed me and a friend to bring our typewriters and type our exams in a seperate room (then my friend could change paper in my typewriter). The Chair excused me from one essay question because I type slow.
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RE: Here Comes The Bride - 11/22/2008 10:47:02 PM
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Deb - I thought I was the only one having problems with Scrabble. It's good to know it's not just my computer! Hopefully they'll get the glitches worked out quickly!
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RE: Here Comes The Bride - 11/23/2008 10:03:18 AM
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Hi everybody.
Deb, I hadn't forgotten that I said I'd share my testimony in here. Just hadn't got around to it yet. Here we go. It's a bit long. I've cut and pasted it out of my blog as it would take ages to write out again.
I was born in a place called Gisborne, in New Zealand. I moved to Western Australia in December of 1989. That was a real God happening. I'd been living with a family in Gisborne, and the marriage broke up. The mother told me that they had family here in Perth and asked me whether I'd like to move here with them. Normally I have to really think about such a serious decision, but without even thinking, I automatically answered yes. A year later, we were here. Just over a week later, I started coming to church and within a few months, I'd given my life to Jesus. I doubt I would have done that if I were still living in NZ.
Anyway, my Christian family is extremely important to me. The Lord has brought spiritual parents into my life. They could never have kids of their own, and the Lord knew I needed them. To John and Joan, I'm their daughter. John and I are so alike that people comment that we could really be father and daughter (apart from the fact that I don't look like them). We have the same sense of humour, are both analytical and have so many other similarities. Joan and I are alike in a lot of ways too. We both relate to not being able to have kids of our own and a whole lot of other things. It's amazing when I think of how God has brought us together, and knit us together as a family. God knew we needed each other.
As I've already told you, I was born in NZ and have two older, married brothers. Both my parents were abusive alcoholics, especially my mother. I went to Sunday school for a little while when I was young, and I really thought that I was a Christian because of it. After a few years, I walked away from church, but never gave up believing in God.
I was intelligent, topping my year at school. I got a lot of pressure from my parents and from peers and I didn't handle it well. In fact, I just blocked everything, and I have very little memory of when I was younger. I just know of some things that were told to me by others.
I started being abused by my parents when I was very young, but it really kicked up a notch when I was about 10 or 11. My mother would come home from the pub where my dad worked, and if they'd had a fight, I was the one who wore the brunt of her anger and frustration. I never knew what to expect when she came through the door. It was a really lonely time, as my mother rarely let my friends come over, and I never really felt comfortable inviting friends over because of the volitile nature of my parents. I didn't know at the time, but I had already started suffering from clinical depression. Nobody noticed it, even when I first tried to suicide at school aged 11. My teacher just thought it was attention seeking, yet did nothing about it. I wasn't diagnosed with depression until I was 23.
Being from NZ, and being part Maori (the indigenous people from NZ), I was raised in a lot of the ways in the Maori culture. There's a lot of ancestor worship, and going into the marae (the meeting house), is said to be going inside your ancestor. If you ever get to look at the picture of one, there is a long panel down the middle to represent the backbone. The beams coming down the sides are to represent the ribs. I have to admit, the Maori culture used to freak me out, especially when I was little and I had to go and sleep in the marae after a funeral. I'd be the only one in there, and there's no electricity. Scary stuff. The Maori people are very much into the spiritual realm. I was no different. I was spiritually sensitive, still am, but in a different way now.
During my teen years, my cousin introduced me to new age and the occult. I was so hungry for spiritual things and I thought that this would fill a void for me. I've had some really scary things happen to do with those things, but I was really deceived. I was teaching my friends how to get involved etc. Not something that I'm proud of. At one stage though, I really began to feel unsettled about it, thinking that God wasn't into what I was doing, (which He wasn't). Somebody told me, "Who do you think started it?" With that, I dived in deeper.
I always told myself that I would never be like my mother, being alcoholic, and abusing others. I began drinking in my teens, and ended up heading towards becoming an alcoholic. In my late teens, probably not being helped by my drinking, depression was really settling in.
So, it was the late 80's, and there I was, drinking heavily, into the occult, broken from being abused, into false religion and majorly clinically depressed. At the time I was living with a family, and the parent's marriage broke up. They decided to move to Australia to be with family and invited me along. It had to be God, because without even thinking, I said yes. Before I left NZ though, I stopped by a tarot card reader, and only one thing she said, ever came true. She told me that I would start going back to church, and that I would love it.
God was already working on me though. I used to smoke cigarettes, but I don't anymore. I was finding that I was getting sick whenever I drank. It took a while for me to figure out what was going on, but God finally got my attention. I now can stop at one or two if I'm at special occasions, whereas before I couldn't.
Australia was a whole new ball game. About a week after arriving here, I started going to church, and I did love it. I was still into the occult, but not for long. I became a Christian just a few months after arriving in Perth, and the Lord completely took away every desire to be involved in it in an instant. I've never been near it again. Now I know how to help people get out of the occult, because of my own experiences.
About a month after I arrived in Perth, I heard a missionary from Nepal speaking at the church I was going to. I mentioned above that I felt God asking me to be a missionary. Without question, I said yes. A few years later, the Lord began showing me where He wanted me to go. September 2002, I got to take my first missions trip to Namibia. It was such a dream come true for me. I was asking the Lord when that time would come, and as the rest of the team sat in the van coming in from the airport at what would have been 3am our time, I was flying high on adrenaline because I was finally getting to do what I felt God had asked me to do, in one of the places I feel called to. I think this is just the beginning for me in terms of missions, but it's just a matter of waiting on God's timing for future trips.
Years ago now, I used to get really down a lot and I'd call friends to pray for me. (I now live with them). They came to realise that the reason I was getting so down was because I was so spiritually sensitive. They have been pastors and have been teaching me spiritual warfare. I now teach them about how to get people out of the occult and new age. We minister together at times, to broken people who've been through abuse, and into occultic practices.
The Lord has been healing me and bringing me to a place where I can trust Him more. He's changing me in so many ways. When I went back to NZ in 93, my best friend couldn't get over how different I am from when I lived there. I know that I will never go back as I feel that the Lord has told me that he doesn't want me to.
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RE: Here Comes The Bride - 11/23/2008 7:10:10 PM
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Question of the day: Whose PFY thread (besides your own) do you most visit for the purpose of causing trouble? I like writing outrageous stream-of-consciousness posts in Sharon Marie's Ramblin' thread. Of course, I have to do them sporatically, so they won't lose their novelty! 
What a funny question! 
I do enjoy your ramblings over in Zooneyland; that's for sure!
It's easy to ramble on your thread, Sharon Marie, because it's a rambling thread. Don't you get a visual here of a cotton thread unwinding itself from a spool and weaving its way all over the Tetons? No...that would necessitate an awfully big spool! Hey, isn't "necessitate" a fun word? And what was that obscure word I used on your thread a while back? I remember: "abhor." People nowadays don't enjoy varying their vocabularies with words like "necessitate" and "abhor," do they? On the other hand, Armydude's thread taught me the word "palaver," which still reminds me of a salivating dog. Speaking of salivating dogs, Darcy hasn't mentioned Ralph in ever so long! Happy birthday, Darcy, by the way. Anyway, Sharon Marie inspires me to write rambling posts, but I just can't seem to do them in this thread...
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RE: Here Comes The Bride - 11/23/2008 7:24:54 PM
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RE: Here Comes The Bride - 11/23/2008 7:31:29 PM
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ORIGINAL: bride48
Question of the day: Whose PFY thread (besides your own) do you most visit for the purpose of causing trouble? I like writing outrageous stream-of-consciousness posts in Sharon Marie's Ramblin' thread. Of course, I have to do them sporatically, so they won't lose their novelty!
What a funny question!
I do enjoy your ramblings over in Zooneyland; that's for sure!
It's easy to ramble on your thread, Sharon Marie, because it's a rambling thread. Don't you get a visual here of a cotton thread unwinding itself from a spool and weaving its way all over the Tetons? No...that would necessitate an awfully big spool! Hey, isn't "necessitate" a fun word? And what was that obscure word I used on your thread a while back? I remember: "abhor." People nowadays don't enjoy varying their vocabularies with words like "necessitate" and "abhor," do they? On the other hand, Armydude's thread taught me the word "palaver," which still reminds me of a salivating dog. Speaking of salivating dogs, Darcy hasn't mentioned Ralph in ever so long! Happy birthday, Darcy, by the way. Anyway, Sharon Marie inspires me to write rambling posts, but I just can't seem to do them in this thread... Keep trying, DebbieLynne. Perhaps one day you can ramble in this thread, as well.
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