Idea gotten from The Hostess
I googled Soul Mate and found:
Soul mates are protected by the omnipresence of God at any given time and all disputes that ever might arise are dissolved and cleared by God directly, instantly and eternally. reunited soul mates - even in their physical body - are permanently linked with their partner and God in a triangular way and have their eternal roots in God.
All divine details will automatically be revealed to both at the given time - when both are ready and spiritually mature to love all and behave in a divine way here on earth as a result of mutual spiritual progress.
Since last week I have been trying to blog about my belief that God has us covered. That situations have been worked out in ways that show God’s involvement and care.
I am not implying that a dispute in a relationship implies God isn’t present or that the relationship isn’t blessed. I have asked God to be in control of our relationship, I have prayed that he keep us in his will. In pr-marital we also have prayed that God show us.
This draft post was titled “My Heart Was Prepared”
I have two very bad child cousins. Their parents, grandparents, great grandmother, aunts and uncles sit and watch them destroy. It drives my mother crazy and as a result she will rarely have anything in her home. By the time she has to tell them to stop doing whatever it is, she is hot.
My mother told me I should not welcome kids to our wedding and reception because they would disrupt and be bored. I believe she was thinking about those two cousins. I didn’t care either way, so I was planning an adult only affair. One of my cousins (the mother of the bad child) asked if kids were welcome and I said no. I heard the disappointment in her voice as she told me she would see what she could figure out for that holiday weekend. This cousin was my child hood roll dog.
Last month one of my sorority sisters started a discussion on kids at weddings. She was trying to decide whether to invite them. It seemed like the majority including me was against inviting them, the minority being mostly the mothers.
One of my sorority sisters wrote this:
A wedding is an honored family tradition and if the parents raised their children correctly they would be welcome.
But how can we raise our culture to have respect for this tradition if children don’t witness the solemn pageantry that is so symbolic and meaningful? With so many “shack-ups” being the norm, the wedding that YOU are planning may be the last one the kid has an opportunity to witness. Perhaps designated hostesses could be charged with the responsibility of keeping the durn kids from walking on the chairs or flopping into the cake. Children are bombarded with all sorts of antifamily and anti religious messages these day. Please don’t rob them of the opportunity to witness a powerful visual and religious image.
Nevertheless, I think whether or not children are invited to a wedding, should be based solely on the bride and groom’s preference
Her words had an effect on me. I had been thinking about my wedding. I was focused on not wanting our cake knocked over (still don’t) and having no one cry or be a kid during our vows. I had not considered all the weddings I had gone to as a child. All my older cousins that had a wedding, I was there. My image of weddings and marriage was shaped when I was a child.
I remember figthing, running, jumping at every wedding reception I went to as a kid. I was happy to see my other kid cousins. I was happy to mingle with my older relatives. During the ceremony I was always well behaved, I understood what was going on. Even at 5 I knew the day was special and meant something.
A week or so after that email discussion my guy told me why it was important to him that his kid cousins come to our wedding, he reiterated what my soror had said (he didn’ know about the discussion). When he said it my heart had already been prepared to recieve. I happily said okay and silently reflected that God had caused my guy to wait until my heart had changed.
Had he told me what he wanted before that I would have said yes but I would have felt like I was compromising. I tell you when Noel Jones said a relationship is about compatibility not compromise, it was like a strong wind blew over me. I realized we agree in our relationship, not compromise.
Love isn’t who you can live with, it’s who you can’t live without.
A relationship isn’t about compromise, it’s about compatibility. Why should you squeeze into something that doesn’t fit?
Beware of a friendly sinner. Those who sin with you, will sin against you.
I got those at church today. Bishop Noel Jones published cards with his many sayings that and they will be on sale at Walmart on May 15. I love hearing him speak because he says stuff and I think “wow, its so simple. It’s all so simple and reasonable.”
I am in full support of all those statements, and I will be heading to Walmart to make that purchase.
View Park/Baldwin Hills here we come. My guy had to work Saturday and I went to the office with him to do the never ending work I seem to have. After we left we took a drive. It was a very nice day, so we took the streets and toured neighborhoods and a few gated communities. He showed me an area that was built like the Oakland Hills. When we drove through I felt like I was near my Oakland home. That was a good feeling.
We agreed we prefer the established communities over the new gated communities. We eventually hit ViewPark/Baldwin Hills.
I had a client that lived in View Park, she was the neighbor of the attorney I do work for. She told me it was a great neighborhood (that was my impression) and explained how difficult it was to get into the neighborhood because sales are rare. People pass their home to their children or sell to those they know.
As we drove through the beautiful area of large well manicured homes my guy told me when buying a home he looks at the number of sales in the area. The fewer homes for sell the more desirable the area to him. As we drove through we saw 1 for sale sign.
I was enjoying the area and he said “we can live here” and he said with a smile in his eyes.
We went to Marina Del Rey for a date on Saturday. We sat on the patio, where our view was sparkling city lights and the ocean. Our waitress came over with bread and to tell us the special. I felt a drop of water on my head. Within 10 minutes I felt about 3 drops.
We were right on the ocean and a little moisture is to be expected, but I feared rain. We asked to be moved inside. I looked out about 15 minutes later and the umbrellas were up. About 20 minutes later, I smelled real rain. By the time we left the restaurant it was raining buckets.
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Talk about taking a bite out of crime.
Government lawyers tried to confiscate the gold tooth caps known as
“grills” from the mouths of two men facing drug charges, saying the
dental work qualified as seizable assets. They had them in a vehicle
headed to a dental clinic by the time defense attorneys persuaded a
judge to halt the procedure.
“I’ve been doing this for over 30 years and I have never heard of
anything like this,” said Richard J. Troberman, a past president of
the Washington Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. “It sounds
like Nazi Germany when they were removing the gold teeth from the
bodies, but at least then they waited until they were dead.”
Prosecutors had a warrant to seize the gold dental work, according to
documents and lawyers involved in the case. But they eventually
abandoned the effort, saying they mistakenly thought the grills were
removable.
The customized tooth caps, popularized by rappers such as Nelly, are
made of precious metals and jewels and can cost thousands of dollars
for a full set. Some can be snapped onto the teeth, while others are
permanently bonded to the teeth.
Flenard T. Neal Jr. and Donald Jamar Lewis both have permanently
bonded grills, their lawyers said.
Neal and Lewis, both charged with several drug and weapon violations,
were taken Tuesday from the Federal Detention Center to the U.S.
marshal’s office, where they were told the government had a warrant to
seize the grills. They called their lawyers as they were about to be
taken to a dentist, said Miriam Schwartz, Neal’s public defender.
A permanent stay of the seizure order was issued that day by U.S.
Magistrate J. Kelley Arnold, court documents show.
“Asset forfeiture is a fairly routine procedure, and our attorneys
were under the impression that these snapped out like a retainer,”
said Emily Langlie, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney’s office in
Seattle.
The defense lawyers criticized what they said was a clandestine
attempt to have the grills removed.
“It’s shocking that this kind of action by the federal government
could be sought and accomplished in secret, without anyone being
notified,” said Zenon Peter Olbertz, who represents Lewis. “It reminds
me of the secret detentions” in terrorist cases.
Langlie and court clerks said seizure warrants are typically sealed to
prevent defendants from trying to move or hide valuables and evidence.
They become public with the filing of a return that shows what was
seized.
(Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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