Posted on 01/17/2005 10:00:30 PM PST by Billie
I LOVE that graphic!! How I do admire this man who is so comfortable around strong women and men. He has no fear of being up-staged! Don'cha just love it!?
I'll be back in a few hours. Your goodnight graphic on yesterday's thread so pretty. :)
Evenin'/Mornin' Billie.
Looks like a labor of love with the graphics you created. And the pledge is outstanding.
We won't be traveling to the Inauguration or going to any of the Balls, but we will be dressing in outfits by Levi (or sweats by Champion if it doesn't warm up soon).
Beautiful job, Billie! (per usual ;-)
It's always nice to see and read about the beautiful people, especially these four!!!!!
Good Morning everybody!!!!!
You two gonna be in DC Thursday?
Going to the Freeper ball?
That would be nice but no. We are stuck here in FL for a while..
Beautiful work, Billie. May God bless and protect the first family.
Read: 2 Corinthians 1:3-11
[God] delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver us; in whom we trust that He will still deliver us. —2 Corinthians 1:10
Bible In One Year: Exodus 5-7
They were called the "lost boys" of Sudan. Thousands of them fled the civil war in that country and sought refuge from the chaos and killing. Many had been taught the gospel in churches founded by missionaries, but they knew little of the world beyond their villages.
A National Geographic article profiled one of these "lost boys" who is now resettled in the United States. He told a church congregation that he is grateful for the comforts of the US, but also for the faith he learned through hardship. "Americans believe in God," he told them, "but they don't know what God can do."
In the crucible of testing, we move from theory to reality as we experience God's power. When there seems to be no hope, we may share Paul's feeling of being "burdened beyond measure, above strength, so that we [despair] even of life" (2 Corinthians 1:8). But we can also learn, as Paul did, that in the darkest times "we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead" (v.9).
If God has allowed you to be in a desperate situation today, why not reconsider all that the Almighty has done and can still do. By trusting God in hardship we learn what He can do in our lives. —David McCasland
Read: Matthew 4:18-20
Always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear. —1 Peter 3:15
Bible In One Year: Exodus 8-10
Fishermen sometimes bestow this blessing on one another: "May you keep a tight line," by which we mean, "May you always have a trout on your line."
As I've gotten older, however, I must confess that a tight line means less to me now than it once did. I get as much enjoyment from fishing as I do from catching.
When I'm fishing, I have more time to walk streamside and enjoy the solitude and silence, and to look for places where fish might be lurking. When I try too hard to catch, I lose too many fish and the enjoyment of the day.
Jesus calls us to be fishers of men, not catchers (Matthew 4:19). My job is to go where the fish are, walk among them, study their habitat, and learn their ways. And then to toss out a line and see if one rises to the surface. There's more enjoyment in that easy effort, and I have better results.
So I want to fish for people, looking for opportunities to speak a word about Jesus, casting here and there, and leaving the results with God. It's more calming for me and for the fish—the folks who might get spooked by my clumsiness.
Thus I now bless my fellow fishers with: "May you keep your line in the water." Or, as another fisherman once put it, "Always be ready" (1 Peter 3:15). —David Roper
Great one this morning, Billie! Love the pictures. Laura Bush is my hero.
If I get any great pics in D.C. I'll be sure to share!
Thanks for this thread, Billie. I think the green dress is the prettiest, but I like the back on the one on the left. They are all going to be stunning! Almost as attractive as the FReeper women in your Ball gown thread;) We'll miss you at the Ball.
And in contrast, let's not forget what Hillary choose to wear four years ago, a leather trench while the weather was freezing rain.
Good morning! Thank you ,Billie. I think the Bush women are great..
I am so happy for all those lucky enough to be going to the Ball and festivities..I look forward to the pictures.
Thank you for the wonderful devotional, Mayor.
Lovely thread, Billie. All of W's women will look gorgeous for the Inaugural. And President Bush will be so proud of them. I just love how he adores his family, my kind of guy.
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