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Cheap, you can make it yourself… We have high humidity in our house, year round, and we’ve had problems with mold. Ugh. But I have found a cheap way to clean mold, with my home-concentrated powerful but nonpoisonous cleaner. It is so strong, you still have to wear gloves and protect your eyes, because it … Read more Safe & Nonpoisonous Super-powerful Cleaner
I will be writing more in this post later, so bear with the brevity of today’s post. Amy has developed a passion for designing and sewing her own clothes. She began, last year, by designing doll clothes that looked like famous people’s ball gowns. Here is the mini mannequin she used. Amy liked the doll … Read more Amy the Seamstress
Last week I introduced the perpetual calendar and wall calendar as two simple tools that helped a disorganized gal like me achieve some goals. I promised I’d share more this week about conquering chaos to achieve other goals. The perpetual calendar can help you deal with dreaded goals, because you can break huge goals into … Read more More Tricks to conquer a disorganized gal’s messes
From gardening, to remembering birthdays, God enabled me to find expert advice and succeed in implementing it, even though I have a “low structure,” spontaneous personality. Organizing and planning don’t come naturally for me. I needed to understand two things: the strengths and weaknesses of my personality and my need for experts. With their ideas … Read more Success after Success thanks to Organized Experts and God
To idealize another person, even God, is to actually hate the real person, while making unreasonable demands and never accepting the person or forgiving him or her. People idealize a person or God by believing the “idealized person” (or God) owes them and thus the idealizers create an image of a person (or God) who … Read more Idealizing not Loving People: from “loving” to hating a person—even God
Why does God make us wait so long, often with no specific idea about what God is planning or the exact process we should follow. We call this “blind faith,” meaning we trust God, but we are blind about exactly how things will turn out. For example, God rarely (if ever) says, “Wait for this … Read more Patience: Waiting on God is Hard
In my last post I talked about struggles gals have when they bury their emotions and no longer know what they are truly feeling. I introduced the idea of compulsions (some people call these addictions) that we use to block our emotions. Where do these compulsions (bad habits we are addicted to) come from? I … Read more Compulsions and Addictions: Where do They Come From?
I want to avoid criticizing others, but my sinful nature fights back. I love people and the Lord, and I hurt both when I think unfairly critically about people or my life. Impatience, self importance, wrong assumptions, so many errors prompt my sin nature to harshly criticize. For example, I might think, “What’s wrong with … Read more Challenging a Critical Spirit
I was dismayed when I discovered the dangers in some hair colors (permanent and temporary). While researchers cannot (yet) prove the link between certain chemicals in these dyes, laboratory animals exposed to them developed more cancer than the unexposed animals. Worse yet, studies comparing people exposed to the dyes (users of hair dye and salon … Read more Dangerous Hair Dyes and Safer Dyes