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In Deed And In Truth

 Let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth. 

There is no better way to show someone you love them than to show them in action by trusting and by giving them your all in every way. A lot of what love is involves showing trust in someone else's dedication of loving you. When you are committed to someone who says that they are committed to loving you the same, you will earn more trust by showing them that they have earned your trust and vice-versa. 

We also have to be willing to show our love in the best ways possible. It is very easy to just utter the words "I Love You" over and over again, but it is much more challenging and also much more rewarding to show them just how much you love them. Not only will they feel your love more, but you will also realize how much it really takes to love someone with all of you, and you will feel abundantly more rewarded for loving someone with all of your heart!

By J. Johnson, picture courtesy of SearchQuotes 

 Let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth. 

There is no better way to show someone you love them than to show them in action by trusting and by giving them your all in every way. A lot of what love is involves showing trust in someone else's dedication of loving you. When you are committed to someone who says that they are committed to loving you the same, you will earn more trust by showing them that they have earned your trust and vice-versa. 

We also have to be willing to show our love in the best ways possible. It is very easy to just utter the words "I Love You" over and over again, but it is much more challenging and also much more rewarding to show them just how much you love them. Not only will they feel your love more, but you will also realize how much it really takes to love someone with all of you, and you will feel abundantly more rewarded for loving someone with all of your heart!

By J. Johnson, picture courtesy of SearchQuotes 

Know your Worth

Here are ten signs it’s time to let go:

Holding on is being brave, but letting go and moving on is often what makes us stronger and happier.

1. Someone expects you to be someone you’re not. – Don’t change who you are for anyone else.  It’s wiser to lose someone over being who you are, than to keep them by being someone you’re not.  Because it’s easier to mend a broken heart, than it is to piece together a shattered identity.  It’s easier to fill an empty space in your life where someone else used to be, than it is to fill the empty space inside yourself where YOU used to be.
2. A person’s actions don’t match their words. – Everybody deserves somebody who helps them look forward to tomorrow.  If someone has the opposite effect on you, because they are consistently inconsistent and their actions don’t match up with their words, it’s time to let them go.  It’s always better to be alone than to be in bad company.  True friendship is a promise made in the heart – silent, unwritten, unbreakable by distance, and unchangeable by time.  Don’t listen to what people say; watch what they do.  Your true friends will slowly reveal themselves over time.
3. You catch yourself forcing someone to love you. – Let us keep in mind that we can’t force anyone to love us.  We shouldn’t beg someone to stay when they want to leave.  That’s what love is all about – freedom.  However, the end of love is not the end of life.  It should be the beginning of an understanding that love sometimes leaves for a reason, but never leaves without a lesson.  If someone truly loves you, they will never give you a reason to doubt it.  Anyone can come into your life and say how much they love you, but it takes someone really special to stay in your life and prove how much they love you.  Sometimes it takes awhile to find the right person, but the right person is always worth the wait. 
4. An intimate relationship is based strictly on physical attraction. – Being beautiful is more than how many people you can get to look at you, or how others perceive you at a single glance.  It’s about what you live for.  It’s about what defines you.  It’s about the depth of your heart, and what makes you unique.  It’s about being who you are and living out your life honestly.  It’s about those little quirks that make you, you.  People who are only attracted to you because of your pretty face or nice body won’t stay by your side forever.  But the people who can see how beautiful your heart is will never leave you.
5. Someone continuously breaks your trust. – Love means giving someone the chance to hurt you, but trusting them not to.  When you completely trust a person, without any doubt, you’ll automatically get one of two results - a FRIEND for life or a LESSON for life.  Either way there’s a positive outcome.  Either you confirm the fact that this person cares about you, or you get the opportunity to weed them out of your life and make room for those who do.  In the end you’ll discover who’s fake, who’s true, and who would risk it all for you.  And trust me, some people will totally surprise you.
6. Someone continuously overlooks your worth. – Know your worth!  When you give yourself to someone who doesn’t respect you, you surrender pieces of your soul that you’ll never get back.  There comes a point when you have to let go and stop chasing some people.  If someone wants you in their life, they’ll find a way to put you there.  Sometimes you just need to let go and accept the fact that they don’t care for you the way you care for them.  Let them leave your life quietly.  Letting go is oftentimes easier than holding on.  We think it’s too hard to let go, until we actually do.  Then we ask ourselves, “Why didn’t I do this sooner?”
7. You are never given a chance to speak your mind. – Sometimes an argument saves a relationship, whereas silence breaks it.  Speak up for your heart so that you won’t have regrets.  Life is not about making others happy.  Life is about being honest and sharing your happiness with others.
8. You are frequently forced to sacrifice your happiness. – If you allow people to make more withdrawals than deposits in your life, you will be out of balance and in the negative before you know it.  Know when to close the account.  It’s always better to be alone with dignity than in a relationship that constantly requires you to sacrifice your happiness and self-respect.  
9. You truly dislike your current situation, routine, job, etc. – It’s better to be a failure at something you love than to succeed at doing something you hate.  Don’t let someone who gave up on their dreams talk you out of going after yours.  The best thing you can do in life is follow your heart.  Take risks.  Don’t just make the safe and easy choices because you’re afraid of what might happen.  If you do, nothing will ever happen.  Chances must be taken, mistakes must be made, and lessons must be learned.  It might be an uphill climb, but when you reach that mountaintop it will be worth every ounce of blood, sweat and tears you put into it.
10. You catch yourself obsessing over, and living in, the past. – Eventually you will overcome the heartache, and forget the reasons you cried, and who caused the pain.  Eventually you will realize that the secret to happiness and freedom is not about control or revenge, but in letting things unfold naturally, and learning from your experiences over the course of time.  After all, what matters most is not the first, but the final chapter of your life, which unveils the details of how well you wrote your story.  So let go of the past, set yourself free, and open your mind to the possibility of new relationships and priceless experiences.  

Here are ten signs it’s time to let go:

Holding on is being brave, but letting go and moving on is often what makes us stronger and happier.

1. Someone expects you to be someone you’re not. – Don’t change who you are for anyone else.  It’s wiser to lose someone over being who you are, than to keep them by being someone you’re not.  Because it’s easier to mend a broken heart, than it is to piece together a shattered identity.  It’s easier to fill an empty space in your life where someone else used to be, than it is to fill the empty space inside yourself where YOU used to be.
2. A person’s actions don’t match their words. – Everybody deserves somebody who helps them look forward to tomorrow.  If someone has the opposite effect on you, because they are consistently inconsistent and their actions don’t match up with their words, it’s time to let them go.  It’s always better to be alone than to be in bad company.  True friendship is a promise made in the heart – silent, unwritten, unbreakable by distance, and unchangeable by time.  Don’t listen to what people say; watch what they do.  Your true friends will slowly reveal themselves over time.
3. You catch yourself forcing someone to love you. – Let us keep in mind that we can’t force anyone to love us.  We shouldn’t beg someone to stay when they want to leave.  That’s what love is all about – freedom.  However, the end of love is not the end of life.  It should be the beginning of an understanding that love sometimes leaves for a reason, but never leaves without a lesson.  If someone truly loves you, they will never give you a reason to doubt it.  Anyone can come into your life and say how much they love you, but it takes someone really special to stay in your life and prove how much they love you.  Sometimes it takes awhile to find the right person, but the right person is always worth the wait. 
4. An intimate relationship is based strictly on physical attraction. – Being beautiful is more than how many people you can get to look at you, or how others perceive you at a single glance.  It’s about what you live for.  It’s about what defines you.  It’s about the depth of your heart, and what makes you unique.  It’s about being who you are and living out your life honestly.  It’s about those little quirks that make you, you.  People who are only attracted to you because of your pretty face or nice body won’t stay by your side forever.  But the people who can see how beautiful your heart is will never leave you.
5. Someone continuously breaks your trust. – Love means giving someone the chance to hurt you, but trusting them not to.  When you completely trust a person, without any doubt, you’ll automatically get one of two results - a FRIEND for life or a LESSON for life.  Either way there’s a positive outcome.  Either you confirm the fact that this person cares about you, or you get the opportunity to weed them out of your life and make room for those who do.  In the end you’ll discover who’s fake, who’s true, and who would risk it all for you.  And trust me, some people will totally surprise you.
6. Someone continuously overlooks your worth. – Know your worth!  When you give yourself to someone who doesn’t respect you, you surrender pieces of your soul that you’ll never get back.  There comes a point when you have to let go and stop chasing some people.  If someone wants you in their life, they’ll find a way to put you there.  Sometimes you just need to let go and accept the fact that they don’t care for you the way you care for them.  Let them leave your life quietly.  Letting go is oftentimes easier than holding on.  We think it’s too hard to let go, until we actually do.  Then we ask ourselves, “Why didn’t I do this sooner?”
7. You are never given a chance to speak your mind. – Sometimes an argument saves a relationship, whereas silence breaks it.  Speak up for your heart so that you won’t have regrets.  Life is not about making others happy.  Life is about being honest and sharing your happiness with others.
8. You are frequently forced to sacrifice your happiness. – If you allow people to make more withdrawals than deposits in your life, you will be out of balance and in the negative before you know it.  Know when to close the account.  It’s always better to be alone with dignity than in a relationship that constantly requires you to sacrifice your happiness and self-respect.  
9. You truly dislike your current situation, routine, job, etc. – It’s better to be a failure at something you love than to succeed at doing something you hate.  Don’t let someone who gave up on their dreams talk you out of going after yours.  The best thing you can do in life is follow your heart.  Take risks.  Don’t just make the safe and easy choices because you’re afraid of what might happen.  If you do, nothing will ever happen.  Chances must be taken, mistakes must be made, and lessons must be learned.  It might be an uphill climb, but when you reach that mountaintop it will be worth every ounce of blood, sweat and tears you put into it.
10. You catch yourself obsessing over, and living in, the past. – Eventually you will overcome the heartache, and forget the reasons you cried, and who caused the pain.  Eventually you will realize that the secret to happiness and freedom is not about control or revenge, but in letting things unfold naturally, and learning from your experiences over the course of time.  After all, what matters most is not the first, but the final chapter of your life, which unveils the details of how well you wrote your story.  So let go of the past, set yourself free, and open your mind to the possibility of new relationships and priceless experiences.  

Hey Girls! Off for some shopping at the Mall?

Very important message for girls in dressing room to do first, before undressing. 

Boys please tell to your sister's & lover & your girl friends:

 
Just conduct this simple test:

1. You place the tip of your fingernail against the surface and if there is a gap between your fingernail and the image of the nail, it is an ordinary mirror.
If your fingernail directly touches the image of your nail, then it is a two-way mirror.


2. Two-way mirrors are not hung on walls,they are set into walls or doors.
If there is a wall behind the mirror you can be sure it is an ordinary mirror, because a two-way mirror would be part of the wall.


3. Tap on the mirror,if it is an ordinary mirror it should produce a dull thud.
A Two-way mirror has an open space behind it, so when you tap on a two-way mirror it should produce a much more open and hollow sound.

"No Space, Leave the Place." 

When you're in a dressing room, every time you see a mirror, do the "fingernail test." It doesn't cost you anything.

REMEMBER: No Space, Leave the Place.

Very important message for girls in dressing room to do first, before undressing. 

Boys please tell to your sister's & lover & your girl friends:

 
Just conduct this simple test:

1. You place the tip of your fingernail against the surface and if there is a gap between your fingernail and the image of the nail, it is an ordinary mirror.
If your fingernail directly touches the image of your nail, then it is a two-way mirror.


2. Two-way mirrors are not hung on walls,they are set into walls or doors.
If there is a wall behind the mirror you can be sure it is an ordinary mirror, because a two-way mirror would be part of the wall.


3. Tap on the mirror,if it is an ordinary mirror it should produce a dull thud.
A Two-way mirror has an open space behind it, so when you tap on a two-way mirror it should produce a much more open and hollow sound.

"No Space, Leave the Place." 

When you're in a dressing room, every time you see a mirror, do the "fingernail test." It doesn't cost you anything.

REMEMBER: No Space, Leave the Place.

LOL - That's SO true!

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Emily just found out what LDS girls have knows for years....

Emily just found out what LDS girls have knows for years....

Is COSTCO the new Wal-Mart?

I'm about to share a shocking secret with you. It's a bit embarrassing and a hard thing to admit but here it is: I've never shopped at COSTCO.  There, I said it. Take a second to process this information. I've gone in, but never had a membership.


I've been to Costco three times in my life - Twice I tagged along with my sister and once with a friend who both had memberships, but I've never bought anything. I don't know of anyone else who does not have a Costco membership. I belong to a club with no other members and until yesterday afternoon, it was my hidden shame. What if someone found out? What if they outed me to all the other Costco-ites? I couldn't take it anymore so yesterday I finally walked into the store for the fourth time and I walked out holding my new plastic Costco membership card.

I've heard all the stories about the magical land of Costco and I was excited to come back soon and check it all out! I took a picture and texted it to my sister, proudly announcing I had finally done it.

I was excited.

I was happy.

I was content.

I was looking forward to buying toilet paper in bulk.

I was about to have a showdown in the parking lot.

My youngest son was by my side as we exited the store and we headed to our car where my husband and my other son sat waiting for us.

All of a sudden a lady in a black Lexus pulled out of her parking space, driving in reverse, and headed right towards my son and I. She was coming fast and she wasn't slowing down at all. I shoved my son out of way and her car hit my outstretched left hand which was holding my cell phone. She had barely missed running over my kid and I. 

I yelled and gave her window a smack with my phone. The smack on the window caused her to finally stop the car. I could feel the adrenaline building up inside me. I gave her my "are you kidding me?! what on earth is your problem" look and thought that would be the end of it.

But Nooooooo.........

I had started walking away when I heard her yell out her window, "Sorry....Did I hit you?"

Now let me just say that I have been guilty of doing something stupid in my car. I've had close calls. I get it, so I wasn't going to do more than give her my best "evil eye" look.
I turned, walked over to her car, leaned down and said to her, "You almost hit my son and I, seriously, be more careful", to which her reply was, "Yeah, sorry about that, I never really look when I reverse."

I couldn't believe what I had just heard. I turned things up a notch - this time giving her my most powerful "You're an Idiot" face before I turned and walked away. I turned to my son, about to get in my car and said "What a MANIAC!" Again, I thought this would be the end of it. But Nooooooooo.....

Out of no where, some bald MR.Clean sort of looking guy in his 30's yells at me.

"Hey! Give her a break!"

Had I heard correctly?

I must have misunderstood so I said, "Excuse me?"

"You called her a Maniac! That's not necessary, chill out." 

Was this guy serious? Now he was getting my You're an Idiot face. "Not that any of this is your business, but she almost hit my son and I and then she told me she never looks behind her when she drives in reverse!"

"Give her a break. You cant just call people names"

"Are you kidding me? I was much nicer to her than I could have been! I told my son she was a maniac, I didn't say it to her! If you had kids, and someone almost ran over them with a car, you'd think they were a maniac driver too."

"I do have kids and I wouldn't be upset."

I wondered....Was I in some sort of COSTCO twilight zone? I was now WAY more upset with this guy than Helen Keller over there driving her Lexus! I lost the plot a bit and yelled, "Then YOU are a MANIAC too!". I don't know if he said anything after that, I just got in the car.
I was mad. I was bugged by this idiot. I wanted to reverse over Mr.Clean myself. I was telling my husband to go back and find him because I had more to say to him! I was saying thinks like, "I hate Freaking Costco!" and "Is this the new hangout for mentally challenged people?. I was going to have to calm down and I did after my boys started saying "Hate the player mom, not the game". 

Oh COSTCO...I believe in us. Let's not break up. 

I've seen the websites devoted to all the strange people you find shopping at Wal-Mart so It would be easier to expect this sort of incident there, but not the bulk buying giant Costco. Is Costco becoming the new Wal-Mart? Our relationship has begun on a bad note. Worst of all, when I told a few people about what had happened, all three of them said it sounded about right for a busy Saturday. Really? Please say it isn't so! Please, someone tell me getting toilet paper in bags the size of a small country is worth the possibility of getting run over and having to interact with crazy strangers.....
Is calling someone or using the word Maniac the new ultimate offense? Does Maniac mean something terrible in some other language? I probably shouldn't have even responded to Mr. Clean but my heart was still pounding from thinking how close I just came to watching my son being seriously injured. What would you have done or said?

I'm about to share a shocking secret with you. It's a bit embarrassing and a hard thing to admit but here it is: I've never shopped at COSTCO.  There, I said it. Take a second to process this information. I've gone in, but never had a membership.


I've been to Costco three times in my life - Twice I tagged along with my sister and once with a friend who both had memberships, but I've never bought anything. I don't know of anyone else who does not have a Costco membership. I belong to a club with no other members and until yesterday afternoon, it was my hidden shame. What if someone found out? What if they outed me to all the other Costco-ites? I couldn't take it anymore so yesterday I finally walked into the store for the fourth time and I walked out holding my new plastic Costco membership card.

I've heard all the stories about the magical land of Costco and I was excited to come back soon and check it all out! I took a picture and texted it to my sister, proudly announcing I had finally done it.

I was excited.

I was happy.

I was content.

I was looking forward to buying toilet paper in bulk.

I was about to have a showdown in the parking lot.

My youngest son was by my side as we exited the store and we headed to our car where my husband and my other son sat waiting for us.

All of a sudden a lady in a black Lexus pulled out of her parking space, driving in reverse, and headed right towards my son and I. She was coming fast and she wasn't slowing down at all. I shoved my son out of way and her car hit my outstretched left hand which was holding my cell phone. She had barely missed running over my kid and I. 

I yelled and gave her window a smack with my phone. The smack on the window caused her to finally stop the car. I could feel the adrenaline building up inside me. I gave her my "are you kidding me?! what on earth is your problem" look and thought that would be the end of it.

But Nooooooo.........

I had started walking away when I heard her yell out her window, "Sorry....Did I hit you?"

Now let me just say that I have been guilty of doing something stupid in my car. I've had close calls. I get it, so I wasn't going to do more than give her my best "evil eye" look.
I turned, walked over to her car, leaned down and said to her, "You almost hit my son and I, seriously, be more careful", to which her reply was, "Yeah, sorry about that, I never really look when I reverse."

I couldn't believe what I had just heard. I turned things up a notch - this time giving her my most powerful "You're an Idiot" face before I turned and walked away. I turned to my son, about to get in my car and said "What a MANIAC!" Again, I thought this would be the end of it. But Nooooooooo.....

Out of no where, some bald MR.Clean sort of looking guy in his 30's yells at me.

"Hey! Give her a break!"

Had I heard correctly?

I must have misunderstood so I said, "Excuse me?"

"You called her a Maniac! That's not necessary, chill out." 

Was this guy serious? Now he was getting my You're an Idiot face. "Not that any of this is your business, but she almost hit my son and I and then she told me she never looks behind her when she drives in reverse!"

"Give her a break. You cant just call people names"

"Are you kidding me? I was much nicer to her than I could have been! I told my son she was a maniac, I didn't say it to her! If you had kids, and someone almost ran over them with a car, you'd think they were a maniac driver too."

"I do have kids and I wouldn't be upset."

I wondered....Was I in some sort of COSTCO twilight zone? I was now WAY more upset with this guy than Helen Keller over there driving her Lexus! I lost the plot a bit and yelled, "Then YOU are a MANIAC too!". I don't know if he said anything after that, I just got in the car.
I was mad. I was bugged by this idiot. I wanted to reverse over Mr.Clean myself. I was telling my husband to go back and find him because I had more to say to him! I was saying thinks like, "I hate Freaking Costco!" and "Is this the new hangout for mentally challenged people?. I was going to have to calm down and I did after my boys started saying "Hate the player mom, not the game". 

Oh COSTCO...I believe in us. Let's not break up. 

I've seen the websites devoted to all the strange people you find shopping at Wal-Mart so It would be easier to expect this sort of incident there, but not the bulk buying giant Costco. Is Costco becoming the new Wal-Mart? Our relationship has begun on a bad note. Worst of all, when I told a few people about what had happened, all three of them said it sounded about right for a busy Saturday. Really? Please say it isn't so! Please, someone tell me getting toilet paper in bags the size of a small country is worth the possibility of getting run over and having to interact with crazy strangers.....
Is calling someone or using the word Maniac the new ultimate offense? Does Maniac mean something terrible in some other language? I probably shouldn't have even responded to Mr. Clean but my heart was still pounding from thinking how close I just came to watching my son being seriously injured. What would you have done or said?

SHAME - Brené Brown

Brené Brown speaks to us again about vulnerability. It’s an all new TED Talk! 

“Vulnerability is not weakness… vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage.”

Shame, Brown argues, is an unspoken epidemic that fuels broken behavior, disconnection, and unhappiness. Brené Brown, whose TED talk last year on vulnerability became a viral hit, explores the wonderful things that can happen when people confront their shame head-on.

Brené Brown paraphrases President Theodore Roosevelt’s famous quote about the man in the arena.

2012 TED talk "Listening to Shame"

Brené Brown speaks to us again about vulnerability. It’s an all new TED Talk! 

“Vulnerability is not weakness… vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage.”

Shame, Brown argues, is an unspoken epidemic that fuels broken behavior, disconnection, and unhappiness. Brené Brown, whose TED talk last year on vulnerability became a viral hit, explores the wonderful things that can happen when people confront their shame head-on.

Brené Brown paraphrases President Theodore Roosevelt’s famous quote about the man in the arena.

2012 TED talk "Listening to Shame"

Mitt Romney has my vote - loved his speech about Aurora

Free Cheesecake from The Cheesecake Factory!

Save the date!

If you love cheesecake, then you’ll want to mark your calendars for National Cheesecake Day! In honor of this delicious day which takes place on July 31st, you can stop by your local Cheesecake Factory restaurant to snatch up ANY piece of Cheesecake for half price!

Just head on over to the Cheesecake Factory Facebook page, click on the Get Offer link in the top Facebook Wall post to request your coupon via email, and then bring the coupon with you on July 31st. This deal is valid for dine-in only and limited to one piece. 

Save the date!

If you love cheesecake, then you’ll want to mark your calendars for National Cheesecake Day! In honor of this delicious day which takes place on July 31st, you can stop by your local Cheesecake Factory restaurant to snatch up ANY piece of Cheesecake for half price!

Just head on over to the Cheesecake Factory Facebook page, click on the Get Offer link in the top Facebook Wall post to request your coupon via email, and then bring the coupon with you on July 31st. This deal is valid for dine-in only and limited to one piece.