Marriage is a God's Creation

 

 

 

"Marriage is not a human invention, is the creation of God, it did not originate in the mind of man, but in the mind of God. Such being the case, man can not change the setting or the purpose of marriage to suit. A redefinition of marriage is the denial of marriage. " (William Einwechter)

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 "Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said," This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called 'woman', for she was taken out of man. "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh."

(Genesis 2: 22-24)

 

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"When a couple says their vows, is not a man or a woman or a pastor or parent who is the main actor - the main hurt. God is. God joins a husband and wife one flesh Union. God does this, the world does not know it, which is one reason why marriage is considered so casually. And Christians often act as if they do not know, that is one reason that marriage in the Church is seen as the wonder . Marriage is Gods doing because it is a union of one flesh that God does. "

(John Piper) "

 

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... "And the two shall become one flesh. 'So they are no more twain, but one flesh."

(Mark 10:8)

 

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"Marriage is a call to die [self] ...... Christian marriage vows are the beginning of a lifelong practice, of death, not only about giving everything you have, but all you are. This is a sinister force called? By no means! Is not darker than dying to self and following Christ. Indeed, those dying with love for their [spouses] are those who know the joy of the majority, weddings and more rewarding experience the greatest love. "

(R. Kent Hughes)

 

 

 

 

Homemade Tomato Sauce

 

 I'm so glad that I got it to make a delicious tomato sauce as the Italian mamas does!

Since that "I can remember", we used canned sauces done which we buy in groceries. My mama did not have time to spend hours and hours making sauce, because she had to work to have money to take care of me and my brother, since my father passed away so early, I was 7 years old. But... since nobody is orphaned of God, I have been immensely blessed because the Lord turns up seemingly bad things in blessings! Here I share this delicious recipe for Homemade Tomato Sauce. This recipe is for about a liter, but you can fold it to make larger quantities and  to freeze. You just need to be patient because you will need at least 2 hours or more to have it done!

We need to recover the pleasure of waiting "things" be ready and on point. Nowadays everything is so disposable, we want everything to "yesterday", which ends up creating much anxiety if we do not have all the time, all ready!

 

 

Ingredients:

- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 medium chopped onions, grated
- 3 small garlic clove, finely chopped
- 2 stalks celery, finely chopped
- 2 kg of mature tomatoes (about 15 fine red tomatoes)
- 1 sheered  carrot
- 1 liter of water
- 1 bay leaf
- Basil to taste,
- salt and pepper to gusto

The seeds of tomatoes can be removed by cutting from top to bottom, or you can leave them.
Chop the tomatoes and set aside. 

 Chop the onions, garlic and celery.

Bring a large pot over high heat and melt the butter.

Add the chopped onions and garlic, stir well and add the celery.
Add the tomatoes slowly, about a cup at a time, until soft. Then add the carrots.
When the tomatoes begin to boil, lower the heat and let the pan half covered.

Stir the water.

 Add a little salt and pepper freshly ground.
You may leave 1 to 2 hours  cooking to reduce the water and thicken the broth.
You can blender everything in a blender or just 3 cups of sauce and leave the rest to the pieces thoroughly cooked and soft.

You can freeze part in a ice tray, to use when you need. After froze you can put in a plastic bag.

Bon Appetit! ❤

 

 

"The wise woman builds her house".     (Proverbs 31.30)

 

 

Delicious Strawberry and Coconut Ice Cream

 

 

Ingredients:

- 1 cans coconut milk

- 1 can coconut cream

- 1 and ½  cup  strawberries OR or frozen fruits(strawberries, blueberries, etc)

- 1/3 cup raw honey

- 2 tablespoon of coconut oil

(You can using only the fat** from the canned coconut milk)

Directions:

Blend all ingredients.

 Now there are several ways to freeze the ice cream base, the one we like the most is this:

- Pour ice cream base into a bowl and stir occasionally as it freezes. Eat as soon as it reaches a thick consistently.
- Pour ice cream base into a large shallow dish (like a casserole dish). Once frozen scrape the solid mass with a fork until soft enough to serve.
- Freeze ice cream base in popsicle molds.
- Use an ice cream maker.

 

 

Bon Appetit! ❤

 

"The wise woman builds her house"! (Proverbs 31.30)

 

Bibliography: http://www.immerwachsen.com/2013/05/07/strawberry-ice-cream-coconut-milk/

Woman and Pants in the 40s

 

In the early 40s, trousers and overalls for women

 

You've probably heard this story: "Women did not wear pants until the war came and forced them to take up jobs in factories. It was a case of necessity. There was nothing very revolutionary. "

 

If we are woman we must be feminine, we do not need to wear clothes that show our feminine creativity.  The changes is more historic and economic than revolutionary. Why women must leave their homes to work in the factories the pans would be more ease to wear to adjust to the "new duty".

The pants in the female wardrobe: change of mind

Why we love a modest skirt

 

 

 

A modest skirt is a symbol of femininity and modesty for the woman.
It preserves ours shapes and do not draw our bodies. 

The modest skirt must be comfortable enough for the daily movements."

 

We love how we can seat down with them without offend our modesty. We do not need to use a book or purse to help us  to cover the size of our skirt, it covers what needs to be cover.

 

One modest skirt must be adjusted in our body without to show our shapes. Because this we love our skirt because it does not call attention for our  most intimate parts.

A skirt really modest do not limit our movements: it covers our knees when we are stand up and when we seat down.

 

For these things and others we love the modest skirt. And you?
 

Not feminist, feminine!

 

 

This adverting poster below was a from the U.S. government in World War II (which in turn was a copy of a poster similar to the Soviet Union). Known as Rosie The Riveter [something like Rosie the Nailers], he encouraged women to go to the factories, taking the place of men, probably because they were in the war...

                                            

More than just encourage, it made ​​use of a whole aesthetic masculinizing ... to put this woman putting "muscles" out and rolling up his sleeves, he was one of the faithful portraits of the decade, as many women who actually went to the factories during the war, could hardly be distinguished from this caricature.

Do you know why wear a skirt below the knee?

 

To feel comfortable,  feminine  and...

 

...to be decent and modest.

How to be decent and modest

When I wear a modest skirt, the people ask me why I dress this way.

 

It is not easy to listen critical all the time! The people want to be different but they do not accept if you are different...
 

If you are young you listen that to be modest is for old people. But nobody ask why the fashion sells the clothes using teenagers without distinction on the catwalk.

 

I think: all clothes please someone, the mine please God!
 

How a young lady I want to be beautiful, but above all I am glad to know that they do not see first my body but over all they see the soul.


 

10 Virtues of The Proverbs 31 Woman

¹⁰ Who can find a virtuous wife?
For her worth is far above rubies.
¹¹ The heart of her husband safely trusts her;
So he will have no lack of gain.
¹² She does him good and not evil
All the days of her life.
¹³ She seeks wool and flax,
And willingly works with her hands.(Proverbs 31.10-13)

By Melissa Ringstaff

We want to encourage women to serve God in every aspect of their lives.[...]

STAND UP AND WORSHIP THE LORD IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH!

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Stand on your feet and praise the Lord!

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It is wrong "to fall in spirit"?

 

Ezekiel is the third prophet of God in order of importance. The first is Isaiah, Jeremiah the second and fourth Daniel. Ezekiel means God is strength. In chapter 2 of Ezekiel he makes an overview of what Israel was in its time; shows us that God has to be our strength, as we have greater teaching the consequences of idolatry, which are unpredictable. Ezekiel was also taken to Babylon. God hates idolatry, because we cut relations with him by placing an image in His place. When we are 100% united with God we are strengthened. When the Jews were inclined to idolatry God departs from them. It happened with the Israeli people at that time, when Nebuchadnezzar captured all talented Jews and brought them to Babylon and from there came the slag to Israel. Ezekiel also was taken because he was talented.

The mouth speaks what the heart is full

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"Oh generation of vipers, how can you speak good things, being evil? Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. The good man brings good things of the good treasure of his heart, and the evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth bad. But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned. " (Matthew 12:34-37)

In this verse we see how we can do an examination of conscience to see how many times we open our mouth to speak things that are not pleasing to God, we must control our tongue to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. From our mouth only good things should come out or if we do not have anything good to say we should give thanksgiving to God for all that we receive or to be quiet. What comes out of the mouth come from the heart and that is what sets a man. When God created our hearts, created pure and perfect, the man walked over and looked in the wrong places and defiled. From our mouth should not come out bad things, only good. So we must read, hear and live an do constructive things, such as the Word of God in Holy Scriptures, that our hearts would be full of good things. We should not use "bad words" but the Word.[...]

How to Take Care of The Garden of the Heart

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Botanical Garden Bronx - NYC

Source: Ruth F. Byrnes

 We can transform our hearts in a beautiful garden caring for him daily. As the flowers of a garden must be constantly watered and pruned the flowers of our hearts which are the feelings and thoughts must be watered with the Word of God daily, otherwise the soil in which they would be dry and break. The weeds can destroy him also. We need to get out the weeds that are the negative things and feelings that the Enemy tries to place in it to kill us! We need to look at to be born again in order to have the same feelings that was in Christ Jesus, in this way the Holy Spirit can live in us! Otherwise evil reigns in our lives.

If some bad thoughts and feelings come to you, please stop them immediately!
We need to constantly pray for your enemies. Constantly watch and pray as Jesus said. "Love your enemies, do good to them that do evil"! Do you know why? Because, in fact, they were blessed us! Like the blind man in the Gospel who asked Jesus to heal while the disciples tried to keep him quiet. But he did not give up, ever screamed louder: "JESUS, ​​HEALS ME!" Until He healed him!

If your Enemy, yes your only one enemy, because there is actually only one: the evil one, try to destroy you, cry louder to Jesus, "Son of David, save me!"

I am immensely grateful to all those who tried to harm me, for me helped me become strong in faith and overcome all obstacles! Today I am happier because I have been born again and have a wonderful garden in my heart! I am regenerated, a new creature! The past is behind us! Today I have eternal life and I'm going to Heaven for eternity with Jesus! Do you can believe this! Some people think I am crazy because I believe in this: "And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent." (John 17.3, New King James Version)
 

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Gardens are the most beautiful things that we can visit. We can see the most beautiful flowers in them, and in difficult times, we can go to rest our mind, brighten our eyes are the windows of our body, and when we leave this garden, we feel more relieved. But now we will talk about the garden that our heart, which can be very beautiful and comforting also, if we plant in it good feelings and thoughts, the joy of the Lord, good works and all the best. But unlike if we deposit in it resentments, heartbreak, criticism, envy, bad things eventually, with time until we get sick. As Jesus said we need to pray for our enemies and do good to those who hurt us, so we do not contaminated with the wickedness of others.

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How often do we look within ourselves is to evaluate how our heart? Sometimes the accumulation of things superfluous and artificial litter all our heart, obstructing the development of virtues. Our hearts need to have the flowers of Christian virtues, so that the soul is fragrant and sweet the words are. Do not let hatred as noxious seeds, root of bitterness and other harmful things to occupy space within your heart. Like a garden, our hearts need only produce beautiful things and holy, something like a piece of heaven within us. The sweetest scents of a holy incense in prayer form can only be extracted from a heart filled with flowers and fruits of holiness justice. Look inside your heart, tear everything sucks and start cultivating only that which is sacred.

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Hibiscus - Botanical Garden NYC

 

I can remember the first time I picked up a flower and how I was blown away by the beauty of the flower. It was a pink hibiscus! May we never lose this enchantment of our childhood mostly for God's creation.

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In the biblical story we have several cases of people who do not take good care of their garden, and had a big disappointment for themselves and even others connected to them such as the case of Adam and Eve who did not follow a direction given by God in the Garden of Eden, and so were expelled, lost the holy communion with the Lord and the perks and facilities they had, because they let Satan enter them in the garden and do some damage with consequences of spiritual, physical, psychological, as well as pain and sickness to bring their souls, has also consequences for all mankind.

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As Jesus Himself said, "is not what goes into the mouth defiles a man, but what comes out from within." We can have only positive and constructive feelings and thoughts in our hearts and minds. If the devil tempts us with feelings of revenge, hatred, and others, we can rebuff with peace, bless those who hurt us and love, desiring the good who is bad with us, because if they do not convert and born again they go to hell and stay there for all eternity! The enemies deserve our mercy! In a world with so many needs and people only think of themselves selfishly. Those suffering in distant places of the earth, like Africa, China, India, etc.. We must pray and help them

May we always take care of the Garden of the Heart, not only ours but others also, looking forward filled it with good things an feelings so that we can express good things and blessing! We can help this world be better, not just being "green", I mean, "Taking care of the planet", but you must take care of the Kingdom of God inside us!
Do not forget what it is write in the Mathew Gospel chapel 3: "Therefore every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire" (New king James Version). Then, our trees must bear fruits and for this we must take care of the garden in our hearts!
May the Lord reigns in us forever and ever!
May God bless and reach you, so you can be saved!
 

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