Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

*This is kind of long, but something I felt I wanted to share.*

I turned off my computer several minutes ago thinking I would go to bed, until I began thinking about something and I knew I had to turn my computer back on and type out this blog entry  before I would be able to go to sleep this morning! I say this morning since it is almost 2am! Yes, I am a night owl!

I have a habit of talking at night time when I should be winding down getting ready for bed. My Mama likes to joke that “You always do this at bedtime don’t you?” Meaning, I always talk when it is time for bed. It is funny, she will be trying to relax to go to bed and I’ll be wanting to talk ninety to nothing! I do talk during the day, but there is something about nighttime I become wide awake with thoughts! Maybe it is because it is quieter at night and not so rushed like it is during the day, I am not sure. Don’t get me wrong I think all day long, I have a lot of ideas during the day and I will have my talkative moments during the day, but there is something about nighttime discussions I like!

Tonight I was telling Mama about watching “The Basement Live” with Evangelist/Preacher Matt Pitt. I told her that on a lot of his preaching I have watched he always has the ladies stand up and do this attitude thing saying they are fearfully and wonderfully made, next he has the guys do something similar. The video below shows you what I am talking about!




If you can’t understand what He says, the sound on this next video is a little clearer.




I love that! I am fearfully and wonderfully made! Now I have heard this verse probably hundreds if not thousands of times since I was a little girl. It comes from Psalm 139:14 which reads, “I will praise You; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are Your works: and my soul knows right well!”

Hearing Matt Pitt say it when preaching several times, its catchy. The way he does it gets you thinking. I like how it’s a bold, I know who I am in Christ type attitude! Forget what the world says, forget the media that says I have to be model thin, have plastic parts, and look like I just came from a plastic factory, God’s Word says that I am fearfully and wonderfully made, marvelous are His works, and my soul knows it well!

When I get up in the morning and glance in the mirror everything within me may groan “Eww” BUT I know that Greater is HE that is in me than he that is in the world. Greater is God in me, than any excuse I come up with about how ugly I may be. God’s Word says, I’m fearfully and wonderfully made.

What does that mean, well the dictionary breaks it down like this.

feeling reverence: feeling respect or awe for somebody or something
gazed in fearful wonder
Encarta ® World English Dictionary © & (P) 1998-2005 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Get that…feeling a respect or awe for somebody or something. In other words, feeling a respect or awe for the creation that God made…US!

What about wonderfully…

1. outstanding: of a quality that excites admiration or amazement
2. exceedingly pleasing: suiting somebody perfectly

Encarta ® World English Dictionary © & (P) 1998-2005 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

I love the thesaurus words for wonderfully, check this out..

magnificently, superbly, amazingly, astonishingly, fantastically, marvelously
delightfully, brilliantly, perfectly, ideally, pleasingly, gratifyingly
Encarta ® World English Dictionary © & (P) 1998-2005 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.


So according to God’s Word in Psalm 139:14...


Girls, we are outstanding, we have a quality about us that God designed that is amazing! Our design suits us perfectly. When God made us He created the blueprint, fashioned us in His image with His own unique design, custom made each one of us, put the finishing touches on our design and said….wow, what an amazing creation I have created. We are designed magnificently, we are superb, we are so fantastic it is astonishing! When God made us, He did not play any games. The same applies for guys too!

Isn’t it time we start acting like sons and daughters of God? Why should we go around pouting, being so hard on ourselves? We shouldn’t! I told my Mama tonight that this coming year I am going to make it my goal (among many others) to get along with myself. I am going to start liking myself, I am going to make it a priority to be friends with me. I mean after all I am stuck with me. Everywhere I go, there I am. I cannot run from me. Believe me I have tried, it doesn’t work. I’m stuck with me for life. Thank God I have Him in me to lead, guide and direct me. Because if it was up to just me and me, I would aggravate the stew out of myself, and have quite often.

I know there are some guys who read this blog, but I am going to talk to the girls for a few minutes. Not to exclude you guys, keep reading if you want too, but since I am a girl I can relate to girls, I know how we think.

Girls, isn’t it time we start liking ourselves? I know it is so easy to look in the mirror and criticize everything about us. Sometimes we have one of those days where nothing seems to look right, every outfit we try on just doesn’t feel right, it doesn’t fit right, our hair goes flat, our nose looks to big, we feel fat, or bloated, at certain times every month we are moody, more so than we usually are, and have a tendency to be ill as a hornets nest. We throw pity-parties, and than hate ourselves for doing so. We have moments where all we want to do is cry and than we feel guilty for letting our emotions get the best of us, at times we jump down our throats if we feel we have indulged on to much junk food, mainly chocolate! We feel we can’t miss a spot shaving, some girls freak out if they do. Our make-up has to be perfect, if our foundation is uneven we get ill at ourselves. Eyebrows must be plucked, our nail polish must be perfect, hair in place, pimples covered, etc.. the list goes on and on and on. We are our own worst enemies. I know I am my own worst enemy, excuse me, let me use that in past tense, I have been my own worst enemy, now and in the future I have chosen to become friends with myself. So with this blog post I gladly shake my hand, now begins the process of becoming acquainted with myself on a deeper level than just chewing myself out, criticizing myself, over judging and constantly putting me down. In the past I have been so hard on myself, so much so the devil used that to get me in a frenzy. That was his plan all along, to get me to dislike myself so much, I didn’t know what to do with myself. Because I was so critical of me, I thought everyone else was too. I would almost constantly worry if someone else was thinking the same things I thought about myself, and tried to figure out their thoughts about me, that maybe if I did this, it would be ok, or maybe if I hid my emotions. Maybe if I just stay strong it will work, I can’t let myself show I’m human because then people might think less of me. If I lose my temper everyone will hate me, if I cry for no reason someone will say I’m being stupid, so let’s keep it all in side. No one ever told me any of that. I have always been treated as a human being and told it was alright to show emotion, but I let the devil tell me otherwise. I let the devil try to convince me that I had to be perfect, which is a lie because the only perfect person that ever walked the face of the earth was Jesus Christ! But because I listened to the devils lies my self-esteem was low because I wasn’t really happy with me. I was tired of trying to be a perfectionist, I was happy with me, but I wasn’t happy with me, and only if you have been there will you be able to understand that. For the most part I have been a happy camper, unless I started feeling like I was worthless, not good enough, didn’t do something right, didn’t measure up to someone else’s expectations that they didn’t know they even had. Did you get that? A lot of the time we think someone is critical of us or thinks we did or did not do something they approved of or didn’t approve of when really they weren’t even thinking that at all.

I am tired of being my own worst enemy, so this year I have made up my mind I am going to start liking me. When I look in the mirror I am not going to go “Eww, how ugly.” Instead I am going to tell myself, I am fearfully and wonderfully made. I may not feel like it, but God’s Word says that I am, so it must be true God is not a God that will lie, so it is true. I am fearfully and wonderfully made. When you start telling yourself that, it feels really great!

Yes, there are several things I don’t particularly like about myself, things I would like to change. I would love to lose about two more pants sizes! So far this year I have lost about six! That is taking a lot to admit that too!! Last year and the first part of this year I weighed more than I ever have, thanks to some medicine my Doctor prescribed to clear allergies, after that I had medicine prescribed by my dentist because of an abscessed tooth, after that I had more of the same medicine prescribed by an oral surgeon to start taking in preparation for my wisdom teeth being removed. After that I had more medicine prescribed for a pain I had on the left side of my lower abdomen. Thanks be to God I’m not on those medicines anymore! The medicines were the kind you have to eat something every time you take a dose, and the medicine would make me hungrier than I usually am, so I felt like a bottomless pit! Needless to say I gained weight. I went from a size 4-6 to a 12 really fast. Because medicine makes you sleepy and feeling bad drains you of energy, I didn’t do a lot of moving around so that added on pounds. I marvel that I am admitting this, but I don’t care anymore, it isn’t a big deal. I am learning that my worth does not come from what I look like on the outside, my worth comes from my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ who created me in His image! Thankfully I am back to a size 6, and it is becoming a little big. I’m really happy about that! I still have a little ways to go, I am working at toning up more, but if I never reach my desired goal of getting in better shape, it doesn’t matter, my worth is still found in Jesus Christ.

I do not remember who said this, but I read a quote once that said, “God doesn’t put a tape measure around your waist He puts it’s around your heart.” That is so true. God doesn’t measure us according to our waistline. He looks at our heart. He looks at what is inside of us. The Bible says that “Favor is deceitful; and beauty is vain: but a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised.” Proverbs 31:30 Does that mean you can’t be beautiful? No, absolutely not! It means our beauty doesn’t come from our outward appearance. You can dress in the finest clothes money can buy, be perfectly groomed and looking spiffy, but if the inside of you is black without the love of Jesus, you might as well be dressed in filthy rags. Our worth lies in Christ. Our value is found only in Him. As Christians we are daughters of the Most High God. We are called to be walking, talking, living, breathing witnesses of Jesus Christ our Lord. A billboard of His love. Who cares if you are an advertisement for the perfect materialistic model. I would rather be a model for Christ any day of the week than a model for the latest fashion. Don’t get me wrong, being a model for fashion isn’t wrong…unless you forget your worth is found in Christ. Not the clothing on your back, or the make-up on your face, or the jewelry on your wrist. True beauty shines from the inside out, not the outside in.

When I look in the mirror I don’t have to complain about every little flaw. I know my God designed me in His image and loves me for me. I use to think it was vain to say I am fearfully and wonderfully made. To say I am beautiful because God made me beautiful, it felt like I was being conceited and vain, it also felt like I am lying because I don’t feel beautiful. Thank God I don’t have to trust my feelings! I get to trust Him. I may not feel beautiful, But God tells me I am, so therefore I choose to believe Him and His Word! Admitting you are fearfully and wonderfully made is not vain, vain is when you are so impressed with yourself you cannot see past the end of your own nose and you expect everyone to worship the ground you walk upon because you think you are God’s gift to mankind, the perfect picture of  beauty you think every girl should follow and every guy should want. That is vain. Believing and admitting that you are fearfully and wonderfully made in the image of God and beautiful because He created you is not vain, it is simply acknowledging what God’s Word says about you!

Girls, we have so many insecurities, its time to just let them go. To leave them at the feet of Jesus and embrace who He created us to be. Don’t let Hollywood tell you how you should be. Don’t let MTV tell you who you are, don’t let the media shape your thinking. Don’t let the world tell you who you were created to be. The only way to know who you were created to be is to get in touch with the Creator Himself, God. It makes since that the Creator show His creation who He created him or her to be.

This year I am choosing to let go of my insecurities, I am choosing to become friends with myself. I am going to learn to like me. Not in a selfish way, but in a way God intended for us to like ourselves I am choosing to make peace with myself, including my body. No more putting myself down, instead I choose to look to God’s Word to tell me who I am. I choose to let the Holy Spirit lead, guide, and direct me. I choose to stop worrying about making mistakes, I choose to stop being so uptight worrying that I am doing something wrong, judging myself, overanalyzing, criticizing and putting myself down. Instead I choose to follow God and let His sweet Holy Spirit correct me when I need correcting and show me where to go, what to do, and how to serve my Jesus without fear of what others may say.

In other words, I choose to take a stand. A stand against the normal self-saturated culture that puts pressure on us to be a certain size, to dress a certain way, to look, talk, and act a certain way, who cares if my nails aren’t perfect, who cares if I have a blemish on my face, who cares if my teeth aren’t perfectly straight, or perfectly white, who cares if my clothes aren’t name brand, who cares if I go out the door without make-up on? There is nothing wrong with wanting to look nice and take care of yourself, please don’t misunderstand, but there is something wrong with making our appearance our god. Becoming so frustrated with our shortcomings that we beat ourselves up. Do you realize there are girls who turn to drugs, alcohol, sex, cutting, eating disorders, etc…just because they don’t feel pretty? They don’t feel like they measure up to the worlds standards. That breaks my heart to think about that, it makes me want to cry, and believe me I have. It makes me want to reach out to them, telling them You are loved, you are beautiful, you are loved by God! You were created in His image and He loves you! Honey let me tell you the worlds standards aren’t that high anyway, good for you if you don’t measure up to them! Good for you if you choose to step outside the box and say I am going to be my own person, I am going to be the daughter of God He created me to be. I am going to love myself even if the world says I am ugly. I am going to trust God because my God didn’t make any junk, I am a daughter of the King, I am blood bought and I am redeemed. I am beautiful and God says I am royalty! I am a princess of the King, my God is my Father and He owns everything. Forget what the world may say, my God is the one who made the day. I don’t need popularity, when my God is the King of kings and Lord of lords!

This coming year 2010 I choose to make peace with myself. I choose to view myself as a daughter of the King. I refuse to let satan wreak havoc in my life trying to get me to hate myself to keep me sidetracked and off track of God’s calling. No more, the devil loses, because he is a loser. God is the winner, and I choose to follow Christ!

So girls, next time you look in the mirror, in fact why don’t you go look in a mirror now, and tell yourself out loud that you are fearfully and wonderfully made because God said so! Write Psalm 139:14 on sticky notes and post them wherever you need to, to be able to see them often and remind yourself you are God’s beautiful creation! You are exactly how God created you to be. God doesn’t make any junk, He made everyone an original, one of a kind design, and said you are worth so much. You are worth so much that He sent His only begotten Son, Jesus to die on a cross for your sins. John 3:16 says for God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten son that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. Maybe you aren’t a Christian, maybe you have made mistakes and feel so guilty. Maybe you don’t see how you can be beautiful, but I want to tell you. God loves you. He says you are beautiful and He wants you to come to Him just as you are. You don’t have to clean yourself up before coming to Him, you can’t clean yourself up. See God knew we wouldn’t be able to clean up our mess, He knew that we were incapable of saving ourselves, that is why He sent His only begotten Son Jesus to do it for us. That is why Jesus willingly died on a cross for us. That is why He endured so much pain, and agony as He was beat and hung up on a cross before everyone who gathered to see. Three days after He died He rose again, representing life anew in Him. He is alive seated at the right hand of God, waiting with arms open wide for you. You might not believe that God exists, maybe you have told yourself for so long that God couldn’t possibly exist, but deep down inside you want to believe. Deep down inside there is a hunger, an restlessness, a longing that only God can feel. As the lyrics of a song sung by Plumb say, there is a God shaped hole in all of us. My good friend Mike has a blog, at the heading of the blog he quotes St. Augustine who said “Our hearts are restless until they rest in thee.” The first time I read that on his blog it caught my attention, since than I have thought of it many times. Often times my heart becomes restless, searching everywhere for peace, but its never found until it rests at Jesus feet. Until I embrace Christ and just rest in His presence. Forgetting everything this world has to offer and just spend time with my Savior who gave His life for mine.

You see, Our soul was designed for fellowship with our Creator. You might deny God exists, but your denial doesn’t mean God isn’t real. I love a quote by C.S. Lewis it says, “A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him, than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word ’darkness’ on the walls of his cell.” You may say God doesn’t exist, but that doesn’t mean He isn’t real. Don’t you think it’s time to let down the walls that harden your heart and hinder you from peace, joy, contentment and true happiness. Isn’t it time your soul stops searching and finds what it has been searching for, what it has been longing for all this time. You are worth so much in God’s eyes, if you could only see a glimpse of the love He has for you. You would know you are loved. You’ll never see that glimpse unless you open your eyes. Open your heart, let His love wash over you. If you don’t know God, what are you waiting for? Its simple really, just call out to Him. Your soul was made to know God, it isn’t complicated. I promise you if you reach out to God He will be right there. He is already waiting, maybe you even feel Him knocking at the door of your heart. Let Him in already! He only wants what is best for you. He has your best interest at heart. Let Him show you! Let Him prove Himself to you! I promise you won’t regret it and you will never be the same.

Some people say Christians are foolish to believe in a God they cannot see. But I can see God. I see Him all around me. You see Him everyday. You may not realize it, but look at the world around you, look at the beauty of a human being, the simplicity of a flower, the gentle breeze, the blue sky, fluffy white clouds, the rippling of waves, all signs of God’s unfailing love for you. A beautiful reminder of how much He loves you. Look in the mirror, God’s fingerprints are all over you. You are His creation. It’s time you get to know your Creator! Let me ask you this, you may say Christians are stupid for believing in God, that He doesn’t exist. Let’s say we go with your theory for a moment, let’s say God doesn’t exist, ok, fine, when we die we have nothing to lose. But, let’s say we as Christians are right and God does exist, heaven is real, and hell is real. When we die, we have heaven to gain, but when you die, what to do you lose? You lose everything and hell to gain, which is a lose, nothing to win. If your right, and I’m wrong, I haven’t lost anything. But if I am right and you are wrong, you have lost it all. It all goes back to we were created by God, our soul longs for the connection. ‘

When you harvest a garden, you know the vegetables and fruits you see came from a seed you planted, they didn’t happen to just take shape and come out of the ground without a seed. There had to be a seed. The same applies with us as humans, we didn’t just happen to be. We didn’t just happen to appear, we have a Creator, His name is God. He created You. You aren’t a mistake, you aren’t failure, you are a creation of God. Won’t you let Him shower you with His love?

If you don’t know Christ, like I said, what are you waiting for? I promise you if you reach out to Him, He is already there waiting to catch you, like a father who catches the child who runs to greet him, swinging him or her up in his arms, smiling, beaming with love. God is waiting to catch you. Are you ready to jump into His arms of love? You’ll never be the same, and He will never let you fall.

Maybe you know Christ already if so that is awesome!! How about this coming year join me in growing closer to God. Finding out who we are in Christ Jesus. We are daughters of the King. We are fearfully and wonderfully made. Make peace with yourself and let God show you who He has created You to be!

We are fearfully and wonderfully made! Daughters of the most High God!! Lift your head up high, square your shoulders, smile because you know God loves you, let the joy of the Lord be your strength, and show the world Jesus in you!



If you don’t know Christ, and even if you do, please feel free to leave a comment, or if you would prefer email me at Mardi@MardiRobyn.com I would love to talk with you!

Excited About 2010!!!!!

*Previously Posted on www.MardiRobyn.com (so the lack of posting doesn't apply to this blog you are reading now!!)


Please forgive my lack of posting this week, or lack of content when I have posted. I have been busy organizing and getting things in order for the New Year! I am so excited about 2010! Not just because of my new venture in selling jewelry and craft projects that have become a hobby of mine, but because I am excited about what God is doing in my life now and is going to do in my life, inside and outside of my business! It is really exciting!

Yesterday afternoon I began organizing my room. If you were to walk into my room it would not take you long to find out that I collect books. I have ALOT of books, Bibles in different versions, Sunday school books and curriculum, textbooks, classics, Christian books, devotionals, self-help books, Christian romance, crafts, etc.. I just love books, some I have read, others are waiting for me to read. I have so many books my bookcase is overflowing. Next there is all of my craft supplies, Sunday school supplies, and a lot of other things. So yesterday I spent hours rearranging, and going through things. I am not through, I still have more I want to go through and organize and get rid of, but for the moment my room is looking a lot better!

Another thing I have started doing to stay organized is keeping a binder with nothing but ideas, information, supply lists, etc.. for this website.I have a list several pages long of ideas, projects, etc.. It was my Mama's idea to keep track of things. She is a very smart lady! Now comes the fun part of deciding what to do each day. What is more important, what projects I need to work on, what designs and styles I should do first to get on the web that might be better to start with than others, etc.. so tonight I am going through my lists in my binder to create a daily to-do list on a legal pad inside a nifty portfolio one of my sisters, brother-in-law and nephew gave me for Christmas. I grew up hearing my Mama tell me to make a list of things I want to accomplish the next day and stick with it until I get it done, if I don't get it done in one day, that is alright just pick back up the next day. And if I have another idea, something comes to mind I want to do, write it on the list and do it when I get to it. I thought it was funny when I came across this video last night with the same advice of writing a list, my Mama has advised me to do for as long as I can remember!




Like I said I am really excited about 2010. I have a lot of ideas, and a lot I hope to accomplish! One thing I plan on doing is create an actual storefront website that isn't blog style like it is now. I will use the blog just to blog, and sell jewelry and other accessories on a more professional looking website. I do not know how long it will take to do this. My goal is to create the website myself, which might take a while! I have designed websites in the past, but I haven't done a lot of web designing in about two years. I took a break from website design and began blogging. Now I am ready to get back into website design. The thing is there are new techniques and programs out there that have devoloped since I worked on websites, plus my knowlege of the basics isn't as good as I would like for it to be, so I need to do some studying and see which route I want to go. I plan on using a mixture of html and a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor, but I might use all html, or I don't know what yet! I have the design in my mind, its just getting it to take shape on the web I need to work on! Anyway I am excited! Until I get the website up and running I will continue using this blog for business as well as add more stuff to my Etsy (http://www.mardirobyn.etsy.com/)

As much as I want to accomplish my goals for http://www.mardirobyn.com/ and other goals this year. I want to make my top priority my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I believe you cannot have success in life without putting Christ first. Sure you might have what looks like success, but inside is what really matters. Outside things are temporary. You can be the richest man or woman on earth, but without the peace of God living inside of you, no amount of wealth can fill the void inside. It is easy to chase after material objects and try to pad yor pocket book, but if your hearts desire isn't to chase after God, catch Him and be caught by Him, everything else will fade and won't bring you pleasure. Eventually the temporary thrill will fade and you will be left empty inside, trying to cover it up with more work, or play but not finding fulfillment anywhere.

I am excited about my business, it has been a dream since I was a little girl. For as long as I can remember I have liked the idea of being my own boss so to speak, and there is nothing wrong with that, however my prayer for this New Year is that I do not get so caught up in Mardi Robyn that I neglect Jesus Christ. Without Him Mardi Robyn wouldn't even be possible. So yes, I want my busines to grow this year, and I believe that it will, but more importantly I want to grow in Jesus Christ!

The Bible says to seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you. So run after God with all the passion inside and I promise you, He will give you the desires of your heart. But guess what, you will find that the desires of your heart, whether it is owning your own business, writing a book, getting married, etc.. the joy of having the desires of your heart will be great, but the relationship you develop with God by seeking Him will be a hundred times greater than receiving the desires of your heart. And the desire you receive will be a hundred times sweeter when you have sought God and know it was He who made it possible!

Tonight I was watching The Basement (http://www.thebasementonline.com/) live at (http://www.thebasementlive.com/) with Evangelist Matt Pitt out of Birmingham, Alabama.He talked about how people make New Years resolutions and had all these plans for the New Year and that was great, but He challenged everyone to make their top priority Jesus Christ! He said, "The New Year needs a New You.....if you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always got." That is so true. If you have been living without Christ, or you have a ticket out of hell, meaning you are a Christian and you know when you die or if the rapture takes place before you die, you know you will go to heaven, but you don't have an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ, meaning He hasn't become your best friend, then you are missing out on so much. I know I have missed out on so much by not putting Christ first.


My goal for this year is to seek first my Lord and Savior. How do you do that? By praying, reading His Word, spending time worshipping God. Doing everything you do all for the glory of God. That will make you stop and think about what it is you do when you think "Am I doing this for the glory of God?" It is hard to watch the wrong television show, listen to the wrong music, or anything else that isn't pleasing to God when you think, am I doing this so Christ can get the glory, or am I doing this for myself? What really matters in eternity? Am I helping my relationship with Christ, or am I hindering my relationship with Christ by choosing this action. When you start thinking along those lines, and than make the right choices, your life will change for the better. And you can do it, with Christ as your strength you can make right choices! It isn't impossible, all things are possible with God! (Luke 1:37) Philippians 4:13 says "I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me."

Think about it, there is a verse in the Bible that says our body is the temple of the Holy Ghost. We are to glorify God with our bodies. Its pretty hard to glorify God with your body if your getting drunk, or having sex with someone outside of marriage. Maybe you are like me and have never had sex, maybe you are saving yourself for marriage like I am, so that sentence of having sex with someone outside of marriage doesn't apply to you. Awesome! I'm proud of you. But what about how we dress...our body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, we have established that. So shouldn't how we dress act like it? Ladies, we need to be modest in how we dress. Think about it, in one breath we tell guys, ain't no way I'm giving myself to you, I'm saving myself for that one special guy, so you can just back off jack...but then we turn around and dress to catch his attention. There is nothing wrong with dressing nice. BUT there is something wrong with advertising what we are not willing to give. I love what Hayley Dimarco said, "If it ain't on the menu, cover it up!" Our bodies are the temple of the Holy Ghost! Let's act like it! Yes, I know people mess up and make mistakes, it happens and there is forgiveness through Jesus Christ, just ask. But, we don't need to make it a habit. We need to remember we are bought with a price, Christ shed His blood on a cross for our sins, for us. So we can be free in Him. Our body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, we are sons and daughters of the most High God, it is our duty, our calling to act like it. That puts a lot of things in a different perspective, in a different light when you start thinking like that.

When 2011 rolls around I want to be able to look back on 2010 and know that I put my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ first in my life and have a deeper relationship with Him. I want to know that I put Christ first and everyone and everything else second. I believe in doing so, the rewards are far greater than if I did not! My Jesus gave His life for me, the least I can do is give my life to Him by letting His Holy Spirit have His way in me! Will you do the same?

If you want, email me at Mardi@MardiRobyn.com I would love to hear from you! Or leave a comment!

God Bless and Happy New Year!!!


~*~Come unto me, all you that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me: for I am meek and lowly in heart: and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
Matthew 11:28-30~*~

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A View Through My Eyes: Week 45

I took these pictures Sunday, along with over a hundred more! I already posted them on facebook, but I decided to post these two here today!






The expression on Goober's face is sweet! He was looking down at something!

How Much T.V. Is Too Much T.V.?

I typed this up months ago but did not get around to blogging it until now..

So how much television is considered to much television? I think this is a question everyone needs to ask and decide for themselves. Personally in the past I have watched entirely to much television and sometimes I still do. But with God’s help I’m working to change that.

Why do I feel you can watch to much television?

For one and the most important reason, to much television takes away from spending time with God. And to much television isn’t good for you. Whether we want to admit it or not, television has a way of shaping our views and opinions. Most of the time in a negative way. To much negativity isn’t good. Television has become the number one babysitter in America and other parts of the world. It seems we are consumed with television just about everywhere we go. Media trying to shape us into what they want us to be. It is like the television is an idol we set up on an entertainment center and the household revolves around it. Don’t believe me? If you watch television a lot, try turning it off and spending time with your family. A lot of families wouldn’t know how to act. Television should not be the number one means of entertainment. It should not be consumed for hours on end, watching show after show, movie after movie, commercial, after commercial. Personally to much television makes me feel like I want to be sick. It gets old and is tiring. The constant blaring of the media trying to shape us into a secular worldview. You even have to be careful with Christian television. Television should not define who you are. It shouldn’t be the thing you run to when you are bored or don’t know what to do with yourself. Most importantly it should not come between you and spending time with God.

Television has become a habit. A noise maker. To prove my point right now as I type this I have the television on a recorded episode of HGTV’s program “Income Property.” I am not watching it, obviously, I am staring at the computer screen typing this blog, but I hear the noise.

*Click*
*Click*

*Silence.*

I turned the television off. What a relief. I can actually hear myself think better. My concentration is better. Which proves my point, more times than not, television is a distraction.

I have said for several years now that when I get married and have children, I want television time to be limited for my children. I pray whomever the Lord has for me to marry agrees and feels the same way. I don’t want family time to consist of sitting around a television, no one talk until commercials, etc.. I want family time to actually be just that, family time, Bible devotions, talking, playing games, laughing, having serious talks, etc.. and when we do sit around the television I want it to be to watch family oriented programs (which are few unless you go back to watching old television shows) or family oriented movies. I don’t want my children watching today’s cartoons either. There are only a few secular cartoons I might would consider them watching if they stay as clean as they are now, but even then I am not sure. Besides there are plenty of Bible-themed cartoons children can watch now days. Veggie tales, Hermie, just to name a couple. When it comes to programs for young children and teenagers, I don’t want them watching today’s so-called “teen entertainment” look at how it is today? Can you imagine how it will be when I get married and have children and they become teenagers? I don’t know what my husband will think, but I am seriously thinking I am not sure I even want cable or satellite in my house. If we want to watch something on television, buy a dvd. And parents preview the movie before watching it together as a family. One thing that irritates me is Parents having no clue what kind of content is on a dvd they buy their children, or on a cartoon or kids show on television. A lot of them think well it’s a cartoon or a program geared toward my child’s age group, it must be alright. WRONG. Be the parent, show some caution and preview, preview, preview. Watch it with your children. Sit down and find out what they are watching and by all means, please don’t let the television be your child’s babysitter. That is a major problem with children today. The television has taught them what they believe. It has been their parents, their babysitter, and now their actual Parents wonder why their child’s attitudes stink and they are getting into trouble. It’s because of what they watch on t.v and listen to in music and play in video games, which is another blog post all together. I am not a Parent but I do know in order to train up a child in the way he or she should go, your going to have to be a part of that child’s life. Be the parent. I have never trained a child, I’m not married. But, I have trained some dogs, or attempted to train some dogs. And I know from experience how much time and effort you put into that dog will determine how well that dog obeys, listens and is around you and others. If you want a good dog, invest time in that dog. Children are 100 times better than a dog, how much more time should we invest in them. 100% more time then we invest in training an animal or spending on something else. Children are gifts from God, we must train them according to His Word. We cannot tell them to follow God and His Word in one breath, and then sit them in front of the television screen for hours at a time. What they spend the most time on is what will shape who they are. Good or bad.

I for one am re-evaluating my views on television, and what I watch and shouldn’t watch, how much time I watch television and how much time I should cut back on watching television. I believe to much time is wasted in front of a television when we could be productive in other areas of life, making a difference for what really matters in eternity.
So this week I am seriously considering all of my television habits and working to eliminate a lot of television time.

What do you consider to be to much television?
What are your views on to much television?
Do you think television is negative or positive, both? Why or why not?

I would like to read your feedback! Thanks!