Chalk Board Wall . . .

A favorite wall hanging on my newly painted, BIG, chalk board wall that I am slowly trying to get used to...the kids say it is going to be AWESOME!

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I've had this wooden angel decoration (it has another five inches of dress below my pic cut off point) hanging on various walls for the last seven years or so. I got it one Saturday after a swim workout, at my favorite little market/gift shop I'd swing by on my way home. That was a lifetime ago. I put things like this and other positive messages throughout our home over the years, they were uplifting, positive, joyous, hopeful, scriptural (I wasn't voted into the Optimist club in high school for no reason! (-:)...I took pictures of all of them while I disassembled and packed the entire house by myself, into the wee hours of many mornings, to move us all in 2015/16 because it was shocking to me that I was, and am still, being told I was the exact opposite of these sentiments I tried to surround and grow our family with, and that SP needed to flee for his life because of it.  Yes...for real...

Dumbfoundedly shocking to be even more specific. 

But, flee he did, move we did and at my new/old home...they still hang on my walls and I still aim to surround my newly shaped family in all they embody and I'm still not the exact opposite of these sentiments. 

Never have been.

I said it back when life all started blowing up and I maintain the same stance today...it has been fascinating and sad watching satan at work and SP and his family being blindly swindled by his lies. I'm sure he must have danced in glee at the destruction of a marriage and family. 

But, we do not despair . . .

I give great praise and adoration to our one, true, Heavenly Father for having conquered satan and all our sin through the birth, death and resurrection of His most beloved son, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ!