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Dear Secret Sisters
MARCH IS HERE ALREADY !!!!!
March generates activities of all kinds as Spring is just around the corner. your lives have probably already laid plans what is in store for you and all you need is the time, courage and finances to do it all !
It is also the month to measure our worth, as Women's International Day of Prayer March 2, International Womens Day March 8, Midwives Day, Black Woman's Day, and so many other days have come. Just the other day i heard it was national Pistachio day!, so that was interesting as i love them. They are here because we have had to stand up for the right to to be treated properly and as persons all our lives and to provide nourishment for our families in any faculity.
this month i am taking the liberty to address all of you that we know, besides being secret sisters, to read the International Womans Day of Prayer newsletter (Click on the link here)
Read the caption below that says ..........a strong woman has the potential to shine but to give herself to Christ, that takes courage and from there she will shine.
the story that is below describes a woman with these many talents to shine....
do the quotes below match any of your personality, i thought they were interesting and adding some pictures with a purpose that is characteristic of a christian woman in that relationship.....
INSPIRATION:
MOTIVATION:
THOUGHTS TO THINK ABOUT!!!
One of the quotes i read was that women have dark secrets. although some do but truly a successful christian woman is one who seeks God in the secret of the morning
Dark Secret #1: I can’t retire to my rocking chair and crochet. I must continue to work if I want to eat. There is no RV trip to the Grand Canyon on my horizon. And I don’t own a rocking chair.
Dark Secret #2: Those adorable grandchildren that I would lay down my life for wear me out fast, and I don’t really want to have an overnight with them.
Dark Secret #3: I prefer to sleep in my own bed separate from my husband so our mutual snoring does not disturb each other.
a woman with a purpose is a strong woman that stands calm, confident and does not measure herself with other women.
dont mess with her, she isn't delicate like a daffodil, she is delicate like dynamite!!!
the most courageous act is to think for yourself. Out loud
That God sent on earth ..
Read more at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/98458635.cms?from=mdr&utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst
“The success of every woman should be the inspiration to another. We should raise each other up. Make sure you’re very courageous: be strong, be extremely kind, and above all be humble.”
“Do not live someone else’s life and someone else’s idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you.”
how
have you been the last month? some of us have had very challenging
circumstances. What was it that helped you? What did you do with it?
RECIPE
Green Lantern Drink
CRAFT
PRAYER
Prayer for Mornings
Good morning, Lord! Today's a new day for a new start. Yesterday is gone and with it the things of the past. I give you today myself and family and friends. Thank you for today, a new opportunity to love, give, and be all that you want me to be. Be with each lady ministering to one another here ....Amen.
to go along with your prayer is a challenge JOY DARE for this month.
- 3 GIFTS AT 3PM
- 3 GIFTS GREEN
- 3 GIFTS WORN
- 3 GIFTS HARD TO GIVE THANKS FOR
- 3 GIFTS FOUND
- A GIFT BENT, BROKEN, BEAUTIFUL
- 3 GIFTS FROM THE KITCHEN
- 3 GIFTS LOUD
- 3 GIFTS CARVED
- 3 GIFTS IN CHRIST
- 3 GIFTS READ
- A GIFT IN WIND, IN WATER, IN WHITE
- 3 GIFTS ROUND
- 3 GIFTS FOUND IN SILENCE
- 3 GIFTS GIVEN AWAY
- 3 GIFTS HARD TO BE THANKFUL FOR
- A GIFT TURNED, FOLDED, HUNG
- 3 GIFTS SOFT
- 3 GIFTS EATEN
- 3 GIFTS THAT MADE YOU LAUGH
- A GIFT SALTY, SWEET, JUST RIGHT
- 3 GIFTS FOUND IN WOMEN TODAY
- 3 GIFTS SPOKEN
- A GIFT SUNG, WRITTEN, PAINTED
- 3 GIFTS ALMOST GONE
- 3 GIFTS REDEEMED
- 3 GIFTS ENTWINED
- 3 GIFTS OF HIS PROMISES
- 3 GIFTS UNCOVERED
- A GIFT HEARD, HELD, HOPED FOR
- 3 GIFTS GOING THRU HARD TIMES
THANK YOU for reading ladies, any comments you can to add or say are welcome. please add!!!!
I see lots of gifts being exchanged and it is exciting to watch!! I hope everyone has had connection with your secret sister. If not please let me know -- thank you....... do you like the newsletter on line or would you prefer paper?????
Happy Saint Patricks Day too!!! Hot chocolate in a green cup is for all of you!!!
bev
womans mininstry leader
STORY 
Corazon Aquino
Cory and her family fled their home country, the Philippines, to the United States because her husband was a wanted man. He was a senator who advocated freedom and democracy. Because of a vile dictator, these views put a target on his back so their family were forced to flee. After a few years in exile, they heard rumors that it might be finally safe to return home.
So her husband went back alone. He was assassinated upon his return. Her world was shattered. Cory was now alone with their five children. She not only lost the love of her life, but everything she had sacrificed and supported her husband through felt in vain. He was a nonviolent proponent whose goal was to end the corruption in their country. But he was now gone.
Cory was faced with a difficult decision. She could give up and stay safe in the United States with her family. Or she could return to her home country they had both been fighting to save. She decided to continue the nonviolent fight against the government who killed anyone who disagreed.
She was afraid. When Cory and her husband first started their movement, their first large event was bombed by the government’s secret police. They then threw her husband in jail. He was locked away for seven years which made Cory have to raise their children all on her own.
After Cory’s husband’s death, Cory had a massive wave of support. Two million people attended her husband’s funeral. He had become a martyr. A few days later, a jury acquitted all 26 defendants in the murder of her husband.
Cory then realized that she must run for president. A woman had never been elected for president before. She had no political experience and was a self-described housewife. But that became her strength. She raised five children and helped her husband become the most influential senator in the country.
Cory started attending more demonstrations and protests. Her following grew. The dictator made a surprise announcement to hold an election, before Cory was fully ready with her campaign. She was reluctant, but with the urging of her supporters, she agreed to run.
During the election, the dictator said that Cory she was just a woman and that her real place was in the bedroom. Cory knew that the dictator’s health was failing and that the dictator’s wife was really the one running everything. So she calmly replied with, “May the better woman win this election.”
He attacked her again saying that her lack of political experience was going to threaten everyone and destroy the country. She said back, “I don’t have experience in cheating, lying to the public, stealing government money, or killing political opponents. So I do agree I have less political experience than the kind that you’re talking about.”
The dictator declared himself the winner of the election without even counting the votes. Cory and her followers gathered to protest for peaceful civil disobedience by boycotting media and businesses that were controlled by the government and dictator.
Soon, the world took notice and leaders around the globe expressed their support for Cory. As a result, the dictator was forced to flee the Philippines. Corazon Aquino stepped into his place, as the first woman president of the Philippines and in all of Asia.
