Complete in Thee: Tag!

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Tag!

I love tags. :-)

The Rules
1. Copy the questions and then answer them (post it on your blog remember).
2. Tag 4 people and let them know you have tagged them.
3. Let the person [who tagged you] know that you have done a post for the tag.

What are your nicknames?
Emmie, Mellie, Mackie, Em, Melanina, Lady MacMel, and many others, thanks to our dear Teddy Skaggs :-)

What was the first movie you bought in VHS or DVD?
Usually my mom buys the movies we have, but I think the first that I bought was The Inheritance. Besides that, I’ve only pitched in money to buy my mom Wives and Daughters, North and South, and the Planet Earth series.

What is your favourite scent?
Apple blossoms.

If you had one million dollars to spend only on yourself, what would you spend it on?
What a selfish question! Why would I want to spend a million dollars on myself!? There are such better things it could go to. I can just hear Harry Gregson from Cranford say, "You can build a whole school with that! Everyone could go!"

What is one place you've visited, can't forget and want to go back to?
Campobello Island, Canada.

Do you trust easily?
Not really. I don’t easily trust others easily because of betrayed trusts in the past, and I don’t easily trust myself because I know how deceitful my heart is. My sinful nature often struggles to trust God, but when I renew my mind with Scripture, I remember that He alone is worthy of all my trust, because He has promised to never fail! Why would I be hesitant to place all my hopes and dreams in His hands and know He will use them for His glory and for my good?

Do you generally think before your act, or act before you think?
It depends. Sometimes I think so much that I never do act. That is way too typical of me. But in more mundane situations, I tend to act before I think.

Is there anything that had made you unhappy these days?
Yes, but it was the work of God prodding me so that He can change me and make me truly happy/joyful in the end.

What is your favorite fruit?
The question should be, what is your least favorite fruit, for if I was to name my favorite, I would name almost all of them! :-D

What websites do you visit daily?
My blogs, Sense and Sensibility forum, and friend’s blogs (if they updated :-) )

What have you been seriously addicted to lately?
Historical/movie costuming. :-P

What's the last song that got stuck in you head?
“Slow Fade” (from Fireproof). What thought-provoking words!

What is your favourite thing to wear?
My Regency gowns. You saw that one coming, didn't you! :-P

Do you think Rice Krispies are yummy?
Not unless they are a Rice Krispies treat. (“TREAT, Mother!”)

What items couldn't you be without during the day?
The most obvious necessities! Clothes, food…

What should you be doing right now?
Uhhh…. Probably straightening up my room. :-P And getting some fresh air outside. And letting the people I tagged know I tagged them. :-)

I tag:
Leah at The White Woods
Rosebud at Amanda's Journals
Ana at Ana's Corner
Uh.... I seem to have run out of people! Any one else who wants to do this tag may do it too, just let me know. :-)

4 comments:

Teddy said...: Oh, so very fun! Love the questions!; July 17, 2009 at 11:41 AM
Anonymous said...: It does sound fun!; July 17, 2009 at 3:00 PM
Melanie said...: Guys, I should have said in my post, if you want to do the tag but don't have a blog, you can do one in the comments section right here! :-) I'd love to hear your answers... ;-); July 20, 2009 at 10:42 AM
Leah said...: Fear not my dear, I will do this... I just have to go to work right now. :) I'll do it as SOON as I get home. Plus I will comment MANY times on your blog and drink in it's delicious words and just flat out pure deliciousness. Love you!; July 21, 2009 at 10:34 AM

PRAYER REQUESTS

"Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints" (Ephesians 6:18)

PLEASE PRAY...

* That I would draw nearer to God every day and never allow my relationship to become stagnant ritual; particularly that I would grow in the area of submission, patience, 1 Corinthians 13 love, and wholehearted devotion

* That I might have wisdom as I edit "The Marquis' Daughter"; that the Lord would bless and work through it; and that I might find just the right publisher for it.

* That I would submit to the Lord's work in my life, whatever it may be; that I would take each opportunity He brings me (even the seemingly hard ones) to draw closer to Him and point others to Him

*That our Etsy shop might be successful and that it would be a means by which we can glorify God and share the Gospel

Ephesians 2:1-10

And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience-- among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ--by grace you have been saved-- and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

"The heart set to do the Father's will need never fear defeat. His promises of guidance may be fully counted upon. Does it make sense to believe that the Shepherd would care less about getting His sheep where He wants them to go than they care about getting there?"

"God is God. Because He is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will, a will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what He is up to."

"If God, like a father, denies us what we want now it is in order to give us some far better thing later on. The will of God, we can rest assured, is invariably a better thing."

"Obedience to God's will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight. It is not willingness to know, but willingness to DO (obey) God's will that brings certainty."

"Victory over all the circumstances of life comes not by might, nor by power, but by a practical confidence in God and by allowing His Spirit to dwell in our hearts and control our actions and emotions. Learn in the days of ease and comfort, to think in terms of the prayer that follows, so that when the days of hardship come you will be fully prepared and equipped to meet them."

"And shall I pray, Oh, change Thy will, my Father,
Until it be according unto mine?
Ah no, Lord, no, that never could be, rather
I pray Thee, Blend my human will with Thine."

"A crucified life cannot be self-assertive. It cannot protect itself. It cannot be startled into resentful words. The cup that is full of sweet water cannot spill bitter-tasting drops, however sharply it is knocked."

"And as we rest our hearts upon what we know (the certainty of the ultimate triumph of good), leaving what we do not know to the Love that has led us all our life long, the peace of God enters into us and abides. And then we see our light."

[A Practicing Christian]...it means that every single act and feeling, every experience, whether pleasant or unpleasant, must be referred to God. It means looking at everything as something that comes from Him, and always looking to Him and asking His will first, and saying, "How would he wish me to deal with this?"

Christ says: "Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work. I want you."

"I was not born to be free. I was born to adore and to obey."

"What is saving but taking us out of the dark into the light? There is no salvation but to know God and grow like Him."

"I will not try to convince you of anything about God. I cannot. You must know Him. I only tell you I believe in Him with all my heart. You must ask Him to explain Himself to you, and not take it for granted that He has done you a wrong because He has done what you do not like. Whether you seek Him or not, He will do you justice. But He cannot explain Himself unless you seek Him."

"Sometimes a thunderbolt will shoot from a clear sky; and sometimes into the life of a peaceful individual, without warning of gathered storm, something terrible will fall. And from that moment everything is changed. That life is no more what it was. Better it ought to be, worse it may be. The result depends on the life itself and it's response to the invading storm of trouble. Forever after, it's spiritual weather is altered. But for the one who believes in God, such rending and frightful catastrophies never come but where they are turned around for good in his own life and in other lives he touches."