Do YOU care???

Tonight I saw a really heart moving play about foster care and adoption put on by Family Christian agency. It just went into depth of the lives of some of these things that children really do go through! It ended in a heartwrenching, yet motivating way to PUSH us to do something, ANYTHING to help! They portrayed how there are ten-year-old kids that are still in diapers, NOT because they were BORN with a menal handicap, because of NEGLECT...emotional handicap... Our lil MJ was heading in this direction!!! Buuuuut THANK GOD for intervening! I can't STOP thanking God for what He did for my niece!!!  "When God Gives You A Home!"  

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Sooooo at the end of the play, They showed a boy, that was aging out of foster care and with no direction in life he writes his caseworker/mentor a letter saying that all he ever wanted was a forever home...a HAPPY HOME...but he NEVER got it and he didn't know anything else to do, except to go back to the parents he was taken from as a child. Then it shows him going to his parent's home, they have a meth lab, the father takes off his apron and hands it to the now 18-year-old son, then he hands him a baggy of white powder, and he begins his own life in a world of drugs.

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Then they talked about how no matter how hard you may try with one, you can't give up, you have to treat each child like there IS a hope! And it reminded me sooooo much of soul winning, as I said HERE, it can grow WEARISOME....buuuuuuut we can't give up!!! We can't, NOT get involved! We can't, NOT let it get to us...WE HAVE TO CARE!!! Verbal Bean says, "God doesn't care till we care!" LETS CARE YOU GUYS!!!

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Obviousley, we can't ALL be foster parent's or adopt a child!!! Buuuuuuut WE CAN DO SOMETHING!!!! First of all we can PRAY!!! IF You can't do ANYTHING ELSE... SERIOUSLEY PRAY!!! Second of all, there are other ways you can get involved, through tutoring, mentoring or volunteering!!! I felt like I would really like to be a mentor to someone...I connect very well one on one with people, God gave me the gift of a BIG HEART that LOVES easily...I know I can do this!!! Buuuuuuuut if you can't get involved with any of those ways at this time, I have just one thought that comes to my mind...SUNDAY SCHOOL KIDS!!! We can LOVE THEM!!! Just do your part with the Sunday School ministry at your own church...LOVE THOSE KIDS!!!  Here below is something I wrote that I wanna share with you all...

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Do you ever wonder? It was just one of those days at work as a nanny. I had spent all morning chasing the kids as they tore the house a part. Finally, it was naptime. I put the little one down first in his crib. Then I told Ella to pick out a short story for me to read to her before her nap. She handed me Max Lucado’s book called, "Just In Case You Ever Wonder." I rolled my eyes to myself, I had read this story several years ago and was not at impressed by it. However, I was tired and just figured I would get story time over with. I tucked the 5-year-old girl into her cozy little bed, then sat on the edge and began to read to her…

Long, long ago God made a decision- a very important decision. One that I’m really glad He made. He made the decision to make you. The same hands that made the stars made you. The same hands that made the canyons made you. The same hands that made the trees and the moon and the sun made you. So I am just sitting there like blah, blah, blah, whatever, totally not any more impacted by this story. It continues…

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God made you like no one else. If you looked all over the world – every city in every house – there is would be no one else like you. No one with your eyes, no one with your mouth, no one with your laugh. You are very, very special. And since you are so special, God wanted to put you in just the right home. All of the sudden I felt something tighten in my heart…

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God wanted to put you in just the right home. Where you would be warm when it’s cold, where you’d be safe when you’re afraid, where you’d have fun and learn about heaven. I’m starting to feel choked up… So, after lots of looking for just the right family, God sent you to me. And I’m so glad he did. I could hardly contain myself as I continued reading the story. It wasn’t the story so much in itself that was causing the emotional response, but because I know some children, that can’t relate with this story. I know some children, that don’t always have a warm place to sleep at night. There are some children that aren’t safe in their own home.

Finish reading HERE!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

I think I missed something!!!

Sooooo in class this past Sunday Morning, Bro. Jimmy asked if we all knew knew who Ralph Waldo Emerson is...Everyones like OH YES!!! I'm like Ralph Waldo Emerson...Hmmmm...
OH YES...WALDO!!!

Like HELLLLLLLOOOO of course I know who WALDO IS!!!

Bro. Jimmy is like, YES, the famous poet we all learned about in school!!! I'm like POET??? I thought he was an explorer and HIDER!!?!?! I think I missed something in school!!! AHAHAHA!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

Dressed And Blessed!!!

Today only, the 50th person to sign up for this stores email list will receive a credit of $20  towards any fixed price listing in my store to be used within the next 3 months!  Also, there are several 3 day auctions starting today at only .99 cents! Go HERE to start shopping!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

SOLD!!!!

Yaaaaaaaaaaay!!! My ipad is OFFICIALLY SOLD for $250!!! YESSSSS!!! I'm sooooooo happy cuz, I think I saw a small lap top at Best Buy for $245!!!! I really TRIED to LOOOOOVE my iPad, buuuuuut it was just of NO USE TO ME!!! I was like, okaaaaaaay I just want this for WRITING, annnnnnd its not really made for that...ALL the other cool things you can just use on your iPhone...soooooo whats the point of having two??? I know, I know, I KNOW, i'm pretty much the ONLY person that finds an iPad useless...buuuuuuut then again...we all ALREADY KNEW that I'm NOT NORMAL!!!

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My Mexican dad, HATERRR is the one that bought it... he said he wanted to see pics of it first...I'm like 100% sure it was THIS PICTURE that sold it to him!!! AHAHAHAHA!!!

He said he HATES CATS! Then he asked me if he could pay in food stamps...AHAHAHAHAHAHA... that made me laugh really hard!!!! THEN told me to GO CLEAN MY ROOM sooooo as to not scare all the guys off!!! LOL! YES SIR!!! I still remember his advice to me if I wanna impress a Mexican man!!! HAHAHAHA!!! I'll have to post that sometime!!!

ANYWAYZ...the iPad IS SOLD!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

iPad for sale!

Sellin a iPad 2 with a Bluetooth portable apple keyboard for $300! It works fine and is in good condition! It's jus not good for extreme writing which is what I had wanted it for! My goal is to resell it and buy a little lap top. If interested, let me know! Or email me at maryfranceswriting@gmail.com pass it on! (: ooooo annnnnd it comes with a really cute hello kitty case!!! ;) hee, hee!!!

Family bonding!!! :)

Soooooooo with my family we start group text messaging...with an app called group me...cuz we all, minus my dad and the kids, have smart phones! Sooooooo its funny cuz since that app we've all talked to each other WAAAAAAAY MORE...LOL! Annnnnnd some of the stuff is sooooooo FUNNY!!!!

TOTAL FAMILY BONDING!!! ;]

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Soooooo we're all tryin to teach my mom stuff on her phone, like how to use emojians, annnnnnd once she figured out she goes all cRaZy with the smileys...

TRYIN to EXPLAIN stuff to MOM!!!

MJ Tryin to mountain climb....

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AHAHAHAHA......DUMMMMMB!!! LOLOLOL

 Buuuuuuuuuuuuut I think this is my ALL TIME FAVORITE!!!

We have Wifi? Is that a wii??? AHAHAHAHAHAAHA!!! Yes, we have wifi AND NO its NOT a wii!!! LOLOLOL!!!Don't worry MOM...we won't get a wii or bring one into the house!!! :]

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As I'm sitting here typing this post, I think, WOW, its cRaZy thinking about the fact that we all have smart phones now, I remember as kids when we didn't even have a phone line in the house because we couldn't afford it...God's been good to us!!! :) 

♥Mary Frances :)

HAPPY BIRRRRTHDAY HANNA!!!!!

Just wanna say Happy birthday to HANNA!!!

I was looking through some pics recently and I was like, Oh, these were BEFORE I was friends with Hanna and Anali,  annnnnnnnd it felt weird...cuz the pics wern't from ALL that long ago, buuuuuut its hard to imagine us all NOT being friends!!! How did we become friends??? Sooooo i remember seeing Hanna's pic on Jen Connell's blog, I though Hanna went to the Connells church, I didn't know she was was a pastor's kid herself...LOL!!! For some reason I really wanted to meet her...somehow I knew, without ever reading anything about her that she wasn't just your typical African American, I knew she was like AFRICAN by culture too...I don't know how, I just KNEW...sooooo I really wanted to meet her...soooooooo we could talk about AFRICAN things together...

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Help I'm a prisoner...

This reminds me of one of my favorite chapter books as a kid!!! "Help, I'm a prisoner of the Library!" Only this is, HELP IM A PRISONER AT WALMART!!!!

Whoa!!!

Omw I'm locked in at Walmart!!! The lights went out and were not allowed out!!!

Random thought...

Random thought before falling asleep last night, when you feel the calling of God, you know longer do things out of duty or obligation, you do it because you actually feel a pushing, a tugging, a pulling within toward that direction. You don't do it because you have to, you do it because you can't NOT do it...well that was my last thoughts before drifting off into dream land last night...Just thought I would share...not even a whole devotional, just a distinctive thought in my mind! Have a blessed day everyone! :)

♥Mary Frances :)

Am I mean?!?!?!

 Soooooooo my brother John tends to think, I'm MEAN!!! WHY???? Okaaaaaaaaay weeeeeellllll let me back up by giving you a lil history in this post! Sooooooo while Hanna was here we were talking about BROTHER'S annnnnd how when you have BROTHER'S especially more than one, you enquire TOUGH SKIN!!! Now I have THREE BROTHERS, sooooooo yeah I've heard it ALL!!!

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Hanna was like, yeah, brother's just feel free to point out EVERY lil imperfection you have, like, your forhead is big and you got zits, etc..I'm like YEAH, my brother talks about my nose, which in MY OPPINION IS PERFECT, but aside from that I'm usually greeted by them with a, hey big momma or a, What up fatty!

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Annnnnnnd me and Hanna were talking about how there is NOTHING you can really do about it, cuz if you SHOW that you care, they just do it MORE!!! Annnnnnd if you tattle your then called an adult tattler...soooooooo yeah, you jus suck it up like a big girl annnnnnnnd WAIT for the once in a life time...PERFECT COMEBACK.

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Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelllllllllll FOR ME...that ONCE IN A LIFETIME, PERFECT COMEBACK came this past Sunday morning. After morning service, John comes over to me and with his usual, typical brotherly greeting he says, "What up FATTY?" annnnnnnnnd without even THINKING ABOUT IT...LIKE SERIOUSLEY...God practically just put the words in my mouth for me...sooooooo he says, "What up FATTY?" Annnnnnnd I automatically respond back with...DRUM ROLL... not much FATTER????

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IMPORTANT NEWS!!!

AHEM...Bro. ANDREW IS SPEAKING!!!

Weeeeeelllll WHAT are you all waiting for??? Bro. Andrew has SOMETHING to say sooooooo you better get your self on over to HEAR HIS ANNOUNCEMENT!!!

HE is speaking HERE!!!

♥Mary Frances :) 

Funny party moments!

Funny Moment #1
Soooooooooo Wednesday night before the party I got a card with a letter in it from a grandmotherly lady in my church...I can't read cursive sooooooo i had difficulty reading the letter...sooooo she kinda skimmed over it and read parts of it to me...

Lololol!!!

Happy Mothers Day!!!

To the WORLD'S GREATEST MOMMY!!!

Its because of THIS woman's choice to live for God despite the circumstances of life, that I'm living for God today!!! Thank you Mom for being strong, pushing through and staying faithful NO MATTER WHAT!!! I LOOOOOOVE YOU!!! Xoxoxoxo

"Her children arise up, and call her blessed..." (Proverbs 31:28)

♥Mary Frances :)

P.S. Vans in the shop, think you can take me to the store to buy you a present, dearest mommy bear??? LOLOL...Fo RealZ tho!!! ;)

Presents!!!

Sooooooo I got a TON of gifts!!! Like WOW!!!!

My SURPRISE 30th party (Part 2)

  Okaaaaaaaaaay soooo this is when I REALIZED that my party was INDEED THAT NIGHT!!!

Talkin to Jen Lord and I'm like, WELL since the diet is going DOWN tonighat ANYWAYZ, might as well go get a FRAPP!! HAHA!!! Then I like FREAK OUT ON HER!!! I'm like JEN!!! Hanna and Anali are gonna be here tonight and my ROOM IS A MESS!!! I'm like okaaaaaaaaay let me go make my bed, but try and make it so I didn't soooo my sis doesn't know that I KNOW!!! HAHAHA!!!

 

WAS I SURPRISED??? Wellll I had been kinda suspicious buuuuuuuuuut.... 

Rejected?!?!

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! If nobody else laughed ... I DID!!! Fo realZ ...
TOTALLY just cracked MYSELF UP!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Its like okaaaaaaaay...moving right along...NEEEEEEXT!!! LOLOLOLOLOL

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Seriousley tho people, don't let your disapointments hold you back and hinder you from living life to its fullest!!! Ya gotta KEEP ON KEEPING ON!!! You just don't know what dream is about to be fulfilled around the corner!!! I know it sounds clichae buuuuuuuuuuuuut...

#youjustneverknow;)

♥Mary Frances :)

Surprise party part 1!

Sooooooo as I commented on Anali's post about my surprise 30th birthday party, I STILL haven't even blogged about it...like I'm soooo astounded by the party and there was soooo much going on I don't even know how to organize my thoughts and sum it all up!!! I guess you could say it ALL started...

TWO YEARS AGO!!!

YES REALLY...

TWO YEARS AGO!!!

My own class!!!

Sooooo as I've been telling you all, my family had a HUUUUUGE surprise part for me this past Friday and I even had out of town friends that came in for it!!! Hanna and Anali from Cali and Joe and Daisy from New Mexico...WEEEEELLL this ended both nights in A LOT of LAUGHTER!!! Annnnnnnd Saturday night I felt the need to entertain everyone by pulling out my teenage diaries...OH YES...YOU WILL LAUGH...

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Sooooooo We're all like HYSTERICAL laughing and then we started talking about who knows what and Hanna is like describing like how all her and Anali and Jen are in they're kindred friendship...Anali's the something and Jen's the whatever and she's blah, blah, blah, annnnnd I'm like Hanna what would you describe me as???

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She pauses, thinks about it then says, Mary I don't even know HOW to describe you...

Your in a CLASS OF YOUR OWN!!!

AHAHAHAHHAHA!!! I'm like I KNOW!!! I SOOOOOOOO AM!!! I'm like in MY OWN CLASS, I'm the ONLY student annnnnnnnnd there...

 AIN'T NO TEACHER!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

Ummmm...

I just wanted to let EVERYONE know that I AM AWARE of the fact that I pretty much havn't blogged in two days...my mom's also been texting me and letting me know...SORRY this past weekend was absolutely AWESOME...buuuuuuuuuut I've been a little bit TO BUSY to blog!!! I promise you all...TOMORROW things will get back to normal...YESTURDAY I went to bed by 9...which IF YOU KNOW ME...thats like WAAAAAAAAAAAAY EARLY...I had only gotten about 6 hours of sleep during the weekend...LOLOLOL...Ooooooo it was such an AWESOME WEEKEND!!!

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I would blog today buuuuuuuuuuuuut my uncle from NYC is coming over for dinner tonight annnnnnd I gotta get the house straightened up from all the partying that was done the past couple of days...I have a SINK FULL OF DISHES...that never got washed...*AHEM ANALI!!! ;) LOL!!! I've been running errands for people all morning...MJ forgot her lunch...Mom needed parmesian cheese and olive oil...had a personal training appointment that couldn't be canceled without losing my money...you get the picture!!!!

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Sooooooooo here is a little preview of my party...

ENJOY that for now!!! :))))

♥Mary Frances :)



Surprise!!!

My family planned a huuuuuuge surprise 30th birthday party for me!!! It's sooooo MARYISH annnnnnd I feel sooooo LOOOOOOOVED!!!!!

No blog post!!!

Sorry you guys...i've been meaning to post all day buuuuuuut Gintyimages.com is doing a photo shoot for me for my last days as 29 YAY!!! You'll be seeing pics SOOOOOOO THO!!! LOL!

♥Mary Frances :)

THE ONLY ONE!!!

Sooooo a couple years ago, when Kim was still living with us, Kim and I were babysitting at our house for a certain-not-gonna-specifically-mention-any-names-heh-heh-pastor's children!!! So their daughter is MJ's age... very mature, responsible little thing...Basically, this PK was babysitting ME AND KIM...bahaha!!!

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So she was looking at my hair accessories and she see one of my lil hat pieces that i had been wearing.

REMEMBER THESE???

 

She looks at it adoringly, with longing in her eyes and wistuflly says, I really want one of these like SOOOOO MUCH!!! She goes, buuuuut I don't think i'll EVER have one!!! Weeeeellll being the MAR BEAR that I am, the strings on my heart were being tugged and I was like, Oh you can have that one if you want!

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She gets a slight glimmer of hope in her eyes, then the wistfullness returns as she says, no, I can't, mom and dad would NEVER let me wear it! I'm like, Oh, like they think they are to worldly or gaudy or what?! She says oh no nothing like that, my parents just think these things are...LONG PAUSE....DRUM ROLL PLEASE... My parents think they are ABSOLUTELY HIDIOUS!!! I'm like WHAAAAAAAAAAT??? Ahahahaha!!!

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I'm like HIDIOUS??? She's like, yeah, I don't know WHY, but they do!!! Wow, I can't believe this.... I mean, if this was a holiness conviction i OF COURSE would have been completely respectful of it without any questions...buuuuut HIDIOUS!?!?! LOL I mean maybe on SOME GIRLS buuuuuut I sooooooo THOUGHT I ROCKed the lil hat!!! Sooooo being ME, i decided to make a snarky little comment, I said, Oh REALLY?! Weeeeeellll you KNOW, thats because your parents have NEVER seen these on me!!!

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She pauses then sweetly and matter of factly says, ACTUALLY, your the ONLY person they have EVER seen them on!!! WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAT???? My mouth was HANGING OPEN!!! Kim was of course practically ON THE FLOOR IN COMPLETE HYSTERICS!!! And after my ten second shock wore off I joined her!!! WE laughed and laughed and laughed!!! Seriousley, it was SOOOOOO HILARIOUS!!!

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Poor lil PK neverrrr could quite figure out WHY we were laughing sooooo HARD!!! Kim was like, I am soooooooo wrapping one up and giving it to her mom for a gift...just to see her reaction...buuuuuuuut in the end we decided not to...just in case this poor lil PK would get in trouble for TALKING to much!!! LOLOL

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AnywayZ, I ended up getting over my lil hat faze and gave them all away...I mean, I was kinda getting over it anyhow, buuuuuuut the HIDIOUS comment definately HELPED!!! LOLOLOLOL!!! Oh maaaaaaaaaan ... I still laugh about that!!!!

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"My parents think they are ABSOLUTELY HIDIOUS!!!" "... thats because your parents have NEVER seen these on me!!!"  "ACTUALLY, your the ONLY personthey have EVER seen them on!!!"

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I just wanna be like, Soooooo BROTHER, tell me how you feel about my hair accessories... No really, don't HOLD BACK,

tell me how you REALLY FEEL!!! ;P

 AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

Half ok!!!

Soooo like I said in the April Fresh Fire post...Selina and Aurora had me CRACKIN up the WHOLE night!!!! Buuuuuuuuuuuut the FUNNNNNIEST thing they said to me the whole entire night was on the drive over! They were talking about some guy, we'll just call him, CHING-CHONG!!! Soooooooo I know a CHING-CHONG annnnnnd it seemed sooooo odd to hear this young of girls to be talking about him!!!

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I'm like, WOW girls are interested in Ching-Chong CHOW??? Kinda OLD for you girls!!! They're like OH NOOOOO, NOT Ching-Chong CHOW, a different Ching-Chong, we don't know his last name buuuuuut he is like 15...I'm like OOOOOOO gotcha!!!

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So then being the BIG TEASE that I am, I ask Delora, who is a lil older than Selina and Aurora, i'm like, WHAT about YOU, what do YOU think about Ching-Chong CHOW??? She is like UH NOOOOO...NOT MY TYPE!!! Soooooo i'm like OH OK! Im like well I don't think he is a bad guy...Selina is like, weeeelll I guess he ALRIGHT and Aurora, the YOUNGEST, then speaks up and is like WELL, I THINK HE IS OK!!!

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I'm like OOOOOO Aurora thinks he is OKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!! Like ooooo...Selina is like, weeeeelll I guess he is HALF OK!!! AHAHAHAHA!!! So Aurora is like yeah, I think HALF OK TOO!!! Then this is the part that just had me cracking up ALL NIGHT LONG! She goes, half OK... LIKE...

"He's the O in OK!!!"

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Like Literally just the O!!! Then they were talking about the OTHER 15-year-old Ching Chong and there like, yeah, he puts the F in FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE!!! AHAHAHAHAHA... Poor Mr. O...I mean personally, I woulda given him the FULL O.K.!!! Or at least a O.5K...or an O.1/2K...LOLOLOL...Buuuuuuuuuuuuut yeah, the next time your not sure how to describe someone your NOT into...just be like...well he's the O in OK!!! Oooooo YOU KNOW WHAT IM GONNA SAY??? I'm gonna say...

He puts the NOT in...

NOT FOR ME!!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

Or you could be like...

Soooooo BEFORE Bro. Alexander started preaching on Friday night he was just talking to the young people a little bit about LIFE!!! He was all like, you know I graduated from high school in 2000...So i'm sitting next to Keri H. and she whispers to me, What year did YOU graduate in? I'm like 2001...HAHA...and Bro. Alexander continues, he's like and I know it seems soooo far off in your minds young people but pretty soon you'll be graduated if your NOT already and just think that in 10-15 years you'll be like me, married with kids, a family of your own! I lean over to Keri and whisper

OR YOU COULD BE LIKE...

 ME...

STILL rocKin SINGLEHOOD!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

April Fresh Fire!!!

Okaaaaaay so this past Friday night was such a blast!!! The Brown's church in Avondale did their annual like every three months or so Fresh Fire Youth Rally, buuuuut this time it was something DIFFERENT cuz it was on a campgrounds in the White Tank Mountains area!!! Every time they have these youth rallys I think, okaaaaay I know i'm almost thirty, MAYBE I shouldn't go to these things anymore???

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Buuuuut in the end I'm like NOPE, I'll just go and help out by bringing the young teens from my church...PLUS i'm like, buuuuuuuuuut THESE YOUNG PEOPLE ARE MY FRIENDS...and I LUVERRRRS THEM!!! I mean HEEEEEY, I still may be going to these things buuuuuut at least I don't have to beg for rides anymore...I have MY OWN WHEELS NOW!!! AHAHAHAHA!!! Annnnnd being the AMAZING driver that I I was like Delora, who just got her permit...how about YOU JUST DRVE!!! I mean I'm still kinda REALLY scared of TRAFFIC annnnnnd unknown destinations that I have NEVERRR driven before REALLY scared me!!!

Soooooo we like drove and drove and like DROVE and once we had gotten to White Tanks and paid the parking fee to get in, we kept driving around assuming that we were going the wrong way, we turned around like three times till we went BACK to the pay booth and asked for directions to the youth rally!!! The ladies like, oh no, your going to have to drive around for like three miles...We were like OH WOW!!! We thought FOR SURE we would NEVERRRR find it cuz when driving SLOW three miles seemed like TEN buuuuuut THEN finally we saw our...

 SIGN IN THE DESERT!!!!

I don't know WHY buuuut when I saw it I just couldn't STOP laughing...the AWESOME ghettoness of a magic marker, handwritten sign in the middle of the desert that says FRESH FIRE....like YES...that would be FOR US!!!

Caught!!!

SCHEMING!!!

Sooooo this morning after church our youth pastor, Bro. Sam caught us IN THE ACT OF SCHEMING!!! It was pretty FUNNNNY!!! LOLOL!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

Gordon Mote Concert!

Okaaaaaaaaaay soooo the Gordon Mote concert was soooo AWESOME!!! I was telling some of my friends on group me, (Its a really cool app for mass text messaging) earlier in the day that I was going to hear him sing and one of my friends, Jedidah was like Mary I didn't know you liked southern gospel music!?! I'm like, Oh GIRRRRL YOU KNOW IT!!! AHAHA!! I'm like HEEEEEEY I was raised by THE ABBOTTS, like i ever had a chance to ever like anything else!!!! Southern gospel is IN MY BLOOD!!!

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Then I was like, what music did you THINK I like??? Cuz I was almost positive i knew what she was gonna say! And SHO nuff I was right, she texts back and says, BLACK GOSPEL!!! AHAHAHA! I sooooo knew it!!! I was like weeeeellll.... I must say THAT, in my personal oppinion, there is NOTHING better than an ANNOINTED BLACK MAN IN DA HOUSE singing!!! Can I get a WOOOOT! WOOOOOOT AMEN?!?! Buuuuuuuuut I must say that in the music world thats not what I hear a lot in black gospel...its a little bit TOO MUCH TALKING annnnnd NOT ENOUGH SINGING!!! I mean some talking is good but its like okaaaay we're going on five minutes and its on a professionally recorded CD, NOT at church...HELLOOOO!!! Plus there is WAAAAAY to much repetition!!!

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Okaaaaaaaay back to the Gordon Mote Concert!!! Sooooo this is the prelude before the concert, got a picture of the guy in front of me's head...I was bored and just couldn't resist...LOL...anyways this guy kept laughing at Gordon Mote's Blind Jokes, his laugh was sooooo funny it kept making me laugh harder!!!

The WHOLE time we were driving over there Jose made us play over and over and OVER AGAIN Gordon Mote singing SHUT THE DOOR!!! Jose said thats ALL he wanted to hear him sing!!! When he came out onto stage I just felt this feeling of exhileration in me...Then he just started singing, right off and MUCH to Jose's surprise and delight...SHUT THE DOOR!!! I was like ooooo yeah!!!

Blonde fatty!!!

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

I SOOOOOOOOOOO LOVE IT!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

What my mind is like!!!

Have you EVERRRR wondered, Hmmmm...I wonder HOW Mary's mind works??? Weeeeeellll I think this is a pretty ACCURATE description of my mind...

My mind is like a computer brower screen,

WITH 285,783 tabs open...

ALL THE TIME!!!

(Jus ask Jac about going to BROOKSTONE with me...ahahaha!!!)

♥Mary Frances :)

Gordon Mote!!!

Heeeeey you guys!!! Just wanted to let you all know that, HERE IN AZ, there is a free Gordon Mote concert this Thursday evening! If you've never heard of Gordon Mote before, he is a really good gospel singer and also plays the piano, he has been blind since birth... I absolutely love his voice!!! Also, He does the most amazing rendition of "I can't even walk with out you holding my hand" you can listen to it on iTunes! I can't lie, I've cried a few times listening to that song...I kinda like LOOOOOVE IT!!! If your interested in the concert, it starts at 7pm and is located at Phoenix Christian Assembly 2030 N. 36th street Phoenix AZ 85008 for more info call 602-275-8085

♥Mary Frances :)

MJ was BRAVE!!!

Today MJ was BRAVE!!! So because my niece has PKU, she has to go once a month for blood work to make sure that all her levels are good! Soooooo for the past four years, EVERY MONTH MJ has had to be held down by 3 people to get her blood drawn!!!

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TODAY all that changed!!! Today MJ just sat there bravely without crying or flinching ANNNNNNNNNND she just wants all the kids out there know about that!!! Annnnd she just wants to encourage all you kids to be brave also!!! She says you don't need to cry and make a big deal, just sit there and BE BRAVE..

LIKE HER!!! :)

I mean it ONLY took her four years buuuuuut...you kids should accomplish it after just once!!!

 

♥Mary Frances :)

Don't grow weary!!!

I was thinking the other day, HOW HARD it must be for pastors to just, WELL BE PASTORS!!! Like, they have to deal with SOOOO MUCH!!! I mean, anytime dealing with reaching the lost it can take so much out of you! You give and you give and you give and a lot of times in the end you do or say one thing that hurts them and they are up and gone! And I mean, if you let it, it can just suck the inspiration right out of you after a while! Annnnd weeeeeellllll PASTORS... Ooooo I just feel for them cuz they gotta deal with ALL THE DRAMA!!! (I think we forget that they really ARE HUMANS just like us annnnnnnd we really NEED to pray EXTRA for them!!!)

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Buuuuut WE CAN'T GIVE UP!!! No matter how many times the soul that we've worked so hard for, cried so many tears for, prayed so looooong for, spent so much money on, no matter WHAT, we can't GIVE UP!!! We can't stop trying! We can't stop reaching!!!

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I was just thinking about our pastor that won us in the little home missions in NYC, whaaaaaaaaaat if he had gotten burnt out, ONE FAILED TRY with a soul before us??? What if he had just said forget it??? THERE WOULD BE NO GINTY FAMILY!!! Thats what I tell myself everytime I'm disapointed with someone i've worked sooooo hard for!!! How many failed attempts did our pastor have before my mom? How many Bible studies did he teach to others that lay wasted, before he had the opportunity to see MY MOM get a revelation of the oneness of God!?!?!

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Don't give up people! Don't throw in the towel!!! It COULD be the next soul!!! The NEXT family you try for could be, THE GINTYS!!! They just may have a lil two-year-old girl that grows up to LOVE THIS TRUTH WITH EVERYTHING THAT IS WITHIN HER!!!!

"And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not." (Galations 6:9)

If ONE soul is saved,

its WORTH IT ALL!!!

Hang in there, hang in there ...

Don't YOU DARE GIVE UP!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

One thing I'll never say!!!

I saw this lil saying the other day and when I read I was like AWWWW!!! Then after thinkin about it for another five seconds I like BUSTED up laughing!!!  I was like I'll SOOOO NEVER be saying THAT to my future husband!!! AHAHAHA!!!

IF I did say it, it would have to be something like this... Soooooo I FINALLY get proposed to, just imagine this with me, he is on one knee, holding my hand in his declaring my awesomeness, professing his undying love for me, he can't imagine going the rest of his WHOLE ENTIRE LIFE without ME, Miss Proverbs 31 HERSELF as his wife. THEN he says it, "Mary, will you MARRY ME???  Annnnnd my heart is soooooo touched, I must wipe a way a tear before I respond, then I say, SURE! I would LOVE to marry you!!! THEN I PULL OUT THAT LINE...

I'm like ya know honey,

 IT WAS ALWAYS YOU...

annnnnnnnd about 20 others!!!

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

♥Mary Frances :) 

Personality???

I can NOT stop laughing right now!!! So me and my niece were just sitting here talking about BOYS!!! I'm like MJ, WHICH boy do YOU think i'm going to end up marrying??? Soooo she names one of my MANY CRUSHES I'm like yeah ok...I could see that!!! AHAHAHA!! She is like, OH and IF you marry him...blah, blah, blah! THEN she is like, OH BUT MARY! What about Ching-chong??? Don't you want to marry him??? She says, ONCE you marry ONE...to LATE...you can't marry the other!!! Ooooo THIS IS TRUE!!! Really gotta think about this huh girl?!

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She is like, YES MARY, remember Ching-chong! You should just marry HIM! (Oh if only it was all THAT EASY) So i'm like oh yeah, Ching-chong is a great guy but i'm not really feeling it for him! She is like, WHAT? Mary! He is sooooooooo CUUUUUUTE!!! (AHAHAHAHA!!!) I'm like, ooooo GIRRRRL I KNOW he's good looking, thats NOT what i'm talking about, I mean PERSONALITY! I don't think our personalitys would go well together!!! She just looks at me like i'm dumb and says, Okaaaaaaay I do NOT even care about personality!!! I just care about how he looks annnnnd he is CUUUUUTE!!! Then she pauses and says dreamily, when I SEE HIM, I just can NOT stop staring at him!!! AHAHAHAHA!!! I just can't stop laughing about it!!!

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Awwwwwwwww I remember those NAIVE days!!! When the ONLY thing that matter concerning marriage to some Apostolic boy was that he was cuuuuuuuuuuuuute!!! NOW its like all COMPLICATED!!! Its a whole system we have...FIRST is he SPIRITUAL??? How would we work together in Christ? Second does he have a job etc??? Then age...like is it LEGAL??? BAHAHA...NEXT would our personalitys go together and balance each other out??? Annnnnnnnd LAST OF ALL LOOKS!!! Like as in, CAN I STAND TO LOOK AT THIS PERSON'S FACE, FIRST THING, EVERY MORNING, FOR THE REST OF MY WHOLE ENTIRE LIFE???

AHAHAHA!!! MJ just cares about looks right now, buuuuuuuut oh she's gonna have to FIND the RIGHT personality to balance out that strong-take-chare personality of hers!!! Oh Lord ANNOINT AND PREPARE HIM now...cuz he has got his work CUT OUT FOR HIM!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

Before the bandaid!!!

Do you remember as a kid getting a really bad cut or wound and you would go running to your mommy bawling your eyes out? Annnnnnd ALL you know is that you are SOOOOOO HURT and that the ONLY person that can help you is your mommy? You think that going to your mommy will make you feel better, cuz you KNOW that your mommy loves you and because she loves you she is going to do WHATEVERRR it takes to help you feel better!!!

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Buuuuuut THEN mommy starts wiping away the blood and it hurts, so you start to pull back, you wanted mommy to help you, buuuuuut you weren't expecting any pain. Maybe you were one of those kids that had to be HELD DOWN by someone else so that your mom could wipe away the blood and clean out your wound. I remember, THE WORSE thing was when MOM would break out the alcohol and begin to pour it on the wound!!! Ooooo MAN that hurt soooooo BAD!!! Annnnnnd I know this may be hard for you all to believe buuuuuuut let me tell you all SOMETHING...I was a SCREAMER!!!! AHAHAHAHA!!! 

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 I remember my mom, she would be putting that alcohol on my cut and it BURRRRRRNED!!! Annnnd the whole time I was SCREAMING my mom would calmly be explaining to me, "I have to put this on your cut to clean out the germs and get out the dirt Mary! She would tell me that you can't put the bandaid on with dirt still on the wound, otherwise it will never really heal properly, it will end up getting infection and getting even worse...Of course I didn't care WHAT she said, I just KEPT ON SCREAMING!!!

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CMM FORGETFUL MOMENT!!!

Soooooooo I'm running errands with my mom and we go to the Watermill to get her some purified water...its only .25 cents a gallon, soooooo im just filling all 18 million of her jugs for her...yes it REALLY is THAT many gallons...haha...sooooo i'm done filling all the jugs and I get in the van and i'm like ok mom, lets go! My mom's like did you get everything??? I'm like, Of COURSE I did mom...I NEVER FOR---  EEEEEEKS MOM WAIT!!!

MY CHANGE PURSE!!!

I had left my change purse jus chillin on top of the water spout thingy and discovered it laying there RIGHT AS I was telling my mom that I NEVER FORGET ANYTHING!!! AHAHAHA!!!

I was like OH MAN I don't know whats wrong with me mom...I've been doing really airheaded things lately!!! My mom's like,

OH I just thought you were being MARY!!!

 (I guess its kinda airheaded of me to FORGET that I do airheaded things!!! AHAHAHA!!!)

♥Mary Frances :)

 

Best Friends!!!

Soooooo the other day we're riding to Peter Piper and I turned Cesar and I'm like, "Cesar, Do you think I'm pretty?" He looks at me sweetly, nods his and says, "YES!" I'm like awwwwww KIM! You hear that? Your son thinks i'm PRETTY!!! So then Cesar looks at me again and says, "buuuuut I'm TOO LITTLE to get MARRIED!!!" So we all start laughing and them i'm all like, "DOUBLE awwww that you would even consider me if you wern't little Cesar!!!" He looks at me with his BIG BROWN PUPPY DOG EYES and says,

"Buuuuuuuuuuuuut...

I'm NOT TO LITTLE TO BE...

 BEST FRIENDS!!!"

Now i'm like double-TRIPLE-with-a-cherry-on-top AWWWWWWWW!!!! Isn't that like the SWEETEST thing everrrr??? Sooooo i made a decision a while ago that I will NOT be "best friends" with guys anymore...Friend/buds=YES...BEST FRIENDS=NO! I've wasted to much time with that and refused to fall in that mode anymore!!! I decided that THE NEXT guy I let have "Best Friend" status with me will be my HUSBAND...my explaination for that is ANOTHER blog post...perhaps SINGLES  WEEK!!!(I know I owe you all another  week) Buuuuuuuut ANYWAYZ...

 I decided that I'll let Cesar be an EXCEPTION to my guy, "Best Friend" rule...jus cuz he's such a CUTIE!!!;)

♥Mary Frances :)

White Girl Discovery!!!

Reccomended blog posts!!!

I've decided to start doing something once a month...a list of MY FAVORITE blog posts for the month or the last lil bit...this includes MY BLOG and other Apostolic bloggers!!! I"ll simply write the title of the post and link it to that blog post.

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They're EVERYWHERE!!! (Tell it Bro. Ballestero!!!)
Words of dating wisdom!
Please Stay with me!
How The Ethiopian got his name! (Super FUNNNNY!!!)
My God! My HEALER! (AMAZING TESTIMONY OF HEALING!!!)
Revelation about THE BODY!
Classic Mary (Gas Station) MOMENT!!!
Only A MOM!!!
Introduction TIME! (MEET HER!!!)
High Heeled Determination!
When God brings you a..
My White Man!
Dear Teenagers!
Self Esteem Week
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Weeeeeellll MY ALL TIME favorite post I wrote for the month is  I just wanna be... made me laugh the hardest writing it!!! AHAHAHAHA!!! buuuuuut the I just wanna be post is in competition with ME... from MY OTHER post that makes me laugh sooooooo HARD....FUNERAL THOUGHTS!!! Can't decide WHICH one makes me laugh MORE!!! What do you all think???

Which post makes YOU laugh MORE???

Let me know at MaryFrancesWriting@gmail.com

♥Mary Frances :)

Ten things I know about YOU!!!

YES YOU!!! YOU...reading this...I KNOW the following ten things about YOU!!! See, I stalk my STALKERS...thats just how I roll...my sis just says I'm CREEPY!!! BWAHAHAHA!!! Are YOU ready to hear the TEN THINGS I KNOW ABOUT YOU???

Ooooo ONE more thing about YOU that I KNOW!!!

YOU READ MY BLOG=YOU BE AWESOME!!! ;)

♥Mary Frances :)

Sooooooo THE STORY OF MY LIFE!!!

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Yup...this is soooo ME!!! Especially when PARKING!!! BAHAHA!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

I am a soldier...I am determined!!!

Talking to my personal trainer last week while she was... KILLING ME...haha...annnnd she was talking about losing weight and excercising! She was saying that If your NOT ready to do it, it is VERY easy to find an excuse for WHY you can't do it, she hears it ALL THE TIME from her clients...you don't have time, your a mom, you have to buy snack food for your kids, your cooking what your husband likes, its to expensive to eat healthy, your to tired to work out, you can't find a babysitter while you go to the gym...FINDING AN EXCUSE IS EASY... buuuuut once you make up your mind to change your lifestyle, THERE IS NOTHING, that can stop you!!!
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Its that SAME way with living for God!!! You work with souls and you hear the excuses ALL the time!!! Well you see, my grandma's, uncles dog died and I gotta housesit, or my mom said blah, blah, blah, I gotta babysit my lil cousin that is Muslim and not allowed to come to church, well you see what the PROMBLEM really is, is that my baby daddy left the faucet on and flooded the house...OH YES you hear it all!!! FINDING AN EXCUSE IS EASY!!! Or the, well i'll come back buuuuut i'm NOT gonna give up...the moment you say, your NOT gonna give something up for God is THE MOMENT you can pretty much plan on NOT making it!!! Because when you come to God, you come to Him on HIS TERMS, NOT on YOUR TERMS!!! You gotta want God bad enough that it does NOT matter what you have to do, or what you have to GIVE UP, to get to him!

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Sometimes you will look at a person, and they have EVERYTHING that they need to access to, to make it living for God. They've got a good church to go to, a way to church, a support system of people that are ready and willing to help them through, ready to pray with them...they have everything they need to make it...buuuuuuuuuuuuut they lack ONE THING...one of THE MOST important things annnnnd that is a MADE UP MIND!!! Until you completely DETERMINE in your heart, that YOU ARE AND YOU WILL live for God, there is NOTHING anyone can really do to help you!!!!
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If your living in the "What IF I don't make it mode!" And I'm keepin this, just in case I don't live for God, then guess what, your NOT going to make it!!! Because the devil is right there, ready with JUST the right thing to lure you away! If YOU want an EXCUSE for WHY you can't live for God your going to be able to find one...annnnnnnnd IF your looking, the devil is MORE than willing to HELP YOU!!!
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We've gotta be like a SOLDIER... (Stolen from Hanna!;)

I AM A SOLDIER

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I am a soldier in the Army of my God.
The Lord Jesus Christ is my Commanding Officer.
The Holy Bible is my code of conduct.
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Faith, Prayer and the Word
are my weapons of Warfare.
I have been taught by the Holy Spirit,
trained by experience,
tried by adversity,
and tested by fire.
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I am a volunteer in this Army
and I am enlisted for eternity.
I will either retire in this Army at the rapture,
or die in this Army;
but I will not get out, sell out, be talked out,
I am faithful, capable, and dependable
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If my God needs me,
I am there
If He needs me in Sunday school to teach children,
work with the youth, help adults, or just sit and learn.
He can use me, because I am there!
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If He needs me to help someone from the gutter,
deliver them from drugs,
encourage those in prisons,
tell them about Jesus,
I will be there!
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I am a soldier,
I am not a baby,
I do not need to be pampered,
petted, primed up, pumped up,
picked up, or pepped up.
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I am a soldier.
No one has to call me,
remind me, write me, visit me,
entice me, or lure me.
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I am a soldier.
I am not a wimp.
I am in place, saluting my King,
obeying His orders, praising His name,
and building His kingdom!
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I am a soldier.
No one has to send me flowers,
gifts, food, cards, candy,
or give me handouts.
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I do not need to be cuddled, cradled,
cared for, or catered to.
I am committed!
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I cannot have my feelings hurt bad enough to turn me around
I cannot be discouraged enough to turn me aside.
I cannot lose enough to cause me to quit.
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When Jesus called me into this army,
I had nothing.
If I end up with nothing,
I will come out even.
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But I will win.
My God will supply my needs.
I am more than a conqueror.
I will always triumph.
I can do all things through Christ.
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I am a soldier.
Devils cannot defeat me,
People cannot disillusion me.
Weather cannot weary me.
Sickness cannot stop me.
Battles cannot beat me.
Money cannot buy me.
Governments cannot silence me,
and Hell cannot handle me!
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I am a soldier.
Even death cannot destroy me.
For when my commander calls me from the battlefield,
He will promote me to captain
and then bring me back to rule this world with Him.
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I am a soldier in the Army,
and I'm marching, claiming victory.
I will not give up, I will not turn around.

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I am a soldier,

marching Heaven bound.

Here I stand!

NO EXCUSES!!!

I'm GOING to LIVE FOR GOD!!!

♥Mary Frances :)