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Married... with Children: The Complete Ninth Season
$39.95
Excellent show.. I bought all available seasons.

Shipped fast, and am very happy with it.

2 Pairs Just Married Flip Flops for Bride and Groom
$19.90
i love it, my love love it, very nice, the only thing that really notice that if you stand for short time on the home floor without moving, the air suck out from under the flip flop and once you start to move it take off your foot, but it is comfort, very good on the beach,

Get Married: What Women Can Do to Help It Happen
$12.99
I had been debating if I should buy this book or not. I finally did thinking that I needed to know this information just as much as if I was preparing to do anything else in life. As she says in the book, if a woman was going to live as a doctor, lawyer, landscaper, or most other jobs, it would be expected that they do their best to prepare to be the best in that area they can. They'd spend thousands of dollars and endless amounts of time in learning that profession. Why, then, when a woman wants to live as a wife and mother, any effort put into it preperation before marriage on her part is so often discouraged? Doesn't the very Word of God give women this so important role in life?

Candice opens the book with a story from her college experience when she was 32. Her professor went on and on about the various ways our culture is not following God, and the consequences of it. She asked him directly what she could do to help reverse it, and he told her, "Get married, make babies, and do government." She was slightly offended because although she wanted to get married, the opportunity had never arose. A lot of women today are in those same shoes. This book is about what women can do to help their future marriage along. Not make it happen, but help it happen.

The first few chapters are about the reasons for marriage and how to esteem it as honorable, according to God's Word. Candice tells some ways of how my generation is downplaying marriage: from making light marriage-degrading (and male-degrading!) jokes, to recreational dating, to cohabitation. I agree with her that one major reason people are delaying marriage is because they don't think it is a worth-it as God said it is. Thus, avoiding all forms of degrading Biblical marriage and esteeming Biblical marriage and family is one way that women can help their future marriage happen.

Another way she points out that women can help marriage happen is to have a good social network. And by that, she means a Christ-centered local church and if God has blessed you with a Christian family, not just Facebook. As she points out, our culture used to aid in forming God-honoring marriages, but now it does just the opposite: discourages God-honoring marriages and attempts to tear them apart if they do happen. It is imperative for a young woman who wants a good marriage to seek the counsel, the authority, the covering of their dad and mom, of their pastor and wife, and other older women or older couples whom they know are abiding in the Word.

Two chapters are written for the young woman currently involved in a dating relationship or a "friends with benefits," as she puts it. I agree 100% that based upon the Word of God, dating or friends with benefits should not continue and continue without a direction, because this is the defrauding 1 Thessalonians 4:1-8 is talking about. Also, 1 Corinthians chapter 7 makes it clear that the married men and women are... married, and should live like it. And the unmarried men and women are... unmarried (surprise, surprise), and should live like it! There's not room for years of dating or friends with benefits in between. In other words, there's no place for a "relationship status" to be "taken" for very long without marriage or moving on separately, as the Lord leads. As she points out as well, if a young woman has a "friends with benefits" "friendship" with a young man that doesn't have a clear direction, it may be preventing her future marriage with a different man who wouldn't ask because shes "taken!" She gives advice for how a young woman should confront the man she is dating, and ask him to either lead the relationship according to the Bible or stop hanging out. The bottom line is that if its defrauding another believer or disabling her (or him) to live according God's Word as an unmarried person (living in holiness) it is sin. And sin always brings confusion... and death.

The chapter on Living Like You're Planning To Marry was especially encouraging to me. She acknowledges the hardships that marriage brings, but confirms that it is worth it, and why children are worth it! If, as Christians, we know that God thinks "blessed is the man who finds a wife" and "children are a heritage from the Lord," why is the attitude to delay marriage and family in order to have as much fun as possible before hand?! Mixed messages there. We are not called to have a ton of fun or enjoy ourselves. I agree with Candice that we need to focus on living like Christ-followers: being selfless and obedient to Him... which is also great preparation for marriage. (Coincidence? No way.)

Throughout the whole book she talks about prayer involved in every way, because a young woman's relationship with God is of utmost importance, unmarried or married. But she says she used to think that prayer was the only way to help her marriage happen, by begging God. And while we are to be persistent in our prayers (like the parable of the persistent widow), the Bible makes it clear that unless God has asked that a woman should remain unmarried, she is called to get married.

One of the only things I did not quite agree on with her is the level of importance of family involved in the pre-marriage years. She states that it is very important to have family and church so involved, but I think it is very, very, very important to have family, especially the father and mother, involvement as one of the top priorities. I realize that many, of no fault of their own whatsoever, do not have one dad and one mom to be a spiritual covering... and then that is where the church family fits in. He is faithful to provide. I am ever-so thankful that God thought up the wonderful idea of family!!

Mud Pie Wedding Eat, Drink and Be Married Cocktail Napkins with Holder and Faux Diamond Weight
$13.00
Our Eat, Drink and Be Married collection puts the bridal party in anything but basic black and white. Fun napkins - perfect for a shower or rehearsal dinner.