I apologize for the slow response time to comments made last week.
I read them all and appreciate them all . . . but I had company for a few days; I came down with a cold, and I'm teaching "Email English" which took a lot of my email time the past few days.
I will try to respond/reply to comments in the next few days.
Thanks in advance for your patience!
"We love because He first loved us" (1 John 4:19).
"Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love" (1 John 4:7-8).
Please join us this week as we reflect on the Beauty of Love.
Sara @ Stones of Remembrance
The love of God is greater far than we can ever tell.Blair @ Blair's Scribblings
Let's journey into Blair's Scribblings as she goes in search of The Word on Agape.Debi @ Caught Between Worlds
Debi shares her Wedding Story in both words and scrapbook pages.
Join us next week for The Beauty of Joy over at Windows to my Soul.
Here is the current Carnival of Beauty Line up to finish off 2007. (Wow can't believe another year is coming to a close!!)
There are still two weeks open. If you'd like to host either of those weeks please let me know. :) [UPDATED 10/16] All weeks are now full for this hosting round. There will be more opportunities next time!
Also, if you volunteered to host and you are not here, it is an oversight on my part. Please correct me ASAP. Thanks!
Oct 5: The Beauty of Love by Amanda
Oct 12: The Beauty of Joy by Vicki
Oct 19: The Beauty of Peace by Sara
Oct 26: The Beauty of Patience by Ellen
Nov 2: The Beauty of Kindness by Cahleen
Nov 9: The Beauty of Goodness by Blair
Nov 16: The Beauty of Faithfulness by Sara
Nov 23: The Beauty of Gentleness by Susanna
Nov 30: The Beauty of Self-Control by HeatherDec 7: The Beauty of Praise by Sara
Dec 14: The Beauty of Tradition by Ellen
Dec 21: CoB Takes a break
Dec 28: The Beauty of This Year by Susanna
This weekend, before I saw my Japanese friend, I got to MIRL with a fellow Taiwan blogger!!! :)
Just in case you don't know . . . MIRL is an acronym for "Meet In Real Life." (For a history of the origin of this acronym look here and here.)
Charlotte and I met in Hsinchu for lunch on Saturday. We spent the afternoon talking and getting to know each other better.
She is the first (and so far only) fellow blogger I've ever MIRL-ed with. It was a unique experience because on one hand I felt like I needed to say "Hi, my name is Amanda," but on the other hand I felt like she was a long lost kindred spirit. Feeling both of these at the same time is rather odd. :)
Nonetheless, I enjoyed our time together, and I assume that the next time we get together it won't be odd at all!! :)
We tried out my xshot (my first time to use it in public), and it's a little tricky. The first one was TOTALLY washed out, and I look like a turtle in the second one. :)
If two foreigners together attract a lot of stares . . .then two foreigners together using an xshot attract tons of stares! :) Some people just stopped to watch our picture taking, and others walked by looking at my camera's screen. It was fun.
Ok, so we are not in Japan. And we are not eating anything Japanese.
But, you see that girl next to me? She is from Japan!! And she choose to spend part of her summer vacation with me!
I met Yuka in college. We've known each other 10 years, but I've not seen her since we graduated about 7 years ago. So, we have a lot of catching up to do.
So I'm outta here . . . Bye!
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