Welcome to Darlene's Designs: designs for your home, designs for your heart. I hope you enjoy your stay and will visit often. I've always believed that no one can have too many friends. Would love to be one of yours!
Less than three weeks left til our St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Walk for the Kids!
Please visit our page and make a donation today. Any amount would be so appreciated.
If you are local and want to join us, it is October 20th at Old Post Park in Russellville, Arkansas. Some Guy Named Robb and Steven Kaufmann are sharing their musical talent with us, and we will have a prize drawing and yummy food from Stoby's and McAlister's and Sweet Sensations for all of our walkers! If you want to be a walker, contact me asap.
1If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don't love, I'm nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. 2If I speak God's Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, "Jump," and it jumps, but I don't love, I'm nothing. 3-7If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don't love, I've gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I'm bankrupt without love.
Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn't want what it doesn't have.
Love doesn't strut,
Doesn't have a swelled head,
Doesn't force itself on others,
Isn't always "me first,"
Doesn't fly off the handle,
Doesn't keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn't revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.
8-10Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit. We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete. But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled. 11When I was an infant at my mother's breast, I gurgled and cooed like any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good. 12We don't yet see things clearly. We're squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won't be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We'll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us! 13But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.
"God is showing me He is more concerned with us learning to wait well and continue trusting Him--even when we don't know the answers as to why. I just need to step out in faith, trusting that however it works out, He is the one orchestrating it."
