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		<title>Redeeming Love:  Megan&#8217;s Story</title>
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Megan&#8217;s Story
Megan Graham is a fellow sister and friend who I have enjoyed getting to know over the past two years.  She is a hard-working wife and mother of four (with a fifth on the way!).  Abigail and I think her story is absolutely beautiful—a wonderful tale of God&#8217;s redeeming love and His [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pearlsanddiamondsblog.com&blog=3993696&post=1647&subd=pearlsanddiamonds&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren</dc:creator>
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Lauren&#8217;s Story
A number of our readers have asked questions about my personal “purity” experience:  What were some of the boundaries you set when you were single?  Did those change when you got engaged?  And what about now that you&#8217;re married—how do you relate to men other than your husband? I hope to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pearlsanddiamondsblog.com&blog=3993696&post=1595&subd=pearlsanddiamonds&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Part Six:  Love and Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail</dc:creator>
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Posted by Abigail
I can look back on the past 20 years of my life with entire confidence that, when it comes to love, I’ve been an overwhelming failure.  Praise the Lord, His love never fails, and it stretches to mercifully cover my short-comings.
God’s commands for purity are not for yesterday.  Certainly there are consequences to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pearlsanddiamondsblog.com&blog=3993696&post=1707&subd=pearlsanddiamonds&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Part Five:  Love and Matchmaking</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 06:34:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail</dc:creator>
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Posted by Abigail
Nathaniel and Lauren each arrived at college quite certain that they would not meet their future spouse there.  Two weeks into the semester they had met and both were beginning to have second thoughts.  Long before the first semester of her freshman year was over, Lauren had measured Nathaniel by her list of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pearlsanddiamondsblog.com&blog=3993696&post=1555&subd=pearlsanddiamonds&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Part Four:  Love and Marriage</title>
		<link>http://pearlsanddiamondsblog.com/2010/03/06/part-four-love-and-marriage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 06:33:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail</dc:creator>
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Posted by Abigail
Once upon a time I found myself in the middle of a conversation with a young woman.  The topic?  Romantic relationships.  She was aghast when she discovered that I “don’t date.”  “But—but—but,” she spluttered.  “How will you ever get married if you don’t date?”  “Hmmm,” I stroked my chin, enjoying her perplexity.  “I’ll [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pearlsanddiamondsblog.com&blog=3993696&post=1553&subd=pearlsanddiamonds&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Part Three:  Love and My Brother</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail</dc:creator>
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Posted by Abigail
I grew up guarded.  By my late teens, I’d apparently developed a reputation for distance.  One spring, I arrived at Lauren’s dorm room for a week-long visit, to be greeted by an enormous mirror scrawled with survival tips—from a couple of my brother’s friends.  “Be more friendly to guys,” came one sage command.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pearlsanddiamondsblog.com&blog=3993696&post=1551&subd=pearlsanddiamonds&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Part Two:  Love and My Heart</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
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Posted by Abigail
The Valentine’s Day just past left me with plenty of fodder for the mental camel I’ve been feeding.  Over and over again were the expressions of devotion “You have my heart!” or the pleas “Be mine.”  Giving and exchanging of heart-shaped candy and heart-covered cards left impressions of hearts popping out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pearlsanddiamondsblog.com&blog=3993696&post=1549&subd=pearlsanddiamonds&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Part One:  Love and Purity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
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Posted by Abigail
Several years ago, I received a Facebook invitation to take a “purity quiz” and see how I rated.  Curious, I clicked over.  Not surprisingly, I ranked something like “angelic”—entirely due to activities I had or hadn’t participated in&#8211;including marriage.  I shook my head and blinked—had Lauren been taking this quiz, she’d have lost [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pearlsanddiamondsblog.com&blog=3993696&post=1546&subd=pearlsanddiamonds&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Love Means a Cross</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
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Chew on this&#8230;
When you are not yet married, or when your marriage is over and you look back on those years with longing, it is without doubt quite possible to idealize it.  But there is one thing which enters into all of life, one thing which will keep us from idealizing life’s best and will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pearlsanddiamondsblog.com&blog=3993696&post=1446&subd=pearlsanddiamonds&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Review for the Pure in Heart</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:47:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emotional Purity:  An Affair of the Heart  by Heather Arnel Paulsen 

Book Type: Practical/godly living 

Rating: 9 out of 10


 
Recommended? For every woman, especially for young Christian single women







Overview: &#8220;Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life&#8221; says the wise king in Proverbs 4:23.  As I taught abstinence [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pearlsanddiamondsblog.com&blog=3993696&post=1007&subd=pearlsanddiamonds&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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