We will be hosting a Period Costume party on Monday evening at 6:00 p.m. October 9th, 2017 during game night at the Feast of Tabernacles. So you will have plenty of time to create your costume. Use your imagination and have fun with it.
Examples of a period costumes:
Historical Costumes, Presidents, Inventors 
Civil War Costumes
Colonial Costumes
Biblical Costumes
Renaissance Costumes
Medieval Costumes
Egyptian Costumes
50’s, 60’s, 70’s, 80’s Costumes
Movie Character Costumes
We look forward to seeing you there.
I know that I have written about music before, but the other day I heard something that I didn’t even know in regards to music. I was driving to town listening to a radio program, and the speaker was listing all the benefits of singing with other people. Studies have shown that group singing benefits our health and well-being. I knew I enjoyed singing, but I didn’t know that there were actually positive health benefits to singing, especially when you sing in a group. 
The other day my family and I were watching a fun series called Brain Games, and in one episode about lying, it had a study done with children. The premise was to have a group of children sit at a table with this tasty chocolate cake, and an adult would tell them that they were not to have any of the cake. In fact, they could not even touch the cake. Then the adult would leave the room to watch the children behind a two-way mirror. All but one of the kids could not resist the temptation. They just had to at least touch it with the tip of their finger. It was too hard to do the right thing when no one was around. 
In a recent blog, I talked about “tugging against the leash.” In a comment to that blog, a reader responded with this:
I have written many blogs that mention bitterness, but I have never written about it directly. Recently, I have noticed a lot of bitterness within people, even within God’s ecclesia. However, bitterness should never be allowed to grow within us. It is a fleshly weed that must be plucked out. 
As I walked with our new puppy, he was having a bit of a rough day. He was jumping, yelping, gyrating, and doing everything he could to get away from this thing that was not letting him go anywhere he wanted to go. It was a leash attached to his collar, which was a new experience for him. He had never been on leash before. The collar was something he was used to by the time we got him, but this leash deal—now that is something entirely different. 
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