I appreciate your encouragement, Angela, but I don’t do a good job at this myself, at least not with comments. 🙁 If I had more time, I would love to answer every comment. The community of bloggers has been such a Godsend to me! But like everyone else, we usually have so many other things going on at the same time. So we just do what we can! I don’t expect replies back from others when I comment on their blogs; if I do get a response back, I consider it a bonus. 🙂

Thanks, Valerie. Now more than ever, I hope everyone will be intentional to stay in touch with each other through our digital means if we can’t in person. I feel that it’s going to be very weird in the next several weeks as we distance ourselves physically; praying we don’t do it in other ways too.

You’ve very good at responding to all your blog comments, Laurie! Much better than I am. Sometimes I can and sometimes I can’t. I appreciate those who do it so well!

I’m featuring your grocery store post here on my blog tomorrow as the featured post for Grace & Truth. It really hit home with me (as so many of your posts do). 🙂

I’ve been waiting on a reply for awhile now that I’d be happy to hear at least an “I don’t know.” Just something! ha. And then about 2 hours ago, I got the reply I needed. Yippee! It wasn’t the information yet, but it was a promise that she would get the information to me. That’s huge so I’m happy. 🙂

Not taking things personally is a life lesson I’m *trying* to learn, but it’s difficult. I read “Unoffendable” a few years back and it really helped. But I need to re-read it every year to keep it sticking. 🙂

Yes, there is the opposite end of this spectrum too, when we reply TOO quickly. I had to close my laptop and walk away even this morning to keep from responding too quickly to an irritation. We definitely need to stay balanced and respond wisely.

Thanks for your faithfulness in hosting at Worth Beyond Rubies.

Sometimes the simplest advice is the one I need to take the most. 🙂