Simply Divine

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The photos are beautiful and reflect Vanderpump’s personal style of using a near neutral palette of creamy whites and blushing pinks with an eclectic mix of finds from antique stores, flea markets, and boutiques. She urges people not to worry about matching pieces, but instead to focus on getting pieces that are a neutral color. In fact, she says it’s better if they are mismatched. Crucially, no! For God has not chosen to have or co-opt three parts called Father, Son, and Spirit. God is Father, Son, and Spirit. The difference may sound petty, but it is in fact most profound. This is why Paul can tell the Athenians, “The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything” (Acts 17:24–25). The living God isn’t in any need. He doesn’t need anything to be better, to be more God, or to be more fully himself. He depends on nothing. He has fullness of being. He has life in himself. Below is an edited extract from an Interview with Simply Divine Botanicals founder, Barbara Rogers, from 2015.

Where idols need worship and service and sustenance, God needs nothing. He has life in himself — and so much so that he is brimming over. His glory is overflowing, radiant, and self-giving. Because God is self-existent and does not need us, he relates to us by sheer grace. No other god can do that. God Needs No ‘Parts’ All forms of companies (as permitted by the Companies Act) are incorporated and registered with Companies House and file specific details as required by legislation. There is one thing that does not ring true, though. Here and there are little interjections from her pet Pomeranian Giggy. They are quite twee, but considering how that little dog has everyone in his world catering to his every whim, I would think he spends his time thinking about whether it is impossible to prove any certain truth, also known as the Münchhausen trilemma. This book was a gift from a friend who knows I love the Housewives and knows that I love to entertain. This is not meant to be a book for high-brow entertaining (although you could defnitely use it for those types of gatherings); Lisa clearly wrote this book for mainstream middle-class women, who like to host get-togethers, but aren't quite sure how to make their efforts visually appealing.

Yet in the New Testament, the Son can say, “Father, . . . you loved me before the foundation of the world” (John 17:24). The eternal Son, the one through whom all things were created, who is before all things (Colossians 1:15–19), who is Lord and God, was loved by the Father for all eternity. The Father, then, is eternally the Father of the eternal Son, and he finds his very identity, his Fatherhood, in loving his Son. Because of God’s blessed aseity, we can know that the very creation is a work of grace. Grace, then, is not merely his kindness to those who have sinned. Before there was sin, God brought creation into being out of grace. With the self-existent God, love is not a reaction. God’s love is creative. He gives life and being as a free gift, for his very life, being, and goodness are yeasty, spreading out that there might be more that is truly good.

Simply Divine Botanicals is the heartchild of Master Herbalist and Natural Healer Barbara Rogers. The name of the line comes from the happenstance that made a dream of creating pure potions into a reality beyond scientific imagination. Dedicated to health and healing, (Barbara opened the first Raw Food restaurant in Las Vegas) when she realized the effects of harmful chemicals applied to the skin, her quest began. Although I did think that some of her ideas were basic, I did discover many more that were not. Her comments about flower-arranging, the use of color, and tea sandwich preparation were particularly interesting. In the end, I came away with so many new ideas that I was able to overcome the faux-camarederie. there is danger not only that this trade of ours may come into disrepute but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis may be counted as nothing, and that she may even be deposed from her magnificence, she whom all Asia and the world worship. (Acts 19:27) Since 2010 the Open Data Portal has been helping people to find and use open government data, and supporting government publishers to maintain data. Better data can help inform better policy-making and continuous improvement of services. Departments can combat fraud and reduce waste.Simply Divine Cakes Limited is an entity registered with the Companies House, Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, United Kingdom. By taking ethical, open, innovative and transparent approaches to data we can build greater levels of trust with citizens, whilst delivering more cost-effective and better targeted and tailored services to their needs.