God-fearing sinner saved by Grace. Retired (no one ever retires...) cosmetologist over 30 years. Also coached competitive gymnastics for 20. Love to garden, paint (art), lichtenburg, ride horses, watch miracles and prayers answered. I mostly love to love on my family. We are situated in the Great Smokey Mountains in East TN. Very happily married! God is so good!!
Here's a word ripped out of our vocabulary. We should start using it again.
ADMON'ISH, v.t. [L. admoneo, ad and moneo, to teach, warn, admonish.]
1. To warn or notify of a fault; to reprove with mildness.
Count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother. 2Thess. 3.
2. To counsel against wrong practices; to caution or advise.
Admonish one another in psalms and hymns. Col. 3.
3. To instruct or direct.
Moses was admonished of God, when he was about to make the tabernacle. Heb. 8.
4. In ecclesiastical affairs, to reprove a member of the church for a fault, either publicly or privately; the first step of church discipline. It is followed by of, or against; as, to admonish of a fault committed, or against committing a fault. It has a like use in colleges.