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Passionate for parenting

God can put a parenting yearning in your heart. That is rarely the motivation for becoming a parent. Certainly, your father and I were not aware that we needed the call of God to become parents. We were not surprised at the imminence of the events, when it happened. We studied and listened to tapes and sermons on the subject of parenting and made it our hobby to be parents who participated in the molding of our children. All of this can only put the tools in your hands. I dare you, dear child to put your heart into the relationships that God has planted in your heart already. Ask God for help and strength to be the best sister and daughter and see if He doesn't complete your life with the blessing of children to rear and mold. Making a living and mothering a living, is a calling from God. I dare you to target that goal as much as the beauty that you embrace and embellish. "Let your adorning be the adorning of a meek and quiet spirit; which is of the Lord of great price!" When the time comes...

I am starting to think that cranberries are the fruit of the tree of life and not annise.

I am looking at the fruit that we are already familiar with. Why I think cranberries are the fruit of life, this week is because everytime I cook them, we don't eat them, but they don't form a mold on them. Cranberries are great for any candida that might ail you. They fight candida in the body, but they don't form the candida in the petree dish. Anyway, eat cranberries, drink cranberry juice and minimize the sugar and I will update you, when I find the real fruit of the tree of life. My search.

I Will Sing the Wondrous Story...

New hair color today, for mom and Evv.

Photos to follow!

Christ is Faithful to our souls!

When we can't, He can. When we aren't, He is. What a view of God's power that Daniel had. The comparison of our confusion, to God's glory. To us belongs confusion. Even the greatest kingdom in the world that has world domination, as Babylon was, is but a bunch of confusion in the face of God's order. It is a wonder that with all of the lord of this and that thrown around, like water in the kingdom of Babylon, Daniel could see God above all of the confusion. When we exalt people in that way, giving them dominion over and over and over and accollades left and right (letters and numbers behind their names), we are truly confusing ourselves as to who is really Lord over all. Daniel could see. Daniel could pray and He saw the only sacrifice for sins, wasn't even the blood of bulls and goats or the gatherings, but Christ who was to come. That was an awesome view of God's fidelity to His promise to Adam and His promises subsequent to that. His fidelity is in and through Christ, not our dominion and not our fidelity, but His. Christ, help us to see Your order, through the chaos. Amen.

What is womanhood for?

I really liked that movie, "Wreck it Ralph". I liked the useful examples of femininity that our culture throws to the curb, sometimes.Fictional? For Sure. But, close to reality. Stereotypes of efficiency and capability are sometimes eclipsed by the expectation of nurture and sympathy that is expected in femininity. Skill bases are instructed in women as well as in men and they are dependent on the needs of any generation. When a man's skill base becomes defunct and he is not fitting into the "State of the Art" what does that make him? When a woman's skill base doesn't fit the job descriptions, what is she? Motherhood, war, these timelines that we change to fit ourselves into are seasons and they will pass and you have to know who you are outside of these roles, that you may take on. God holds the culture accountable for what it does with these needed skill base essentials. He is reflected in the family unit. When we dispose of the family unit, we are losing a part of the image of God in our world. Not the only image, but an essential image. They say that this is one of the reasons that Rome fell. We cannot know that. We can only know that God judges and gives us minds to judge also. If we judge our culture, maybe we will avert the greater judgment of God. Solomon got a reprieve in his day. All I say to my daughters is, "don't let the world create the you that you want to become...Seek God and stay in the knowledge that His image-bearing role, though out of style will never be out of "His Will".