Missing church
Today Caleb and I stayed home from church. He still has just enough of a cough that he didn’t need to be in the nursery, and I can’t say that I’m not still contagious myself. So we stayed home. First, let me just say that …
Bits of encouragement
It never ceases to amaze me how God uses some of the most unlikely ways to encourage me. The other day I was searching the internet for something. I clicked one of the link results, and ended up at a blog post titled “Encouragement for …
A birthday
July 10, 2004 – a day that forever changed my life. My spiritual birthday. I remember that evening like it was yesterday. It was a Saturday night, and Stephen had left for our men’s prayer meeting at our church. I asked him not to be …
New bread machine
Years ago, I had a bread machine. Then Stephen bought me a stand mixer for Christmas. I used the mixer so much that I eventually gave away the bread machine. Then last year, I broke my mixer. For some reason, stand mixers don’t like it …
Modesty
My bloggy friend Karen has a wonderful post on her blog about modesty. She does a great job putting it into words, so I figured I’d link to it. Hope it’s helpful to someone! For My Daughters – What is Modest Apparel?
Quench not the Spirit
1 Thessalonians 5:19 Quench not the Spirit. Why do we feel such a need to be so full of ourselves that we quench God’s Holy Spirit? How do we not realize that we hinder His work? Can we be so blinded? There was a time …
Finished my quilt today
You know, I learned something about quilting these past few days. I love to quilt, but I’m not that great at it. *grin* I told my mother-in-law tonight that it’s the piecework that I really love. The quilting itself, and the binding, not so much. …
Humbling
I was worrying about something, and then I heard my 4-year-old singing along with the cd. “believing like a child. . .God will provide. . .” How’s that for a powerful reminder?
Yesterday was a very special day
Yesterday was a very special day for me – it was my spiritual birthday! I didn’t get a chance to post because it was a rather busy day. We’re having revival services at church this week (I wrote a whole post about it, and then …
Neat little modesty tip
Each Saturday I try to go through our closets and pick out and iron what everyone is going to wear to church in the morning. I don’t always pick out Stephen’s clothes for him though – he has a specific rotation to his clothes that …