I’m not sure who wrote this song, but it has blessed me many a day, including todoay . . . I think it is a good “Mom” song 
“The Lord has a will and I have a need.
To follow that will, to humbly be still.
To rest in it, nest in it, fully be blest in it,
Following my Father’s will . . . “
". . . walk worthy of the calling with wich you were called,
with all lowiness and gentleness, with longsuffering . . .
endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace . .
But to each one of us GRACE was given . . . " - Ephesians
There’s not too many places one can cry in private in this household . . . and the other day I was outside in tears (I wasn’t particularly wanting their attention at the moment)when my six year old asks Japheth, “Does Mama have to go to the bathroom?” (Ah, if only that was the extent of it . . .) You know how it is for them . . . they have to go soooo bad and at times don’t come in soon enough . . . I guess this is what they thought happened with Mama!
And today . . . my tears consisted of my heart’s cry “Oh, that they had such a heart in them that they would fear me and ALWAYS keep all my commandments that it might be well with them and with their children forever!” The frustration of all the PRECEPTS and LINES and HERE A LITTLE and THERE A LITTLE’s that it takes to get something across . . . It would be much easier to take up dog training me thinks
I think too that there are times to let the children see that this “problem” brings you to your knees and how distressing it is,in that it makes one cry aloud . . . Maybe this doesn’t happen with you . . . but if you have one child multiply that by six, add a certain time of the month and a REALLY messy house and I assure you, that YOU will be in tears too. Trust me.
“As for me, I will call upon God,
And the Lord shall save me.
Evening and at morning and at noon
Will I pray and cry aloud,
And He shall hear my voice,
He has redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was against me
For there are many against me . . .
Cast your burden upon the Lord
And He will sustain you;
He will never permit the righteous to be moved . . .
You number my wanderings;
Put my tears into your bottle;
Are they not in your book?
When I cry out to you . . .
- Taken from Psalm 55 & 56
A note from the Editor I’ve already had to add to my list in the last post . . . 
sorry if it was you that I missed (I just added you in somewhere down there). . . as I said it was not intentional to skip you. . . Blessings to all!
I don’t have four children three and under anymore . . . I don’t have three in diapers anymore either. Wayne is officially potty trained now and Loraine celebrates her 4th birthday.
But I admit I am burnt out of having babies and such. I am. That’s all there is to it. If I get pregnant here again soon I think I will pull out my hair, God knows this . . . if anybody, He knows this truly!
But someday these days of training and trying to maintain ones sanity will pay off . . .
"For the Lord will comfort Zion, He will comfort her waste places; He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; Joy and gladness will be found in it. Thanksgiving and the voice of melody." - Isaiah 51:3
PS. Tonight Loraine and Lynne and I are having a slumber party. NO BOYS ALLOWED!
A rose has thorns on its stem.
. . . and so my thorny day eventually blossoms with rosebuds too, though I have to claim every promise in the Book as mine every chapter, every verse, every line . . .
Ah . . . babies are so sweet, especially between 3 and 9 months . . . and this is God’s creation, His handiwork! . . . and we are His. He has called us by our names . . .
"But now, thus says the Lord, who created you, _______
And He who formed you. ____________
Fear not; For I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name. You are mine.
When you pass through the waters, I will be with you.
And through the rivers, they shall not overflow you.
When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned. Nor shall the flame scorch you.
For I am the Lord your God. The Holy One of Israel, your Savior
. . . since you were precious in My sight. You have been honored.
And I have loved you . . ." - Isaiah 43:1-4a
Not every moment in life is as glorious as this . . . but hearing His voice is . . .
Japheth recently put up our blackboard. He got it out of a school that was going to be demolished. This was one of the ones that didn’t have a rock thrown at it. I love these old slate boards . . . takes me back in time . . .
Anyway we are looking forward to a short trip to Stone Lake, WI in a couple weeks to visit some friends. It will be a nice break from school . . . just two short days though . . . but with all the children, let me see our six and their eight and all of them 10 and under. I think they live in a trailer . . . but you know sleeping on the floor at those ages is ADVENTURE!
“For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope. ” Romans 15:4
Just one of our Bible memory\ Scripture songs. I know all about the comfort of the Scriptures, but what does it mean the patience of the Scriptures?
You know you live in luxury when it’s hard to lose weight.
“He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty;
And he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.” - Proverbs 16:32