Just a Daisy in the Meadow

There’s something about faith that just . . . well, how do you describe it . . . . Anyway, I’m longing, longing for more faith . . . Here’s a few quotes I found this morning.  ( I found them on a neat website for wall words www.wallwords.com. An aquaintance\friend  though xanga also does them their site is www.legendarydesigns.com)  Japheth and I were talking this morning about putting some WallWords in our store, and someday in our house . . .

Faith is not believing that God can, It is knowing that God will.

Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

Faith is when you close your eyes and open your heart.

When you come to the end of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unkown, faith is knowing that one of two things will happen: there will be solid ground beneath you or you will be taught how to fly.

Walking by faith means putting one foot in front of the other– with both eyes on God.

Faith sees the Flower in every Seed.

Snowflakes . . .

I love these kind!!!

One of the best things about being home alot is that you have time to do these kind of things  . . . (Ok, maybe I took the time, it wasn’t that easy to FIND , but is was fun to do somthing more creative than the norm . . .  I don’t usually even take the time to make bread . . .  Aunti has big intentions of teaching Little Japheth this winter to become our bread baker . . . we shall see . . . )

And today I got to smell the pork roast simmering in mushroom and onion soup all day . . . just another benefit to being at home . . .

Being there to greet my husband at the door . . . what could be better than that???

I love my occupation . . . a homemaker!

I love’m . . . I love the changing seasons . . . and I’m always ready for the next one . . . Somehow the beginnings are the best in my book . . .

Happy Autumn to each one of you! (No, we haven’t had frost yet but it’s a coming)

It felt good to start school today . . . It’s nice having a school room though it felt a bit full with five children and a teacher in there . . . Lynne napped quite a bit of the time . . .

Japheth is in second. Jeremiah – first, Loraine is learning how to read and starting math, Wayne is coloring and matching things and Jaden plays legos and wanders about and is in the long process of being potty trained.

Lynne’s school consists of learning to sit still during devotions, and story time, not bat at the book I’m reading, and having “blanket time” (Where she has to stay on the blanket and play with the one toy I give her, the goal being that she will stay put, whenever I put her on it)

And my job is to stay cool, calm and collected in the midst of a whirlwind of activities . . .

I’d appreciate your prayers . . . if you can take the time to remember me in that way . . .

“Sweet Jesus, sweet Jesus ,what a wonder You are!

You are brighter than the morning star.

You’re fairer, much fairer, than the lily that grows by the wayside,

Precious,more precious than gold.”

Whenever I sing this song I think of my friend, Bonita. She taught it to me and I’ve had the privilege of passing it along  to others also.  I remember stopping by the meadows and roadsides in New York (it forever changed my image of New York, I guess I just always thought of New York City whenever New York  came to my mind . . . but it is a pretty state) on our way to Va one summer after school let out . . .

Our hearts have keepsakes of many memories . . .

We love our “lilies” by the wayside . . . in fact that’s one of the worst things about traveling . . . I can’t stop the vehicle and get out and pick a few or take a picture of or just stroll through them  . . .( Well, I probably would . . . maybe that’s why Japheth likes to do all the driving

Anyway just a reminder to me . . . do I act like He’s fairer than the lilies . . . brighter than the morning star . . . and more precious than gold . . .  Yes, what a WONDER HE IS!

Anybody know that silly Bumblebee\Fly song ? . . . Well, I think it was the first song I learned when I was little, and it’s about the only song I can play without messing up So you know that I am not a piano player, but we are having fun since this piano came here to stay. . . The boys have started lessons with Aunt Judi, (By the way, besides being the Best Bread Baker in the World, she is the Best Piano Player too . . . I LOVE her style of playing!!! )

And see the candle . . . I now can put to practice that incentive that  I’ve talked about on here before.

Anyway, back that stupid, silly song . . . I didn’t tell the boys to the words to it when I showed them how to play it (by the way it’s there favorite song) but today, I put a Scripture verse to it.  NOW I like it!

The name of the Lord is a strong tower,

The name of the Lord is strong.

The name of the Lord is a strong tower, the name of the Lord is strong.

“The righteous run to it and are safe,

The righteous run to it,

The righteous run to it and are safe, The righteous run to it.

- From Proverbs 18:10

Many moments with lots of sunshine . . .

and doing things we enjoy . . .

“This is the day that the Lord has made, I will be glad and rejoice in it!”

Our little humming bird is kinda greedy . . . it’s sitting there keeping guard of the food . . . Doesn’t it know that we will replenish the supply as soon as it is exhausted . . . How often I am like this little bird . . . I don’t trust in my All- Sufficient God . . . I have to guard or hang on to certain things thinking that there just might not be any more of this “good stuff” and I want it all to myself . . . Hmmmm . . . hummingbird ponderings . . .

And then there is the case of “Garage Anger” . . . this comes upon me many times a year . . . I get so frustrated and angry that our garage can be so messy! . . . How can we let it be or become this way? . . . And so today, I was trying to apply James’ advice on counting it all joy.  I think a messy garage certainly applies to various trials, don’t you?

. . .  Knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience . . . argggg, just what I “wanted”!!!  I don’t want to be patient about it, I want something to be done . . . Ahhh, the testing of you faith . . . and letting patience have it’s perfect work in my heart . . . Ahhh, God, your ways ARE SO MUCH HIGHER, and so much better than this poor woman’s!

Taking time to "smell the roses" literally  . . . and gather flowers with my girlie . . .

Reading "End of the Spear" by Steve Saint . . .

Listening to the 5 cd collection – "Symphony of Praise" recently released by Schlabachs, & Deckers & Hostetlers.  You did a good job, Weldon!  One of my favorites is "I Want That Mountain"  Just sooo many favorite praise songs with a few new ones scattered in that I haven’t heard before.