Greetings my friends!
How I have long missed writing and journaling my thoughts and experiences here! LIFE happens. I am sure you can relate.
Its been almost a year since my last post! Due to moving our school out to the country, technical difficulties with my computers, and my Adult ADHD (ha) blogging was put on a back shelf somewhere.
Dusting off my technical skills and imagination I am back at the keyboard ready to share more on my journey. I feel there is SO much I must tell you about this past year, but one blog would bore you senseless. So I digress.
I will just hit the high spots.
I finished my first year of school successfully.
After our annual church-wide tent camping trip to NC last summer, my husband and I felt the need to move the school to our church property. Very exciting!
I just completed my second year of school, also, successfully. My oldest graduated. That brought on a myriad of emotions that I still haven't dealt with and tucked away.
I have toyed with writing my novel(s), started several projects, and experienced many things this past year. My projects include: a family cookbook; a FB page devoted to connecting to distant family members, their recipes, and old ways of doing things; losing 50 lbs (I have lost 20lbs so far); dropping processed foods and making as much as I can from scratch; getting mentally and physically prepared to being a self-sufficient homesteader; making home repairs; being prepared in case of a drastic economic down-turn; and I am sure many other projects I have failed to mention will surface after I post this blog.
I sometimes still see myself as a teenager that lost something important in the pile of stuff on the floor in my room. As I search for "it", I find many other things I forgot I had lost and then get lost myself in the memories they hold. Can you relate? So goes my life...
Sometimes, I wish I could compartmentalize like my husband. You know, everything (thoughts mostly) in a neat organized box in a location that is easy to find and to get to when you need it. Oh, well, guess that means I still have some growing to do and some organizing:)
It's a great day today! I am excited to be blogging again!
Talk to ya soon!
Mama D
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Life Givers
On my journey of "rising above mediocre," I look at the Proverbs 31 woman.
In these few short verses we see that God has gifted women the opportunity to be life givers.
Of course the obvious one is childbirth. What an awesome and beautiful thing it is to bring life into this world. how precious are those little ones we carried for nine months when we finally get to hold them close in our arms? Men will never know.
Another way women can give life is to give life to their husbands or the men in their family (if the woman is single) How? you might ask. R-E-S-P-E-C-T. If I have learned anything in the last few years of being married to my hubby, it is that men thrive on respect. I am still learning and growing, as is he, but there is LIFE when there is respect.
I am borrowing from a book I am reading entitled, "31 Days to Clean-Having a Martha House the Mary Way" by Sarah Mae for a few of these points:
Ways women give life: (chapter 2, paraphrased)
-by our words
-in our homes by decorating, preparing meals, and creating an atmosphere of peace and hospitality
-Educating ourselves, your children, and others
-Using our gifts
-Socially, by bringing life through encouragement and empowerment and example
-by inspiring others through culture and creative arts by sharing an appreciation for both
-through heritage and tradition by enriching the lives around you.
{This is an unfinished post I found and felt it best to leave as is and post anyway.}
Mama D
Let's glance at Proverbs 31 for a moment:
11 The heart of her husband safely trusts her;
So he will have no lack of gain.
12 She does him good and not evil
All the days of her life.
15 She also rises while it is yet night,
And provides food for her household,
And a portion for her maidservants.
20 She extends her hand to the poor,
Yes, she reaches out her hands to the needy.
21 She is not afraid of snow for her household,
For all her household is clothed with scarlet.
26 She opens her mouth with wisdom,
And on her tongue is the law of kindness.
11 The heart of her husband safely trusts her;
So he will have no lack of gain.
12 She does him good and not evil
All the days of her life.
15 She also rises while it is yet night,
And provides food for her household,
And a portion for her maidservants.
20 She extends her hand to the poor,
Yes, she reaches out her hands to the needy.
21 She is not afraid of snow for her household,
For all her household is clothed with scarlet.
26 She opens her mouth with wisdom,
And on her tongue is the law of kindness.
In these few short verses we see that God has gifted women the opportunity to be life givers.
Of course the obvious one is childbirth. What an awesome and beautiful thing it is to bring life into this world. how precious are those little ones we carried for nine months when we finally get to hold them close in our arms? Men will never know.
Another way women can give life is to give life to their husbands or the men in their family (if the woman is single) How? you might ask. R-E-S-P-E-C-T. If I have learned anything in the last few years of being married to my hubby, it is that men thrive on respect. I am still learning and growing, as is he, but there is LIFE when there is respect.
I am borrowing from a book I am reading entitled, "31 Days to Clean-Having a Martha House the Mary Way" by Sarah Mae for a few of these points:
Ways women give life: (chapter 2, paraphrased)
-by our words
-in our homes by decorating, preparing meals, and creating an atmosphere of peace and hospitality
-Educating ourselves, your children, and others
-Using our gifts
-Socially, by bringing life through encouragement and empowerment and example
-by inspiring others through culture and creative arts by sharing an appreciation for both
-through heritage and tradition by enriching the lives around you.
{This is an unfinished post I found and felt it best to leave as is and post anyway.}
Mama D
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