LIVE A LIFE OF NO REGRETS!!: September 2013

Quote from "Stepping Heavenward" by Mrs. E. Prentiss

"She says I shall now have one mouth more to fill and two feet the more to shoe, more disturbed nights, more laborious days, and less leisure or visiting, reading, music and drawing.

Well! This is one side of the story, to be sure, but I look at the other.

Here is a sweet, fragrant mouth to kiss; here are two more feet to make music with their pattering about my nursery. Here is a soul to train for God; and the body in which dwells is worthy of all it will cost, since it is the abode of a kingly tenant. I may see less of friends, but I have gained one dearer than them all, to whom, while I minister in Christ's name, I make a willing sacrifice of what little leisure for my own recreation my other dear darlings had left me. Yes, my precious baby, you are welcome to her time, her strength, her health, her tenderest cares, to her lifelong prayers! Oh, how rich I am, how truly, wondrously blest!"

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Teaching Our Daughters to be Keepers of Home - back on schedule

We took a lot of time off for the summer because our schedules just didn't jive. But we are back in the groove of things. Here is what our last week looked like:

Sewing: We ran out of time, so I described our next project which is oven mitts. I sent material home to be cut out and we will sew it next week..

Cooking & Baking: The girls made tuna roll ups. They were delish!

Bible
We read “Company Manners” and “Courtesy to Strangers” and discussed a lot about how we treat others including our own family.

We discussed that we are going to let the boys have a productive project while the girls are busy at their things. We decided to let them do a postcard swap where they will collect postcards from all over the U.S. and maybe the world. I joined a group before I got cancer that swaps postcards so I just have to jump back in. They also could write letters or think of things they could collect to send to soldiers. They usually play basketball, but thought they could also have chess playing days too.

This Thursday we will finish our mitts. Stay tuned *:) happy

Friday, September 6, 2013

George Mueller on Prayer and the Great Secret of Success

"It is not enough for the believer to begin to pray, nor to pray correctly; nor is it enough to continue for a time to pray. We must patiently, believingly continue in prayer until we obtain an answer. Further, we have not only to continue in prayer until the end, but we have also to believe that God does hear us and will answer our prayers. Most frequently we fail in not continuing in prayer until the blessing is obtained, and in not expecting the blessing. Those who are disciples of the Lord Jesus should labor with all their might in the work of God as if everything depended upon their own endeavors. Yet, having done so, they should not in the least trust in their labor and efforts, nor in the means that they use for the spread of the truth, but IN GOD ALONE; and they should with all earnestness seek the blessing of God in persevering, patient, and believing prayer. Here is THE GREAT SECRET OF SUCCESS, my Christian reader. Work with all your might, but never trust in your work. Pray with all your might for the blessing in God, but work at the same time with all diligence, with all patience, with all perseverance. Pray, then, and work. Work and pray. And still again pray, and then work. And so on, all the days of your life. The result will surely be abundant blessing. Whether you see much fruit or little fruit, such kind of service will be blessed." – George Muller