Home & Homestead Living
(If you know to whom credit should be given, please advise.) “Do not fear. I have redeemed you. I have called you by name. You are mine.” ~ Isaiah 43:1 ~ “Jesus took the tree of death so you could have the tree of life.” ~ Tim Keller ~ “God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be…
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~ Hay Jude, American Curly x Percheron gelding ~ I’ve found my rope or lost my horse! Seriously, it was wonderful having so much help packing and moving last August but the packing was done higgly piggly and I’m still unpacking boxes! The living room is three boxes deep in (a) stuff to give to church yard sale (raising money for…
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~ Ole Bones and her 4 kittens: Inky 1, Inky 2, Inky 3 and Pixie ~ “Whatever the activity in which you engage, do it with all your ability… .” ~ Ecclesiastes 9:10 ~ “…By being filled with the Spirit we are transformed, and by beholding we become mirrors. You always know when a man has been beholding the glory…
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“Declare His glory among the nations, His marvelous deeds among all peoples.” ~ 1 Chronicles 16:24 ~ “When I cannot read, when I cannot think, when I cannot even pray, I can trust.” ~ Hudson Taylor~ “Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn’t.” ~ John Piper ~ “My desires seem especially…
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“And I sent messengers unto them, saying, “I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down. Why should the work cease, whilst I leave it and come down to you?” ~ Nehemiah 6:3 ~ “With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.” ~ C. S. Lewis ~ “To love oneself is the beginning of a…
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Every now and again the flat top (as Daddy calls the lap top) computer likes to sleep in. Yesterday was such a day; for whatever reason, it wouldn’t start and that’s the reason there’s no Sabbath Keeping post. That sort of threw my entire day off kilter and, after church, I spent the day inside except for tending to horses…
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“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.” ~ Isaiah 43:18-19 ~ “All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.” ~ Mae West ~ …
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Sharon D. died last week. We’ve known each other for nigh on thirty years and while our friendship wasn’t deep it was abiding and based on a mutual faith in and love for Jesus. Her celebration home going and memorial service was this week and the band of family and friends gathered were bonded through a mutual love of Jesus…
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“Come, thou long expected Jesus, born to set thy people free; from our fears and sins release us, let us find our rest in thee. Israel’s strength and consolation, hope of all the earth thou art; dear desire of every nation, joy of every longing heart. Born thy people to deliver, born a child and yet a King, born to…
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“The Lord God is my strength, and He will make my feet like hinds’ feet, and He will make me walk upon mine high places.” ~ Habakkuk 3:19 ~ “Sometimes God will put a Goliath in your path for you to find the David within you.” “Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.” ~ Francis…
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Mornings, for the most part, get off to a quiet and slow start, just like this post. When the front door opens, this is the facing wall; a few things that mean something to me or make a statement about me. All photos with natural light, untouched so therefore, sometimes, difficult to make out. Just like life a lot of…
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