Home & Homestead Living
“A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible.” ~ Welsh proverb ~ Lately, meals have been English cheddar cheese, Honey Crisp apple and Pumpkin Seed Cheddar crackers. A pint of Smithwick’s or Harp would be wonderful but probably not going to happen in this rural burg. However, if I’m wishing…I’m wishing for Tom Crean’s and time for…
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His parents wanted him to become a lawyer but Martin Luther, in order to seek God, became an Augustinian monk, but eventually became disillusioned with the Catholic church. On today’s date in 1517, his 95 Theses attacked the Catholic Church for selling “indulgences” to absolve sin. The 95 Theses (click to read a former post at Thistle Cove Farm blog) have two central…
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“You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.” ~ Isaiah 26:3 ~ “When I say it’s you I like, I’m talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you…
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~ leaving the Cove, a traffic jam ~ October has been full even if I don’t count those precious weeks lost to MRSA and upper respiratory infection. Let me tell you…it’s going to be a l.o.n.g. time, God willing, before I step foot back inside any kind of doctor office and don’t even think about a hospital! Petri dishes all…
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Heraclitus said, “You can never step in the same river twice” and it’s true; it’s also true you can never step in the same ocean twice. Both statements give me pause. This life is so fleeting, so transitory but what should I expect when we Christians are aliens on this sphere? In His image we were made for this Earth…
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“I have loved you with an everlasting love. I have drawn you with everlasting kindness.” ~ Jeremiah 31:3 ~ “Love is not blind….it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.” ~ Rabbi Julius Gordon ~ “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” “Love begins…
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“Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.” ~ Malachi 3:10 ~ “A fool and his money…
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~ kitchen fireplace warms the heart of the home on cool mornings ~ Although nights are getting cooler, we still haven’t had frost in the valley. I’m sure someone, somewhere wants to say, “Global warming…” but as weather records have only been kept for the last 100 years, or thereabouts, I’m not sure of such definitive statements. As Dave would…
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“I am the Lord, God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me?” ~ Jeremiah 32:27 ~ “All things are possible to him who believes. They are less difficult to him who hopes. They are easier to him who loves, and still more easy to him who perseveres in the practice of these three virtues.” ~ Brother Lawrence ~…
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Sorry. Between computer problems and being too sick to hit the floor with my hat, there’s no Sabbath Keeping post today. Please pray for ~ Isaac’s family ~ Anita ~ Julie ~ Nancy ~ Alicia ~ Diana and her Hero ~ Patrice and daughters ~ Sandra ~
“The just shall live by faith.” ~ Habakkuk 2:4 ~ “Fear and faith have something in common…they both ask us to believe in something we cannot see.” ~ Joel Osteen ~ “There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, ‘All right, then, have it your way.’ ~…
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