Home & Homestead Living
Thistle Cove Cottage is ready for rental! Located in beautiful Cherry Grove, North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina Please visit here and here for photos and information and please forward this e-mail to your friends and family interested in a beautiful beach vacation. If you have questions, please e-mail me at thistlecovecottage at gmail dot com Best wishes, Sandra Blessings ~ Cherry Grove ~ vacation…
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Dearest Mags, So often, when reading something you’ve written, something grabs and shakes me. So it is with your phrase, “faithful attention”. You’re right; life isn’t fair but it hasn’t been fair since Father Adam and Mother Eve made their first, great mistake. Every time I see a beer bellied sloppy man schlepping around, don’t you know I think, “Why…
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“Honor your father and your mother so that you may live long in the land the Lord has given you.” ~ Exodus 20:12 ~ “Favorite children are often the cause of much sin in believers; the Lord is grieved when he sees us doting on them beyond measure; they will live to be as great a curse to us as…
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Someone sent me an e-mail with this photo; don’t you just love it!? I’d love to give credit so if anyone knows, please tell. Blessings ~ friends ~ family ~ companion animals ~ good preaching ~ life ~ laughter ~ fun ~
Dave, second from left, sitting with Bedouins and Tuareg of the Sahara, aka Blue Men, in their tent, in the Moroccan Sahara Desert, about 9 clicks from the Algerian border. HAPPY BIRTH DAY, Beloved! click – At Last “Thou art my life–I the brook, thou the spring. Because thine eyes are open, I can see; Because thou art thyself, ’tis therefore…
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Yeah, how’s that sequester going for us, fellow Americans? White House tours have been stopped, saving $72,000 a week or $288000 a month or $3,456,000 a year. While Biden spends $1,000,000 seeing the sites in gay Paree and London and, as of March, had been on three vacations in 2013. In case your math skills are lax, that’s one vacation per…
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“If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in safe country, how will you manage in the thickets by the Jordan?” ~ Jeremiah 12:5 ~ “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” ~ Mark Twain ~…
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“Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, “Woe to those who call evil good,” but that is exactly what we have done. We have lost spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values. We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery. We have rewarded…
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~ who loves ya, baby? ~ Jen, over at Finding Heaven is talking about choices, hope and despair; about measuring herself against her stats, about forgetting we’re not on our own. Her T.R.U.S.T. question is: What are the traps that lure you away from believing God’s Truth about you? Here’s my response… The days I’m too “busy” to start with…
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Twice this month I’ve run across articles that speak to being grounded, as in, grounded to the earth and thus, the energy from the earth. Some natural type e-zines speak to this and say grounding, aka earthing, helps one live a healthier life. (Note, that is not healthy life! grrrr) The concept of grounding was “developed” by Clint Ober but, let’s…
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“Rescue the perishing, don’t hesitate to step in and help.” ~ Proverbs 24:11 ~ “Don’t rescue (your) son/daughter from consequences he/she deserves for forgetfulness or irresponsibility.” ~ Tim Rogers ~ “The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.” ~ Daniel Webster ~ “Constant pressure and anxiety lead to depression. Have faith in God. …
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