Home & Homestead Living
“Good grief!”, (no pun intended) I can hear you saying. Is she going to ratchet on again about grief? Well, yeah so if you don’t want to read this post, now would be a really, really good time to click on the delete/close key. Actually, Glenda wrote a post on Virtual Friends – Real Sisters and it started me thinking…
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“I will listen to what God the Lord will say; he promises peace to his people.” ~ Psalms 85:8 ~ “There is a voice, “a still, small voice” of love, Heard from above, But not amidst the din of earthly sounds, Which here confounds; By those withdrawn apart it best is heard, And peace, sweet peace, breaths in each gentle…
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~ laughter is good medicine ~ “Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, “Lillian, you should have remained a virgin…” ~ Lillian Carter, Mother of Jimmy Carter ~ “I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalog: “no good in bed,…
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Blessings ~ new life ~ mothers ~ babies ~ colostrum ~ love ~
~ love changes everything ~ Dave would tell me, “It’s my job to protect and provide for you and my family.” I’d reply, “And it’s my job to take care of you.” “Love, love changes everything Hands and faces, earth and sky How you live and how you die Love, love can make the summer fly Or a night seem…
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~ mistletoe ~ “How good and pleasant it is when [people] live together in unity!” ~ Psalm 133:1 ~ “Kindly words, sympathizing attentions, watchfulness against wounding men’s sensitiveness–these cost very little, but they are priceless in their value.” ~ F. W. Robertson ~ “Make us of one heart and mind, Courteous, pitiful, and kind; Lowly, meek, in thought and word,…
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“For the righteous falls seven times and rises again, but the wicked stumble in times of calamity.” ~ Proverbs 24:16 ~ “After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.” ~…
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~ photographer unknown to me ~ NEW NOTE: Are you familiar with the e-zine, Living Better at 50? If you’re a mature woman, it’s a fine read and for those “less mature”, it’s still a fine read. Carol D., Editor, very kindly accepted an article from me entitled Boundaries, Fences and Margins. Let me know what you think, leave a…
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~ winter on the farm ~ “Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.” ~ Exodus 22:22 ~ “Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.” ~ Soren Kierkegaard ~ “Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women – however well intentioned originally – have become in fact…
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~ S2 and S1 ~ Well, praise God, the computer is working! Being human, I’d love to take credit but all I did was pray, a lot, and pull plugs and push buttons. This will be a short post because I’m still up to my eyebrows dealing with estate, paperwork, corporations and people who want me to do something PDQ…
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“Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you. …” ~ Psalms 55:22 ~ “O LORD, how happy should we be If we could cast our care on Thee, If we from self could rest; And feel at heart that One above, In perfect wisdom, perfect love, Is working for the best.” ~ J. Anstice ~ “I would…
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