Living in the Sticks
"Well, it is still winter here, last I heard there was still lots of snow, but today (Saturday) was warm everywhere, even though the fog here was still low at lunchtime. The house still gets cold, it took quite awhile to warm up this morning, but in the afternoon it got possibly too warm in the house but not for long really.
My husband got two pairs of work trousers from the op-shop. One turned out to be hardly worn or new, I haven't had a close look, pair of moleskins that you can get online for $88. Still in the current color. That is amazing. He had to look there and try them on, he had nothing to wear that was old and he was all packed ready to go woodcutting.
The wood was a blessing too. Our chainsaw was stolen, and in the meantime we had some wood at our other house. Our old chainsaw was serviced inexpensively. It hurt my husband's back last week a little when he found it needed the service. I am pleased he was able to manage despite the hard work of trying to start it and running out of energy. It is very heavy, an antique. I believe we will manage to get a replacement for the other one maybe in a few weeks."
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How important do you feel sheltering your children is?
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...One of my friends was on a business trip once (I can’t recall which country at this time), and there was a little girl, maybe 11 or 12 years old, standing on a street corner trying to play some kind of instrument on the street ( I can’t remember what he said, maybe flute.). And, she had a little box on the ground near her. She wasn’t very good so no one paid attention to her. But, she was very cute and sincere he said. : ) She seemed really desperate and nervous, but no one really gave her any attention… Obviously, she had a reason to be doing this. He asked her why she was doing that as she is so young, and she said her mother was in the hospital so she wanted to take her some money, as they were very poor. So being the kind-hearted man he is, he told her to keep playing and began clapping like crazy every time she finished a song. He continued this, and every song or so he would put some money in her box. And he would clap a lot and cheer for her, and this gained a lot of attention, so after about 15 or 20 minutes there was a couple people watching her and putting some money in her box, then as time passed the numbers of people grew and grew. Mashallah. And, he stood by her for 2 or so hours. And, at the end she collected her money which became a couple hundred dollars value he said, from the few dollars he put himself, and they both went to visit her mother in the hospital. They took flowers and the money. When her mother heard what she was doing, she began crying.. thankful for such a beautiful daughter and also saddened due to their situation… I’ll stop there. But, may Allah make the situation of that little girl and her mother better in this life and the next, Ameen.
My friend deserves this recognition, though he doesn’t know that I am posting this..."
I also found a song called "All the trees of the field will clap their hands" by Sufjan Stevens. If anyone knows what this song or the scripture below means please comment.
How can we lay a welcome mat of love for our husbands after a long day of hard work?
How can we make our homes inviting places where Daddy longs to be at the end of a long day?
How can we involve our children in this process and teach them to show reverence to their Daddy?
Colossians 3:18 (NASB) Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
I don't want to pick on the wives again, but let me ask you a question: "Do you see any conditions in this command to the wives?" It does not say, "Wives submit to your husband as long as he is loving you." In a moment we'll look at the command to the husbands to love their wives, and we'll see that there aren't any conditions to that command either. It doesn't say, "Husbands love your wife as long as she is submitting to you." Wives are commanded to submit, and husbands are commanded to love regardless of what the spouse does. Your submitting and your loving are to be unto the Lord.
Last week when I was on vacation, I was talking to a Christian woman who was having problems with her husband, and I told her that her biblical responsibility was to submit to him out of a love for the Lord Jesus Christ. Another woman who was there said, "Her husband is not loving her, so she does not need to submit to him." Is that biblical? NO! Is there a Biblical exception to submission? Yes! One:
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