FOR TODAY
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Outside my window...
Lots of clouds leftover from yesterday’s rainy afternoon with a little sunshine… I think the sunshine will win the day! Just 60F (16C) so far, but it’s early still.
The green of the nearest hayfield is a nice contrast to the empty cornfield, ripened soybeans, and brownish ‘lawn’
I am thinking…
As I read a newsbite about a couple being charged with manslaughter for their newborn son (They didn’t allow medical treatment for a bacterial infection)… I think the inconsistency ought to be obvious and heinous to all. It would have been perfectly ‘legal’ for them to have aborted that same child the day before his premature birth.
I am thankful to God …
for His promises of grace and mercy ~
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
2 Corinthians 5:17
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Galatians 2:20
I am praying for...
… Hiromi in Japan (near the Fukushima nuclear plant)
... the Rettigs & the church in Prague
… the sale of my mother-in-law’s home
… Cinnamon ~ her Marine son is in Afghanistan
… Amy W., a young wife/mom with cancer
… Sarita & Jeff need visas for their return to Israel ~ praying they will be unusually favorable to approve visas for the children too.
… the A Family, on furlough from their field of ministry – Baby #6 due to arrive in the next few weeks, hopefully while they are with family in Indiana!
… Lea’s dad ~ in the midst of a serious health crisis
… friends in the midst of trials ~ M, H
… for direction for our church, for our family
… Laura
… and especially marriages ~ meant to last a lifetime
If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
John 15:7
From the learning rooms...
some of the Popper’s current books:
an older edition of 
(K4T Detectives Book 1)
This year in Kids 4 Truth, they will study
- God’s Word – The Bible
- The Greatness of God
- The Goodness of God
- The Trinity
- God’s Creation
- God’s View of You
and for her ultimate good… 
From the kitchen...
Saturday was a bit of a Czech celebration at our house. Kate has been wanting to cook up a bunch of recipes, such as…
kolaches
(topped with cottage cheese mixture, poppy seeds, cabbage, and cream cheese)
honey cake
(which turned out a bit different than what they ate in Prague last year)
fried chicken cutlets and cabbage soup
and potato salad
Sunday evening Tim treated us to another memory of Prague ~ Magnum bars! y>u>m>
And yesterday I went a bit further south with gyros, tzatziki sauce, hummus with pita chips… and took it to Tim & Chris in the field (sorry, no pics except today’s of the leftover hummus)
So this week’s “menu” includes leftovers of all the above : )
fyi, the hummus recipe is from Jane ~ See it here. Instead of tahini, I buy sesame seeds in the spice section of the grocery store and grind them in a coffee grinder. If you price a bottle of tahini, you’ll see why.
I am creating...
this blog post… in four hours or less - ha
Wanna see the girls’ flower creations?
I am going...
to attend to my new pile of ironing… today!
I am reading...
(aloud to the kids)
and I skimmed through this one on Sunday ~
Here’s a pertinent one ~
Question 13: How does Social Security really work?
The Myth: Social Security operates like an insurance program: individuals pay a premium into a fund and are thereby entitled to receive benefits in the future. This is just as President Franklin Roosevelt sold the program to the American people.
& The Truth: As the U.S. government has conceded only when forced to before the Supreme Court, the Social Security payments an individual makes are not an “insurance premium” but a tax, which does not give the individual the right to any benefit or earmark funds for him. The individual receives nothing but a promise “to tax your children to take care of you in your old age.”
I am hoping...
He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus. Rev. 22:20
What comes from heaven in a promise should be sent back to heaven in a prayer, “Come, Lord Jesus, put an end to this state of sin, sorrow, and temptation; gather thy people out of this present evil world, and take them up to heaven, that state of perfect purity, peace, and joy, and so finish thy great design, and fulfil all that word in which thou hast caused thy people to hope.”
~ Matthew Henry
Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ… Titus 2:13
I am hearing...
curtain rings clinking in the dryer, the washer draining, Mrs. Ludington talking via A Beka dvd for grade four
Around the house...
freezers to defrost {still}
the floors look pretty good though since the Computer Geek used his strong back to mop them the other day : )
One of my favorite things...
clean floors! ;D
Pondering these words...
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
Galatians 5:1, 13-14, 16, 22-25
A few plans for the rest of the week:
Wednesday eve ~ church
Thursday ~ violin lesson (an hour of quiet reading for me)
Friday ~ piano lessons (groceries shopping) and birthday parties!
Here is a are a few pictures for thought...
Miss Artist needs her own camera, yah?
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Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord,
that thou fulfil it.
Colossians 4:17
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