I know...I've got to be about as hormonally tweaked as anything aparantly right now, huh?. What a season of life...a great ride, a weird day to day, and just far too many thoughts rambling my head. I'm far too much a "thinker" and it's all coming home to roost in small snippets of discontent for me right now that I am simply not fighting off well.
So, my blog is a bit odd of late.
What happens when my blog goes a bit off the deeper side of this pool of life? Well, I start thinking simple. Not simple-minded, you cheeky bunch...just simple in manner and ways. I start looking at all the *stuff* I have here, all the color, the pretties, the zillion links that I do use often enough to keep them, but not often enough to leave them glaring across what is a far too cluttered blog. I feel the need to....oh boy...play with the blog template again.
I know, I know. I really do know. I'm just insane. Maybe that is what keeps me on the homestead. Maybe that is why I choose this lifestyle. Maybe that is what happens on the rural, secluded, backwoods homesteads of country life...folks go a bit off the 'normal' path the rest of the world uses. Actually, that is exactly what most rural, backwoods homesteaders do...we leave the path the rest of the world uses and carve out that other path in our lives.
I just want things to change a bit here on our homestead. And, yes, I have been pondering that far too much lately creating my own little season of discontent here. It affects my attitude. That, of course, affects just about every other thing on this homestead, right down to the chickens laying eggs I think. I'm 'action' and 'movement' and 'direction' and lately I feel I have very little of that at all.
So, today is "Count Your Blessings" Day here on my homestead. The children are going to do it as well. I thought I'd carry it over here to the blog as well. There are so many to count, so I'll add a few to get started, but I know my home list today will be so much longer.
I have a loving, caring, soft-spoken husband full of more wisdom than one man ought to have. He knows when to do something and how to get it done and he knows that rushing in doesn't help in the long run. He needs a bigger, stronger yoke for his fast-moving, reckless wife, though.
I have 9 of the most amazing children, each different from the other, yet so similar. Gifts from God each of them. I pray daily that I won't totally louse up their lives with my silly streaks of oddity.
Our homestead. The roof doesn't leak, the windows are tight, the bathrooms are all fully-functioning. The a/c does a passable job. What more doe I really need in this life? Seems quite a list already of blessings and things to find deep contentment in.
I have several animals here to fulfil our desire to feed ourselves. Never despise meager beginnings...Scriptures are full of rather meager beginnings that created life-changing paths. Jesus was born in a barn...not much would be more meager than that.
I have a few skills that help our family live a bit more on that simple side...I sew, I can do various other needlework, I can bake and cook from scratch, I can garden (most times) and I know how to 'can' and put those foods by.
I have the ability, and maybe more importantly, the motivation, to keep my children close to home. We homeschool, we keep a tight family, and while there are still far more outside intrusions that I really want, there is a goal in place here and that is to raise God-fearing, God-reliant soldiers for His Army who will pass that same soul and spirit on into the next generation.
There are just so many things...I have no cause for discontent moments in my life. It's too blessed. If I allow satan to whisper thoughts of discontent into my heart, they will grow beyond what I can handle and I will lose sight of those blessings already in place around me. So....NO MORE WHISPERS HERE.
Contentment is my simplicity.
and yes -- I'm probably going to play with my template anyway...it's just my nature....
Thank you so much for sharing this. I often forget myself how much I do have to be thankful for. Discontent is running rampid in my life right now and I need to take this day to count my blessings.
I, too, have to remind myself often of the things that are important. I want everything done yesterday and everyone to have the exact goals and motivation I have for them. One example is in Vegas we didn't watch TV very often and didn't have cable. Here in Texas because we don't get a signal we bought satelite. Now TV is watched more and it drives me "NUTTY"!!! My husband said to get rid of it, but I find it hard (I don't watch TV but my son loves football). Loved the post. Brenda
~Always Planning for Whatever May Come... Mrs Survival site
~Sewing and baking, of course
~write letters
~Pasta made, dried and stored away
~barn repairs, on-going
~bush hogging & timber clean-up, on-going
~List books at BookMooch.com
~build a new mailbox post
~monthly quilt blocks
No indulgences of self will can be trivial, no denial unprofitable; Heaven or Hell depends on this alone. A parent who studies to subdue it in his child works together with God in the renewing and saving of their soul. The parent who indulges it does the devil's work, makes religion impractical, salvation unattainable, and does all that in him lies to damn his child, soul and body, forever.
Susanna Wesley
At The School Desks
We are a Christian family desiring to raise our children with the primary focus of Training their Hearts!
I have no greater joy, than to hear my children walk in truth... III John 1:4
Train up the child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it... Proverbs 22:6
Oh, that their hearts would be inclined to fear me and keep all my commands always, so that it might go well with them and their children forever!... Deuteronomy 5:29
Our mission in life is not to go to some far-off foreign land, but to work at home and in our churches and home communities. Our goal should not be to leave behind riches and possessions, farms and homes for our children, but a priceless heritage they will cherish enough to work fervently to pass along to their children. It has been done for generations and with God's help it can still be done. In teaching our children, we are striving toward a deep understanding of who they are In Christ. I am . . . a child of God, a gift to my parents and my country. I'm a person of great value because God made me. I can . . . do all things through Christ who strengthens me. God has made me able to do everything required of me. I ought . . . to do my duty to obey God, to submit to my parents and everyone in authority over me, to be of service to others, and to keep myself healthy with proper food and rest so my body is ready to serve. I will . . . resolve to keep a watch over my thoughts and choose what's right even if it's not what I want.
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