Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Apron Giveaway At My Strength & Song!
Would not you want to win this lovely little apron to make your family’s meals in? It’s adorable!
She will be drawing a winner on January 15, so make sure you get entered. You can get entered more than once, just go and read the rules to do it. :)
Love,
Rachel
Matthew 5:14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
I hope you have enjoyed reading the thoughts and happenings of a fifteen-year-old girl from the country. “You can do all things through CHRIST who strengthens you!” Philippians 4:13
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Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Giveaway At ACOAH - Handmade Earrings!
I have another giveaway for you all! With the help of Miss Monica June of The Chic Boutique, you could possibly win one of these these beautiful earrings. Would you like to win one of these beautiful earrings? Follow the simple entering rules at the bottom to enter! The ones you could win…
Kiwi-Lime
Golden Amber
Autumn
To Enter:
1st entry Leave a comment on this post
2nd entry Post about the giveaway on your blog, with the link to THIS post. Leave me a comment with the link so I can find it!
3rd entry Tell 5 friends about the giveaway, anyone - adults, your girlfriends - by email and CC: me on it mjdixon@kconline.com.
If you have not already put my icon for the giveaways I do on my blog, you can be entered a FOURTH time by doing so. Just copy the code, and put it in your sidebar.
You can subscribe to my feed on my sidebar to get a notification of when I post winners and perhaps more giveaways! I hope you all will enter. The deadline to enter *this* giveaway is the *10th of December*.
Matthew 5:14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
I hope you have enjoyed reading the thoughts and happenings of a fifteen-year-old girl from the country. “You can do all things through CHRIST who strengthens you!” Philippians 4:13
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Thursday, November 20, 2008
Another Giveaway at A City On A Hill! (And VOTE FOR ME!)
Before I get to the newest giveaway, I just wanted to make sure you all knew to vote for me in the HOMESCHOOL BLOG AWARDS. I was nominated in the Best Teen Gal category, so make sure you vote in that one for me. 
Thank you! All your votes count!
You can go here to see who all was nominated of my family - Nominated in the Homeschool Blog Awards
My latest giveaway I set to end on the 21st, and this one is ending on the same day. You could win the following items -
Creativity Express
This is a program that lets kids explore the world of art, digitally. It 'guides you through creativity building projects... right on your computer! With your own art materials right there!" This is a great beginners art program, for those who want to do computer and blog graphics.
My Book Of Colouring At The Zoo
This is a book from Kumon. If you have a child, or a younger sibling who enjoys playing and drawing with crayons, then this book will help to encourage that. It's for ages 3 & 4. This book could also be used as a part of schooling, helping to remember colours and mazes.
To Enter:
1st entry Leave a comment on this post
2nd entry Post about the giveaway on your blog, with the link to THIS post. Leave me a comment with the link so I can find it!
3rd entry Tell 5 friends about the giveaway, anyone - adults, your girlfriends - by email and CC: me on it mjdixon@kconline.com.
Subscribe to my feed on my sidebar to get a notification of when I post winners and perhaps more giveaways!
If you have not already put my icon for the giveaways I do on my blog, you can be entered a FOURTH time by doing so. Just copy the code, and put it in your sidebar.
I hope you all will enter. The deadline to enter *this* giveaway is the 7th of December, so be sure to tell all your friends who you think would want to win this program. **More giveaways coming soon!**
Matthew 5:14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
I hope you have enjoyed reading the thoughts and happenings of a fifteen-year-old girl from the country. “You can do all things through CHRIST who strengthens you!” Philippians 4:13
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008
A Giveaway At A City On A Hill!
You can hop on over to my other blog, and see the prize! You may be interested in entering to win the prize. The qualifications to enter are so simple... don't miss out!
I hope you all will enter. I am going to be having more giveaways at my blog in the next couple of weeks. The deadline to enter *this* giveaway is the 21st, so be sure to tell all your friends who you think would want to win.
Hope you enter,
Matthew 5:14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
I hope you have enjoyed reading the thoughts and happenings of a fourteen-year-old girl from the country. “You can do all things through CHRIST who strengthens you!” Philippians 4:13
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Be sure to vote for me in the HOMESCHOOL BLOG AWARDS. I was nominated in the Best Teen Gal category, so make sure you vote in that one for me. Thank you!
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Friday, February 8, 2008
Fruit of the Spirit Friday - All The Fruits...
Bible verse of the Day:
Galatians 5:22 & 23
22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
23Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
I am again participating in Mrs. Sampson's Meme, The Fruit Of The Spirit Friday. I forgot to do it last
week, sorry. Onto the post!
The Fruit of the Spirit are so simple, and so easy to follow. It is easy to love someone. It is easy to have joy everyday. What about being peaceable with everyone you live with? Longsuffering? It's also easy to be gentle to one who is not being gentle to you. Goodness, easy to be good to someone too. Faithful, c'mon, help me out here! Meekness, the same as being humble. Temperance: you can control your temper, and can control your own actions.
This week's lesson is being peaceable with everyone, because "a soft answer turns away wrath," as the Bible clearly tells us. Proverbs 15:18 says, "A wrathful man stirreth up strife, but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife." Also, if you go to chapter three, verse 30, it says, "Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm." So, if you don't have a good reason (which most of the time no one has a good reason for arguing) there shouldn't be any strife or contention in your house.
Proverbs 21:9 says "It is better to dwell in a corner of a housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house." If you want peace in your home, you are to "If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceable with all men." That is Romans 12:18. What about James 3:18? "And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace." "The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention before it be meddled with." Proverbs 17:14. Also, check out Proverbs 18:19, where it says that an offened brother is harder to win than a strong city. Ephesians 4:26, don't let the sun do down with your anger. Matthew 5:39-41, don't insist on rights.
Since I have given you a few verses to look at and ponder, you can decide for yourself if you have peace in your home, and if not, how to accomplish having peace. In case anyone here has never read the entire verses of the Fruit of the Spirit, here they are: "Love, Joy, Peace, Longsuffering, Gentleness, Goodness, Faith, Meekness, Temperance: against such there is no law." That is in Galations 5: 22-23. Read the verses above those ones to get a better understanding of what Paul is talking about.
I admit that I haven't been some of the above with Blondie lately. Since she cut her paw, I have gotten a lot more frustrated with her for not holding still while I put her bandage on or put a plastic bag over it to keep it from getting wet. I think it would qualify for these Fruits: Love, Longsuffering, Gentleness, and Temperance. I need to have more love for her, than just thinking she is being a pain in the backside with her paw. Longsuffering would be for dealing with her instead of getting mad every time she gets her bandage off. I need to be more Gentle with her when I am dealing with her. Controling my temper is one of the worst things I need to work on right now. I haven't been feeling very well these past couple of days, and I am afraid that I haven't been a very kind and gentle, including meek and loving sister to my siblings. Or the animals for that matter. But I am not perfect, and so I falter in many things. Everyone needs prayer, and so do I. :o)
Thank you for reading this week's Fruit of the Spirit Friday Meme.
Rachel
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Friday, January 25, 2008
Fruit Of The Spirit Friday Meme - Temperance and Gentleness
Bible Verse of the Day:
Galations 5:22-23
22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, kindness,
23Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
I am going to tell you a story that goes with one of the Fruits, and tell me if you think that it goes with it or a different one.
Temperance, and Gentleness. I'm not always these things, as it may be hard to believe from seeing and reading my blog. My blog has a quiet sense to it. It gives off the reflection that I am well-mannered, very ladylike girl who always obeys her parents, and is kind and loving to her siblings. Well, that is not the way it is.
I'm not always kind to my younger siblings, or my older ones for that matter. I get bad attitudes just like everyone else. I may be mad at someone and not want to have anything to do with them, which only leads to strife. The reason it leads to strife is because if one is mad at the other, when the first tries to talk to the mad, the mad is mean, and hurts the firsts' feelings by talking in a mean way. Therefore, you have two mean people who don't want to have anything to do with each other, and are mean to the other children. So, you end up with a house full of mean kids.
Only yesterday I was not loving and kind, now this morning when I was frustrated with Isaac and Caleb because I wanted to finish writing in my journal. But I will tell you of an example that would agree with the paragraph above this one.
The bucks had knocked out their light, as did the does when we went down to feed them yesterday morning. When we came up, and I had just gotten all of my barn clothes off, and put my nice blue skirt on, Eric comes and tells me that we needed to put new lights in. I got angry because I didn't want to go out in the cold again and smell like the barn anymore. So, as a result, I was in a bad mood. We had to see if we could find two 60-watt bulbs in the addition because the darn goats had broken all of the ones we put it there. After not finding not one, we took a 40-watt down there, and since I was in a bad mood, I wasn't listening to Eric about how we needed one for the bucks as well.
When I thought I would be able to go in, Eric tells me, "I need another light." I got angry about this as well. (I had a headache from hitting my head on the garage door, which I couldn't see because of my hood.) I was upset, and wanted to go in. I stood on our porch while he got another light bulb.
While I was waiting for him to finish installing the new bulb, I was feeling rather sad at the way I was acting toward my brother. I knew it wasn't his fault that I had hit my head, and not his fault I hadn't wanted to go back down there. It was mine and mine alone. I usually feel sick when I am mean to my younger siblings and I know I shouldn't be, as I did then. I was not paying attention to how Eric might be feeling, just my own selfish feelings. I wasn't loving my brother with a Christian love; I was loving myself and nursing my own selfish feelings, hateful words and actions.
Last night, before Mom prayed with us, she asked us to ask the people we had offended to forgive us. I asked Eric to forgive me for the way I had been treating him. Then I asked God to forgive me for the way I had been acting toward my brother. It made me feel better knowing that I would have another chance to be kind and loving to my brothers and sisters tomorrow, and that I had not only been given forgiveness from my brother, but from the Lord also. Why don't we reflect on this verse: "25If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit." You can read the entire Fruit of the Galations 5:22-23
Rachel
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Saturday, January 19, 2008
Saturday Psalm & Praise - Psalm 19
Psalm 19
1The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handiwork.
Mom, at 1am last night, posted her SP&P, and I was reminded to do mine. I am doing Psalm 19 because that is today's date.
Psalm 19
1The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handiwork.
2Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
3There is no speech now language, where their voice is not heard.
4Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tabernacle for the sun,
5Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.
6His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the end of it: there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
7The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.
8The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.
9The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
10More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
11Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.
12Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.
13Keep back they servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression
14Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.
If you would like to participate in the meme, pick a praise song or Psalm, post it, sign the Mr. Linky on Mom's post, and leave a comment telling her you did it.
I was reading my Bible today, in Revelation. I have a fascination with prophecies and predictions of what is to come in the future years. The Seven Seals, what Christ told John to say to the Seven Churches of Asia, the coming of the Beast and what would happen before, after and during his reign, what will be loosed from the Bottomless Pit. I feel very sorry for those who will have taken the Mark of the Beast and those who will still be here during the time when God pours out His wrath on the people and the earth. I was very interested in the types of Angels that would be coming down to earth, and the four and twenty saints that sit around God’s throne. It is very interesting. I think all Christians should read it at least once and study it. I think you will find some very important information in those small 22 chapters of Revelation!
Sincerely,
Lady Rachel
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Saturday, December 8, 2007
The Holiday Bundle, and the HSB Awards…
I thought this would make a good post. Just a few things that are happening around blog world!
The Holiday Bundle-
Ok, I know this is kind of late to be posting about the Holiday Bundle, because it ends tomorrow, but better late than never right? There are lots of great prizes for whoever is a winner. Mom is donating some Creative Memories, and I think there are some blog banners, and templates. I also saw a Homeschool Boutique Survivor shirt. I thought it was really cute. There are also a few books too.
But there are a few different things you have to day to enter, so make sure you have read all the rules, and you know what you are supposed to do.
So, go over and enter in, because it ends tomorrow. Make sure you read the rules before you do anything. And, you must sign the linky! I don’t need to set the date to the 8th because this post will be up longer than that. LOL
The HSB Awards-
Have you heard of the HSB Awards? Well, you can check out the site here: The HomeschoolBlogAwards.com. Mom, Amanda, and Jocelyn post on it. There is Memo Mondays, Thoughtful Thursdays. There is something for every day of the week, something encouraging. So go over and check it out.
About the voting:
The voting ends on the 15th, so you can still enter in your nominations. I was nominated for the Best-Cyber-Buddy category. Lucy was nominated for the Best-NEW-Blog category. We all voted for Lucy. We thought it was a cute idea for a 8th old to win an award! (She is actually 8 months old today. She posted on her blog about it too!)
Mom, Amanda, and Jocelyn were nominated for a few different categories, but because of them being on the staff of the HSB Awards, they were disqualified. They were really excited about it, but now they out of it completely. But, hey! I’m sure they would love comments and encouragement instead!
So, hurry in and get your votes in. If you don’t now, then it will be too late! Sorry this is such a short post, but I didn’t know what to post about, so I thought of this.
Ok, now to go comment and let everyone know I posted!
Rachel
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