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Funny Fridays, hmmm, what's he trying to say?For years my husband and I have joked with each other about who loves the other more. I'll say, "I love you". Then he'll say, " I love you, more". And it goes on and on (I know kinda corny, but that's what we do.)One evening, upon our tellings of loving mores, I said, "Just wait till we get to heaven and God will look at you and say, 'Yes, she loved you more'." To this my husband replied, "Then He will turn to me and wink." I said, "God doesn't wink!" "He does and I will prove it with a verse", he said walking out of the room to the computer. As I was in the kitchen cooking supper, I heard him read, "And the times of this ignorance God winked at;". This just tickled me, just to know that God winks. But a little while later as the verse sunk in, I had to start wondering. Did he just call me ignorant? Angelamichell Glory Cloud Two Weeks and No ShampooToday marks 2 weeks of cleaning my hair without using shampoo. Several weeks ago I started visiting welltellme.com and some of the women were doing this. So, I thought I would try it.Instead of using shampoo, I use baking soda and water. At welltellme.com, they said to use 2 tablespoons of baking soda, but I have had to use about a third of a cup. Mix the baking soda just enough to make a paste. I scoop out some of the mixture and start massaging my scalp, just like I would do with shampoo. Rinse really good. (After a good rinsing, my hair is "squeeky" clean.) I do a final rinse (of the ends, not the scalp, unless you have dandruff) with 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar mixed with some water. The vinegar smell goes away in just a few minutes. Recycling at its Finest This is what we are giving some people for Christmas. We used a coffee can (saved from a camp meeting this summer), 4 coke cans, 4 tin cans, 1 juice can, 1 tuna fish or cat food can, and a new funnel. We put it all together with a clothes hanger and caulking for the neck and head. We used 2 bigger screws for the eyes and the bottom of a coke can for the mouth screwed on with 2 screws. Cost: $1.00 for caulking and $1.24 for the funnel. Path to FreedomThis is a wonderful website. It is kinda like the Energizer Bunny, it just keeps going and going.It is encouraging to the small land owner. This family lives on a fifth of an acre lot. They have cultivated a tenth of it, that is half their land. They have raised 6,000 pounds of vegetables and produce on this tenth of an acre. Just amazing!! Go to www.pathtofreedom.com to see them. You can also download video!! The Book of Ruth in a Name StudyHistory tells us that names in the Bible had certain meanings. In fact there are many places were the Word of God gives us those meanings in the midst of the story. There are many characters and places in the book of Ruth. There names and meanings are listed. Read the names and there meanings, then read the short summary of the book of Ruth. All names have been replaced with there meanings. It is interesting to see how the name meanings line up with the events that took place.Places: Bethlehem - “God’s House of Bread” Judah - “Land of Promise” Moab - “I’m my Grandfather’s Son” People: Elimelech - “God is My King” Naomi - “Delightfully Pleasant” Mara - “Bitterness” Mahlon - “Sick” Chilion - “Wasting Away” Orpah - “Neck & Back” Ruth - “Friendship” Boaz - “In His Strength” Obed - “Serving” Jesse - “Wealthy” David - “Beloved” Jesus - “Jehovah is Salvation” It came to pass in the days when people did what was right in thier own eyes that there was a famine in “God’s House of Bread” in the “Land of Promise”. A man named “God is My King” and his wife “Delightfully Pleasant” took their two sons, “Sick” and Wasting Away” to the land of “I’m my Grandfather’s Son” (an Icon of Godlessness and Sin). While there “Sick” marries “Neck & Back” and “Wasting Away” marries “Friendship”. Then God’s judgement falls and He takes the lives of “God is My King”, “Sick”, and “Wasting Away”. This leaves “Delightfully Pleasant”, “Neck & Back” and “Friendship” alone in the place called “I’m My Grandfather’s Son” (an Icon of Godlessness and Sin). “Delightfully Pleasant”, “Neck & Back” and “Friendship” start to travel to the “Land of Promise”, but “Neck & Back” doesn’t want to go. She turns her back on “Delightfully Pleasant” and goes back to “I’m my Grandfather’s Son” (an Icon of Godlessness and Sin). But, “Friendship” stays with “Delightfully Pleasant” and together they go to the “Land of Promise”. When they get to “God’s House of Bread”, “Delightfully Pleasant” tells her people not to call her “Delightfully Pleasant” any more, but to call her “Bitterness” because God had dealt bitterly with her. This is the last time “Bitterness” is mentioned. How can you have “Bitterness” in “God’s House of Bread”? Then we find “Friendship” gleaning in the fields of “In His Strength”. “In Hs Strength” then asks “Friendship” to glean in his fields only with his maidens. And to drink from the vessels of water that his men drew. “Delightfully Pleasant” told “Friendship” that “In His Strength” was a Kinsman to “God is My King” and that he could be her Kinsman Redeemer. “Friendship” went to “In His Strength” and requested that he be her Kinsman Redeemer. He agreed to do all that was required of him. “In His Strength” called “Friendship” who was a citizen of “I’m My Grandfather’s Son” (an Icon of Godlessness and Sin), but came to the”Land of Promise” in “God’s House of Bread”, as a virtuous woman. On that day “In His Strength” purchased all that belonged to “God is My King”, “Sick” and “Wasting Away” at the hand of “Delightfully Pleasant”. “In His Strength” married “Friendship” and begat “Serving”. “Serving” begat “Wealthy”. And then“Wealthy” begat “Beloved”, who is in the lineage of “Jehovah is Salvation”. So in a way, “Friendship’s” conversion from “I’m My Grandfather’s Son” (an Icon of Godlessness and Sin) to the “Land of Promise” in “God’s House of Bread” and her subsequent redemption by “In His Strength”, lead to OUR salvation through faith in “Jehovah is Salvation”. Have a wonderful Sabbeth. Angelamichelle Funny Fridays "WAKE UP, THERE'S A CRAZY MAN SHOOTIN' MY CHICKENS"I thought I would start a new category entitled "Funny Fridays" and post some of the funny things that have happened to our family or our friends.The one I want to tell you today happened last summer. We live in a subdivision. Our house sets back away from the other houses, so we have more privacy than anyone else. Our neighborhood is very quiet, so you can imagine how startled we were when we heard gunfire at 2:00am in our backyard. I woke up and looked out of our bedroom window and could see the fire come out of the gun as it was firing again. I woke my husband up yelling, "There's a crazy man in the chicken coop and he's shootin' my chickens!!" My husband got up and went outside and hollered at the "crazy man". It was my father-in-law, his father!! (they live downstairs) He had his bedroom window open and heard the chickens squaking and thought he would see what was wrong with them. A 'possom had gotten in the coop. So he became the "Opossom-nator" and protected our chickens from this entruder. What would we do without my "crazy" father-in-law "man"? Angelamichelle I love this time of year!!!I've got all my pies done: 1 Pumpkin Pie, 1 Sugar-free Pumpkin Pie, 1 Dutch Apple Pie, and 1 Pecan Pie. The house smells so good and yummy. While I was cooking, I thought about posting some of the things for which I am thankful. I noticed that some of you have also done this.I am thankful for: My salvation Mr. Wonderful and my boys Being born in the USA (we have our problems, but there is no better country!!!) Being raised in the Bible belt of the world Having food to eat, clothes to wear, and a roof over my head Did I already say, Mr Wonderful? Friends Family My sight, to see the autumn leaves My nose, to smell the scent of burning wood My ears, to hear someone say, I Love You My taste buds!! (can't wait to eat that Pecan Pie) Life Oh yeah, and Mr Wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!! Have a Happy and Blessed Thanksgiving Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Angelamichelle How much water would you need to have stored, if your water supply was suddenly cut off?Lately, I have been reading "Making the Best of the Basics" by James Stevens. In the book, he gives ideas and formulas for figuring out how much water along with other staples you might need if some disaster took place.He says every person in your home needs 2 gallons of water per day. So if I wanted to store up enough water to last us for 2 weeks, there are 6 people in our household, 6 x 2=12, 12 x 14= 168. 168 gallons of water!!! Well, I've got 4 gallons. I guess that's a start. The Strange Woman of ProverbsThere are many different women mentioned in Proverbs. We are told of the evil woman, the whorish woman, the gracious woman, the fair woman, the virtuous woman, the wise woman, the brawling woman, the angry woman, the contentious woman, the adulterous woman, the odius woman, the foolish woman, and the fearful woman, But the first woman that God chose to mention in Proverbs and the one He mentions the most is the “strange woman”.We find her first in Proverbs 2:16. God tells us that wisdom, knowledge, discretion, and understanding will deliver us from her. This strange woman has a flattering tongue. Her words are smooth and candy-coated (Proverbs 5:3). She knows what to say and when to say it, so she may get her way. She is a divider amoung the people. She does not like to see the women getting along or the men. She likes to see the flock scattered. She is smooth and deceitful. She has forsaken “the guide of her youth” (2:17). This guide is her husband, the head of her home. The feminist movement of that day said she needed no man. A man should not rule over her. She has set herself to not notice him. When he talked to her, she looked the other way and changed the subject. When he came home, she acted like he was not even there. She dishonored him, belittled him in private and in public. She did not put much value in him or what he had to say. She pushed him to get her way. She found fault with him. She despised him. She has broken her vows of marriage. And worse than all of that she has forgotten “the covenant of her God” (2:17). Her eyes have been turned away from an Almighty God. She has forgotten that there was a blood covenant made just for her. She has forgotten the promise of a coming Messiah. Now she seeks another power and serves him instead. Her paths lead “unto the dead” (2:18). Instead of going to an All-Knowing God, she seeks out soothsayers, palm readers, and fortune tellers. She looks to the stars for her future, instead of their Creator for His will. She dabbles in witchcraft and the magics. She would rather serve the devil and his crowd than God, who holds her very life in his hands. She has such an influence on people that when they come into her little circle they are never themselves again (2:19). She leads them into the very mouth of hell (5:5). God, in his infinite wisdom, devotes almost a whole chapter in Proverbs warning us about her. A warning for men of all ages to stay away from her. And I believe, a warning also to the women to watch the paths we choose to walk, that we not become like her. In Proverbs 7, we are told a story of a young man, void of understanding, who has sought out to find this strange woman. He came out at night, “passing through the streets near her corner” (vs 8). “He went the way to her house.” The first thing we notice about her here, is her appearance. She was dressed as a harlot (modern day prostitute-vs 10). Maybe her blouse was too tight, too short, too low cut, and showing more than covering. Maybe her skirt was the same. Maybe her make-up was bright and bold. Proverbs 6:25 tells us of her physical beauty. Just by her very appearance, she becomes the enemy of married women and the adversary of mothers. She is loud, stubborn, and rebellious (vs 11). Remember, she is a flatterer. Her mouth is a deep pit (Proverbs 22:14). Just as mice are allured to the cheese on a trap, so are her victims allored to her by her words. In verse 14, we see she has taken something as holy as a peace offering and twisted it to use it for her own devices. Remember, she has forgotten “the covenant of her God” (2:16). She went to the temple, not to worship, not to make a sacrifice for her sins, but because it was a ritual. She made her offering, sang a hymn or two, shook a few hands then took the remainder of her offering home. It was supposed to be eaten with friends, but this was to be set for a trap. She had food ready to eat. With her smooth, candy-coated words, she befriends the young man. She has done all this for him (vs15). She has made a bed ready for him, covered in the finest sheets and blankets that this world can offer (vs16). Remember, she has forsaken the “guide of her youth” (2:16). She does not even call him her husband, she refers to him as the “goodman” (7:19). She has taken off her wedding band for the moment. Dear lady, if this is you, I beckon you to come to an All-Knowing, All-Powerful, loving God and ask him to forgive you of your sins and to come into your heart and save you from this life and a place called Hell. Dear Sir, if you see this strange woman in person or on the pages of a magazine, run away. “Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.” (7:25) Dear Woman, how can we stay on the straight and narrow path and not wonder off and become like her? Dear Christian Woman, let’s dress as “becometh women professing godliness”(I Timothy 2:10) Let’s make sure our skirts are long enough, so that even when we sit down, we don’t attract the eyes of another woman’s husband. Let’s make sure our blouses are modest and covering more than showing. Let’s have a meek and quiet spirit. Let’s not forget the Saviour that gave His life for us. Let’s read our Bibles and pray. When we go to church, let’s worship Christ for who He is, for what He has done, and for what He is going to do. Let’s not get caught up in rituals of “just going” every Sunday and Wednesday. Let’s fall back in love with the man God gave us. The man we were created for. Don’t call him the “goodman”. Call him your Knight in Shining Armour, your Prince Charming, your King, Mr. Wonderful. Sarah called Abraham, lord, showing him the respect that a husband should be shown. Mrs. Charles Spurgeon, who knew Greek and Hebrew, called her husband Tershatha, which means My Reverance in Greek. While our husbands are out for the day, let’s pray for them and ask God to keep them safe. When they come home, let’s be there with open arms ready to greet them. When they talk, let’s listen intently to what they are saying. Let’s honor them never belittling them, even in private. Every husband has faults, but so does every wife. Let’s show them affection and love that they might not go looking for the strange women and fall into her trap. Let’s admire them for who they are, the God given head of our home. Christian Women, we must protect and guard our homes against this strange woman and her crowd. Protecting and guarding, not with a gun standing at the door, but on our knees with our sword (Bible) ready for the intruder and our shield of faith in an Almighty God, who would love to hear prayers of godly women asking for help in protecting our King (husband) and this next generation of little kings and queens. WOW!!! Has it been that long??I know I have not posted in a while, but I am shocked that the last post was March 9th. I am sorry to all those who have read my posts in the past.Well, we have our garden planted all except our cucumbers and squash. My chickens have finally stopped dying. I will post on this at a later time. We have started another unit in our homeschooling, Eli Whitney and his cotton gin. We will post weekly on our units. Well this is all for right now. Have a wonderful Friday evening. Angela Nate Saint, on a Wing and a Prayer This book was very good. Nate Saint was always interested in aviation. He went into WW2 with the hopes of becoming a pilot, but the Lord had other plans. After the war was over he was contacted by a missionary that had crashed her plane in El Real, Mexico. Nate went to fix her plane and started praying about being a missionary. Two years later (1948), he had fell in love, married Marj, and moved to Shell Mera (meda) a base in the jungles of Ecuador. In 1952, Nate and Marj got to go back home to the States for a while. While they were here, she had to buy enough clothes to last them for 5 years. Can you imagine having to but enough clothes for your family to last them for 5 years? Wow, what an undertaking. Nate had a burden for the Auca (ou-ca) Indians. These were savage people, but they needed to hear the good news of the Lord Jesus Christ. Auca means "naked savage" and that is exactly what the WERE. Shell Oil Company came to the jungle to find oil. They tried to make friendly contact with the Aucas, but were not successful. At one time, the Shell people thought if they dropped gifts from the plane that the natives would stop killing their employees. When they made their first drop, the natives started throwing their spears right before they started dropping gifts. So in the natives mind, they hurt this giant bee and the gifts were what was coming out of it's wound. But when Nate and his 4 missionary friends did this, the gifts were excepted by the Aucas. They made the drops every Thursday and the Aucas were waiting. They finally had a friendly contact with 2 Auca women and 1 Auca man. But because of a lie told by the Auca man, the next contact was not friendly but deadly. All 5 men were speared to death. But the families of these men stayed in the jungles of Ecuador and did make friendly contact and now 1 out of every 10 Aucas is a christian. Final Week of Nate Saint unit studyThis is what we did our third and final week:Bible - God Chooses a Family by Rod and Staff Publishers: Lesson 12 Math - Saxon Math Spelling - Spelling Power Vocab - province, peak, active volcano, lava, equator Read-Aloud - Nate Saint, On a Wing and a Prayer by Janet & Geoff Benge (Chapters 10-16) Personal Reading - Volcanoes by Claire Llewellyn History -Paste picture of Nate Saint in Book of Centuries Geography - Draw diagram of a volcano and label it; Draw the equator on our map of South America and Ecuador; Mark the capital of Ecuador--Quito (key-toe); Make a Ecuador Fact Sheet with population, official name, type of government; Mark the 3 land regions of Ecuador Music - listen to Ecuadorian music--folk, tradition, modern, and christian Art - Draw picture of Piper Pacer using Planes and How to Draw Them by Amy Hogeboom Watch parent selected scenes of Beyond the Gates of Splendor--a documentary on the five Palm Beach martyers. See book reviews for a review on the book we used for this unit study and a review of this documentary. Helpful sites we used for this study: http://www.hcjb.org/ - Radio Broadcast that you can actually listen to. This also has a the memorial service for the five missionaries and also a 50th anniversary memorial where some of the tribal people are getting baptized. http://www.globalvolunteers.org/1main/ecuador/ecuadorgeography.htm -A geography site that was helpful. The lady has one of her feet in the northern hemisphere and the other in the southern hemisphere. http://www.gagme.com/greg/vacation/2004/galapagos/equator.php - Another geography site. A poster shows you how to shrink a head. http://www.goecuador.com/magazine/mp3-folk.html - Music of Ecuador, very different but very neat. Academic music will take you to a gospel chior, that was nice singing. http://www.hcjb.org/docs/saint/index.htm - Nate Saint Memorial School http://www.junglepilot.org/ - The work goes on. http://www.ecuador365.com/quito1.html - I used this site for pictures. I really, really enjoyed this unit study, probably more than my boys did. Angelamichelle And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. ~ Mr 16:15 Week 2 in unit study of Nate SaintThis is what we did our second week: Bible - We just did our own devotional time this week. Math - Saxon Math Spelling - Spelling Power Vocab - minimize, duplicates, blueprints, prospectors, adobe, export, cultivate Read-Aloud - Nate Saint, On a Wing and a Prayer by Janet & Geoff Benge (Chapters 5-9) Personal Reading - Jungles and Rainforests by John A Burton just the jungle part History - Look up information about Betty Greene; paste picture in notebook http://www.maf.org/about/history.html has a good picture of Betty and her Waco biplane Science - Jaundice and its causes Geography - Find and mark Tuxtla Gtz on the map http://www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu/Images/mexicomap.jpg has a good picture of Tuxtla on the map down at the bottom of Mexico On poster board draw out South America and label its countries. On the backside draw out Ecuador. Week 1 in a unit study of Nate SaintNew Unit Study!! For the last 3 weeks, we have been doing a unit study on Nate Saint, one of the five missionaries that was speared to death in Ecuador in 1956. There is a lot of information about him right now due to the movie End of the Spear. But before you go see this movie, please read http://www.sharperiron.org/showthread.php?t=2244.This is what we did our first week: Bible - Memorize I Peter 4 10-11 Math - Saxon Math Spelling - Spelling Power Vocab - acre, biplane, diminish, jungle, minimize, transformation Read-Aloud - Nate Saint, On a Wing and a Prayer by Janet & Geoff Benge (Chapters 1-4) Personal Reading - The Wright Brothers by Margaret Hudson History - Add Nate Saint's picture of his birth date and the Wright Brothers' birth and death date also with their picture to our Book of Centuries Timeline (we got this idea from Cindy Rushton). Science - Read about the discovery of penicillin and write a short essay on findings. http://nobelprize.org/medicine/educational/penicillin/readmore.html - There is a little game on this site. Geography - On a map of the States color and label then connect (in order) all the states where Nate Saint was stationed while in WW2 All of this went into our History Journal. We also added pictures of these planes the Challenger, C-47, and the 1933 Stinson. I am very excited about this unit study. Here is another site I found very helpful. http://www.plymouthbrethren.org/page.asp?page_id=545 - This site actually shows a 2-3 minute clip of the missionaries. You can also listen to the original memorial servie for them. Get you a yard stick...Go get you a yard stick. Now look at it. It should have 36 inches marked on it. Now let's say that each inch stands for 2 years of your life. Let's pretend that the average lifespan is 72.Where were you on the yardstick when you got married? Where were you when you had your children? Where were you when you got saved? Where are you now? How many years do you have to serve the Lord if you died at the age of 72? Ps 90:12 " So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. " Grandma's BBQ SauceThis recipe came from the back of Grandma's Molasses, a store bought molasses not from my grandma.1/2 cup molasses 1 cup ketchup 1/4 cup vinegar 1/4 cup mustard 2 T Worcestershire Sauce (kinda sounds like "what's this here sauce" if you say it real fast) 1 clove garlic 1/4 t pepper 1/4 t hot pepper sauce I have used this to make BBQ chicken, BBQ beef, BBQ venison, and just a dipping sauce. It is very good. We have started keeping a pint jar of it in the frig just in case someone might want some BBQ sauce to go with whatever. I hope you enjoy. Angelamichelle And having food and raiment let us be therewith content ~ I Timothy 6:8 Jonathan's Picture of the Week
I'm still finding Valentines
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When I woke up yesterday morning Mr. Wonderful had left me a Valentine card with a single red rose laying on the envelope. And I thought oh how sweet. But as the day went on I kept finding "little" Valentines every where. On our computer was a file named "Happy Valentine's Day". At the bottom of our computer screen, there are little icons that bounce when they "want" to be opened. His calendar was popping up and down, so I clicked on it and guess what it said, "Happy Valentine's Day". I went to open Freehand and you'll never guess what was on the page, "Happy Valentine's Day". My son checked our e-mail and there was an e-mail for me from Mr. Wonderful. All it said was "Happy Valentine's Day". Just this afternoon, I needed to check the spelling of a word. I went to our dictionary on the computer, guess what the entry said, "Happy Valentine's Day". And the last thing I noticed, he had a new little thing that has been counting up since Valentine's, so I'm sure it was also counting down I just didn't see it. I love my forever Valentine, Mr. Wonderful. Taco Seasoning MixFrom www.cooks.com :1 T chili powder 2 t onion powder 1 t ground cumin 1 t paprika 1 t garlic powder 1 t ground oregano 1 t sugar 1/2 t salt Mix together. (equals 1 packaged seasoning) Hope you enjoy!! |
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