We had a family situation.  We found toxic mold in the walls of our home and had to evacuate.  We have found another home to live in for a year.  We had to sign a year lease with the owner.

About our house.  We were buying our home that was over priced anyway, but we are young, then our taxes went up so much our house payment skyrocketted an extra $200 a month, then we find toxic mold in our home so we can't live in it and our home owners insurance will not pay for the damage.

We are currently foreclosing on the home.  We can not afford to pay for two places to live and the damage from the mold that may or may not be fixable.  I sure do not know what God has planned but I sure feel like he is freeing up our lives for something wonderful.

As you all know we are extremely new to the idea of homesteading.  It is something we desperately want for our family.  We just are not quite sure how to get there.  I know that God has a plan though and that is all I need to know.  Right now he has us exactly where he wants us to work on us like he has never done before.  I pray that we continue to allow him to refine us.

My beliefs have changed so drastically in the last year my family doesn't know what to do with us.  But oh do I know what I am doing.  I am totally surrendering it to Christ.  Giving it all to him.  I get so excited.  I just don't want none of it.  The world I mean.

Give me a quite life Lord, a sanctified life, a holy life, and a life that Glorifies you oh God.

I pray I have time to keep this Blog up.  It is nice to be able to just write what is on my mind.  After a day doing all the chores and taking care of my precious little ones it is nice to have somewhere to go to just give glory to God with like minded women.  Praise God for you all.  I enjoy reading your blogs they are a blessing.

We have came so far.  God has had some stubborn children to deal with.  Bless the Lord for his patients on our lives.  We have three Beautiful blessings now, my son that is 6 years old, my daughter that is 4 and my new blessing that was just born in August.   We had our first two children in the hospital with a midwife.  This time we had a midwife and a home birth.  She has had a lot to do with our recent growth in our Christian life.  She handed me a tape set called "The Godly Home" and our hearts repented and turned.  We have made a lot of changes in a short period of time.

We have been willed a piece of land in Tennessee.  We are looking at our options on Homesteading there.  We are getting interested in raising milk goats.  I also sew and I am trying to get started in the modest clothing business a little. Right now I am looking online for some Amish builders in that area to help us build a house.  We are trying to bring my husband home with the family.   We are not in any real debt, although we are starting from nothing.  We have been collecting things we will need here and there.    Better continue my search. God Bless.

Psalm 42:1

As the deer pants for the water, So my soul cries out for Thee.

Well first of all I will let you know there will be many spelling and grammatical errors in this Blog.  I know I will forget to use the spell check and I am a horrible speller. Just to let you know.

Now that,  that is out of the way I will start by introducing myself and my family.  My name is Brandi I am 24 years old, mother to three, wife and life long Help meat to one, Dustin.  We have been married for 4 years and been together for 7yrs.  Our life together started out the way most marriages start out today, in a very young, stupid, drug Utopian lifestyle.  He was fresh out of high school and it was my last year.  We met through friends and the downward spiral began.  We both went heavy into drug use.  Praise God is was a short lived part of our life together.   Five months after we met of course I got pregnant.  At the moment I found out it seemed like the end of my life.  It did not take long for God to get hold of me and start a journey I never knew I would walk. 

When I was a few months pregnant with my son, I rededicated my life to Christ.  Oh what a joy to have Christ in my life again.  God had taken my awful sin and made something beautiful out of it.  My son, my life saver.  Without my gift from God, my son, I would be lost.  What a beautiful, wondrous child he was and still is today.  My God truly knew what would draw me back to his heart.  The gift of a child to a young woman who was not deserving of such grace.  Yet Gods grace in that time brought me back to his everlasting, loving arms. Still a babe in Christ, I started this merciful journey into the inner courts of the Lords tabernacle where I found myself in the presence of God.  Continually going through the refining trials that are before me everyday.  Searching, crying out to God for more of his Holy presence in my life.