Good morning! We've had beautiful weather since Saturday. Sunshine, no wind!
Saturday we did get to go on our field trip to learn about creation and dinosaurs. The two older girls' Sunday School class (about 30 kids), drove to Grand Junction and listened to a speaker for about 1 1/2 hours give a talk on dinosaurs and the flood and Noah and fossils, and gave lots of scientific evidence for creation. It was really good! Then we went to the dinosaur museum in Fruita, Colorado. It was set up as a sort of children's museum with a dinosaur twist. We brought all four children and enjoyed it very much. I'm just sorry that I forgot my camera!
Sunday we went to church followed by lunch at Denny's and a beautiful afternoon at the park. All of us really enjoyed the sun, dry ground, a little creek that runs through, and the playground equipment. I even got on the swing with my baby boy for a short time. 
I came home with a little sunburn too.
On the way home we stopped at Sonic for some refreshing drinks. The girls had a cherry limeade to share, and I shared my lemon berry slush with the two little ones.
Yesterday was another beautiful day. I resumed my morning walks after a week of being on crew - which meant that dh or I had to get up and shovel snow every morning, so I couldn't do my walks. It is so beautiful on the mountain with sun and snow, the woodpeckers tapping out nature music, and the silence only broken otherwise by an occasional bird song.
Today the Martins are moving back to Pennsylvania. They are the only other family on the base that has young children like us. We will have to trust the Lord in this matter of friends for our children to play with and grow up with.
Feeding on His Faithfulness,
Carol
Would you believe that in the past two days we got another 3 feet of snow? I'm sure we've gotten a total of over 12 feet of snow up here this winter. I guess it was fitting that we read "The Long Winter" by Laura Ingalls Wilder. We could really relate to it! The above picture is of the dormitory that is across the driveway from our house.
Tomorrow we are supposed to go on a field trip to a dinosaur museum near Grand Junction, Colorado. We are hoping that we don't get too much wind tonight. Otherwise we won't be able to make it due to drifts. I had a hard time getting home from working at the clinic last night. I couldn't believe how much snow we got. Just when we were thinking it was melting, the snow returned in all its madness! Below is our front door. Most of the snow has been removed. It was up to the running boards on the suburban this morning when I went to move the truck for the plow.
MountainPrincess showing off her most recent read:
SnowCrystal taking a break from school to draw on her "slate":
Littlebit showing off her Polly Pocket:
Buddy doing what little boys do best - eating!:
Feeding on His Faithfulness,
Carol
Please pray for the 5 yo dear son of some wonderful friends of ours. He is a homeschooler too. Anyway, Friday night he was complaining of leg pain. It got worse over the night and his parents brought him to the hospital on Saturday morning because he wouldn't move it or walk on it. When he got there, he was quickly diagnosed with septic arthritis in his hip. He was transferred to another hospital very soon after and had surgery Saturday night to remove the infection and hopefully save the joint. The doctor was optimistic after the surgery saying he thought Shannon would walk on Sunday and go home Monday. However, today he did not walk. In fact he has been in severe pain, that even morphine is barely touching. To make matters worse, two more joints have begun to swell today. The doctors are puzzled and running all kinds of tests, including one for rheumatoid arthritis. Please pray for Shannon, his doctors, and his extremely tired and distraught parents!
Thanks,
Carol
This week has been great! I’ve gone for a walk almost every morning walking uphill for the first 30-40 minutes. I am very pleased with myself that I haven’t had to stop during that whole journey. I find that I am getting much more cardiovascularly fit! Each day I try to go a little further than I did the day before. On Monday I walked up to “the first lake” taking the “pipeline” which essentially is a path that goes almost directly up the mountain.
This is the pipeline path looking up:
This is the pipeline looking down:
This is the first lake (it is the lowest of a series of lakes that are managed to help control the water coming down coal creek that feeds our electric generator):
I didn’t stop at all. On Tuesday I went to a lookout above the second lake from the bottom in 41 minutes. I only stopped to take pictures. This first one is the second lake from the bottom.
Then these are some of the views I saw from the top:
Then on Wednesday I decided to take the road and see how high I could get. It is a gentler way, but much longer. I got to another great lookout, but I didn’t have the camera. Yesterday was intercession day at the base, so I didn’t have time to take my early morning walk. Today I walked to another place above the first lake, but I took the road to get there. It took about 45 minutes or so, and had some great views too. I am loving to go walking in the early mornings. Although it is cold outside, the mud is all frozen, and the snow stiff enough to hold my weight, as long as I go on the snowmobile tracks since they pack the snow underneath.
This week I have been reading out of Egermeier’s Children’s Story Bible and am pleased with how much the girls remember from earlier passes through this material. I ask the children to tell me what they remember from the lesson prior to the reading (step 1). Next I read the passage while the girls draw about what they are hearing. After the reading, I’ve been asking each girl to ask a question about the reading for her sister to answer, or I ask her to act out part of the story, or tell back what she heard. They get their interest peaked with step one, gather information with step two and tell back what they’ve learned with step three. They are learning, and I’m pleased with how it is going.
I only had to cook one meal this week. We did honey mustard chicken in the crockpot, served with instand brown rice. It turned out yummy!
My diet is going well. I've lost 9 lbs so far in about 6 weeks. I think it helps a large bit that I am doing the serious walking in the mornings, but I am disappointed that I feel like my tummy isn't shrinking much. 
. I'm hoping that eventually the weight loss will turn to that part of me. My gluten intolerance is flaring up again, and so I need to get back to a gluten free diet. That usually helps a lot in weight loss too.
As for the discipleship training school, the students are putting their things together to leave for Nepal on outreach soon. God is doing a good thing, and I am very excited for them. Pray for them as they travel next Tuesday!
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Dh and I decided to take a long weekend and go up north to visit dh's brother and his family in Fort Collins. On the way back we swung up to Grand Lake near Rocky Mountain National Park to visit with my former sister in law from Scotland as she was there visiting with her friend for a couple of weeks.
Saturday we drove to Fort Collins. We spent the afternoon relaxing and visiting with Steve and Jill and their two daughters Hannah and Haley. The girls love to be with their cousins, and they play together really well. They make up plays together and other fun activities. Here is a picture of all the kids except our son - who was probably taking a nap at the time. My daughters are the three in the middle.
On Sunday we went to a park in the afternoon. A cold front was coming in, and it got really cold right after we arrived. I went to the van to get some socks to cover the baby's hands, and found that I had locked the keys in the van. Ugh. Dh spent the next 45 minutes and $58 to get that worked out. Here are a few pics from the day:
The next morning, Monday, we left Fort Collins and drove to Grand Lake. There my former SIL, Lorraine, was visiting her friend Brenda, who worked at the motel where we stayed. We enjoyed the afternoon there visiting, eating pizza, and the girls enjoyed watching some television in the motel room (they don't do that at home as we don't have television at home besides videos). The first picture here is Lorraine and Brenda. The second one is our family with Lorraine.
On Tuesday morning we woke to this beautiful scene from our motel door. That is low-lying clouds over the frozen lake.
We left around 8:30 am and headed toward home. At about 10 am we were on I-70 when the traffic slowed down very quickly. We jumped into the left lane and immediately, before we had time to slow down, the traffic stopped. Dh couldn't do anything but run into the back end of the van in front of us. I was working on getting a dvd started in my laptop computer on my lap when the airbags deployed, sending my computer into my chest and crushing it. I had a Ratatouille DVD in my hand that was shattered into a million tiny shards that put a bunch of cuts in the upholstery on the ceiling, and was delivered all over the van, somehow missing us all. I had some bruises from the computer crashing into my chest, and my 8 yo had some seatbelt marks on her neck and chest, and dh's arm got scraped somehow, but miraculously no serious injuries. The van is totalled, however. It took us until 12:00 or so to get towed to the nearest town, and we sat in a coffee/pizza place that charged almost $5 for a hotdog, and waited until dh could arrange a rental van to get us home. We finished lunch in Denver (no, we didn't eat at that coffee place, but we did have hot drinks and tried to calm down) about 3:00 and got on the road again finally. We were so glad to get home 5 hours later! When I got home, I got a letter from my dear sister-in-Christ, Katia, in the email. She said that God had put me on her heart for prayer, and she had been praying heavily for me. It was so good to know that God was using her to help us and that we weren't alone in that crazy day!
Wednesday we had to go to town to take back the rental and so we couldn't start school again. Thursday we started back with a little school, and I went to work at the clinic in Delta. Today (Friday), we had a good day of school, and I'm so glad this day is over!
God bless you all.
Feeding on His faithfulness,
Carol
God is good all the time. Sometimes I wonder whether He has left me hanging and thinks of me, then He shows me that He has been with me all along.
This week has been one of seeking His face about where He has us, and where He wants us to be. God called us here over two years ago, and it has been a journey full of blessings and challenges. For those of you who don't know, we work with Youth With a Mission here in Colorado. I stay at home with the children and help with medical needs of those here on the base, since I am a physician's assistant by training. My husband is the main cook in the kitchen, and he does an awesome job. Sometimes I start to wonder why God called us here instead of to some overseas location - I get a little impatient to find out the answer too! God keeps bringing me to a verse from Psalms 37 that He gave me right after we first finished my husband's training and asked where we should be. The verse tells us to "dwell in the land, and feed on His faithfulness." It is so easy to get caught up in other people's lives and wonder why we aren't there - overseas or in Alaska or even working on a reservation with a native people group... It is better to obey than to sacrifice, the Bible says, so I am trusting God in His leading, and "dwelling in the land and feeding on His faithfulness." I'm glad it is a beautiful place - that helps! This week God confirmed to my heart once again that we are where He wants us to be.
Starting Tuesday night, one of my children came down with influenza. Each day the other children came down with it too. Finally yesterday all of them succombed to the illness, and both of the youngest have ear infections. My oldest two are much better today, and my youngest two have never had it as bad as they did, so we see a light at the end of this week's illness tunnel - praise God!
I started a diet to shed some extra pounds about 9 days ago, and I've been doing well. I lost about 2-3 lbs the first week, and one this week so far. My goal is 20-25 lbs. I am walking in the mornings for 30 minutes before the family gets up. A couple of days ago I also started some medication (phentermine) to help in the process (which I am not ashamed about, as I plan only to use it for a short while). It helps me not to be so hungry as I decrease my eating habits.
This next week I hope to get back into the full swing of schooling, add Spanish to my personal learning time, and study more from my medical journals to prepare to take boards again in the next year.
Feeding on His Faithfulness,
Carol
Making cookies with your children
to teach the true meaning of EASTER!
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory,
the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
John 1:14
You Need
Help & permission from Parents!
1- cup whole pecans
1-teaspoon vinegar
3 egg whites
pinch of salt
1-cup sugar
zipper baggie
wooden spoon
tape
Bible
EASTER COOKIES
Preheat the oven to 300 (this is important-don't wait 'til you're half-done with the recipe)
1. Place the pecans in the baggie and let the kids beat them with the wooden spoon to break them into pieces. Explain that after Jesus was arrested, He was beaten by the Roman soldiers.
Read John 19:1-3
2. Put the vinegar into a mixing bowl. Let each child smell the vinegar. Explain that when Jesus was on the cross and he became thirsty, He was offered vinegar to drink.
Read John 19:28-30
3. Add the egg whites to the vinegar. The eggs represent life. Explain that Jesus gave His life so that we could have life.
Read John 10:10-11
4. Sprinkle a little salt into each child's hand and let them taste it. Put the rest into the bowl. Explain that this represents the salty tears shed by Jesus' followers, and the bitterness of our own sin.
Read Luke 23:27
5. So far the ingredients are not very appetizing. Add 1 cup of sugar. Explain that the sweetest part of the story ids that Jesus died because He loves us. He wants us to know and belong to Him.
Read Psalm 34:8 and John 3:16
6. Beat the egg whites with a mixer on high speed for 12 to 15 minutes, until stiff peaks form. Explain that the color white represents the purity in god's eyes of those whose sins have been cleansed by Jesus.
Read Isa. 1:18 and John 3:1-3
7. Fold in the broken nuts. Drop by teaspoons onto a wax paper cookie sheet. Explain that each mound represents the rocky tomb where Jesus body was laid to rest.
Read Matt. 27:57-60
8. Put the cookie sheet in the oven, close the door and turn the oven off.
9. Give each child a piece of tape and seal the door. Explain that Jesus tomb was sealed.
Read Matt. 27:65-66
10. Go to bed. Explain that they may feel sad to leave the cookies in the oven overnight and that Jesus followers were in despair when the tomb was sealed.
Read John 16:20-22
11. On Easter morning, open the oven and give everyone a cookie. Notice the cracked surface and take a bite. the cookies are hollow! ON THE FIRST EASTER Jesus followers were amazed to find His tomb empty.
Read Matt. 28: 1-9
"This recipe is by Wanda Long and appeared in Home Life magazine with the original name of 'Easter Cookies'."
Source: http://www.cherbearsden.com/cookies.html
I was looking for these at Wal Mart yesterday - unsuccessfully, but I found a link this morning on the Freebie Friday newsletter put out by The Old Schoolhouse Magazine. The original is found at this link: EasyFunSchool.
Celebrating Easter: Resurrection Eggs
Many of you have seen the plastic “Resurrection Eggs” that are used to tell the story of the Christian Easter celebration. Did you know that these can easily, and frugally, be made at home?
First, purchase 12 plastic Easter eggs, the kind that you can open and fill. I recommend the size that can fit in a Styrofoam or cardboard egg carton. You can reuse one that you bring home eggs in from the grocery. This makes for easy storage so that you can use these many times without losing any of the bits and pieces.
If possible, try and have each of the 12 eggs a different color. This makes it easier as well. If having 12 different colors isn’t an option, use a permanent marker to write the number 1 through 12 on each egg and then put them in the egg carton.
Into each egg place the item and scripture reference written on a small piece of paper.
Egg #1:
Message -- Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey. The people waved palm branches.
Passage -- Matthew 21:1-11
Item -- Piece of palm branch. Another option for those of you with extra leggo parts or plastic novelty beads would be to place a small plastic leaf in the egg
Egg #2:
Message -- Mary poured expensive perfume on Jesus' feet.
Passage -- John 12:2-8
Item -- Small perfume sample or cloth with perfume or a piece of cotton with cologne on it
Egg #3:
Message -- Jesus shared the Last Supper with His disciples.
Passage -- Matthew 26:17-19
Item – a piece of Chex cereal; or take clay and make a small bread-like shape
Egg #4:
Message -- Judas betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces of silver.
Passage -- Matthew 27:3
Item -- 3 dimes or plastic “silver” money
Egg #5:
Message -- Jesus carried His own cross.
Passage -- John 19:17
Item – toothpicks or Popsicle stick cut and glued in a cross form; or, a small plastic cross from a Christmas ornament or necklace.
Egg #6:
Message -- Soldiers placed a crown of thorns on Jesus' head.
Passage -- John 19:2
Item -- Small thorny branch, or a large thorn all by itself.
Egg #7:
Message -- Soldiers parted Jesus' garments and cast lots for His coat.
Passage -- John 19:23
Item -- Swatch of burlap and a nail. I’ve also seen miniature dice used for this one.
Egg #8:
Message -- Jesus was nailed to a cross and pierced in His side.
Passage -- John 19:18,37 & John 20:25-29
Item -- A nail
Egg #9:
Message -- They gave Jesus vinegar mixed with gall on a sponge to drink.
Passage -- Matthew 27:34
Item -- A small sponge
Egg #10:
Message -- Spices to prepare Jesus for burial.
Passage -- John 19:40
Item -- 7 or 8 whole cloves, or other whole spices
Egg #11:
Message -- The stone covering Jesus' tomb was rolled away.
Passage -- John 20:1
Item -- A small rock
Egg #12:
Message -- The napkin around Jesus' head was lying separately from His linen clothers. He was not there. He has risen!
Passage -- John 20:6-7
Item -- A scrap of linen-type fabric
Note: I have seen these done slightly different, or using slightly different items. If you have to substitute and use different items, that’s OK. The point is to get the story across from the point that Jesus rides into Jerusalem riding on a donkey (now celebrated as Palm Sunday) to when it is discovered that is no longer in his tomb but has Risen (Easter Sunday, also known as Resurrection Day).
I plan on making these. I hope some of you can too. Let me know if you do! Let's keep Jesus as the focus of everything we do...if it is not glorifying to Him, we shouldn't do it!
Feeding on His Faithfulness,
Carol
While resale shopping last week I came across a little 50% sale on household things and found this cute little tea pots. Those of you who know me well, know that I love tea and teapots, but can't afford as much as I'd like to have. Anyway, here is what I found for $4.50.
The hat is the lid. It is for decorative use only.
This is a little poem I wrote back in 2005 while we still lived in Illinois. It is fun to do, so you should try it some time.
I am from
I am from shag carpet, from Marlboro and homemade Raggedy Anns in two sizes.
I am from the ocean, then early-on transplanted to amber waves of grain.
I am from the honeysuckle bush, the nondescript trees I spent more time in then I did in my house.
I am from bierrochs and six to seven footers, from Ida and Phil and four older siblings.
I am from the hold-your-heads-high and the make-something-of-yourselfers.
From you can be anything you want and make me another glass of tea.
I am from sorry you're divorced you can't be a part of our church and fathers (I barely knew) of friends who would take me to the father-daughter banquets at girl scouts.
I'm from Corvallis and wanderlust French-Canadians, Mo's clam chowder and monterreys made at the Benton restaurant piled so high I couldn't eat it all.
From the camper and skiboat my stepdad and I spent our free-time in, the nervous breakdowns of my mother and aunt.
I am from hallway closet top shelf super 8 home movies, from siblings who had to become adults before they realized their family's real value - but now know no closer friends.
I am from summer camps, altar calls, MYF, FCA, YWAM, Vineyard, and most recently nontraditional Mennonites. From the arm of a merciful and loving God. From the pit of abandonment to hind's feet on high places.
I was inspired to write this by Carrie at MommyBrain http://nnjmom.blogspot.com/. I followed the train from her post to Fragments from Floyd http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/archives/2005_02.html#003144 and from there to the original poem http://www.carts.org/staff_poem2.html. I learned how to do this at Fragments from Floyd (thanks so much). If you make one for yourself, make a link to my comments so I can read it too.
A week or two ago we finished the New World Explorers unit put out by Amy Pak at Homeschooling in the Woods. That unit was packed full of great activities, book recommendations, and a wonderful lapbook. The girls both made a notebook that is full of their lessons, a few notebook activities and things we did together in an ocean unit study last fall when we went to
Besides doing this unit, we also have been making our way through many of the readers that go along with the same time period in Sonlight’s Core 3 language arts. They were a good match-up, and the girls read lots of books about things they were learning about.
One book we found especially good from our public library was “The American Story” by Jennifer Armstrong. I hope to get this book for our home library as it has 100 true stories – very living – about many historical themes. We barely made a dent in it as we read through the first 20 stories or so before I had to take it back! We also read
Some of the activities that we did are in pictures below. The first week we worked on our lapbooks and learned some knot tying and made "limeys" like the sailors used to have to drink.
The second week they made "captain's journals" from cardboard, cloth and paper soaked in instant coffee to give it an old, weathered look. The girls then wrote journal entries as though they were sea captains. I was delighted with how well they turned out, and the stories were fabulous. The last picture here is my 3 yo dd's.
The girls also enjoyed making pueblo dioramas.
The last week we worked hard to put it all together into a lapbook complete with a photo album to remind them of the fun we had. You can see a slide show of the whole lapbook at my daughter's blog: MountainPrincess.
This has been a show and tell with Canadagirl. Join us through the Mr. Linky on her blog - warning...it is addicting!
My dd10 and I went outside to get some pictures of how high the snow is around the playground now that we got another 10 inches this week and the snow has come off of the roof.
It is actually up to the top of the swingset, as you can see from where I stand in the first picture! No one has ever seen this much snow here. The lower communities are taking action for the melt off by draining all the reservoirs to make room for all the water that will be coming down this spring!
While I stood up here and my dd10 took this picture, I saw behind her trotting across the field across from our house this little fellow. At first I thought he was a coyote, but dd said it was a fox. When I got up closer, I saw that it was a fox indeed. He walked all around the community, and I followed with my camera!
In this first picture, he came up to our dining center building to see if there were any birds or food in the bird feeder.
I hope that you enjoyed our time outside with us after lunch. I hope you have had a nice day too. On Friday I will post about some of the projects we did with our New World Explorer unit from Homeschool in the Woods.
Feeding on His Faithfulness,
Carol
I am at peace today and it is so lovely. It still continues to snow off and on, which keeps everything fresh. The birds continue to come to the feeders off of the dining room window. The children are healthy for the most part and God rules!
Last night we watched Little Women on dvd. I guess I should say that I watched it and dh slept!
This morning we got up and went to church. My dd8 and dd10 helped me work with the babies in the nursery. They are so sweet, and this is our last time to do it until June!
After driving by the pharmacy, we headed home, observing some eagles on our way. The girls want to ice skate, so we drove by the lake that has been kept clear for ice skating this year, but it was covered with snow. I hope we didn't miss our opportunity earlier this winter!
When I finish this post, I need to head to the rocking chair and spend some time journaling and praying, and coming up with a plan for next week. I haven't been too good at keeping up with my quiet times this week, housework, or getting all of our schooling in. I want a better plan for next week so hopefully I will be a lot more focussed. It is good to have my computer back, but it does become a time stealer if I don't schedule how much time I can use it!
One thing I want to start putting back into my homeschool plans is teaching the girls hymns. What is your favorite hymn?
Feeding on His Faithfulness,
Carol
I've just spent a bunch of time putting together a slide show of my 1dd10's lapbook. We are finally done with the unit! Here is a picture of the front of her lapbook. Click on it and you will go to her blog for the slide show!
My eight-year old dd also did one similarly, but I ran out of time to make a slide show. I'll have to do hers later .
If you want to see more show and tells, go see Mary's blog at www.homeschoolblogger.com/canadagirl.
Feeding on His faithfulness,
Carol
Hi There.
Man, I have been having a hard time finding time to come up with a creative interesting blog that doesn't take too much time. We finally have a new computer that is working for us, and most of my pics and such are transfered to it.
Lately I've been spending a lot of time helping the girls finish up their Early American Explorer lapbooks and getting done with that segment of our lives. They have turned out really cute, and I will make a post about them, but they aren't quite finished.
Last night I spent two hours printing up the starting of our next unit so we can get it done next week. It is on Colonial America. I don't really like the lessons that come with it, but the activities are awesome. Does anyone know of any good American History books that go well with the Colonial unit put out by Homeschool in the Woods?
I did get started at The Lounge. It reminds me of a homeschooling parent's version of MySpace. Very interesting. I haven't spent a lot of time checking it out, but I like what I see. My name there is Carol, of course. I'm stuck with ThreeLittleLadies here, but since I have a little man in my household now, I guess I shouldn't keep it.
Things here at the base are a little crazy. Both DTS's just got back from outreaches. One to Asia for 3 months and one two the Hopi nation in Arizona for a week. I haven't heard many stories yet, but I look forward to it. Our speaker this week is a Mexican who works in Nepal. Very interesting.
I'll try to start thinking of good picture options for my blog again, now that things are running smoothly again.
The one family besides us who is here is moving away this spring. That is very sad for our kids because they won't have any kids to play with. I wish that our family had gotten closer to the families down the road, but they seem to keep to themselves. Maybe it is too risky for them to associate with us because we are YWAMers and perhaps may be to transient? I don't know, but you can pray that if the Lord wants us to stay that He will bring the right families to join us here. Sometimes I think that maybe we should move away too, but so far the Lord has not led that way. We will follow where He leads us. His last words to us on this issue were, "Dwell in the land and feed on His faithfulness." Yep, stay we will. He is faithful.
I guess that is enough rambling. Anyone else out there getting cabin fever?! I want a roadtrip!
Feeding on His faithfulness,
Carol
This week my little buddy (ds15 months) got his hair buzzed by his daddy. The first picture is of him before his haircut, and the second afterwards.
It took a while to get used to! He looks so different!
God bless you today,
Carol
On Thursday morning as the girls and I were sitting down to do our Bible reading, one of the girls looked out the dining room window and noticed this grey bird at one of our suet feeders. He is all grey except for black and white on his wings and tail. He has a longish black beak, and is about the size of the Stellar's Jays. I quickly grabbed my camera to capture some shots of him through the window, with the zoom all the way out and trying to avoid the baby's finger prints from looking out the window this morning. The bottom picture has him with the stellar's jay behind him. Pretty cool, eh?
If you'd like to join the fun or see other blogs that are doing Show and Tell Friday, hop on over to Mary's blog aka Canadagirl.
On another level, I wanted to share that the Lord showed me some neat things about being led by His Spirit today. I feel a big relief as it pertains to following the Torah. Instead of trying to do it without understanding, I can trust the Holy Spirit to lead me in this, and know that I am His child, and He loves me so much. (Romans 8:12-17)
I keep hearing again and again about reading the Bible from a Hebrew perspective instead of a Greek perspective. I heard the same message again today. I think He's trying to tell me something! I am excited to get deeper into His word. Now I need Him to show me what resources/Bible He wants me to use.
I also heard a lot of neat stories about intercession this evening. I so want to be a better intercessor! Wow.
Carol