Hello,

My wife and I decided to have more children.  I wish I would have been willing before now but anyway.  In today's society it is hard to have more children then the average two and a half kids.  Even in the church it is an underlying theme that you just don't fit in to most circles if you love kids and want to have a lot. 

    I have noticed that today's families have traded what looks like a family for the real thing.  Churches say they love kids and want a great children's program but they say nothing about families.  I cannot speak for your church or every church but all the things I have seen has been very disappointing.  We have traded raising up Godly children and sending them into the world for bible study groups that accomplish remarkably less while our kids are off with a babysitter watching a movie.  Is it wrong to watch a movie NO.  Is it wrong to go to bible study groups NO, but we have made that "it" and that isn't "it" we have missed it.  What if we didn't go to bible study group and stayed home and taught our own kids or sang songs, some poeple in church would talk to you like you are not growing and you don't care to grow, that is were we have missed it.   I am not being harsh I just want christians to see the importance of families.

Thank You and God Bless,

Jason

Hello,  for some time now I have had no desire to have more children.  I don't really know  why I was against it, but I would not even entertain the thought.  One day and I mean one day God opened my heart and took away what ever it was that was stopping me.  Now my wife and I are going to try to have more children and I can not wait.  We already have names ready. 

Ramon Joseph, after my grandpa and her brother.

Ruby Janice, after the guitar and her kindergarten teacher.

Please pray for families that God would restore them in America.

God Bless,

Jason

Well, I haven't been on here for a while and I have really missed it.  Things are started to come about now.  I had to share this.  We still have our house in IN that was on the market for five months.  My dad agreed to manage it for us so we could rent it.  He has put a little money in it to get it ready, put an ad in the paper and the first night he had so many calls his answering machine ran out of tape, and the next two days the calls kept on coming.  He had to call the newspaper and cancel the ad.  For the last year my wife and I have been looking at property even though for some time we were just dreaming since we were sort of stuck for a while.  Plus we never found anything that we both liked or we agreed that it had all the aspects we were looking for.  As of now, our house will be rented starting in Sept. and we found a house with five acres that the whole family loves.  We have a friend that is a real estate agent and another friend who is a mortgage broker.  Right now they are working to get us pre approved for a loan so we can make an offer.  It just all came together.

I must say my wife and I have been praying for our situation but last week we could not take anymore.  We got on our knees and just cried to God, humbled ourselves and prayed to Him.  We believe He is answering our prayers.  It has taken us a year to get on our knees and cry out to God.  Maybe we would have been in this situation even if we had earnestly prayed for His strength all along I don't know, but it shows our hearts. 

I just got back from visiting my aunt and uncle in southern KY.  They bought seven acres and they are in the process of building a pole barn to put there camper in before winter.  We sat out in front of the fire pit and walked around their land for seven hours.  It was peaceful and my two kids were completely content, not hearing things like " I'm bored".  We had a two and a half hour drive back home so we left about eight.  When we got back to the interstate my wife said "well here we go thrust back into society".  She was very right and we were inspired to not lose sight of our homesteading goals.

God Bless,

Jason 

I talked about boiling a frog a while ago.  What can I change?  How do I get out of this hot water?  Well I have spent some time now praying and thinking about this subject.  I realized that every single thing I use and own is bought.  I am a consumer of everything.  I am trying not to use my debit card, not because this is evil but for personal disipline.  I am becoming more aware of all the things that I do and how I am effected. 

Do you know of anything that a city dwelling homesteader (for now) can do to became more of a producer of the neccesities?

To boil a frog you must first find a willing frog to participate, but the key is do not tell him that your plans are to boil him for the frog will not go for this.  You must convince the frog that you will make his life easier and much better if he will allow you to give him a warm bath.  OK this is not about a frog.  I often wonder about my way of life and how I am working towards homesteading and my goals.  I find myself carrying a debit card, going through the self checkout lines and paying bills online.  Maybe this is a serious crime in the homestead community, I am not sure.  I become more aware of these things each time I do it, and  realize that this is only done because it is easy.  When I was single eight years ago I paid all my bills by going to the office or getting money orders because I didn't have a bank account (single young guy).  Over time now and as society has changed in the last eight years I realize that I depend on these things to be easy.  I want to go though the self checkout line because I don't have to wait in line most of the time, and then realize that everything is done with no cash money.  These things are not evil in itself, but where I struggle, and feel I need to change, is the fact that the heat has slowly been turned up and I am doing nothing but enjoying it.  Knowing what I know about todays world I think I should change my finacial habits now before I get to accustomed to the tempature so when I do start my physical homestead it may not be such a change.  If you have thought about this or have any thoughts please let me know.

I don't want to be a frog.

God Bless,

Jason

Maybe some of you would like to see my wife's blogs.  My family is on there and some of the things they do. My daughter has a blog also.

www.homeschoolblogger.com/jenniferwells

www.homeschoolblogger.com/horselove

God Bless,

Jason

 Well, I would like to talk about something that maybe you won't agree with right of the bat, but please hear me out.  I love Jesus and trust him as my Savior.  But in this world there are people who don't!  I have been churched and unchurched now.  Churched goes like this "well I was at work and and Big John came in and was cusing and I just asked him to stop because I didn't like to hear it."  Or, " Yeah, the guys at work used to cuse around me but now if they cuse they apologize and they try not to."   In the churched circle this seems like this person is really a good witness for Christ, right.  Well I have a problem with this.  We are sending the message that people that don't believe what we believe or the ones that aren't ready to come back to Christ aren't loved unconditionaly by the one who says  Jesus loves unconditionaly.  The same christian will evenually do something that is not absolutely perfect and at that time the cuser is not impressed by your not cusing and him feeling sorry.  How dare we think that making someone else feel sorry around us for there imperfection while we think we are really something else. 

The unchurched, Love them just the way they are because the only differance between you and them, you accept the love that Jesus showed you when you HATED him and they just have not seen it yet.

This is just the tip of the iceburg.  If we have this mentality in our christian walk we will not gain the trust and friendship of lost people. 

God Bless,

Jason

Yes I am a weirdo who shelters my kids from a world out there, and just don't understand that they are not going to get the socialization they need, and I am not capable of raising my own children because I am not smart enough.  I mean I homeschool.  OK, for real I don't shelter my kids and I don't think I'm dumb (personal opinion), but we have all heard this sort of thing from everybody who, What...? , does not understand what we are doing.  First of all as soon as people find out that I (you) homeschool they are automaticly offended, why?  They do not understand and they get the impression that we are better or we think that we love our kids more and many other reasons for instant offence.  Secondly they are a product of govern't schools and the american way (which I am also) and they have been brainwashed and there brains sucked out of there head and replaced with sayings and thoughts that they don't even think about they just go to that file retreive the answer and speak.  Think, they all say the same thing and the result is always the same, they don't understand and they get mad.  The ones that kind of understand but still unsure, well they have remnants of their brains and vaguely remember what it is like to think. 

I have found that I can still make a stand in what I believe and do what God calls me to do with out trying to convince everybody.  I don't need them to understand and it doesn't change my views.  My conclusion, as times draw to an end and right becomes more wrong in the world veiw there will be more and more that the world does not understand.  Our own family will turn against us and we will need to trust God like never before as an American Christian.

God Bless,

Jason

This is something I wrote about a month ago and thought I would share it here. 

I have had countless "friends" during my life.  Some come and some go and very few ever stay for long.  I am a very friendly guy, I love to meet new people.  I don't always expect for everybody I meet to be great best friends.  I know a lot of people that if you saw them in WaL-Mart you would say hi with a smile or maybe talk briefly about nothing until you could find a note to end on, then chuckle a bit and walk away.  I have had friends that we would be very close for a while and then through the ways of life we would grow apart and not have anything in common anymore or just mutualy forget about each other.  There are people who maybe thought they were better friends with me then what I really liked to be and vise versa.    Maybe friends get mad over what seems petty and they don't talk to you anymore and you wonder if they were really your friend. 

There are many different things that happen and I think they have all happened to me and probably everybody else at one point in time.  It is just hard when it is someone that you trusted and thought would be there for you,and when you needed them and they turn their backs.  For me, I just remember that Jesus said He will never leave me or forsake me and He cannot lie and break His promise, so even though my " friends" will let me down and it will hurt very much I can go to Jesus and tell him about it and He will understand.  Since I wrote this I realize that I hurt Him the same way when I turn my back on Him.  So if you ever have been let down and broken hearted by your friends actions we need to remember that there is someone who understands.

God Bless,

Jason