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• Sunday, September 10, 2006 - Peaceful Sunday

Good Morning everyone, it is a beautiful Sunday morning here in little old Delaware, temp is suppose to be in the low 80's. I am up this morning with a hopefully feeling in my heart. My goal lately is to be a better wife and mother. After giving the baby a bottle and the 3 year old a cup of juice, I was off to make homemade coffee cake for us for breakfast. Hubby and two older boys are still asleep. I just love it when they wake up with the scent of something baking in the oven and come down in a good mood. I have been reading alot on Stephanie and Candys' blogs about serving my husband. I am not a religous person, but long to be. I was not raised by any means in a religous family, but have always been drawn to religion. Mostly I ingnored my calling, but now I am ready to give in to it. Problem that I have is that I am clueless and do not know where to start. I started reading the bible two nights ago, so I guess that is a start, but I find some things hard to understand. If anyone has any suggestions on where I should start, please let me know. I am open to suggestions. I need peace in my life, and a point to it all. I have know since I was little that my calling was to be a wife and mother. There was a time when I wanted 10 children, right now I am settling for the 4. My husband does not share my desire for more children, so I am on my own with that one. Any way for now I am self learning and trying to read and understand the bible.

Today I am suppose to go with my sister and her boys bowling for her sons 16th Birthday. Should be fun. I just need to get moving so I will be ready in time. My nephews are a HUGE part of my life, I just adore them and love spending time with them.

I am going for now, I will probably write more later, but now I need to get my cake out of the oven and get my butt moving to enjoy this awesome day.

• Sunday, September 10, 2006 - Hi there...

Posted by AmyJoBellclapper

where did you start reading in the Bible? Try reading the Gospel of John first. I've heard that it is a good place to start for people who are not too familiar with the Bible or the Lord. :)

Love, Amy Jo

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• Monday, September 11, 2006 - Peace

Posted by Darcy

Welcome to Homesteadblogger. Reading and writing blogs is so enjoyable and this is a great community. What an exciting blog entry this is-to be ready to follow that tug on your heart to search for peace and purpose in life! I agree with AmyJo in her comment regarding starting with the book of John. The first half of chapter 3 is Jesus teaching about how to enter the kingdom of heaven.

I don't always find it easy to read and understand what it all means either but I believed in faith when I was 12 years old that Jesus was the only way to heaven. I prayed and asked him to come into my life and forgive me of my sins. I committed to living my life according to what I believed He wanted me to do. (Proverbs 3:5-6) It has been almost 30 years since then and I have grown a lot but I'm only 41 so I have a lot more learning left to do!

Since you mentioned a search for peace here are a few places it talks about peace in the bible:
Psalm 29:11, Psalm 119:165, John 16:33, Philippians 4:4-9. Of course there are plenty more but these are a start.

I also was thinking that you should make sure you have a version of the bible that will be easy for you to understand. The New International Version or NIV is a good one.

I will pray for you, that you find the peace you are searching for. I'm so glad you have decided to follow your heart.....it's an exciting journey!

Darcy
P.S. I don't usually leave comments that are quite this long!

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• Monday, September 11, 2006 - Untitled Comment

Posted by HSBFrontPorch

Welcome to HomesteadBlogger - so glad you're blogging here with us!

Blessings for a wonderful week!
Harriette Jacobs
HomesteadBlogger Front Porch Team

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• Wednesday, October 4, 2006 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Anonymous

Hi! I am a new Christian (2001) and naturally a skeptical person. I need to know why and cannot just believe because someone said so. A freind of mine invited me to a real Bible study. I say "real" because it was very in depth and gave me the answers without the distraction of Sunday school-type studies. It is a good study for non-Christains wanting to learn more about the faith as well as mature Christains and does not follow any particular denomination. Just plain reading from the Bible. The name of it is Bible Study Fellowship and it is an international study with groups meeting all over the US and in many countries world wide. I don't know where you are in Delaware, but the have daytime classes in Milford and Wilmington. You can take your small children (not of school-age) with you to the daytime classes and older children to any nighttime classes. But I don't think there are any nighttime classes in your area. Just search Bible Study Fellowship on the internet.

This study really helped me to understand the Bible. Taught me how to read it and numerous biblical principles. Also, they do not dictate to you from any religious group's beliefs, but each person is encouraged to have a personal relationship with the Lord. Through this study I felt lead to find a permenant church home, no not the church where the study was held, and to accept Christ. It was a wonderful place for me start. Good luck to you in this journey.

Amy
http://amommysdreams.blogspot.com

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