Because of all your sweet words I will put the extra foot forward. If you leave me the exact url to your post for example ...
http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Canadagirl/693425/
I will be willing to linking you on the bottom of my posts. It encouraged me to hear all the sweet comments of wanting to keep Show and Tell Fridays going. I guess life's details were getting to me and then I was doubting myself in different areas.
I want to share and then I will show. God met me this morning. I have been saying I will get up in the morning and spend my time with the Lord and I did just that this morning. And boy did He meet me ! I picked up my bible and I knew I needed to pick up something else too but what ? As I was looking in my personal bookshelf in my room I saw the book that my MIL gave me some years ago. The Well Watered Garden ...A Gardener's Guide to Spirituality by Harriet Crosby.
 God really met me and started to water my heart that has felt very dry from all the responsibilites that I have to fulfill. I am not a gardener that naturally gravitated toward gardening. It really wasn't untill today that I called myself a "gardener". I have always said I am my hubby's helpmeet in the gardenen or a gardener's asisstant but I never called myself a gardener but now I do. I need things to have a personal meaning for me to become attatched to it and this book meet that need in me today. This book gives a weekly assignment to reflect on for your outer garden ( the physical garden) and then a assignment for your inner garden and that means a question and a bible verse for my spiritual garden ...my spiritual walk with the Lord.
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I loved the Prayer of Dedication ( of your garden) she had in the book.
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" Lord, into your hands I offer my garden and myself. Bless each plant; make my garden flourish and thrive. Bless me, O God. Strengthen me to be a faithful steward of this garden. Bless each person who visits this space, Lord. May each one find you here. And Lord, throughout the coming weeks and months meet me here. Use my garden to speak to me, nourish me, and heal me. For I pray in your name Jesus Christ , thank you , Amen."
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The author talks about things you can do to enhance your garden (make it more personal) and the ones I hope to do myself over time are...
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A windchime (she had a neat way to relate it to the presence of the holy spirit being present)
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A personal garden tea pot and tea cup.( a time to reflect with the Lord)
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A garden chair with small table or garden bench a place to reflect or share your garden with a friend or family.
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A birdbath ( I have been wanting to make a mosaic one for a few years now. This gave me a goal now)
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bird feeders ( to appreciate God's little creatures)
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One verse that she shared in the introduction that just spoke to my heart was ...
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Isaiah 58:11
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"And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not." KJV
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I feel that God just reached down and touched my heart today. I have been feeling like in a drought and kept pressing on and was hoping for something to sooth my soul. I see this blessing of transforming my mind as such a gift from the Lord. Thank you God.
I plan to take some pics of my garden this morning and come back and update this post. Well it won't be untill this evening or I will just tack it onto my Weekly Wrap Up because my Handsome has the camera at work, lol.
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Blessings and ((HUGS))
In Him<><
-Mary
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PS: please read the IMPORTANT note next two the smilies who are having fun pillow fighting.
Now if you want to join us in the fun of Show and Tell Friday just....
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~Make a Show and Tell Post and make sure it is wholesome. It can be pretty much what ever you want to share. It could be about you ...or your family ....or what is going on in your homeschooling.
~Some how link me ( Mary @ Raising 4 Godly Men or Canadagirl ) so others will know where to go to join S&T.
 ~Come back to me and let me know you posted your S&T by using leaving me your exact URL to your Show and Tell Post. I will have to be this way untill Mister Linky is up and running gain ( I need you to tell me each week that you want to participate, okay ? )
~If you want the S&T button to put on your blog go HERE
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" please go visit other gals wonderful Show and Tells ! Oh, don't forget to comment. EVERYONE loves comments."
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"If mothers could learn to do for themselves what they do for their children when these are overdone, we should have happier households. Let the mother go out to play!
If she would have the courage to let everything go when life becomes too tense, and just take a day, or half a day, out in the fields, or with a favourite book, or in
a picture gallery looking long and well at just two or three pictures, or in bed, without the children, life would go on far more happily for both children and parents.
The mother would then be able to hold herself in "wise passiveness’ and would not fret her children by continual interference even of hand or eye - she would let them
be." ...Charlotte Mason
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First , I am a daughter of the King almighty and a
a wife to my Handsome of 19 years. A mom of 4 on the go boys 17, 15, 11, and 9. I grew up in the states but married my Canadian sweetheart and moved up north.
We live in the southern part of British Columbia , Canada on our homestead. We have homeschooled our four boys from birth and plan to go the distance till all four graduate from our homeschool. I teach with a Charlotte Mason style. I love to craft! I am a beader, knitter, x-stitcher, quilter. We have been on a journey of being apart of building "The House that God Built". I have been recording our journey on my blog. Go to my links on The House That God Built and you will find it. I know God has a lot more instore for us and we just need to follow where our Lord takes us.
This blog is the home of Show and Tell Friday's and Tightwad Tuesdays. I hope you decide to join in on the fun !
Blessings and ((HUGS))
In Him<><
-Mary
