• Tuesday, November 10, 2009
A New Business Owned by a Special Lady

My friend Josephine has started a business and now has a website!!. The website is still in the production phase but it looks wonderful!. Josephine has a sweet spirit and is a wonderful testimony of how God can work in a tragic situation. God is working in her life so much right now and I pray only the best for her.  Please check out her new website and the products she is offering---click HERE.

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• Tuesday, November 10, 2009
The Writing Bug is Contagious

My six-year-old sister Emily has caught it. Today she wrote the following story. Way to go, Em!

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• Tuesday, November 10, 2009
God's Way for God's People, part 2

As happens any time you make a strong statement in a public forum, I drew fire with yesterday's post. Read the comments. 

Here's the point. 

If you educate God's way, you are better off. 
If you choose to homeschool, you are better off doing it God's way.
If you spend your money God's way, you are better off. 
If you worship God the way he prescribed, you are better off. 
If you nourish your body God's way, you are better off. 
If you train up your children God's way, you are better off. 
If you attend the church of God's choice, you are better off. 
If you choose your friends God's way, you are better off. 
If you spend your time God's way, you are better off. 

Not better.  Better off. 

Homeschooling is not the salvation of our children's souls.  Homeschooling does not give me a guarantee that my kids will be saved, sanctified, and serving the Lord.  But I can see it from here.

Not better.  Better off.

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• Nov. 10, 2009

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• Nov. 10, 2009
Recent happenings!!

The other day we all went for an afternoon walk, and there was lotsss of flooding!! We all eventualy got soaked, and by the time I got back to the car, but feet felt numb, as I was wearing canvas white (but are now gray, ) and water soaked in easily.


This is what mostly all the paths were like...It was not very deep at all, only roughly about 2 inches.


This is the lake. :)

You know what little brothers are like, and this is what my cute little (nearly 2 yr old) brother has been doing.


then the freezer bags, I doen't know how he managed to get it!!!




And I was helping my in the kitchen and I heard this rustling in the bathroom and then, what a waste of freezer bags!!!
I also promised my good blogger friend (ALadyBug) a photo of my new budgie, Tommy.


Isn't he beautiful!!!!

well thanks for stopping bye!!!

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• Nov. 9, 2009
Hate Crimes

Don't get caught up in all this "hate is bad" stuff going around these days.

Amos 5
21   I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
22   Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
23   Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.

Revelation 2
15   So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate.

Proverbs 8
13   The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

Psalm 101
3   I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.

Psalm 119
128   Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.


Be careful about condemning hatred.


Psalm 11
5   The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

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• Monday, November 9, 2009
God's Way for God's People

I've been thinking about that visit to our local high school.  One person commented that it must be a really tough school.  I'm thinking, as in inner city L.A./N.Y./Miami?  This is what I would expect to see in inner city L.A., but we are out here in the middle of nowhere, AZ.  I don't think we have a tough school, necessarily.  Actually I think most high schools in America have come to this.  As things have gone downhill with grades, teacher and student behavior, administrative foibles, and the endless black hole effect of pouring money into the school system, we have added more and more rules.  No prayer. No Bibles.  Carry I.D. Fenced-in campuses. Campus police.  No pocket knives, squirt guns, bubble gum, aspirin, etc.  It's just proof that you can't legislate righteousness.  After putting all these rules into practice, we still have more problems. 

The real problem with public school is in the heart of most of those who are involved with it -- government officials, board members, teachers, parents.  The students are the victims. Public school is a mess that I don't want my kids to experience.  With a different foundation (the Bible) and a different outlook, and a very different goal, public school could be a great ministry.  But it isn't. And it's not God's way to begin with.  It's one of those carts from 2 Samuel 6.  When David saw that the Philistine heathen had put the ark of God on a new cart in 1 Samuel 6, he probably thought, What a great idea! That would be much more efficient than having the priests carry the ark. But putting the ark on a cart resulted in disaster for David and his people. God didn't care how the heathen transported the ark, but his own people were to follow the instructions he had given Moses. God's way was to carry the ark, no matter what extra work was involved.  We (my family) are God's people.  Public school has been around for a long, long time, but for God's people, it's a new cart. God's way to educate our children is to bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Ephesians 6:4.  He gives us many warnings to keep away from the ways of the heathen (the heathen aren't just in deep dark Africa -- they shop at Wal*Mart) and to depart from those who teach contrary to God's word.  Sure. It would be much more convenient to send my kids to school, and a lot less work for me.  But it's not God's way at all. It's bound to result in disaster.

I don't believe the fact that we homeschool makes us better than you or anyone else.  However, I do believe with all my heart that my children are better off than those who attend public school, and our home life is better off for it, too.  Anything and everything in us that is good is not there because we are good, but because of the grace of God and the blood of Jesus Christ.  No matter what other way is out there, we are content to do our schooling God's way.  I feel sorry for those kids behind bars.  And I feel sorry for those teachers, administrators and government people who can't figure out why their system isn't working.  They'll never get it until they read and believe God's word and put it into practice.  Public school is now a doomed system graduating doomed students (if they graduate at all). No new carts for us, thank you.

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• Nov. 9, 2009
I am BACK!!!!! :)

Hey Everyone! I am So So sorry for not posting on my blog in like FOREVER! lol But I am going to try to post alot more now! :P How have you guys been? I have been doing wonderful! I have just been trying to stay healthy! :) (If you know what I mean!) We have been doing alot of fun things for school like making are very own bread! :) That was SO much fun! I loved making bread.........Here is some Pictures of that!

Here is a Dough mixed and ready to be Kneaded! :)

Here the bread is ready to rise for the first time! :)

We placed the bowl in a warm oven.....Here is it Risen! :D

We Poured it out.......Now its ready to be Punched down! :D

Here is me punching it down! Lol (That was SO much fun!)

We put it BACK in the oven to rise for the Second time! :0)

Now the bread is ready to bake!......

We Took it out of the oven and the house smelled SO yummy!

I think we did a wonderful for the first time ever!

Now it's ready to be eaten! :P

That was such a fun thing to make with Liz and my mom! :) If you have a chance to make bread you should try it! :) It's alot easyer then I thought it would be!

I will try to post tommrow!!! :D

~Hope~

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• Monday, November 9, 2009
Who? ME?

Awww. Thanks, Tia! 

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• Monday, November 9, 2009
Let it only be a cold, please!!

So far no fever, just sore throat and congestion. Sigh.....I feel 'it' coming on too.. ugh....Now I have a legit reason to shop our new CVS that opened yesterday not 4 blocks from us

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