"Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path."ť Psalm 119:105
Now back to our regularly scheduled programming ...
posted Wednesday, July 23, 2008 :: 3:03 PM
We finished shipping all the preorders for the new All Through the Ages, and since we were behind on getting everyone their e-mail shipping confirmations, we have been working double duty on those this week. By the end of today, Lord willing, we hope to have all of those out too. So I can tentatively plan on getting back to regular blogging by tomorrow ... barring anything else happening, LOL!
Loving and supporting others is sometimes the best use of time
posted Tuesday, July 1, 2008 :: 8:14 AM
I am going with beloved family to follow- up doctor's appointments all day today; I have more holiday /theology posts waiting in the wings and will try to get them posted, but if not today, hopefully tomorrow!
I am working on the next post in the Revelation series. As soon as I get past chapter 13, and am able to tie up the marked on the hand and forehead series also, which Revelation 13 concludes, while I WANT to continue the Revelation series, I am also in the middle of the Torah and Ten Commandments series which I want to just get to a stopping place on. The problem with doing these biblical and theology posts every day, however, is that they are so time consuming to write, because even if I already have a general idea of what I am going to say, there is still so much Bible study that has to take place in order to say it well and without errors (as much as is humanly possible), LOL.
So finishing Revelation 13 is my next goal, then wrapping up the marked on the hand and forehead series, then Torah. And since Easter is coming up, which is not even in the same month as Passover this year, I would like to post about that, too. That is my plan for the next few weeks. I am unfortunately in a busy season in my life right now, and am fighting to get in just my daily Bible study, let alone extra for the blog. (My daily Bible study is on a fascinating topic also, but I promised myself NO NEW TOPICS on this blog until some of these others that are hanging in the middle get finished, LOL. My sewing room closet also has a shelf of unfinished quilts on it. I think I see a pattern developing ...)
So I apologize that the theology posts are not more frequent at the moment. If they are something you really enjoy, let me know, and I will try to get more of them in each week. Or if you prefer the real life posts or the commentary on the news posts, let me know that also. It would be nice to have a happy balance. Thank you and God's blessings be on you.
I apologize for the absence; I have been ill but am on the mend. I actually have several posts I was working on the past few days, but I always ran out of steam before I could finish them, LOL. Now that I am feeling better I hope to get them posted later.
My husband is taking me on a second honeymoon in celebration of our 25th wedding anniversary, which was this year. He is so sweet! We are leaving this weekend. So I will be gone from blogging until January, around the 6th or 7th of January. I have several series running at once on the blog, some of them which have been going for over a year. Here are the links to the first posts in each series, I thought it might be a nice way to catch up if you want something to read in the meantime. There is a link at the bottom of each post to the next post in that series, up to the present (some of the links were broken, but I went through and fixed them all this morning, so there should be no problem following each series from beginning to the present).
The first post in the Holidays series (discussing Christmas, birthdays, and biblical feast days)
Somewhere in the middle of the Holidays series, I started posting about the Sabbath, but that began confusing the flow of the Holidays series, so I have removed the Sabbath posts from the Holidays series, and the Sabbath posts make their own series now.
I apologize for my absence the past few days. My sweet dh is leaving for his annual elk hunting trip in the morning, and we had a lot extra to do to get ready. I just pray he comes home with two elk so our freezer can be full of hormone- and antibiotic- free lean beef (close to beef) all winter!
Since this evening begins the Feast of Tabernacles, and it is my first time preparing for the 7- day long celebration, and having a feast every single night for 7 days (LOL), and decorating the house with leafy boughs, and cooking enough in advance so that we can celebrate two sabbaths in a row (from this evening at sundown until Saturday evening at sundown), I have been sooo busy trying to stay organized and get everything done. I realized at 10:00 pm last night as I was cleaning up the kitchen from the food preparation I had been doing, "Oh! I have completely forgotten my blog post today!" I thought about staying up and trying to get that done, but then discarded that idea.
You see, I am not a night person. I am a morning person. When I wake up in the morning, I am awake. And alert, LOL. I think best in the morning, I write best in the morning, I multitask best in the morning. But the opposite of that is also true. When 8 or 9 pm hits, I am tired. Keep me up too much later than that, and my sweet dh does not describe me as "tired" anymore. He would say, "cranky," LOL. My ability to cope drops exponentially for every minute past 9:30 or 10 that I must be up, LOL. So we decided it was best that I just bundle myself into bed and leave the blogging for this morning.
I had a whole post almost ready to post when the screen closed and the post was lost. Arrrgh! I have been working on that for an hour! That has happened to me so many times in the last month. I am a little discouraged, so I am going to have dinner with my sweet dh, and possibly I can try to recreate that post later tonight. Or maybe tomorrow. I have got to learn to write these things in wordpad first. ::: sigh :::
I apologize for the absence today; I was a little under the weather and everything took me so much longer than usual to get done. Here I am at 9:00 pm finally able to blog, LOL, but since I am by no means a night person I find my brain has said good night and shut down. So I might as well do likewise. See you tomorrow ...
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Many thanks to Leslie (Tim's Mom) at Bona Vita Rusticanda Est for nominating me for a Thinking blogger award! I copied the rules straight from Leslie's post, and here they are:
1. If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think.
2. Link to this post so that people can easily find the exact origin of the meme.
3. Optional: Proudly display the ‘Thinking Blogger Award’ with a link to the post that you wrote (here is an alternative silver version if gold doesn’t fit your blog).
Okay, five blogs that make me think. The blog which immediately leapt to mind first is Ann's Holy Experience. However, she has already been nominated for the Thinking blogger award a few times, I see, LOL. Ann is so good for me to read, because I tend to focus on the meaning of the Scripture, what truth does it proclaim, and Ann always reminds me that Scripture is a message from One who loves us, who is waiting for us to love Him back. Scripture is to be understood, yes, but then lived. Thank you, Ann.
The folks over at the Brussels Journal would have to be next. It is amazing how many of my own posts on the news and its biblical relevance get sparked by tidbits of information I run across there. They have a unique perspective on the state of affairs in Europe that is so enlightening to read.
About Michael at the Internet Monk, I have to say that he makes me uncomfortable more times than not. It is because he asks questions, of himself, of God, of the Scriptures, and the Church, and attempts to answer them. He is not afraid to ask hard questions, and sometimes that is scary, because it upsets the status quo of our lives and faith. Sometimes asking the question and digging for the answer can cause you to change your mind, and that is the unconfortable part. Well, the purpose of the Christian life is not to secure my comfort. Sometimes I agree with his conclusions, and sometimes I don't. But Michael always makes me think.
Real Clear Theology is another blog that can often make me uncomfortable. Eric teaches New Testament Greek at a theology school in the UK, and his understanding of Scripture is sharp and bright. Sometimes it hurts to look, like looking into too bright headlights at night. Piercing to the division of soul and spirit - not always comfortable, but always necessary.
I have been working on my sidebar links to get them updated. I noted that when HSB underwent its latest upgrade, some of my links were erased, so I am working on re-establishing those.
Of particular note is the new section :: origo :: or origin, in Latin. Currently this list includes many of the excellent creation sites on the Internet. I plan to add to this section coming up, particularly articles and links on the religious nature of the darwinian evolutionary belief system, and the philosophy - not science - of naturalism. I will be working on organizing the links I already have and will be including the best of them there, so keep watching that space.
Two new links are of particular note, however. The first is Free Creation Science Books Online, links to dozens and dozens of the major books on the creation - evolution debate, including some of the treasures of my library: After the Flood by Bill Cooper, In the Beginning by Walt Brown, Creation's Tiny Mystery by Robert Gentry, Dinosaurs and the Bible by Ken Ham, The Answers Book by Ken Ham et al, and many more. Some of the links are from the old age of the earth perspective, and some are from Muslim authors. Those links are clearly marked.
The second new link is the CreationWiki, or the creation science encyclopedia online, complete with links to breaking news of interest to followers of the creation / evolution debate. This is a growing resource, well- organized, with articles authored by today's top scientists in the creation science field.
Well, I have been working hard for the past two weeks to finish shipping all the Ancient World preorders, and there turned out to be no time for blogging. But I am so thrilled to report that the very last of the Ancient World preorders were shipped this morning (!!!) So blogging will now resume ...
I apologize for the absence. We have come through unpacking, illness, and every conceivable book trouble imaginable, which has kept me either too sick or too swamped (when I wasn’t sick) to blog, but I am finally on the other side of it all, Lord willing. When I was unpacking the books in my library, I ran across treasures I had forgotten I owned -- the library has been boxed for the past 4-1/2 years -- and I am going to be blogging about the best of the treasures in my library as I reread them. I also want to finish the Revelation and the young earth / old earth series, especially now that all my science and theology books are unpacked. Plus curriculum and classical education blogging, now that my curriculum is unpacked!
What I am looking most forward to, however, now that Ancient World is shipping, is presenting the historical and biblical evidence for the events of ancient history related in Story of the Ancient World!
We are getting settled in to our new house; my office is almost finished, and the Internet is up and working (yay!), so normal blogging will resume. I have several posts I am working on, plus new pics of Zane, and the next parts of the Young Earth Old Earth and Revelation series. I apologize for the hiatus and thank you for your patience.
I have never entered one of my posts in a blog carnival, although I do read them when I can. My favorite is the Biblical studies carnival, because theology is a special interest of mine (no one can tell by my blog posts, LOL), especially how theology intersects all the other disciplines, and real life.
But I have been sufficiently intimidated, LOL. I will confine myself to
reading. Those guys that post at the Biblical studies blogs are way
over my head. I dare not enter that holy of holies, lest I be consumed
for my uncleanliness, LOL.
Now I should write more posts about homeschooling, and enter the Homeschooling Carnival ... I will be back into the homeschooling mindset soon; my daughter is going to help me write teacher’s guides for CCH.
She is going to test CCH detailed lesson plans for organization,
effectiveness, and ease of use on Zane when he starts homeschool in a
few years.
Visit with Christine Miller awhile and let's share our thoughts on homeschooling, education, and life.
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I am researching the holy days which were instituted by God as a celebration of the Messiah, instead of celebrating the holy days which were instituted by man to honor nature in place of nature's God.
:: Israel's Feast - Wooten
:: Annals - Ussher
