A Long Time Favorite

The book The Day Nazi Germany Died as been a favorite of mine for a long time.  I wrote a review/comment on it on another blog and you can access it here:
http://www.visionarywomanhood.com/voting-hitler/

Robert E. Lee on Gloomy Feelings

"Shake off those gloomy feelings.  Drive them away.  Fix your mind & pleasures upon what is before you... All is bright if you will think it so.  All is happy if you will make it so.  Do not dream.  It is too ideal.  Too imaginary.  Dreaming by day, I mean.  Live in the world you inhabit.  Look upon things as they are.  Take them as you find them.  Make the best of them.  Turn them to your advantage."

The Character and Faith of Robert E.Lee in His Own Words 

"What of it?"

This few precious lines from John Calvin's Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life:
"If we in our innocence and with a good conscience are robbed of our goods by the villainy of the wicked, and are reduced to poverty among men, we shall thereby increase our true riches with God in heaven.
If we are vanished from our country, we shall be received into the intimate fellowship of God.
If we are tormented and despised, we shall be the more firmly rooted in Christ for fleeing to him.
If we are covered with reproach and shame, we shall receive the more glory in the Kingdom of God.
If we are massacred, we shall be received into the eternal glory.
We ought to be ashamed of deeming the everlasting values of less account than the shadowy and fleeting pleasures of the present life."

Check map before starting.....if you want to arrive at the right place.

Eliza Pinkney, an enterprising young woman who developed the dye indigo, a major cash crop in colonial South Carolina, lived in the 1700's.  Being a devote Christian, she wrote the following resolutions that she would read each morning.   They demonstrate a serious intention to obey the command in scripture to work out our salvation in fear and trembling:
http://pedersenwritings.blogspot.com/2011/02/eliza-lucas-pinckneys-resolutions.html

Of course we all fail to live up to our resolutions.   Thus we see our need for Christ and the call for repentance.   Further the resolutions focus us for duty and make us less vulnerable to the evil one who wants to distract us.

Thanks God, for the fun of words.

Mary Anne Hoberman has a books of children's poems called Yellow Butter Purple Jelly Red Jam Black Bread.  Although I do not like all of them, many are piles of fun.   'Whale' for one:

A whale is stout about the middle,
He is stout about the ends,
& so is all his family
& so are all his friends.

He's pleased that he's enormous,
He's happy he weighs tons,
& so are all his daughters
& so are all his sons.

He eats when he is hungry
Each kind of foods he wants,
& so do all his uncles
& so do all his aunts.

He doesn't mind his blubber,
He doesn't mind his creases,
& neither do his nephews
& neither do his nieces.

You may find him chubby,
You may find him fat,
But he would disagree with you:
He likes himself like that.

Homemaking a Limiting Occupation?

Rachel says no way, but decide for yourself.   This lovely article may help you think it through further.

http://www.feminagirls.com/2011/11/29/how-do-we-love-thee-let-me-count-some-ways/

Morning Prayer from II Samuel 5.

Father, Creator of all,
Grant that each of my children would feed on your word
and be satisfied and full of worship,
and say with David,
"The Lord has burst through my enemies before me like a bursting flood."