Entries from October 2008

October 13, 2008

Tuesday Tunes Oct. 14: On Christ the Solid Rock

We are learning in our Bible time with school that Christ is our solid rock.   We’ve been learning the words to “The wise man built his house on the rock….” and we’ve started learning the words to this hymn, On Christ the Solid Rock.   I grew up singing hymns and they didn’t really [...]

October 7, 2008

A picture can say a thousand words…

We picked apples last week.  We washed, peeled, cored, food processed, cooked in crockpots, and put into jars over 15 gallons of apple butter!  Amazing process for my family to be involved in!!  It sure brings things into perspective.  I will never look at jelly or preserves or apple butter the same again!  Thank you [...]

October 7, 2008

Tuesday Tunes (Oct. 7) “You Never Let Go”

As I struggle to make sense of what’s going on in my life and this world, it’s so refreshing to remember that God is always there and he will never let go!!  He’s there in every high and every low of my life.  He just keeps on loving and he never lets go.    He [...]

October 6, 2008

Butter Friends

 

Over the past 7 months I’ve had the privilege of getting to know someone who I  now consider a very dear and special friend.  Our friendship started off via email.  I posted something to an email loop and she responded.  We soon realized we lived in the same neighborhood, our kids are close to the [...]

October 1, 2008

Happy Birthday, G!

G turned 3 on Friday!  WOW.  My baby is growing up.  She wanted to go to a farm and milk a cow, so guess what we did?  We went to a farm and milked a cow.  It was a lot of fun.  Afterwards, she wanted to go to the Incredible Pizza Company.  Our only experience [...]

October 1, 2008

A new day….

Today is a new day.  I’ve been thinking about that alot today.  I get a chance to do things differently today. Yesterday, I messed up some things, but today I get to try again.  What I choose to do with my day is up to me.  Sure, I have scheduled events, but I still have [...]