Good morning world. My desire is to have a more old fashioned lifestyle in most everything I do. Okay, I am not quite ready to give up my facebook account. However.....
I have cleaning schedules I try to keep. We homeschool. We are going the courtship route with the boys. I try to garden enough to have produce for most of the year. I knit some things. I am getting ready to dust off my sewing machine. I cook from scratch almost daily. (The occasional frozen pizza somehow finds it's way into my kitchen.) I use mostly homemade cleaners and laundry soap. At times, I have fixed my face and hair on a daily basis regardless of if I was home for the day or not. I am frugal in many ways.
So here is my question. Why do my emotions get in the way? Mostly if I get upset with Patrick I want to quit doing anything. Why is that? I would think that by now, at my age, I would be able to not react or at the very least not stop doing what has been making me happy, blessing my family.
I have been praying for God to show me how keep on going regardless of my feelings. This does not happen often. When it does, like yesterday, I do not get much done.
"23 Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, 24 since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving." Colossians 3:23-24 NIV
This is the scripture that keeps coming back to me. A reminder that my home is my first ministry.
Well, still working on the watermelon rind pickles. Canning them today.
Be blessed and be a blessing,
Just some of my thoughts and actions,
Elizabeth
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