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I wanted to add to the sentence about The Headcovering Movement website that it tells us why the covering is for today.

A Few of My Favorite Sites

Some of my favorite sites are A Christian Home, Gospel to Haiti andShephered Hill Homestead.  There is a new website that has started in the past few weeks is The Headcovering Movement. I have enjoyed this site because there is so much information on this neglected practice.

A Christian Home has lots of articles on being a Godly wife and mother. Gospel to Haiti is new I'm thinking about two years in the making. My friend Rhoda Esbach is a nurse there. When I first met Rhoda two years ago I thought she was a teenager/ Turns out she is thirty something! When you click on the personnel link and scroll down to the medical staff you will see what I mean.
Anyway, I just wanted to post a few of my favorite things.

Wifely Submission

Okay I've been wanting to post about this but I just had the time so here I am. I just recently started reading The Power of a Praying Wife by Stormie Omaritian.  Something she says in her book had a profound affect on me. She says " Submission is something you give from your heart, not something demanded of you". Now I want to make it clear my husband never has and does not demand I be submissive to him. He is very gentle and kind.
Anyway, Stormie goes on to say that our attitude needs to be " Whatever you want Lord. Show me and I'll do it'. I confess  my attitude has not always been that way. Actually I have times when I don't want to submit a wend I want to do things my way.
We need to submit to our husbands with a joyful heart and not pout when we don't get our way.  There was this time a few years ago that I wanted to go to the Above Rubies Family camp but circumstances was preventing us from going so my Tim had made the decision that we would not go that year. I was not happy about this at all. I really wanted us to go and I knew we could get a full scholarship.   So I let Tim know about this and told him we can go. This didn't make him happy because he felt I wasn't listening( which I wasn't) and he was feeling that I wasn't allowing him to make decisions for our family( which I wasn't) Oh what a bitter pill that was to swallow! I'm sure the Lord wasn't happy about it either. I ended up apologizing to Tim and asking for his forgiveness.

I share this story because we wives really need to allow our husbands to lead and submit to his decisions. We might not always agree but we need  to allow God to change our husband's mind if that is His will.

  

Taming the Tongue, Martha vs. Mary and Other Biblical Lessons I Learned

This past Saturday was our oldest daughter's high school graduation party.  It was a very joyous occassion but I had a bit of a time relaxing because I wanted to make sure there was plenty of food for everyone. In other words like Martha in the Bible who was busy in the kitchen and didn't take much time to visit with Jesus like her sister Mary, I was constantly in and out of the kitchen. Finally one of our guests said to sit and relax and enjoy the party.  Now I also need to confess I had a hard time holding my tongue in the weeks leading up to the party. I did manage to keep quiet but the the thing is my vision for the party was much different from my daughter and husband.  I was very much afraid of saying "I told you so!" and you know for us Christian wives to say that to our husband's is not submission. The Lord was able to help me to hold my tongue.  None of this is an excuse for being Martha.  My husband had encouraged me to find my old issues of Keepers at Home magazine to find articles on hospitality which I never did because I just didn't have time. I think another part of me was being prideful because our yard is full of tall weeds and we just didn't have a chance to get rid of them. They were just too overwhelming so I was extremely embarrassed by them.

That being said Miranda's party was a blast and it was so nice to connect with old and new friends. Now you may be asking would I do this again? Well not the negative stuff of course but doing another get together. Hopefully the weeds will be gone by then.

I have more to write about submission but I will post that another time.

Eathquakes!

There;s nothing that rattles my nervous more than an easrthquake. They are unpredictable and therefore very scary when all of a sudden you feel and hear your house shake.
That's what happened a little after 7:30 this morning. I was getting ready to wash my hands when the shaking started. It just seemed so angry! It registered about a 4.8 but too me it felt stronger.
By the way I just realized today June 10th I posted this before it was done.  The quake was on May 29th. That's how nervous I was that day.

This World!

Do you as Christians ever feel like you don't belong in this world? I know that we are in this world but the world's ideas and values just don't line up with Biblical values. We hear about children murdering their siblings or their parents. Parents murdering their children, spouses cheating on each other and being hailed as heroes for it. States are legalizing gay marriage, wars are going, threats of war, etc. I feel like we are in the midst of "birth pains" leading to Christ returning.

Pray for the Man

 Dzhokhar Tsarnaev needs Christ and he needs prayer. I don't know what kind of upbringing he and his brother had but something went horribly wrong as they grew older.  Now as a result of their poor choices a total of five people are dead. Number five is Dzhokhar's older brother.  If I lost a family member in the bombing could I really follow Christ example and love these two men? Could I truly forgive him? In human terms I could not be with God's help I could. Our wall picture of Dirk Willems rescuing his enemy from the freezing pond keeps running through my mind. Love your enemy. Bless those who curse you.
Only God can give us the ability to do that. Pray for Dzhokhar.