Oh, Where Does the Time Go?



the Dresden

   I keep passing by the quilt table sighing with frustration- where does the time go? It seems weeks have passed me by with not one moment spent working here. The hustle and bustle of the farm coupled with classes and lessons and teens- where does the time go? The days come and go with garden harvesting, stall mucking, meal preparing, and...and...and...I forget. Yet, let me sit and ponder..these days won't last. The weather will change driving us inside giving us time; time for sitting things-for comfort things. Any day now time will be found for cups of hot tea, quilts on the table, games and movies and just being. Yes, soon, I will find where the time did go.

simplychele

Thoughtful Thursday..Ponderings of the Accidental Pastor's Wife

"...go and bring forth fruit,"  John 15:16 

  
   A command; not a suggestion: "...go and bring forth fruit.."  This I ponder this week. I am seeking. How? The answer has not yet come.
   I have always believed growth must start at home- with the training and discipleship of our children and ourselves, but, where does it go from here and how is it done? Is this a personal or collective endeavor? The job of the family? The church? Is the Lord speaking of discipleship or outreach?
   Growing fruit trees has taught me that proper conditions must be met in order for the tree to bear fruit; light, water, fertilizer, season- proper pruning and trellising. Can this parallel our "fruit bearing"? What are the right conditions for bearing fruit? I am just not seeing it. Have you ever known there was a lesson there, yet it was just out of reach- the connection was just not being made? It's maddening!
   This week I consider, I ponder- how do we "go and bring forth fruit"? Can you tell me?

simplychele

Photo Entry by Simplyjen



Ribbons and Lace


      Simplyjen recently entered the Heart of Texas Fair's photography division. In all, five different origional photographs were entered in four separate divisions: animals, people, nature, and miscellaneous. The above photograph Ribbons and Lace earned a second place rating! Her other photographs were given Honorable Mentions in their divisions. Congratulations, simplyjen, we are so proud of you!!

   To see more beautiful photography by simplyjen, visit her gallery http://galadriellagallery.deviantart.com/gallery/.  She is also a member of naturephotograph and wephotograph in Deviantart.

simplychele

Happy Birthday to my Dad

   This past weekend, my father came down for a visit. My parents no longer live nearby and have to plan little trips down to see us, so this past weekend we fired up the grill for a fajita dinner. Yummy food, rambunctious kids and gifts, gifts, gifts...I think he had a good visit. We toured the little farm, talked projects and plans, discussed upcoming visits and, of course, shared food. But- today is the actual day...

   So...happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you....happy 60th birthday- (wow that's a big number). I hope you have a quiet afternoon to reflect upon the years gone and the years to come. See you next month..happy birthday, Dad.

simplychele

It Is Sunday....

Peppy

Baptist Faith & Message (2000)

XI. Evangelism and Missions

      It is the duty and privilege of every follower of Christ and of every church of the Lord Jesus Christ to endeavor to made disciples of all nations. The new birth of man's spirit by God's Holy Spirit means the birth of love for others. Missionary efforts on the part of all rests thus upon a spiritual necessity of the regenerate life, and is expressly and repeatedly commanded in the teachings of Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ has commanded the preaching of the gospel to all nations. It is the duty of every child of God to seek constantly to win the lost to Christ by verbal witness under girded by a Christian lifestyle, and by other methods in harmony with the gospel of Christ.

Genesis 12: 1-3; Exodus 19:5-6; Isaiah 6:1-8; Matthew 9:37-38; 10:5-15; 13:18-30,37-43; 16:19; 22:9-10; 24:14; 28:18-20; Luke 10:1-18; 24:46-53; John 14:11-12; 15:7-8, 16; 17:15; 20:21; Acts 1:8; 2; 8:26-40; 10:42-48; 13:2-3; Romans 10:13-15; Ephesians 3:1-11; I Thessalonians 1:8; II Timothy 4:5; Hebrews 2:1-3; 11:39-12:2; I Peter 2:4-10; Revelation 22:17.