Thought you might enjoy the show God put on here the past couple days.
Our eyes have been peeled to the window, looking for birdie friends, or squirrel friends.......
.....and God said yes!
Our first feathered friend? A chickadee! And, oh how pretty! He's enjoying our peanut-butter-and-seed covered pinecone.
The best investment for kids' art is simple watercolors. Oh, how I love thee. Far less mess and fuss. I can say yes every time!
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While I nursed Beth to sleep last night, the others painted some happiness.
Wednesday Gratitude:
- 50 high-quality kids' garments found at the thrift store early this morning, for only $69.00! I had my stamp card completely filled out and got 35% off!
- The colors God put on a chickadee.
- The tail talk that squirrels do. Have you ever seen it in earnest? Quite amazing!
- Trees full of squirrels
- My boys understand that though nature, we experience God. My girls are learning it more every day.
- I came home with three large bags of clothes and my husband was just happy that the kids were happy. He didn't ask about the cost. He knows it would have been a small fortune from a retail store.
- The exclamations of delight around here lately, and the scientific note-taking Peter is engaged in, about bird and squirrel behaviours.
- Little girl squeals about pretty clothes.
- A 40-degree day today, and an expected 60-degree day later this week.
- Homeschooling
- Very few illnesses in the past nine months. I have to wonder...is it because I started cooking from scratch, for the most part? Whatever the reason, it's sure a blessing! (The whole foods didn't help with ADHD, unfortunately.)
- I don't have my own car, but I do have a yard!
- Reminders from Him that I'm to bless my family and practice self-denial. Therein will be my mothering legacy, if I'm faithful to the Holy Spirit's whispers.
- Yet still, knowing that His grace surrounds me.
- Reminders from Him that I'm to bless my husband, whether the trash gets taken out or not. And should I mention the trash? No. Just love. Just do love. It's an endless series of actions, done to bless God, regardless of whether the receiver deserves the love action. Did we deserve the cross, after all?
And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death.
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.
1 comment:
Love all the pictures....bird watching is so fun!
You've encouaraged me to get out the water colors. It has been awhile.
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