Last week wasn’t as productive as I’d like it to have been, but that’s how practice months go. I’m still trying to get into a groove of things, while not neglecting the real people in our lives. When you add people into the productivity schedule, they always take more time than you plan for. But…
This week I am thankful for: In case you missed it (ICYMI) last week on the blog I posted: And here’s what I was up to almost exactly four years ago, that I should consider doing again! Here’s a couple videos I watched this week while I was baking: What stood out in my Bible…
Today’s excerpt from A Life Hid with Christ in God is from a letter Susan wrote to her cousin in 1839. “Should I never again be permitted to address you upon this subject, remember, my dear cousin, that I have faithfully warned you of your danger, and told you of the way of escape. But…
I run a small micro bakery where I bake legally allowed cottage foods. On Wednesdays I fill the online orders I get during the week. Here’s some pics from today’s orders. Orders being prepped. Bread boxes drying: Orders packed and labeled: And loaded into our porch pickup station!
“I like, when I have read a book for about a half hour or so, to walk a while, and think it over. I shut the volume and say ‘Now, Mr. Author, you have made your speech, let me think over what you have said. A little meditation will enable me to distinguish between what…
In November and December I always start thinking about goals for the new year and things I’d like to do or improve. I used to plan all my goals during the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day. But I’ve been keeping a list and adding ideas to it throughout the year so I can…
I didn’t do well in the garden this year. I think we had 3 days of rain, total, for the summer, and it was all I could do to keep things alive, and the plants showed the stress. However, I had enough tomatoes to make a big batch of our favorite pizza sauce! We make…
Today’s excerpt from A Life Hid with Christ in God is from a letter Susan wrote to her friend, Miss E.N. on January 31, 1836. “Dear E., we are commanded to rejoice in the Lord always, and why do we not? Is it because we are so sinful that we ought not to be happy?…
Today’s excerpt from A Life Hid with Christ in God is from a letter Susan wrote in her diary in 1836. Such truth is necessary to remember and cling to at heavy times like this. “Yesterday I was much depressed by hearing someinstances of the depravity of human nature, and feltthankful that there is a…
Today’s excerpt from A Life Hid with Christ in God is from a letter Susan wrote in her diary on January 8th, 1836. “I hope my hard heart has received a new impulse. I have sometimes been very cold lately–have done those things which I ought not to have done, and left undone those things…