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Letting Go and Letting God! Have you ever spent most of your life believing something, I mean firmly believing something, and then in an instant finding something that shook you to the core and made you question your perception of someone, something, or an entire lifetime?   I had that happen to me just this morning. I have been dragging “things” with me as we moved here and there and everywhere (including two cross country moves) for the last 40 years.   Yes, I’ve recently had to admit that am a hoarder.   I never met a piece of paper or a gadget that I didn’t love!    My dear husband and I have committed to decluttering and downsizing for at least 1 hour a day until we can rid ourselves of enough stuff to move across country AGAIN, without the burden of a semi-truck. I found my mother’s Bible in one of yesterday’s boxes.   I got my coffee this morning and sat down with mom’s Bible to look at her handwriting; my mother’s handwriting was, is, beautifu...

For those of you who pay attention to the dates; I fell asleep last night before finishing my post and getting it published…  So, today, you get two for the price of one.  I also have tomorrow’s post ready so I can rest on the Lords day! God really has a special place in his heart for farmers.  God placed the very first man he created on His farm to tend to it.  Genesis 2:8 (KJV) - And the LORD God planted a garden [or farm] eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. Jesus loved farmers.  He told His disciples that His Father was a farmer.   John 15:1 (KJV) - I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Farmers must be the best people in The Word, and the world, at keeping at a thing until the finish.  By the way, some of my favorite people are farmers, and they are a wonderful example of sticking to it.  The hardest part, (and the most expensive, I would guess) comes at planting time and at harves...

I suppose it is in all human nature – ok, I am human and it is my nature – to start something new with gusto and zeal and then I get tired, or run down, and I start slipping into my old ways.  It is so easy to make plans, to set goals, to gather supplies, and to get started.  It’s not in getting started I have a problem; it’s in sticking to that which I start. So it is with books, crafts, sewing, and other projects I’ve started…  I look around and I see dozens of projects started; but the finishing is nowhere in sight.  That isn’t good for me, it isn’t good for my sense of accomplishment, and it isn’t good for the clutter levels in our home. It’s not uncommon for me to have several books going all at the same time because I have started one, saw another with an interesting title, and others were recommended to me; unfortunately I may not make it back to the first book to ever get to “the good part”.   You know, life can be that way too!  If we don’...