Intentional Break

As many of you know we are knee deep into messes all over our home.  This is an intentional mess called shifting as they say here.  We are shifting countries in just a couple of weeks.  Needless to say, but I will say it anyways, I won't have much time for this blog.  I am hoping to take a long break from blogging and Facebook.  I need to focus my energy and time on my precious ones.  Once we are on the other side of the ocean, I will dive knee deep into language AGAIN!  Only this time I will HAVE to learn it as most of the people don't speak much English.  Here I really only have to use English to survive doing the daily basic...not so in our new place.  Plus it is an amazing thing to be able to speak the heart language of those around you.  Walls and barriers fall down when they hear you attempting learn THEIR language.  I will also continue to home school along with our language learning... and learn to cook, learn to shop and learn to  keep a home in a new culture.  Wheww, I am tired just typing that! Seems like there will be lots of learning.  Not sure how I will do it physically, but it will get done! The Father has spoken some wonderful words to me through His Word over the past couple of weeks and He alone will help with all that I need to do.  We appreciate your prayers and words of encouragement! I would love to hear from you through email anytime!

So...until my life is less busy...hogibartinni! (That is Kannada for I will go and come again. It is traditionally what you say when leaving someone.)

Simple Living

Seeking a simple life as I seek to serve Him in my home.

Ignore...

Focus...

Drown...

Pray...

Expect...

Obey...

Listen...

This is a great post on living a simple life as a mother and home school teacher!

Boasting

I was listening to Beth Moore on One Place this morning and she read this scripture from Jeremiah. I love it and it is going to be my memory verses this week.

Thus says the Lord, "Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches, but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who practices steadfast love, justice and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the Lord. " Jeremiah 9:23-24

A Mother's Legacy

What I want my children to say about me when they are grown....

My mother's habit was every day, immediately after breakfast, to withdraw for an hour to her own room, and to spend that hour in reading the Bible, in meditation and prayer. From that hour, as from a pure fountain, she drew the strength and sweetness which enabled her to fulfill all her duties, and to remain unruffled by the worries and pettinesses which are so often the trial of narrow neighborhoods. As I think of her life, and all it had to bear, I see the absolute triumph of Christian grace in the lovely ideal of a Christian lady. I never saw her temper disturbed; I never heard her speak one word of anger, of calumny, or of idle gossip; I never observed in her any sign of a single sentiment unbecoming to a soul which had drunk of the river of the water of life, and which had fed upon manna in the barren wilderness.--Farrar

This was take from Streams in the Desert, Sept 13.