Chicken fun!

There has been alot going on here at our home.

My man and children have been busy at work on our chicken coops and nesting boxes. We found some old wood on the property that my husband used to build nesting boxes for the laying hens we're prepping for.

The children hard at work, nailing together the boxes.

 Josiah cutting wood.

John working on a nesting box.

Nesting boxes made out of used wood. Our laying hens will be happy!

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Lessons & Thankfulness

Life is moving on and I am learning to see the blessings and things Father is teaching me through the struggles. I am learning to be thankful. To find joy in small things...

The way my 6 & 8 yr. old listen attentively with wide open eyes as I read from Story of the World.

Discussions about Leif Ericson and his many voyages and explorations in North America, Greenland, etc..with my 15 & 16 yr. old.

The sweet smiling face of my 4 yr. old as he plays with his new creation he created during OT.

My baby boy and sweet chubby self! How he says words and kisses & cuddles..

Our first homeschooling day for the yr. that pretty well considering the size of our family and the many things we have to cover!

My love who is working very hard on getting our chicken coops ready for chicks!

My 16 yr. son who still tells me he loves me all the time..

My 20 yr. dd who has exceeded all my expectations and is a beautiful young lady, inside & out!

My 13 yr. old who cooks such tasty meals and LOVES to be in the kitchen!

My 10 yr. old who really enjoys cleaning the kitchen, dishes and all! Yay for that!!!! All mamas need a child like that!! :)

Packages in the mail for my growing belly!

Finding a new church where the Pastor is so happy and full of life and is even trying to memorize all 10 of my children's names after only 2 visits!!

Feeling so inadequate and like the awful things said and done to me are really who I am until I look into the eyes of my sweet love and I see my beauty and know those were just the enemy and that I am not who they say I am. When I read sweet encouraging words from a friend reminding me of who I am in Christ and anything others say doesn't matter! My children and how they see me...maybe I can believe I am not words and actions...I can brush them away...  

Scripture that reminds me that we fight not against flesh & blood but against principalities and powers..reminding me that the enemy is at work!

My baby belly that's growing..the weight I am gaining all for my baby bean...the new life we have been given!

Feeling little bean move even as I type this! I feel she/he more everyday!!

Good friends and renewed friendship from state to state!
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The biggest lesson I have learned so far in all of this is how hard it is to be a woman of integrity when others aren't..It's not easy being different! It's not easy living for Elohim and following His word and your convictions when so many don't..
But Father didn't promise us easy! Yeshua told us "Take courage! I have overcome the world!!" and "Lo, I am with you always, even until the end of the age!"

So, I pray give me courage Father! And thank you for your abundant life, your many blessings and trials. Thank you for beauty out of ashes!

Just sharing..

I wanted to share the Weekly Edrash with you as I think it's a good reminder for all of us..

Our obedience to God does not deserve any special accolades. It is what we were created to do. Rabbi Yochanon ben Zachai said, "If you have learned much Torah, do not claim credit for yourself, because for such a purpose you were created." (m.Avot 2:8) Ekev Ekev - עקב : Because" Torah : Deuteronomy 7:21-11:25 Haftarah : Isaiah 49:14-51:3 Gospels : John 13:31-15:27

What We Were Created For Moses warned Israel against thinking that their own righteousness merited their success. "Do not say in your heart when the LORD your God has driven them out before you, 'Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land...' It is not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart that you are going to possess their land, but...in order to confirm the oath which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob." (Deuteronomy 9:4-5) We would do well to take the same warning. Though there are always blessings for obedience and punishments for disobedience, it would be foolish of us to assume that our righteousness amounts to anything. A person busily engaged in keeping the commandments might assume that he is a pretty righteous person and that God owes him some reward. It's a wrong assumption. Rabbi Hillel taught, "Do not believe in yourself until the day you die." (m.Avot 2:4) Moses reminded Israel that if not for his own intercession on their behalf, they would not have survived the trip from Sinai to the Promised Land. Therefore, they should not imagine that their righteousness amounted to anything. In the same way, if we are ever tempted to imagine that our own righteousness has amounted to something, we had best remind ourselves that if not for Yeshua's intercession on our behalf, we would never survive the journey. Even if one's righteousness did accumulate enough to merit a reward, that is God's business, not ours. We are not supposed to keep Torah for the sake of receiving reward. The Master teaches us to obey God simply on the basis that it is what we are supposed to do. We are his servants, and a servant's job is to obey his master. Which of you, having a slave plowing or tending sheep, will say to him when he has come in from the field, "Come immediately and sit down to eat"? But will he not say to him, "Prepare something for me to eat, and properly clothe yourself and serve me while I eat and drink; and afterward you may eat and drink"? He does not thank the slave because he did the things which were commanded, does he? So you too, when you do all the things which are commanded you, say, "We are unworthy slaves; we have done only that which we ought to have done." (Luke 17:7-10)

Waste

Lies and gossip hurt so many people.

Why is it so easy for people to believe the gossip and lies before they give heed to the truth?

Why do some people claim the name of Christ and then gossip and lie? And cause so much hurt?

The last 9 months of my life have been wasted..I have failed...

I am so easily forgotten...  and my work so easily pushed aside by many...

Happy with my decision but hurting by how it all came about...

Sad still by how much hurt is in my heart because of lies and gossip. By someone who shows no regard or remorse for hurts...

I will never understand people..

I love this saying because it's so true!

"Those who matter won't mind, and those who mind don't matter."

I am pushing on...

ya, me too!

Do you ever feel like you fail at everything you do in life? That even when you try to do the right thing it blows up in your face? That you're a failure?

Ya, me too!

Do you ever feel unloved and unworthy of anyone loving you? Do you feel like you can't trust anyone because eventually everyone hurts you? Do you ever feel it's because of who you are and how unlovable you are?

Ya, me too!

You know that even though you're heart was right and your intentions honorable that in the end it will be your fault and you'll be to blame. You feel this way because sadly this is what life has taught you..

Ya, me too!

Do you ever wonder why you even try anymore? Do you remind yourself why you guard your heart and staying at home hiding is so inviting?

Ya, me too!

Do you ever regret letting others see you vunerable? You know your weakness will be laughed at and mocked and used against you.

Ya, me too!

Do you ever wonder why the Father up in heaven would care about someone such as you? How could he?

Ya, me too!