Morning Rain Drop Tea

Hello Dear One,

I know there is more than one viewer, but there might be one particular person who needs a special greeting today, so my greeting is supposed to sound personal.

It sometimes rains early in the morning, and then the sun comes out, so this morning I had Rain Drop Tea outside on the porch. The gentle mist of rain sounds like what I refer to as the pale notes on the piano or guitar strings; so soft sounding that if the sun dies not appear today, my heart is filled with sunshine. 

Cucumber tea was the most like raindrops that I could find, because of its light color. It is available by the bag, but a cucumber slice floating in very hot water makes a great flavor, so that is what I made.  

These few moments allowed me time to read another page of the 2nd-hand book Called Tea With Jane Austen, which has history and descriptions of the tea foods of the era.

A subject that I have had in mind has been the question of how much time a Christian woman at home can afford to spend on the world's constant broadcasting of bad news, so I will address it as best I can now.

Horrid news does not go with this kind of activity that I am showing today, nor is it compatible with anything a homemaker has to do in a given day.  It will not get the laundry done or the meals made.

I was listenning to an old hymn called "Beneath the Cross of Jesus" and noted in the last stanza the phrase: "content to let the world go by". You can listen to he song and see the lyrics here:

Content to let the world go by:  Christian ladies have for the most part been content to let the world go by, and to tend to the duties of the home that were their own. They participated in their country's success by guarding and guiding the home and practicing good character, as well as teaching good values to the community by the way they lived.  Then, those who had great causes that Christians have always practiced, began to say, "Your country is a mess because you Christians just stayed home or kept your religion in your churches."  Many women felt they should be more concerned about the world, and took on the worries and stresses and burdens that Jesus warns not to carry.

The accusation that Christians were not "doing anything" to make the world a better place or to prevent corruption in government, was not true.  Ladies at home guiding and teaching  future adults in good character were doing a lot more for their nation than anyone in Congress or Parliament, because of the spiritual values these ladies promoted and sent out into the world. Women at home caring for their own property and posessions, being careful with their incomes and looking after own husband's nutrition, lifting the stress of the world from their shoulders by having well-kept, attractive homes and serving appealing foods, were doing more for the world than any summit meeting ever could.  One reason such women could do this was that they were free from the worry and heavy responsibility of worrying about politics.

Instead of working in the homes and churches where they grew in grace and good works, many women got caught up in causes that were Christian in nature but required their time and attention away from the home and church. While still at home,ladies began to feel anxious about current events. They once thrived and made a difference in the lives of others through the churches and the homes. Homes and families and churches are now the people than need the most emotional and financial help. It is time for ladies to take their ears away from the naysayers of the public broadcasts and get back to living the Titus 2 role, which really makes a difference in people's lives.

Instead of devoting themselves to home and church where they thrived, they began an endless campaign to fix the rest of the world, an exercise in futility. 

Ladies also began to believe the news broadcasts, without any way to investigate the stories.  There are people who once worked for the news media who write about how it creates a false reality on the screen and in photographs that do not tell the entire truth.  By showing the limited views that are only broadcast through a lense  they can create any thing they want the world to believe.

Today we have the disease of the month and the crash of the month and the tragedy of the month (or day) to interrupt the calmness of the home, and this can hardly benefit the home. The minute you start worrying, your immune system is compromised. When you worry and are not happy, your body seems to be more vulnerable to headaches and sniffles, tummy aches and all kinds of unpleasant things.

Worrying about things goes completely against the commandments of Christ, so my conclusion is, we must obey the command to pray for the those in political power, and let God take care of it. When you worry, you cannot have optimum health, and you are not able to control your home life. 

The news media is a privately owned organization that hand-picks bad news to broadcast, with the purpose of demoralizing you and making you lose hope.  The news media does not have your best interest at heart. It has an agenda to put people in a constant state of fright so they can also use their sponsors the pharmaceutical companies to sell you their antectdotes.  I have written about this in the past, but we all need to be reminded that the media creates stories or chooses the ones that benefit their agenda, and creates hype in order to get people to react a certain way. This is the bad news.

The good news is the Bible, and the last will and testament of Christ, the New Testament, is full of hope and assurance and peace. It gives life. The news is more often about death and depressing things.  As a guard of the atmosphere of the home, a lady should keep her mind free of this pollution.  Make sure you do not get a steady diet of the news media, for it creates fear, and fear and anxiety will not help your home.