Tea For You

Hello Ladies,

I do not have any particular "lesson" or encouragement today, since I'm mainly trying to get housekeeping under control since the vicious running around we've been doing, 

so I'll tell you all to get a cup of tea...

...and ponder this:

The Lord keeps you in perfect peace when your mind is centered on Him, because you trust in Him.

This is what Isaiah 26:3-4  is saying.

I learned from this, that when troubling feelings come upon us, we can immediately go to the Lord and ask him for faith, love, comfort, strength, help, security, identity, destiny, self worth, stability, acceptance, approval, inspiration, happiness, empathy and sympathy, success, and all those things that a human being desires.

I wish I had something more to report, but today has been a busy day of cleaning up and there is still a long ways to go. I have bread rising because we are trying not to buy or eat commercial bread. Even the presumably good bread with all the nice ingredients in it often is sabotaged by other things (soy, corn syrup, datem, phosphates, etc.) , and home made bread has 7 to 10 ingredients that are real foods.

That being said,baking bread does not free up your time, unless it is time at the grocery store. You have to remember not to walk out and go somewhere if it is rising or baking ;-)

I am also catching up on ironing, and continuing to cut out my green coat. I am cutting out the lining today, as well as the hat and purse. Hopefully that field I chose to "go with" is not going to change color or get harvested before I get my "picture took"  alongside it!! I have assigned this week to work on that coat.  

Mr. S. has been out and about, driving to the monthly preacher's meeting, the insurance company, and other places,  and now he is home with his foot  up on a pillow.  He was listening to something on YouTube and I heard him laughing (it has been thought that laughing helps healing) so I was asking about it and he replayed it for me. It was a series  called "Cajun Justice," in which someone was arrested for "possession of alligator."

Possession of______(name the illegal item of each state) is a crime, punishable with tremendous fines and imprisonment. Alligators are protected in that part of the country. We've all heard of possession of controlled substances but  rarely "of alligator".