Saturday, October 12, 2024

Exercise, Focus at Home

Greetings!

I am honored by your visit to The Manse today and I hope you are enduring the current circumstances the best you can.

I like the contrast of the shiny cup against the freshly plowed ground.

All is well here.

Today I talked about an unusual way to use Proverbs 31 and I hope you enjoy it. There is also a small lesson for children on words that sound alike, and some possible ways to address disagreeable opinions..

7 comments:

Marianne said...: Dear Lydia, I loved today's visit from you and I look forward to listening agaain tomorrow as I was out walking during the talk and need to hear it another time paying better attention. Your last few videos have all been so enjoyable and full of info and helps to make my days brighter.; 10:24 AM
MZ THANG said...: I always love your lessons for us kiddos.; 12:12 PM
Lydia said...: Thank you, Denise!!; 12:26 PM
Lydia said...: I appreciate your lessons too! Thank you for continuing to provide them.. Bless you!
Rebecca; 6:54 AM
Cathy said...: Truly Lydia, I should keep a pad and pencil by me as I listen to you because I have so many things to "chat back to you". This morning as I listened I was making grape jelly, my hands were fruitful! I will try to recall some things to comment because I want you to continue on with your talks exactly as you are doing. Firstly, I do adore your sense of humor!
As a portion of your talk today you spoke of homemakers and I was thinking how women gave up so much by joining the work force of men, most of the time willingly. We have so many avenues opened wide for us to prosper just as the Proverbs 31 wife.; 8:17 AM
Lydia said...: Thank you Cathy. Sometimes I leave a list of things I said on the video, from my notes.; 9:13 AM
Lydia said...: Dear Lydia Ruth,

Thank you for the broadcast. During your talk about focus and singleness of heart, I realized I was trying to hurry through dinner preparations. I wasn’t, like you said, enjoying the process, and I was creating a big mess because I was rushing. Then I heard your words of wisdom spoken in the video…I immediately and purposefully slowed down. I noticed the calm returned and my blood pressure was back to normal.😉Thank you for all the wonderful reminders you shared with me today to inspire thoughtful, intentional homemaking. I must keep in mind the lessons from the tortoise and the hare.😊

Blessings,
❤️Holly Elizabeth; 6:26 PM

The Little Chap Who Follows Me!

A careful man I want to be;
A little fellow follows me.
I do not dare to go astray
For fear he'll go the self same way.

I cannot once escape his eyes,
Whate'er he sees me do, he tries.
Like me he says he's going to be;
The little chap who follows me.

He thinks that I'm so very fine,
Believes in every word of mine.
The base in me he must not see;
The little chap who follows me.

I must remember as I go
Through summer's sun and winter's snow,
I'm building for the years to be;
The little chap who follows me.

Author: Unknown

Welcome

" So far as this world knows or can vision, there is no attainment more desirable than the happy and contented home."

This is a Proverbs 31 and Titus 2 teaching blog, where you will find some ideas for creating the kind of home life that gives you a sense of well-being, creativity and accomplishment. It will help you understand the reasons for being the Biblical keepers of the home, as opposed to the world's answer of being career women outside of the home.

I really hope to help restore the culture of the home, which is a never-changing precept of the Bible: marriage, home and family. Young women especially need to know there is something else of greater importance than college and career, and that they play a vital role in making a stable family. In order to have strong marriages, respectful children, and good churches, women need to return to the home. My blog is based on the precept of First Timothy 5, verse 14:

"I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully..."

These articles are designed to give the homemaker ideas for doing an excellent job in the home and for enjoying the role of homemaker and guide of the house. Marriage, the family and home life is splintered. Women must be allowed to return to the home.

The Queen's Ire

England's Queen Victoria wrote in 1870, "I am most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights', with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feelings and propriety. Feminists ought to get a good whipping. Were woman to 'unsex' themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen and disgusting of beings, and would surely perish without male protection."-- Queen Victoria, 1870.

Home

"Why do women want to dress like men when they’re fortunate enough to be women? Why lose femininity, which is one of our greatest charms? We get more accomplished by being charming than we would be flaunting around in pants and smoking. I’m very fond of men. I think they are wonderful creatures. I love them dearly. But I don’t want to look like one. When women gave up their long skirts, they made a grave error…" ~Tasha Tudor

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. ~Jane Austen

Home ought to be our clearinghouse, the place from which we go forth lessoned and disciplined, and ready for life. ~Kathleen Norris

For Ladies and Home, and Those Who Want to Be

Saturday, October 12, 2024

Exercise, Focus at Home

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