Fuzzy Friday & The Friday 56...

Here's wishing you a warm and "Fuzzy Friday".

p. 56 "We got those fine-lookin brown eggs you like."-At Home in Mitford

"The Friday 56" hosted by Freda at Freda's Voice.

Have a great weekend!

Goals For Monday...

Tomorrow will be my first full week at home since November 1, 2010 and I have a list that seems to grow longer and longer as I contemplate what to do with myself this week. For starters, tonight I pulled everything out of my sewing room into the hallway. I am determined to get it organized. In the year that I have been keeping Fuzzy and Tallfeathers I have allowed it to get to the point where I can barely get in the door much less think about sewing, so my goal for Monday is a clean and organized sewing room and an empty hallway.

"I never suspected this room was so large. I would have said I could do the whole thing in an hour. But then, I never knew it was so bloomin' dirty."~~Grace Livingston Hill-April Gold

I have been reading Grace Livingston Hill lately. Another goal for Monday--finish Cloudy Jewel.

                                                   

Happy Halloween!!!

                                                      

Women's Retreat...

Tonight I returned from a three day retreat in Maypearl, Texas.

 It was awesome!

The food was great!

Oh, and the speakers were good too.

On Thursday we listened as christian recording artist Tammy Trent gave her testimony and on Friday and Saturday we were privileged to hear Gail McWilliams.

 I'll share a couple of "nuggets" from each of these amazing ladies.

"If joy is dependant on circumstances then all the devil has to do is keep you in a set of bad circumstances"~~Tammy Trent

"Don't be limited by your past, choose today to move into that new season in your life, and find your joy"~~Tammy Trent

"You are not stuck, you have been positioned"~~Gail McWilliams

"You were born on purpose, with a purpose, for a purpose, God's purpose."~~Gail McWilliams 

Have a super Saturday!!!

Commonplace Things...

"We look for visions from heaven, for earthquakes and thunders of God's power, and we never dream that all the time God is in the commonplace things and people around us". ~~ Oswald Chambers(Feb. 7)

Times on the Mount...

I have been a bit under the weather this past week with allergies. When I use Benadryl it takes me a day and a half to get over the affects of it in order to know if I feel any better, so haven't posted much and may not for a few days.
But as I was sitting here this morning reading "My Utmost For His Highest" and watching Fuzzy play with his cars and laundry baskets I thought I would share an entry from the classic version. There is always so much good to be found in this little book. Sometimes it can just be a reminder. I wrote a post on it when I first started blogging.

I am not a big fan of blogs with long pages of stuff to read, so I will apologize in advance.

 His new favorite pass time.

OCTOBER 1st Entry:
"We have all had times on the mount, when we have seen things from God's standpoint and have wanted to stay there; but God will never allow us to stay there. The test of our spiritual life is the power to descend; if we have power to rise only, something is wrong. It is a great thing to be on the mount with God, but a man only gets there in order that afterwards he may get down among the devil-possessed and lift them up. We are not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle. Spiritual selfishness always wants repeated moments on the mount. We feel we could talk like angels and live like angels, if only we could stay on the mount. The times of exaltation are exceptional, they have their meaning in our life with God, but we must beware lest our spiritual selfishness want to make them the only time.
We are apt to think that everything that happens should be turned into useful teaching, it is to be turned into something better than useful teaching, vis., into character. The mount is not meant to teach us anything, it is meant to make us something. There is a great snare in asking-What is the use of it? In spiritual matters we can never calculate on that line. The moments on the mountain tops are rare moments, and they are meant for something in God's purpose."

Oswald Chambers

Hope you have a great day!!!

Thought for Today...

"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it." - Margaret Thatcher

Have a great day!!!