My Everything Quilt

Psalm 19: 7-14 The law of the LORD is perfect, restoring the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple. The precepts of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever; the judgments of the LORD are true; they are righteous altogether. They are more desirable than gold, yes, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the drippings of the honeycomb. Moreover, by them Your servant is warned; in keeping them there is great reward.  Who can discern his errors? Acquit me of hidden faults. Also keep back Your servant from presumptuous sins; let them not rule over me; then I will be blameless, and I shall be acquitted of great transgression. Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Your sight, O LORD, my rock and my Redeemer.

This is our house at St. George Island this week. View from the top balcony.

To be in the dark, altogether in the dark, is a great thing for faith. Then you are sure that what you see is not seen of the flesh but is in very deed a vision of spiritual faith. To be under a cloud is a trial, but not one-half so much a trial as it is to always have the light of this world. We are so likely to mistake the light of carnal comfort for the light of God that it is well to see how we do without it.~ Beside Still Waters

Our 2nd granddaughter was born Thursday, June 28, 2012. She weighed 5 lbs. and 15 oz. She measured 20 inches long. In other words, long and skinny. But my goodness, she is adorable!

Once again I am in Savannah to visit my parents and try to help clean out the old house. Mom thinks it will be cleaned out and ready to be placed on the market in just a few months. Unfortunately, that is not the case. No where near reality! Mom is having trouble "letting go" of her possessions. And she has a LOT of them. There are some items my sisters and I are interested in having for one reason or another. But the vast majority of things in this house are just stuff Mom has accumulated over the past 45 years; in other words most of it holds no sentimental value to us at all.  The problem arises when we go to the house Mom must be there. She is afraid, and rightly so, that my sisters and I will throw away something she does not want thrown away. So, we attempt to clean out by boxing up and bagging and she comes along behind us and takes out. She will ask if you want a particular item occasionally. Sometimes you can ask if you can take something that you actually want. ...

It is church camp week for Hannah and Moriah. The kids of Faith Community Church look forward to this week all year long. Sometimes I think the volunteers (kids and adults) get more excited about the week than the actual campers! In the past when the girls would be off at camp, I would spend the days scrap booking. I would look forward to those days with as much excitement as the girls would camp. This year has been different though. One reason I think is because I am without a car at the moment and I feel helpless. But I think Hannah expressed it more to the point; I am alone more these days because the girls are older and gone a lot. Therefore this week of camp is nothing unusual, they just will not be coming home in the evening for a few days. As the song goes, "Growing up is hard to do" is especially hard on a mom who has spent so much time with her children for all of their growing up years. Homeschooling has been my life for the past 20 plus years. Now Moriah only h...

"Real success is doing the will of God regardless of the consequences."~ Ashamed of the Gospel  by James MacArthur