I actually have a bit of time to blog!

Matt and I are currently watching the documentary "God Grew Tired of Us". It's about the "lost boys" of Sudan. It's very interesting... once we finish it I'll let you know if it's worth the rent, but so far it is very eye opening.

This weekend we helped some friends move and it just mixed so many different emotions in me. Amazement at how much stuff can be accumulated. What is considered "valuable" and needed and just how messy things are. It made me want to come home and simplify and condense my own life more. It made me so thankful for all that God has given me and how much he knows me. He knows me so intimately, and he knows my needs and desires more then anybody else. He gave me the perfect husband, for me, and three incredible boys. I love these times of recognition of blessings. It just affirms God's love for me. Also i am incredibly thankful that these friends are moving SO close to where we live right now (only 5 miles away).

I've been on this kick lately of wanting to learn how to make more things from scratch. I think it has to do with us trying to become more self sufficient. Everything we have we want to have a purpose.

I've been trying to spend less time online so posts may be few and far between. I think it's a good thing for me because the Internet can be addicting and there is always something that you can do on it. So I'm giving myself 1 hour a day on the computer. Hopefully i will be able to stick with it well!

I'm at a point right now where i feel like I'm exactly where God wants me to be, raising my boys and loving my husband. Not a lot of people can see that as a ministry but really... it is a HUGE ministry! Who raised men like Billy Graham and John Wesley? One day my hope and prayer is that my boys will grow up to do great things for the Lord. My place right now is to love them and teach them the love of the Lord through my actions and words. Also to show them what a servant of the Lord is. In serving my husband and loving my boys i am doing so much more for God then i could be doing elsewhere at this point in life. I get overwhelmed sometimes with the needs i see around me and people suffering and needing Jesus. But i know that in this season i am called home and that in that, i can also be a light for others. In doing all i can for my husband and enabling him to pursue what he feels God is calling him to (developing his business and what not), i am in turn serving the lord.

"Serve wholeheartedly, as if you were serving the Lord, not men."-Ephesians 6:7

"Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving." -Colosians 3:23-24

hmm well that's it for now.. I'm going to enjoy the quiet of my children napping and do some reading! :)

one of my favorite lines and openings to a book....

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighborhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters" -Jane Austin from Pride and Prejudice

and our new garden in process...