Hello, Sweet Sisters!
It's been months since I have written here. I am sorry I have been behind on our reading schedule, but I do hope each of you find yourself in God's Word each day. Scripture is rich, fulfilling and sustaining, and should be our daily guide in living this life. I started our reading plan back up this month. I have been absent here, because life has just been busy. I am sure you understand. Raising and caring for our large family, our home, and our farm can be quite pressing sometimes, but it is also such a wonderful blessing and delight! In a world of continuous discontentment, I want to remember to be thankful each day for what I've been given. Yes, I can whine and complain with the best of them.....but I am praying and focusing on being content this year. As I'm getting older and our family has grown and our kids -themselves- are getting older, I'm learning more and more to appreciate the simple things. Last year, unexpectedly, we were able to move onto our cattle farm. It has been a dream of ours, for years, to have enough land for our cattle and our home to be on the same property so we can farm on a more full-time basis. And though, 2020 brought plenty of negative things for everyone, it brought us immense blessing in our farmstead move and our family growing by one! Although there is always work to be done on a farm and in a large family, there is so much peace looking out onto our fields, just watching the cows graze, and swinging our little ones on the playground. I'm trying to soak up these moments. They are truly going by too fast. My oldest child turns 20 this week. Twenty....no longer a child, no longer a teen, completely immersed into adulthood. Our second child just graduated from high school in May and he is navigating the waters of what's next for him. Yes, this is hard on my "Mama Heart", but I'm so excited for them both. They are both going to be just fine. They are good men, with generous, compassionate hearts and amazingly strong work ethics. I'm enjoying watching them grow into these men God has created them to be, and I'm eager to see what He has in store for them. Because of these two fellas, I know all too well, how quick the years go by. We have teenagers and little ones still at home and I am so thankful for the time I have left to train them, teach them, love them and have fun with them. My sense of family gets stronger every day and I am trying hard to cultivate an atmosphere that pulls our family together and keeps us close. I'm enjoying these slow, hot, summer days. All too soon, I'll be pulling out our school supplies and unpacking new curriculum for the upcoming school year. Our schedule will be more strict and our time for play and surprises will be fleeting. But today.....we sit in the sun, play in the water, eat our popsicles, talk, laugh, run and tell funny stories. Just enjoying our time together, making memories. For me, that means I let go of worry and stress, and I embrace just letting LIFE happen. Right here in front of me. Every day. With my people. Because right now, in this moment, and every moment after, I'm living my best life and I don't want to take it for granted. "Make it your goal to live a quiet life, minding your own business and working with your hands, just as we instructed you before." ~ I Thessalonians 4:11 Keep reading God's Word, Friend, it is such a treasure! Joyfully His, Andrea (Disclaimer: The above picture is not our personal farm, we don't have goats :), but this photo is beautiful and stunningly peaceful.)
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For we are God's masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago. " AuthorHi! I'm Andrea, wife to my handsome hubby, homeschooling mama to my 7 amazing blessings, and daughter of the King of kings. I am so glad you have stopped by my little piece of the web. My prayer is that the Lord will use this blog to encourage you in your personal, daily walk with Christ. Archives
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