The girls made this yesterday and we loved it! You might like to try it as well . . . So . . . Here it is. It's called Wet Granola.
Thursday, July 30, 2020
Friday, July 17, 2020
Choose the Spiritual
We were reading in Genesis again as a family. This morning we read chapter 13 where Abram gives Lot his choice of land, and Lot chooses the well-watered plains.
That would be oh, so tempting! We have sand to grow things in . . . and this frustrates my gardening soul tremendously!!!
What spoke to me so much this morning is that Abram was content with the land he was left with. In fact, Abram could have had the well-watered plains, but he gave them away. He let others make that decision, knowing God's hand was over all, trusting in that sovereignty and resting contentedly in that. That speaks volumes to us today!
When we put dirt (sand) back against the house and in my "flowerbeds" I didn't trust God like that . . . in fact I cried and grieved for several days . . . I tried to "fix" it by bringing in by hand, some aged horse manure . . . but God was trying to teach me a lesson even in that. It was too strong and my tomatoes and green beans and the brassica family stuff like cabbage and broccoli and cauliflower, if I remember correctly didn't make it. They died. And I had boughten larger plants especially the tomato plants because I couldn't plant anything in those beds till the stone was put up on the basement wall there and that didn't happen until the first of July. God had a lesson for me in patience . . .
Sometimes I still chaff at my "dirt" (sand) . . . And this morning again, I feel reprimanded . . . Don't worry about gardens and dirt and land . . . Japheth pointed out that the fine land Lot choose is now the Dead Sea . . . and Abrams land is fertile.
Abram choose trust . . . He rested in God's providential hand . . . Lot choose physical, but it didn't last and it eventually brought him ruin.
That would be oh, so tempting! We have sand to grow things in . . . and this frustrates my gardening soul tremendously!!!
What spoke to me so much this morning is that Abram was content with the land he was left with. In fact, Abram could have had the well-watered plains, but he gave them away. He let others make that decision, knowing God's hand was over all, trusting in that sovereignty and resting contentedly in that. That speaks volumes to us today!
When we put dirt (sand) back against the house and in my "flowerbeds" I didn't trust God like that . . . in fact I cried and grieved for several days . . . I tried to "fix" it by bringing in by hand, some aged horse manure . . . but God was trying to teach me a lesson even in that. It was too strong and my tomatoes and green beans and the brassica family stuff like cabbage and broccoli and cauliflower, if I remember correctly didn't make it. They died. And I had boughten larger plants especially the tomato plants because I couldn't plant anything in those beds till the stone was put up on the basement wall there and that didn't happen until the first of July. God had a lesson for me in patience . . .
Sometimes I still chaff at my "dirt" (sand) . . . And this morning again, I feel reprimanded . . . Don't worry about gardens and dirt and land . . . Japheth pointed out that the fine land Lot choose is now the Dead Sea . . . and Abrams land is fertile.
Abram choose trust . . . He rested in God's providential hand . . . Lot choose physical, but it didn't last and it eventually brought him ruin.
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