On the Home Front this Week

Ah, nothing like making snowballs on a January day… 

However, this January day calls for this kind, instead. 

It sure has been unusual weather.

Besides making snowballs this week, my youngest daughter and I have been watching “My Fair Lady,” little bits at a time, as we get a chance.  I have always admired Audrey Hepburn.  She was so talented! 

Monday, we had an opportunity to visit a home that we used to live in, which was an unexpected blessing!  We had not seen the inside since we moved out in 1997.  To our surprise, the day we saw it landed on the anniversary of when we moved there!  We felt God’s hand in that!  Recounted memories and adventures came to life for my 13 year old, since we had already moved out before she was born.  The five of us spent several evenings watching old VHS home movies reminiscing of our beloved days in that house.

Pictured is my now 19 year old, as she woke up and saw her Christmas presents in 1995,

and her having a birthday, along with my now 24 year old and my beautiful mom.  

Wednesday afternoon I visited with a lovely 91 year old lady with a gorgeous melodious voice, and her artistically gifted daughter. Their picturesque southern home was built in the 1850’s.  Charming!  The ladies and the home!  

I got a surprise in the mail yesterday—a book called "Personal Battle Planner” written by Charles Stanley, from a giveaway.  How I came about it was interesting.  Last Sunday evening, I was planning to go upstairs to get settled in, and felt like for some reason I needed to go to In Touch.  So just in case God meant for me to, I did, even though I had already visited their website earlier in the day.  I saw the giveaway and wondered… Oh how I love that the Lord is interested in every detail of our lives! 

 

My husband and his dad have been cutting lumber on the portable sawmill today, getting ready to build a garage/workshop next to our house.  Busy days ahead—the best kind!

That about covers our week in this neck of the woods.  I hope all is well with you and thanks for dropping in!

This Week with God

“HOPE”—God was very specific with me, as I fretted. 

“I know,” I thought.  “I need to work on that.”    Even though I understand that there is always hope with God, I struggle with applying it sometimes.  

He whispered to my heart…

H is for hearing. 

O is for obeying.

P is for praying.   

E is for expecting.

Listening, obeying Him and His leading, ever prayerfully, and expectantly is just what the Great Physician prescribed.  “Expecting?  Hmmm…”  It took a minute for the lights to turn on in my mind - and then it hit me - expecting that He will guide me, expecting that I can rely on Him and trust Him with anything, and everything!  And you know what?  You can too.  Hope, my friend.

“Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,   Comfort your hearts…”  2 Thess. 2:16-17

Dr. Stanley’s “In the School of Faith”

Hi Friend.  I am looking forward to Dr. Charles Stanley’s new sermon series “In the School of Faith,” and I want to make sure that you are aware of it.  I hope that you will tune in this weekend—you are sure to be blessed with this six-part series.  For more information click the chalkboard above. You can access the series through the In Touch TV broadcast, online, or purchase the series on CD or DVD.

I pray that each of us will increase in our faith and more fully comprehend the love of Christ as we walk with Him this year.    

A Century Ago

Happy New Year! 

As we celebrate the dawn of 2012, I thought it would be interesting to take a look back 100 years ago (and no, I wasn’t around then :-)). 

Care to join me?  Let’s begin this journey of 1912 with some top headlines of the day...

The year kicked off with New Mexico becoming the 47th state on Jan. 6.

 

Shortly following, the union also gained Arizona on February 14.

Extra, Extra, Read All About It!

Word traveled speedily in the spring of 1912 with tragic news.

After a four day journey, the “unsinkable” Titanic hit an iceberg on April 14, sinking in the North Atlantic's frigid waters.  About 1500 lives were lost.

The ocean liner Carpathia rescued just over 700 survivors, on April 15.

In other major news of the year,

Taft and Roosevelt battled it out in the Republican primary.  However, Democrat Woodrow Wilson was elected as the 28th president of the United States in this three way race.

Famous people that were born in 1912 include:

Julia Child          Art Linkletter
Perry Como        Vivian Vance
Dale Evans         Gene Kelly

 

Humanitarian and founder of the American Red Cross, Clara Barton, died at the age of 90 in 1912.

Beloved Canadian novelist, Lucy M. Montgomery’s Chronicles of Avonlea was published in 1912.  One of my favorites!

The Tale of Mr. Tod, by Beatrix Potter was first published in 1912.  (Her complete works were a Christmas gift for my oldest daughter.  She was delighted!)

Also, Edgar Rice Burroughs’ creation “Tarzan of the Apes” was published in “All-Story Magazine”. (His book was published in 1914.)

Cars of 1912:

Louis Chevrolet sits in his prototype, which goes to production as the first Chevrolet in 1912.

A 1912 Ford Model T—isn’t this family cute!

Music:

This was the Ragtime dance era.

 

Fashions of the times:

Weren’t these dresses lovely—so feminine, so modest, and so pretty.  Besides the obvious reasons of dressing modestly, it’s classy.
 

You would pay about 9 cents for a quart of milk.

A gallon of gas was 18-21 cents.

A house would cost around 2000-5000 dollars.

An average income would be just over 14 dollars/week.

People and Places of 1912:

 

 Above is a crowd gathered for the World Series. 

   Titanic Survivors in picture above.

A few ads of the times:

Vintage Magazine Covers of 1912—what artwork!

Thanks for joining me!