Mon.-"One glimpse of His dear face...all sorrow will erase...So gladly run the race...Till we see Christ.." Monday morning wash and clean up. Susan's calf, Lucy, is sick. Susan's worried. She's working on filling her egg orders. Alli came over to use the internet. Watched part of Bride Wars. Phil picked up meds for Lucy. Phlip found a baby pigeon. It walked right over to him and into his hands.
707-Thankful for the glorious pink and blue sunrise this morning.
708-Thankful for farm life. Looking out screen window and watching Susan bottle feed Lucy and Philip holding his pigeon while he visits with her. Love it.
Tues.-"James the Just, James the Faithful, James the Righteous." Finished the study on James. Read about how he died and had to cry because I felt I had lost a friend. It's one thing to think about martyrs from a distance, but Stephen or James could have been Johnny, and the Christians in the early church suffered many and real things. Busy day. Went out to Belk to get Susan's skin rechecked. We are going to stick with the program since it seems to be working okay now. She quit everything last week and then added one thing at a time. We brought Mandy two peanut butter eggs and one buttercream. She ate one right there and her eyes rolled and she cried in ecstacy, "Oh my God!" and I think she meant it. I told Susan that her eggs brought glory to God. Went to the bank, Walmart, and Tractor Supply. Gave Susan my card and she came out of the store with two twenty five pound bags-one under each arm. She said the clerks wanted to help her and she declined. "No, I'm fine." She looked fine, too. Took her to Biology and she later hitched a ride out to LBC for play practice. I met Ruth H. for lunch at ShoGun. Came home and took pictures of spring. Phil came home early and rode down with me to the river. I took pics of bluebells and also of the fields and the eagle flying. Phil cut some watercress down at the spring. A bit later, Phil, Freeman, and Philip showed the ol' boar who's boss and now that he's missing something significant, he might not be so mean. Went out to Appomattox and picked up Andrew F. and Susan. I was reading in the car and we started getting some wild weather. The kids got wet from the church door to the car door and as I pulled out, it began to hail. I drove 460 straddled between both lanes because it was flooding and not many cars were out. It was hard to see. Then, suddenly, 460 was dry. I dropped off Andrew and then we got the storm. I dropped off Susan and headed to KNIT group. We're studying the book, "What Women Fear" by Angie Smith. Really good. I patted Erika's very pregnant belly. This is her second. Susan and Philip were working until midnight, processing their goods.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Hertzler Doings~March 19-25, 2012
709-Thankful for the beautiful light shades of green and the pink red buds and the yellow forsythias growing along 460 and back roads too. Why does this beauty make me hurt with a estatic sort of sobbing joy?
710-Thankful for the newness. The sense of being born again. The looking at people and wondering where they have been these past months. Am I just seeing them anew?
711-Thankful for the revelation that the same people who resent you because they think you and your life are perfect will resent you when they find out you are not as perfect as they thought. And the same people who love you and think you're perfect will still love you when they find out you are not.
Wed.-Phil 1:29-"For to you it has been granted on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for His sake." "We are the generation...rising up to take our place...right on our knees...right on our knees.." Erika had her baby at 8:30 this morning after going into labor two hours earlier. Little boy. Took pics with Susan at Happy Valley. The reflection of clouds on the water was clearer than the clouds in the sky. Cleaned up some outside and did some more cleaning at the chapel. Hope to finish tomorrow. Phil and boys are home working with scrap metal. Susan and Philip out to Calvary tonight for Bible Study. Started DF. Detoxing and miserable physically and emotionally.
711-Thankful for the love around here.
Thurs.-Rough night. Throwing up. Few hours sleep. Has happened before when at the beginning of detoxing. Took Susan and Andrew out to LBC for drama practice from 9-6. We brought peanut butter eggs for her snack to share. Delivered eggs to Jamerson's and Nolen's and CCA. Visited with the 'school' for about an hour. Snuck a preview of Recitatio. Great to see them all. Got groceries. Iced foot and watched a movie. Talked with Nanette for awhile and sat in the sun. What a dear friend she is. Went down to the chapel and put it all back together.
712-Thankful for the first mowing of spring grass when all that good green chlorophyll and wild garlic fills the air.
713-Thankful for Susan's happy day and the friends she has made in this group. She plays the part of Laverne as in Laverne and Shirley in the pirate play.
714-Thankful that CCA is doing so well. I love those people.
715-Thankful for Helen's help and advice about my foot and ankle.
Fri.-Acts 2:42,46,47-"And they continued steadfastly in the apostle's doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers...so continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart, praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved." Fertilizer sprayed today on owl field and low grounds. Susan made some coffee flavored eggs to give to a few friends. She posted a picture of one on facebook. I think she caused a face book riot. She now has to sell them. And people are not even minding that they are twice the price as the others because of the coffee extract expense. Someone messaged her and wants to sell her eggs at their store. She's thrilled. I took some eggs to Sherri and got to see Lydia F. for the first time since they moved down. Took Helen some watercress and an egg delivery and borrowed her foot detox machine. Made an appt. to get a deep muscle massage in hopes that I can loosen up a muscle in my left leg which should allow my foot to loosen up and not hurt so much. Susan's play was in the eve. at LBC. "Jolly Roger and the Pirate Queen." I was on deck to help if needed but another mother had it under control. It's been nice to reconnect with Dawn F. Her son, Andrew, is in the play too.
716-My friend, Lori, said that she had 5 of Susan's eggs in her house and they are no longer there and her family didn't even know they had been there. She also said that she gained 10 pounds in two weeks. I was relieved because I ate 5 eggs too, and gained the same amount. I used to try to gain weight; I was so scrawny. I can't seem to get rid of the mindset that I need to eat or I am going to waste away.
Sat.-Rain woke me up early. Col. 1:21-23-"And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight-if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister." Made blueberry muffins, tidied house. Susan worked on eggs. Alli and Freeman stopped by to borrow a truck. Our whole family went out to LBC to watch Susan as 'Laverne' in "Jolly Roger and the Pirate Queen." Susan got the loudest cheer at the curtain call because of all the Hertzler's in our row. The cast went to MacDonald's afterwards. We ran to Walmart afterwards to get more ingredients. Got to bed very late.
Sun.-Raining. Went to church. Thoughts I came away with-Forsake your old identity-like the woman at the well forsook her promiscuous lifestyle, the fishermen left their nets, etc.-to become a follower of Christ. Being a follower of Christ became their new identity. Love what God loves. Be proactive in pressing for the goal. Do not lose heart. The afflictions you are going through are not worthy to be compared with the glory that will be revealed in us.
Went to Chinese for lunch. LL was there with many celebrating his 48th birthday. When we went to pay, he had already paid our bill. That was so much fun I wanted to do it for some one else! Came home and relaxed all day. Alli and Freeman came over for a little and then went walking at O'Brien's. The redbuds are in full bloom over there. Learning to write a blog on my laptop which Phil and Michael got for me yesterday, which is thanksgiving #717! I feel so awkward and can't seem to make the one finger, two finger thing work.
718-Christ's DNA is the church's DNA.
719-Michael said that one of the speaker's at Liberty said, "Eternity is too long to be wrong."
720-That revival is not fun until we are experiencing the fruits of repentance.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment