November 20, 2007
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Ladies...
I have recently found a beautiful website ministry called An Help Meet For Him that I wanted to share with you. I know through the years I have struggled with particular issues and while we have God's holy word to minster to and comfort us, it is always good to encourage one another as well. Kerry, at An Help Meet For Him, covers a vast array of issues but they all address our God given roles as a help meet for our husband..or preparing us to be a help meet for a husband to come. I agree with so much of what she has shared and thought you might enjoy reading her entries as well. One of my favorites is this entry entitled What Is Your Ministry....and her introduction, I'm A Stay At Home Wife.
This particular entry on DILIGENCE really summed up my thoughts for the past month or so....well maybe even longer than that. Which leads me to my next thought.....this has been in NEON flashing through my brain these days. Years ago, one of my Bible study mates' husband found a job elsewhere....they sold or got rid of everything in their home...and even their home and bought an RV to travel in until they could find housing. They had three children and homeschooled. She said she was "living liquid." I don't know...that term really struck me and it has stuck in my head all these years....trying to make liquid from a solid I guess.
Well, I finally get it. For the last months I have been trying to purge my home. I don't know what happened but when we began homeschooling I suddenly discovered used books stores and went crazy. Our home became the resource center of the county. I am not kidding....if you need to know about it, we probably have a resource that has it in. I should have handed out library cards.
Less now though because I am blessing my library with boxes and boxes of books. I am blessing the re-use-it store with boxes of everything else. I got to thinking....liquid needs a place to flow smoothly if it is going to flow and nothing was going to flow (including us) in this house if things remained solid...in the flowing sense of the word....not the secure sense.
So that is my profound thought for the day.
We have to stick together since we are so far apart. (Read the Diligence entry...then that will make sense.)
Be encouraged!
*note.....but there are some books I will not part with....like one of my most recent treasures...."The Christian Statesman, MEMOIRS of WILLIAM WILBERFORCE"....1864.
Comments (2)
HI Susan,
Great post... I bookmarked that site! I had to laugh about your home being the resource center for the county! I think ours was too! I not only scoured the homeschooling magazines for the newest stuff and scoured the antique shops and used book stores for the oldest stuff... but we also collected cast-offs from others just in case someone might need materials! We even had public and private school teachers that brought us boxes of books that were being discarded. It's taken several years of purging, but the house is finally looking sort of like a house again, and not a shrine to homeschooling. (At least the downstairs... shhh...)
There are some wonderful treasures that I won't part with, and some that I've packed up for the next generation to use that were incredible blessings to us. The rest is blessing someone else, I hope.
Kim
Wow, what a find, that Wilberforce book! Yay for housecleaning...
ttys
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