Texas Woman's Daybook

Just for today...Monday, January 28

 

Outside my window...cloudy and warm.  Feels like Spring!  We love having the windows open day and night.

 

One of my favorite things...when people accept last minute invitations.  We enjoyed great fellowship yesterday after church because a family from our Sunday School class was willing to come over after church and share a simple lunch with us.

 

From the kitchen...Sarah made a blackberry skillet cake this weekend using the last of the blackberries we picked in May.  Such sweet memories!

 

A heart of thankfulness...for the four Lavukal translators, Simon, Matthew, Albert, and Ezekiel, and their willingness to sacrifice so that their friends and families can have God's Word in their own language.  Please pray for these men and their families.

 

On my bookshelf...just started reading "Abraham's Well" by Sharon Ewell Foster.  I don't usually read much historical fiction, but I found it in our library and the book fits in with our history studies.  We'll see if I make it through the whole book!

 

Pondering these words..."It is kind of the Lord to demolish our confidence in our own strength, abilities, and cherished methods....Yes, it is a kindness when he strips us of self-reliance, because it is there, in our emptiness and brokenness, that we experience the privilege of his sustaining grace....It is only when we are finally freed from those oh-so-constricting straight jackets of self-righteousness that we are able to experience the true comfort and warmth of the robes of his righteousness."  ~Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

 

From the learning rooms...we love Sonlight's history programs.

 

 

And adding the Story of the World Activity Book has given us some fun times, like pretending we are Texas Rangers and outlaws.

 



Santa Anna's crushing victory at the Alamo happened only a few years before Chopin wrote one of my favorite pieces, his cello sonata in g minor.  At the same, David Livingstone was finishing up his medical studies and preparing to go to Africa.

 

 

Learning about history around the world has never been so exciting!

 



 

 

A few plans for the rest of the week...taking a meal to a family tonight because the mom is out of town and dad recently had knee surgery, our state-side "boss" and his wife are coming over tomorrow to share lunch with us and my mom is coming tomorrow evening.  We'll keep her busy with a trip to the Dallas Zoo and a trip to Canton for First Monday Trade Days.  Friday night, I've been asked to bring a short devotional (along with several other women) at our church's Night of Devotion.  This is way out of my comfort zone, so I would appreciate prayers!  Saturday, a former student and his family are coming to eat lunch and play games.  Looking like a great week ahead!