Through these last six weeks I've purposefully looked for ways to bless my family and to have fun with them. God blessed us with a trip to Branson, MO as a family to see Sight and Sound's production of Joseph.
We found a bunch of fall fun activities to do and I learned more about cooking with whole foods at www.100daysofrealfood.com. We made trees out of paper bags and little pretend acorns while studying the Revolutionary War time period.
I've started doing a Bible study with some other homeschooling mamas at www.goodmorninggirls.org in Colossians which has been wonderful for accountability and growth and am reading through Helping Others Change by Paul Tripp for our Sunday evening church study. A book that impacted my life and helped me most outside of Bible reading during this challenging season was Gospel by J.D. Greear. It reminded me that God's thoughts toward me never change and are rooted in Christ's righteousness and never in my ability to "do" something for Him.
God has been so faithful to us and each day I'm learning how to thank Him, ask for His strength to do the next thing and just cutting back and looking for simplicity until my feelings could catch up with what my head knows to be true about God. I'm thankful for beautiful Fall weather, pumpkins, and blooming mums after a long hot summer and that God is teaching me many things about who I am in Him through this time. Hallelujah...all I have is Christ!
