May this day "leaf" you thankful :)

Happy Tuesday!

Well, The Juniors Got Creamed

....figuratively and literally....

Powder Puff Football....Vannah was #28

The After Game Shaving Cream Fight :P

Even though her team lost, she had a lot of fun!!!

The Second Law Of The Harvest

These are not all my own ideas...I have been reading through these laws as we move into the month of October....

We reap the same in kind as we sow.

These are pretty simple laws, but I think sometimes we forget to think about things simplistically. (We are such complicated individuals :P)  

If I decide to plant corn, I will not get squash on the cob...I will get corn.  But what does one cob of corn give me, but the ability to plant A LOT more corn.  So, yes, we reap the same kind, but most of the time it is the same kind in a much fuller measure.  It is exciting that God has given us this kind of  opportunity to create beauty, wonder, love, righteousness, faithfulness....and all the fruit of the Spirit.  HOWEVER, because we have free will, we do not always choose to plant wisely...but, the same law still holds true.  Look at this verse....this is a picture of what I feared seeing in Oklahoma and Kansas.

Same law...

It is interesting that this law holds true in both the natural world and in the spiritual world.

I am thankful for a GOD who is the loving kind....the forgiving kind...the generous kind.....the merciful kind.....the restoring kind.....the delivering kind.  That He responds to our prayers according to HIS kind is awesome!  Look at David's prayer for forgiveness:

"Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving kindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions; and my sin is ever before me.

Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight; that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.

Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts; and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy Holy Spirit from me.

Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free Spirit.

Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.

Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation; and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.

For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it; thou delightest not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise."

Open Up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgdNrppahI4

This was a great question posed to our church family this morning.

Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap.  For the one who sows to his own flesh shall from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit shall from the Spirit reap eternal life.  ~Galatians 6:7-8~

I read that the first law of the harvest is that we reap only what has been sown.

If you really think about that it is like the ripple effect only it is like every choice we make is like a seed we are planting....it always grows into something positive or negative, so it is so important to make wise choices and to plant seeds that lead toward redemption and reconciliation with God.

We have definitely enjoyed reaping the harvest of what others have sown for us for some time...

From The Seven Laws of the Harvest devotional: 

Not only are we blessed because of what God has done in our behalf, we are also blessed by what others have done. Others have labored and we have entered into the blessings of their labors. Any honest study of Western civilization must admit that the blessings we have enjoyed in the Western world, of freedom, of law, of ministering to the suffering, the poor and the like, are all the by-products of Christianity and our godly heritage.

A good number of years ago there appeared in the “Christian Advocate” the following:

America rests upon four cornerstones: the English Bible, the English language, the common law, and the tradition of liberty. But liberty, language, and the law might have been drawn from the Bible alone. Had we brought nothing with us across the sea besides this supreme book, we might still have been great. Without this Book, America could not have become what she is and when she loses its guidance and wisdom, she will be America no more.

Did we bring the Bible to these shores? Did it not rather bring us? The breath of the ancient Prophets was in the sails that drove the tiny Mayflower.

It has been said that South America was settled by the Spanish, who came to that land in search of gold, but North America was settled by the Pilgrim Fathers, who came in search of God. That is what made the difference.

We cannot give up seeking God.  

We need to be planting now for future generations so that they will not experience a spiritual famine, but a glorious harvest.  Let us NOT become weary in doing good...let us remain faithful despite our circumstances, our disappointments, or our feelings.  

Today Kassi was up early and she wanted a turn making pancakes, so we worked on her recipe reading and following skills and her flipping skills :)  After making enough pancakes to satisfy all the girls, I had a lot of batter left....so I decided to try to make a GREAT PUMPKIN pancake....

I thought I might ruin it with the flip...

THE SUSPENSE!!!

Wheshew!  Still smiling!  

Happy October!