More on housework - Is anyone else experiencing an infestation of fruit flies? I have heard a few people over Facebook say that they are. We ARE. Tuesday at noon, after working the morning, I came home and tackled the vacuum cleaner. Isn't it funny, you start in the upright position and eventually grab the wand and get on your hands and knees. Truly, before I was done, I had crawled over every inch of my downstairs floor, dragging the vacuum behind me. In my travels I could not BELIEVE the amount of fruit flies. "Hundreds of thousands of them" had been my description to Syd a few weeks ago when I first saw them dead on the floors. This time they lay dead in masses along the crack of the windowsills, in certain areas of the floors. They seemed to be in patches. We had put little pots of vinegar out when they were in their 'flying mode' (which I am glad is now over). This was supposed to get them at bay and I think it did help a lot. I didn't mind every room smelling like a pickle as long as I wasn't finding a fruit fly in my coffee cup at every turn! When Syd got home from work Tuesday, I exclaimed about the dead fruit flies. His reply, "hundreds of thousands of them?" - "Yes!", I said!
Well, before I get to those dishes I wanted to say how thankful I am for a mid-week prayer meeting. Last night I noted so many answers to prayer; requests that had been given in the past. I use an old prayer sheet, so see a lot of requests that we had had in previous weeks. One of my prayer requests, which I had expressed in a blogpost back several weeks ago, was for the possibility of a ladies Bible study or a time where ladies could get together to talk and share blessings that the Lord has given them. This blog has been the greatest outlet for my own heart to pour out blessings that the Lord has given me through His word. Well, the Lord is answering prayer in this regard. He has laid on the heart of one of the ladies of our church, to pray about starting a Bible study for women. She is a blessed christian, and a somewhat "older woman" in our church (though she is not old). God is always so good and He answers prayer according to His timing, not ours. We just need to keep praying. Another blessing during the service was reading from the Proverbs. Last night we read from chapters 9 and 10. "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; and the knowledge of the holy is understanding." This has been one of the verses we've been learning on in my children's Sunday school class for many weeks. At many turns, the Lord has been helping me to just scratch the surface of God's wisdom. He promises to teach us the fear of the Lord if we will come to Him and hearken unto Him (Ps 34:11 was one of our memory verses). One other answer to prayer concerns one of the little children who had come to Sunday school several weeks back but had not been able to return of late. His grandmother said that the Lord is working in his heart and that of his parents and he might begin to come again on a regular basis! This is such a joy to my heart, as it was to the church family! A hymn that we sang last night was, "Oh, the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus". As I'd mentioned in the blog the other day, having security in His love allows the christian to have the freedom to live a victorious, joyful life in Him. I am so thankful that the Lord just keeps reminding, teaching, answering prayer, reminding again, carrying us along, rebuking, loving....etc. day by day, all through our christian life! We are not in a competition to be most spiritual and we are not going to become mature all at once. All that we are to "be" is what He desires to make us. He says that He has begun a good work in us, and will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.
I was checking emails this morning and read one from my friend, Dottie. In it was a little story about two young children, a brother and a sister. I want to paste it here for you to read:
I enjoyed the little story, but mostly I loved the reminder that it brought to my heart. This young boy loved his sister and was willing to die for her. We have a Savoiur who loved the whole human race. He loved the unloveable and those who were totally His enemies. Romans 5:8 says that "God commendeth His love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." As I have put my trust in this Saviour who died for me, I now can be confident in the love that He "commended" to me personally. Lord, please teach me more fully the depths of your love each day so that I will walk in total love toward you and in love toward those who you put in my path.
Many years ago, when I worked as a volunteer at a
hospital, I got to know a little girl named Liz who
was suffering from a rare & serious disease. Her only
chance of recovery appeared to be a blood
transfusion from her 5-year old brother, who had
miraculously survived the same disease and had
developed the antibodies needed to combat the
illness. The doctor explained the situation to her
little brother, and asked the little boy if he would
be willing to give his blood to his sister.
I saw him hesitate for only a moment before taking a
deep breath and saying, "Yes I'll do it if it will save
her." As the transfusion progressed, he lay in bed
next to his sister and smiled, as we all did, seeing
the color returning to her cheek. Then his face
grew pale and his smile faded.
He looked up at the doctor and asked with a
trembling voice, "Will I start to die right away".
Being young, the little boy had misunderstood the
doctor; he thought he was going to have to give his
sister all of his blood in order to save her.
It is time to tackle those dishes and whatever else comes up today. I'm so glad you stopped by Darling Hill. They say that we may experience temperatures toward 60 today - unbelievable! The roads will be getting plenty muddy very soon, as Spring approaches. Be careful, and keep in the middle of the road.
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