Be Still and Know...Then and Now

  Being the undisciplined person that I am I have faced the reality that unless I am in some from of in-depth bible study my time spent delving into Gods word is sorely neglected. I may be randomly diligent (being honest here, this middle school getting on the bus at 8:40 am is killing me) in my morning quiet/prayer time. I may read the daily scriptures from my ever faithful and much loved “Streams in the Desert”, but this does not fulfill the instructions that God gives me when he tells me to: DT 11:18 Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 19 Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 20 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates, 21 so that your days and the days of your children may be many in the land that the LORD swore to give your forefathers, as many as the days that the...

  Join me for Outdoor Wednesday hosted by Southern Daydreamer Not much in the back yard is still blooming with the summer heat but my Gerber Daisy's are still faithfully holding there head up, that is when I don’t forget to water them! Before…a little parched don’t ya think!!! It’s amazing how quickly they recover! Very happy after a nice long drink!     And don’t forget my giveaway!!! To enter the giveaway leave me a comment this post today or on this post . If you would like more information about the giveaway click on the button below to find all about it! Blessings Robin

I got an email from on of my wonderful blogging pals telling me that one of my posts was gone. I thought surely that can’t be. Did it fall into a black hole?? Did a mysterious serial blogger hack into my system and hit the delete button… Well I figured out what happen!!! In the past weeks I have been working with Windows Live Writer. I am still pleased with the over all ease of this program but there are a few small issues that I will put out there. It does not have a “save as” function, at least not that I have found. With that said I will lament about loosing an entire post, Finally Finished, about a recently finished Prayer Shawl. When I pulled out this previously published post and tried to use part of that post for a new post. I thought I could just alter the title and then change the text and save it as a new post. But no…so I lost an entire post. I love the editing features available for adding pictures, but you can only edit one picture at a time. You have t...

It happens very unexpectedly. I was cleaning out an old bible case and I come across this…   Every mom has them, those precious photos that have been tucked away in the pages of your bible, memories that you want to keep close to you as you pray or just a sweet face that you want to hold close to your heart. These pictures had been long hidden, tucked away in that old bible case for a very very,very,very long time. Skoots1mom and I were enjoying an ice coffee after our workout this morning. I pulled these photograph out to show her. We sat and looked at the sweet faces of my babies who are now 20 and 14. Y’all my children are no longer babies. This precious face, he was four years old. I remember this day. He was enjoying himself at a birthday party of one of his friends from church. Y’all just look at those curls and that sweet smile! My son commented to me some time ago that he had read my blog from time to time. Well if you are reading this one my sweetness, ...

Due to a slightly annoying snafu with Windows Live Writer I inadvertently deleted this post. So I have just added the pictures back.  

Is this wrong? My Bad! Blessings Robin A.K.A Still amazed that there is a dog in my house!! And don’t forget my giveaway!!! Leave me a comment on this post or click on the button below to find out more about the giveaway!! Good Luck!! For more Wordless Wednesday’s go here .

vociferous Huguenots hostel cuisses doublet Gascon Bearn vade mecum hostler aiguillettes portmanteau   I had to look most of them up, my brain hurts, and this is in just the first five pages!   Can y’all guess what I'm reading now? Blessings Robin   And don’t forget my giveaway!!! Leave me a comment on this post or click on the button below to find out more about the giveaway!!   Good Luck!!

Several weeks ago I was the lucky winner of a book giveaway from Mocha with Linda . Click here to read her post about this book! As I finished the book up the other day I began to think about the two women the story centers around. The story begins with two pen pals in elementary school and they continue with there friendship for many, many years through letters and emails, but they have never actually met, not until things change for the main character. Her life takes an unexpected turn and she finds herself face to face with her long time pen pal. I began to think of the similarities between the two women in the book and all of you, my fellow bloggers. As members of this unique internet community we enter into each other lives as we read each others posts, as we comment, share encouraging words or just a well needed giggle now and then. But what I enjoyed as I read this book was the depiction of the friendship these two women shared. They had been intimately involved...

If you read my post yesterday you were given a riveting report on my humiliation during my morning workout. I am happy to report that Twiggy and Skull Girl were no where to be seen this morning which brought great joy to my heart as I stepped upon the treadmill. In an effort to keep things from becoming boring, I don’t know about y’all but I know my favorite thing to do is watch myself sweat in a mirror for thirty minutes each day, skoots1mom and I decided that we would take a dip in the pool this morning after our workout! I took these pictures with my phone, so the quality is not the best. But what I wanted to share with all y’all was how wonderful it was to step into the cool water after a long and strenuous workout. I was hot, tired, still a bit sweaty and my muscles were a bit whinny. I put one foot in and then the other! The water was perfect. It was the exact right temperature, not to cold but just cool enough that you could just ease yourself down into the water...

If you have been keeping up with skoots 1mom over at My Hands…His Glory you know that she and I have been working out. She has a small workout room set up in her basement and I have a workout room down at the clubhouse in our subdivision. We have been alternating. This week we are at my clubhouse. This morning as I made my way down to the workout room, skoots 1mom was running a bit behind so I headed in and started my workout without her. It was a busy morning at the old workout room. Just after I arrived three other people showed up. One gentleman quietly listened to his iPod as he did the weight machine, no big deal. However as I finished up my weight work in came two teenage girls. Girl A, who I will affectionately call Twiggy because she quite possible weighed in at maybe 90 pounds. Then there was Girl B, also a tiny slip of a thing, had on black sweats with three white glitter skeleton heads across the seat of her pants and a black tee shirt, so I will fondly refer to h...

I have a love hate relationship with the concept of change. I think if you are honest with yourself you will agree that a general rule we like things to stay the same. I like change in some things. I love the change of seasons (except for maybe winter) and I love changing things around in my house from time to time. I enjoy a new recipe every now and again from the same old same old dinner fair. These changes seem to bring with them a refreshing perspective from what had become tired and everyday. I even like to think of myself as a forward thinker, someone who is not stuck in a specific patterns of behavior. To change things up a bit I put turnips in my pot roast the other night. I had never fixed them before and hey ya just never know. (for future reference we will not be adding turnips to the pot roast again, not a good thing in my opinion) anyway I took a leap of faith with my small bag of turnips and now I know that I am not a huge fan of this root vegetable. I have...

  Blessings Robin

June 9, 2009   Once upon a time (58 days to be exact) a middle aged (hey a girl can dream can’t she) southern woman planted a packet of green bean seeds straight down the middle of her brand new raised garden bed!!!   Each day she would venture, each day she would walk, to her small little patch, longing for even the smallest of signs of life, an inclining, a glimpse, but not even a vine.   Day after day, she checked and she watched.   Day after day she hoped and she dreamed.   Saturday June 13, 2009 One bright sunny day, as she checked her small plot, per chance did she notice, a small tiny green spot! Her heart leapt for joy, as she bent down, down to the ground oh so low. Her heart it was reeling with glee and delight for what did she see, but a tiny green  sprout, that oh so quaintly poked its head out!   Saturday June 13, 2009 That evening, ...

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