Happy Homemaker Monday

 Hope you all had a wonderful weekend, and a blessed week ahead. Let's get started with our Happy Homemaker Monday !

The Weather:::

It is  an icy 32 degrees this morning.

Right now I am: 

I n the process of making breakfast...  Hubs  crumbled the sausage and I made  some drop biscuits and am  getting ready to make the sausage gravy!!!  Great for  this  

bbrrr cold brrrr 

 morning!! 

Thinking:

AS I am   planning my  new goals  for the year in my Christian Planner  one item I didn't get around to last week was  doing a good deed... so today I want to do some  correspondence   ..  letters and cards of encouragement to some friends  who are going g through a rough patch!!!

On my reading pile:::

Through the Bible with the 

Robert Murray M'Cheyne's Bible Reading Calendar

Studying Isaiah and John  for classes

and, of course, my audio book, Venetia, read by Richard Armitage 💕 

I chose this one of my Christmas gifts to read first

Becoming Gertrude, by Janice Peterson, How Our friendships Shape our Faith

On my TV:::

I am still enjoying the occasional Hallmark winter's love  story...  loved the  new one over the weekend of the   ski couple  getting engaged.. didn't catch the title.. I watched Cider House Rules on Netflix last night and cried.. so poignant.. some  disturbing themes,  but  loved the characters and the actors.

Favorite Blog post this week:::

I discovered Your Friend from Florida,Terri, who has  introduced me to a couple of  really fun memes..  She  has  a very engaging and fun blog, as well!!!

On the menu for this week:::

Tonight we will enjoy a heart healthy bean and cornbread  with  slaw dinner  by  oil lantern in our sunroom...  enjoying the evening snow  by the windows.

Tuesday~White Beans, Spinach & Tomatoes over Parmesan Toasts

Wednesday~all you can eat soup and salad

Thursday~ Firehouse sub

Friday~Fish fry and slaw

Saturday ~family outing

On my to do list:::

Laundry - darks  to be laundered

Correspondence

Bible Study  for class tomorrow

Looking around the house:::

 I redecorated the gate leg table by the window with a shout out to the past  using my blue transfer ware teapot and  accessories,  the lantern form  the  mantel  and two photos

I love this one of which included Hubs mother when she was in the high school choir  standing on the  steps of the family Brethren Church that Hubs grew up in.. 

She is on the front row third from the right, and below is  a photo of my  mother's dad,  Grandpa Cox, as a young man before he enlisted to serve in WWI.

From the camera:::

A really goofy shot of  Hubs and me  waiting for what seemed like a couple of hours   in Ireland where we were dining in a castle, we thought we should  take a snap shot to prove we were there,,  but, goodness   it is just a silly shot of us both!!!

Knappogue Castle near Limerick

On my prayer list:::

The President and his family, and the administration, for protection and godly counsel! I am praying Trump will go ahead and side step Congress with military funding and Corp of Engineers to build the wall  as a matter of national security!

Pray against all division in our nation, that harmony and peace will reign supreme throughout the land.

For the God's will to work its way through our Congress to promote a healing and a functioning environment

Pray against delusion and lies of the enemy, protect the hearts and minds of the young!

Pray that pastors across the nation are renewed and re edified to preach the gospel using the whole counsel of God...  Let no personal kingdom or agenda sidestep the work of the Spirit in the church!

Please, God, take back our institutions of higher learning

Pray for the sick that they might be healed

Pray for the peace and harmony of Jerusalem 

Pray that the light of Christ will shine boldly through His people and everyone is establishing within their own hearts the manner in which to live for Him in 2019

Pray for our service men and women overseas who put their life on the line everyday to protect our freedoms. I lift up particularly my own sweet cousin Josh.... Please add in the comments other names you would like named here!!

Pray for the lost who are bewildered and lost... they are hopeless in need of a loving savior!

Pray that our Congress will find a way to work together to protect our borders.. a country without borders ceases to be a nation!

Inspirational Quotes or Devotionals::::

May it ever be for the USA,  as well!!

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