Happy Homemaker Monday

 

 Hosted by Sandra ! 

♥ ♥ Weather ♥♥ 

Well, I have been under the weather for the last 5 days…a miserable head cold with a dry cough! No temperature and I am finally feeling better.

Below, if there is no symbol it simply means cloudy!

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♥♥ As I look outside my window ♥♥ 
 I am seeing blue skies and bright sun.. And right now it is  48 degrees.  Ok, so we are having spring like weather,  but I like things to be seasonal.  We have had unseasonal heat  since Christmas.I fear  it doesn’t bode well for the coming months.

 ♥♥  Right now I am ♥♥ 

I have been feeling so low for the past several days so today I am up, had my shower and am trying to catch up on some things.  Mainly, too, I need to get my strength back! 

♥♥ Thinking and pondering ♥♥ 

Well, I am pretty happy, I changed my Echo since  the clinic is afraid it could have been covid, and I am pleased. I didn’t want to have it so soon after being ill. So now I am sitting here planning out my tea party for mid February. 

Orange, cranberry, walnut scones

Madeleines

Fruit compote 

 Smoked turkey sandwiches

merengues

Variety of teas

♥♥How am I feeling ♥♥ 

 So much better after getting up, showering and postponing  that test.   It isn’t critical and I have that colonoscopy next week.  That is enough for this old girl!

♥♥ On the breakfast plate ♥♥

Lynn is so good to  fix our  coffee and yogurt each morning, then, he actually made home made waffles in the waffle machine, God bless him!

♥♥ On the dinner plate ♥♥

I have no idea. He laughingly told me chicken and waffles, but if that was Chic Filet  and left overs, I’d  be happy!

♥♥ What I'm wearing ♥♥ 

Still in my robe

♥♥ On my reading pile ♥♥ 

I am  reading  thru the Bible with the gospel coalition and I  am still reading a beloved book, Gently and Lowly by Dane Ortlund. I’m doing my assignments in Praying the Bible by Donald Whitney. 

 ♥♥ On my TV this week ♥♥ 

I’ve had it on, but couldn’t really focus. I did watch Season 3 episode 1-2 of The Herriot    Series.  I love that so much! I am glad I am taping it. I am enjoying the Hallmark Veil stories. It is a great cast, and interesting storyline! 

Creative Update:

I am loving the Sketch Skool YouTube vlogs. I participated in my first Draw with Me in my Sketchbook.

♥♥ Looking around the house ♥♥

I have done nothing, but Lynn has kept things clean and fresh. He is such a gem.  He is laundering now!

♥♥A Favorite Vlog ♥♥

When I really need to be good and really trying hard in my homemaking I get truly inspired by Faith and Flour! 

I think you will love her too!

♥♥ To Do List ♥ ♥

• Not planning on doing much but will continue keeping the house picked up
•  some daily reading
• Allergy shot and Bible study
• Do some laundry
• Plan a tea party for a few friends
• Later in the week I attend a luncheon and I take a dessert.  I found a great easy peanut butter pie recipe

♥ ♥ From the camera ♥ ♥

A few pages from my sketch book.  I don’t think it’s too bad for an early beginner.

♥ ♥ Devotional ♥ ♥

The Potential of Prayer Monday, January 16 |  Matthew 21:18–22

During some television commercials, you will see text scroll across the bottom of the screen in very tiny letters. If you read the text, which is often nearly impossible, you will find that it contains a legal disclaimer. Usually, it is a warning that the promised result may not happen for everyone. Sometimes our teaching about the promise Jesus makes regarding prayer sounds similar. Because we don’t want people to take it the wrong way, we include so many cautions and disclaimers that we blunt the basic and most important point. God answers prayer. Consider the context of this promise. Jesus made it after the disciples marveled at the miraculous withering of a fig tree by the road (v. 19). Performing this type of miracle seems out of character for Jesus. However, rather than being an act of spite, this was a symbolic act much like those of the Old Testament prophets. “Jesus, fresh from his confrontation with the chief priests and scribes, curses the fig tree, declaring that no fruit would ever come from it again,” theologian Stanley Hauerwas explains. “The tree withered, just as the scribes and chief priests had withered the temple.” Jesus’ disciples were so astonished by the nature of the miracle that they missed the symbolism. Jesus was making a point about faith (v. 20). Jesus assured them that the same power was available to them if they believed (v. 22). God’s answers to our prayer are subject to His will and good purpose for us (1 John 5:14). If God refused Jesus’ request in the Garden of Gethsemane, we should not be surprised to find that He sometimes says no to us (Luke 22:42). >> Prayer is not a blank check, and God is not a vending machine. God is not at our beck and call. Yet prayer is far more powerful than we think. It is the power of God that is the true measure of prayer’s full potential.

Pray with Us God, what You destroy cannot be restored; what You establish cannot be erased. You restrain the forces of nature or make them do Your bidding. The hearts of earthly authorities are Yours to direct. All power belongs to You.

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