Ya know, I kind of get tired of apologizing between long
breaks of posting, ‘cause I’m amazing at not posting, so I guess I won’t
apologize, (meaning I won’t say, imsorryiwasbusyanduninspiredandboring. Yah.)
but I will say that I’ve been busy. (Imagine
that!!) Mom and I have been canning like it was going out of style, and now
have almost 400 quarts of assorted food waiting to be devoured by our hungry family
this winter. (random side note. Does anybody out there ever notice a word, and
suddenly thinks “that word looks SO
weird!” Or is it just me. Hungry is a weird word!!) Anyway, we’ve done
tomatoes, cherries, pears, pear sauce, plum jam, grape juice, veggie stew, salsa,
PLUS drying a bunch of pears, and making a bunch of freezer pear jam. And we are
in the process of making a TON of
applesauce. So that’s what I’ve been up to. Plus the normal things like reading
and a little school.
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Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8
I love these verses. God’s perfect plan for love looks
exactly like that. Think of what life would be like if we all loved each other
like that. Unfortunately, I’m so far away from that picture of love it’s not
even funny. I physically can't love like that, but God can, and that is the way he loves imperfect me. It doesn't matter what I do, his love never fails. Isn't that beautiful, and completely mind-blowing?
Brandon Heath captures the flow of these verses perfectly, in his song Love never fails, (below) and I've been singing it a lot since I heard it sung at a wedding in July. i love to think of this as a love song from God to us, and then us singng the chorus back. Listen to this, and be blown away, people!!
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I’m excited. I’ve
been saving this summer for a new camera, as mine is dying really quickly, and
I picked out the one I want a few months ago. I started looking at prices, and
finally mentioned it to my brother. He told me to wait to buy it until he could
look in Seol, to see if he could get it any cheaper. He did last weekend and I
was thrilled to learn that I can get it $100 bucks cheaper than if I bought it
online here in the states. Needless to
say, I am excited!! So, sometime in the
next month I’ll be getting my Canon Rebel T2i. I’m even thinking about naming
it, but I’m not sure about that. It seems like fun, but kinda weird at the same
time. :) I never did name the Rebel DSLR I have currently… We’ll have to think
about this… lol
So happy for your post, Rebecca! So . . . I noticed you now have 20 followers (!!!) so are you hosting that party, or are you going to wait for number 30?
ReplyDeleteI can't believe how much you've been canning . . . I loved how you said that you'd been canning "like it was going out of style."
I DO sometimes suddenly randomly think words are weird . . . but I generally don't SEE them as weird. We must have different ways of expressing our weirdness :)