"Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy-laden and overburdened, and I will cause you to rest. [I will ease and relieve and refresh your
souls.]
Matthew 11:28
I absolutely love tea time. Pleasant memories of friendships and a hot pot of tea. A beautifully laid table set with the finest china and
silverware. Just like Heavens' table when we go home. All the finest linens and dinnerware. I also love spending time with the Lord, meditating on
His precious words. A time to quietly sit and praise Him and thank Him for all He has done. It is a great time when the harshness of the day still
lingers and our
souls are in much need of refreshing, it is during those times that we must learn to turn it all over to the Lord.
Just like with friends, I love tea time with my precious Jesus, the lover of my soul. It is in those times I hear Him whisper softly in my ear
saying,
"sit back my daughter, sip on my tea (the word), it is sweetened with milk and honey.
Remember, no matter what this day holds my child, I haven't gone anywhere, daddy is holding your hand."
* A Wife's Prayer
* Becoming a Woman that Please God
* Fascinating Womanhood
* The Mitford Series
* A Woman by God's Grace
* Loving Well
* Dancing Bones
* I Danced in Africa
* A Place of Quiet Rest
* Knowing and Loving the Bible
* Sanctuary
* Lifegiving
* Never too Early
* Brokeness
* You Can Raise a Well Mannered Child
* Growing Godly Women
* Let Your Life Count
* Self Talk, Soul Talk
* Living in the Light of Eternity
* Biblical Womanhood in the Home
* Under the Apple Tree
* What to Pray When Your Pregnant
* Warrior Bride Arise
* Emilie's Creative Home Organizer
* Life Management for Busy Woman
* Clean up the Clutter
* Women of Wisdom
* What's in the Bible for Women
"The teapot is on, the cups are waiting. Favorite chairs anticipating. No matter what I have to do, my friend, there's always time for you." author unknown
~ A Little Blinkie Me ~
"There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other humans in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more
profound." Diana Cortes
"I can just imagine myself sitting down at the head of the table and pouring out the tea," said Anne, shutting her eyes ecstatically," and asking Diana if she takes sugar!
I know she doesn't but of course I'll ask her just as if I didn't know." L.M.Montgomery Anne of Green Gables
"God guides us with His hand to assure us of His presence. He directs by His word to assure us of Hi purpose. He leads us by His peace to assure us of His peace." ~ Roy Lessin
Jane Austen~
* The Jane Austen Book Club
* Pride and Prejudice
* Sense and Sensibilty
* Jane Austen Companion
* Emma
* Northanger Abbey
* Mansfield Park
* Jane Austen Letters
* A Memoir of Jane Austen and other Family Recollections
* Darcy's Story
~ My Favorite Classic Authors ~
* Louisa May Alcott ~ Little Women, Little Men
* Emily Bronte ~ Wuthering Heights
* Jan Karon
* Charlotte Bronte ~ Jane Eyre
* L.M. Montgomery
* Lewis Carroll ~
* Charles Dickens ~
* Edgar Allen Poe ~
* Leo Tolstoy ~ Anna Karenina, War and Peace
* Voltaire ~ Candide
* British Literature
* Christian Literature
* World Literature
* Anne of Green Gables
* Becoming Jane
* Mrs. Potter
* Esther: One Night with the King
* Passion
* Gone With the Wind
* The Notebook
* Pride and Prejudice
* Ella Enchanted
* Ever After
* The Secret Garden (1993)
* Lord of the Rings
* Emma
* Rose Hill
* Hobbit
* The Chronicles of Narnia
* Arsenic and Old Lace
* Little Women
* Shirley Temple
* Princess Bride
* Sense and Sensibility
* The Lion, The Witch , and the Wardrobe
* Fiddler on the Roof
Wednesday, July 9, 2008~ Tea and Honeycakes ~ Wednesday ~
Tea and Honeycakes
Every Monday, Wednesday, Friday
"BLESSED (HAPPY, fortunate, to be envied) are the undefiled (the upright, truly sincere, and blameless) in the way [of the revealed will of God], who walk (order their conduct and conversation) in the law of the Lord (the whole of God's revealed will).
Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) are they who keep His testimonies, and who seek, inquire for and of Him and crave Him with the whole heart."
Psalm 119:1-2
Once a potter creates a figure, the chosen object must be baked under EXTREME heat before it is ready to use.
The firing process delays the enjoyment of the object, and yet if the potter skips this process, the pottery will be useless. So really the beauty and need for the piece are strengthened for having "passed through the fire."
Just like that pottery, God must also refine us, too, through the fires and trials of adversity that we sustain. Sometimes that refining process takes the the form of waiting; other times it may be in a loss of some sort, great or small. It may be staying content while going through diffiuclt times.
Or like in our case, the home we are renting has turned out to be quite a joke. We have leaks and problems and poor insulation in the winter. Our water and heating bills are extremely high. So our hope is to move in the country on a farm, but we must be content here while waiting for our Heavenly Father to bless us with such a change.
Whatever we face: whether large or small trials, illnesses, change, loss, or just contentment in our ordinary lives, in the end, we are rendered more beautifully and useful to God by having passed through the refiners fire.
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Dear Heavenly Father, when times come my way and it causes me to ask, "Why me, Lord?" may I look at the trial in a different light and change my words to, "Try me, Lord?" Try me and find me waiting to be used by your hands.
Lord help me to always trust in you and to submit to the potters fire. For you are the Master Potter and you will always have the best intentions for me, to be more like you in the end. I know that when you are sending me through the fire that until you see your reflection looking back at you then my process is not complete. May I mirror your image in all that I say and do. Because to be more like you is my hearts desire."
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"The words and promises of the Lord are pure words, like silver refined in an earthen furnace, purified seven times over."
"Beauty is a matter of the soul. A woman of true beauty is one who's at rest with who she is and is not striving to become someone else."
"Thus says the Lord: Stand by the roads and look; and ask for the eternal paths, where the good, old way is; then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. ", Jeremiah 6:16. (amp)~~~~~"A capable, intelligent, and virtuous woman ~ who is he who can find her? She is far more precious than jewels and her value is far above rubies or pearls." Proverbs 31:10 ~~~~~~
Tina's Priceless Treasures is a group of Ladies who get together every Tuesday, we get a chance to sit down, sip a cup of tea, relax and reflect on God. It's a time of "TBF". "Tea, Bible study and Fellowship." Our goal is to encourage each other in our callings: 1) As women of God, 2) As wives to our husbands and 3) As mothers to our children 4) As grandmothers, mothers, daughters, sisters and aunts and 5) As women in our community.~~~ We are women helping other women embrace their current situations and circumstances, by equipping them with the truth of God's Word! ~
A place where women who have the same passion to be women who live to please God and to raise their children in the Word of God. ~ A vision of a family that is different from this world. ~ Women who want to remain pure before the Lord, in speech, deed and dress. ~ We want a standard for our family and our cities. ~ Women who want to learn from one another.**************** ~ Thanks to all of you who are sharing from your heart to all of us. I hope that I can be as much of an inspiration as you have been to me.
3 "Bid the older women similarly to be reverent and devout in their deportment as becomes those engaged in sacred service, not slanderers or slaves to drink. They are to give good counsel and be teachers of what is right and noble,
4 So that they will wisely train the young women to be [a]sane and sober of mind (temperate, disciplined) and to love their husbands and their children,
5 To be self-controlled, chaste, homemakers, good-natured (kindhearted), adapting and subordinating themselves to their husbands, that the word of God may not be exposed to reproach (blasphemed or discredited)."
Titus 2: 3-5 Amplified Version
Starting in June I will be gathering some beautiful ladies in my home every Tuesday for Tea and Bible Study. We will be focusing on "Becoming the Women God wants us to be."
"These are very Special Celebrations with Some very Treasured Friends." Come join me as I post the gatherings here. So, yes you can join and you still have time to purchase the book. Just click on book to order.
~ Bible Studies I am Starting in September 2008 ~
My Monthly Newsletter
Extravagant Love: Proclaiming the Message of Intimacy
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More on this in days to come.
Becoming a Wife who Pleases God
Get ready to feast on true Godliness and 'Pure' Instruction.
Becoming Godly Handmaidens
Scripture Memory Verses for Daughters on the Path to Becoming Beautiful Women.
Raising Young Warriors
Scripture Memory Verses for Young Men on the Path to Becoming Young Warriors for God and their family.
Study on the Armour of God and Teaching our Children about the Invisible War that is going on in this world. The Godly Supernatural against the New Age.
"Whatever may be your task, work at it heartily (from the soul),
as [something done] for the Lord and not for men,
Knowing [with all certainty] that it is from the Lord [and not from men]
that you will receive the inheritance which is your [real] reward.
[The One Whom] you are actually serving [is] the Lord Christ (the Messiah).
Colossians 3:23-24
~ My Daily Tasks ~
* Wake up early - 4:30am
* Turn on coffee
* Turn on some soft of music
* Morning Date with Jesus
* Get children ready for school
* Start first load of clothes
* Do my personal bible study
~ Plus Read devotionals:
* Lift up Husband and children in prayer ~ 1 hour
of their lives I need God to move.
* Gather Belonging to start School Lessons
My Specific Day Chores
Daily
* wash dishes, make beds, bleach kitchen and bathroom,
sweep and mop kitchen and bathrooms, pick up each room
throughout day and at the end of the day and vaccuum, make meal
preparations for next day, water outside plants.
Weekly
~ Mondays and Wednesdays: wash clothes, art projects
~ Tuesdays: iron, water houseplants, sewing projects,
prayer group, Tea Time Ladies Group
~ Thursdays: Farmer's Market, prepare menu/grocery list for Saturday
~ Friday: change bed linens, errands outside the home,
prayer group
~ Saturday: do yard work, shop groceries and file Homeschool work
later in the evening prepare for the next week of school
~ Sunday: Church, Fellowship and Friends, plan for the next day and week to come.
Monthly
* Week1~ Clean refrigerator, and deep clean bathroom
* Week2~ Clean Oven and wash livingroom Windows
* Week3~ Mend Clothing, wash bedroom windows
* Week4~ Clean and Dust ALL baseboards throughout the home,
wax kitchen floor, and wood floors.
Quarterly
* Clean Drawers and outside windows
* Clean out closets
* Move livingroom and bedroom furniture away from walls and vaccuum
* Organize cupboards in kitchen, linen closet, bathroom closets, and hall closet
Bi-Annually
* Clean screens, check for holes, change all filters in house.
Annually
* Wash curtains, clean any drapes, clean any carpets, wawh walls and woodwork (or paint if needed),
clean out shed, make any repairs that are needed.
Whew, that's all I could think of, maybe you have some ideas and you can share them with me as well.
The rest of my days task
* Begin School Lessons
* Nature Walk
* Work on business for awhile
~ Warm Spirit and "Uniquely You" Sewing Projects
* Work on my Art ~ paint
* Naptime/Quiet Time
* Work on my blogs
My "Weekly Task" mentioned above is done during this time
* Tea Time and a good book
* Make yummy treats for kids
* Start Preparations for dinner
* Dinner
* Finish up schoolwork with children
* Childrens' Bathtime
* Story time with the children
* Kids bedtime
* A nice bath w/candles and music
* Bible Study/Devotions with my Beloved Hubby
* Finish last load of laundry
* Read my precious Bible, my love letter
* Tell Jesus how much I love Him
* Meditate on my day and close it out
* Thank Jesus for my another day
* Work on my Journal
* Work on Homekeeper Binder and Small Personal Binder
* Work on my To Do List Journal
* Take all my cares and mistakes to Him
* Prepare for the next day
* Go to bed
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~ Bountiful Blessings~
Serving My Family With Love
This section is dedicated to all the women who have risen to the high calling of Wifery and Motherhood.
I myself continously look for ways to give more to my family. Physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.
One tool that I have found to do this is through a Household Management Binder. I call mine, "Homekeeping Daily"
Here are some sites that will help you begin your own binders.
Here are are list of awesome women who are doing the same in their own homes. You can click on their link to view their binders.
I will be adding pictures of mine soon.
