New Website for AHG Troop

Hey! I hope everyone is enjoying the new website. It was designed with you in mind.
I'm very excited about Monday night and I hope you all are inviting lots of friends to come check out AHG this year!

New Post Post

Ha The title of my new post is so correct! Let's see... Where have I been? Oh yeah I know homeschooling my children for the first time in my life! And of course American Heritage Girls!

Now let's see... what to say... what to blog....

"I do not like that man. I must get to know him better." ~ Abraham Lincoln
The other morning I was busy as usual and went to my kitchen sink to throw some spoon I had found, no doubt in a puddle of melted ice creamy slushiness on a living room side table. When I looked at the box of raspberry tea bags and read the above quote from our dear President. This of course endeared me ever more so to the raspberry tea as this is a mantra by which I try to live. Although, not taught to me by Mr. Lincoln, but rather my dear Mother (God rest her soul). It comes to mind also that this is also the teaching of my Lord and Savior as well. "Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you."Matt 5:44
To be quite honest, there are not many at all who I truly do not like so if ever I get a notion to feeling some discomfort associated with someone it is rather bothersome and very evident that it must be addressed to a peaceable resolution. And quickly! The words above have helped in every situation and I do find that in the end it is much better to get to know someone than to judge them based on their behavior. Knowing a person helps to understand their struggles and their history that helped shaped their personality. If God can love me in my sin then surely I can love too!
Now that I have reread this blog before posting I have realized how much what we read effects how we write!! At present I am reading a book "Elijah of Buxton". It is the story of a young free boy whose family escaped from slavery. My two daughters are also picking up the lingo from this book and saying things with a very strong southern drawl and blending words "tagether dat ought not ta be attall." Next we'll have to read some Jane Austen to clear up the grammer issues!

Little Cloud

From the beautiful imagination of my daughter.
She declares:
"I was kicking my ball outside. I kicked it high. It hit a tree. And caught a cloud and brought it back. It was small. So I threw it away."

Wow I am Weak

Prayer for Spiritual Strength

14 For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, 15 from whom every family [3] in heaven and on earth is named, 16 that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

I sure do wish I were the person in Ephesians 3:14-19.

I am not as strong as I think I am. I am therefore not the person I think I am. In my youth I used to think I was strong and could handle anything that came my way. Really who doesn't? There certainly was Grace sufficient to sustain me during those struggles. The picture of that walk looked nothing like "being rooted and grounded in love". In my wiser years, you know after college, I recall even boasting in my ability to handle stressful situations. As if that was a job skill that would set me apart from others. Well, I landed that job. The first chance I had to get out of there... I took it! Because by no means did I "comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth". As I have reflected on these things, my current claim to strength is only in fleeting moments of intensity. So now, I am thinking only in emergency situations. Because they are usually brief! So reading this one might think that I am growing less strong in my faith as the years fly by. But really I am trusting more and more to "know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge". And pretty soon, I'll be just as weak in a crisis as I think I am strong now! Maybe then I will be "filled with all the fullness of God."