To Defile or Not to Defiled

To one person it's defiled, to someone else it is pure. It's not the
thing - it's the person. Not the activity, but the heart. So it's
not whether we wear pants or a skirt, listen to one type of music or
another. Titus would say we will have pure motives with pure
doctrine. this comes the more we saturate ourselves with God's word.

Titus 1:15 To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are
defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their mind and
their conscience are defiled.

Psalm 121:5 -8

This weeks memory verse:

Psalm 121:5 -8

The LORD is your keeper, The LORD is your shade on your right hand.

The sun will not smite you by day, nor the moon by night.

The LORD will protect you from all evil, He will keep your soul.

The LORD will guard your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forever.

Struggling

I have really been struggling all week. Depression? Maybe.
Despair? I don't think so. The culprit - Lack of sleep combined
with a lack of encouragement from God's word. When I woke up this
morning I had no, zero, nada desire to go to church. Drew is
fighting a sinus infection, Jacob hacking away with a cough both
planning to stay home. I excused myself from church attendance - who
would watch the baby? There is no sense in going with the baby (I
told myself - lie). Drew woke up at 9:28, sat bolt upright in the
recliner and said "What are you still doing here?" He had encouraged
me to go to church earlier and I declined. Chloe had just fallen
asleep so he kicked me out with Mary and Abigail in tow. I am so
thankful I went. The message was encouraging but talking to Heidi
afterwards REALLY blessed me. She reminded me that I am not just a
stay at home Mom but a worker of the King of the Universe with little
ones made in His image. Praise God for saints who encourage! She
also directed me to an awesome blog site called holy experience. I
just finished a good 5 minute cry before typing this. I will battle
sin until Christ returns but I praise Him for the victory that is
mine in Christ.

Crock Pot Apple Sauce

I know I already posted about the CrockPot Lady but I just tried the
applesauce last week and it was excellent! I am getting my
Thanksgiving menu together and am definitely going to include this
for our Day of Giving Thanks.

Reward Friday

We had a great visit with Pa and Grandma for our reward.  Drew got off at 1:45 and we hit the about 2:20.  Jacob read some of George Washington Spymaster  by Thomas Allen to me out loud on the way.  We just got through the first two chapters.  It held both our interests.  Mary crocheted a hat for her doll which Abram calls Chloe and enjoyed holding.  Abigail read to Baruch and Chloe, well Chloe did really well for the first 45 minutes, then cried.  Enough is enough in a constricted environment when one wishes to be moving about.  Poor Grandma!  She still suffers from whiplash.  Her movements were stiff but she seemed a bit better than when we saw her for Mary's b-day.  We managed to start a game of SkipBo but had to stop to eat supper.