Hearts in Service Blog

I went outside to hang up the laundry yesterday and realized after about 5 minutes that I was hearing an awful lot of racket from the birds. I looked up and these two guys were flying around and around the sky above me, chirping up a storm. They actually dive bombed me a number of times! Our bluebird house has been empty for so long that I forget it's there. Obviously these two have taken up residence and are being very protective of whatever eggs or hatchlings are inside. I think I'm going to have to wear a helmet to hang up the clothes! :-)

The Year's At The Spring by Robert Browning The year's at the spring, And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn; God's in his Heaven— All's right with the world!

Hi everyone! As I was spending time with the Lord this morning, I really felt that I need to take a fast from the computer. It's ironic that the Lord would point this out this morning, given that my last post was on living a disciplined life! I tend to go in spurts and while I am highly organized and fairly disciplined, the area of my computer usage is one that needs to be worked on. As the church secretary, I obviously will need to check my email every day but I'm going to take a break from blogging for a bit. I'm not sure if this is a permanent thing or not, but I do need to focus on my family. While I love to blog about my day, I often feel like I'm living outside my family looking in for a blogging photo-op. I'm not sure if that makes sense but often I feel detached. We could be in the middle of eating or reading or schooling or anything and I'm looking for a good picture or thinking how to blog about this. I'm not sure that's the healthiest ...

Dan & I worked for an inner city ministry for ten years in New Jersey. While we were there we had the privilege of working for a gentleman who was one of those men that are natural born leaders. He had been the field director for the Middle East for The Navigators for 20 years, General Secretary of the World Evangelical Fellowship, and President of the American Leprosy Mission among others. Each organization he worked for grew and flourished under his leadership. We were so privileged to have him as our mentor and we learned a tremendous amount from him for 10 years. I still try to live by many of the lessons he taught even though I'm at home because they apply to every area of life. I've always felt that I wanted my life to have meaning and purpose, so that's why I strive to do my best at all I do. Of course, I fall short quite regularly but with the Lord's help, I keep pressing on. We still keep in touch with Waldron and even though he is in his 80s, he stil...

Every where I look now, there are things springing up and growing. I just wish the warm weather would hurry up and get here! My rhubarb patch. There are tons of daffodils all around the yard. Little swiss chard leaves in the garden. Tiny flowers all around. My little seedlings are even doing fairly well. At least the pepper & eggplants are. The tomatoes are looking sad and spindly. The plan this afternoon is to go out and keep working on the soil in the soon to be garden spot in the front yard.

In an effort to save some money this year, I decided to start some of my seeds indoors. Normally, I buy my plants such as tomatoes and peppers from a local nursery. However, I get tired of spending more money than I need to. So I bought two of those little miniature greenhouses from Walmart and planted a bunch of seeds. Emily has been excited to watch them come up. I have cabbage, 2 kinds of peppers, 3 kinds of tomatoes, eggplant, and a variety of herbs started. I'm hoping that this works otherwise I'm back to square one and will have to purchase them from the nursery.

To celebrate April Fool's Day, we decided to have a backwards day with the meals. Emily offered to be my model. :-) We had lunch for breakfast (leftover pizza). Dinner for lunch (salmon patties, brown rice, steamed carrots, cornbread). Breakfast for dinner (waffles, sausage, juice). The only problem was I felt like my whole day was mixed up!