An Encouraging Blog Post & Update

I was reading the Ladies Against Feminism website, a post a single mom wrote. It was encouraging & a great reminder of how God provides for us, and even the little things like ironing boards! (read the post & you'll see what I mean)  You can read the post HERE.

His compassions fail not.

They are new every morning:

great is thy faithfulness.

The LORD is my portion, saith my soul;

therefore will I hope in him.

The LORD is good unto them that wait for him,

to the soul that seeketh him.

Lamentations 3:22b-25

God truly is our provider! He has provided us a beautiful farm house in North Carolina! It is a beautiful 3 bedroom 1 bathroom old farm house. It comes w/ about 2 acres, but we have the option to rent 10 more acres if/when we can! The whole place is apart of this (the landlords) family's 600 acres! Our landlord inherited the land from her mom, I believe.  She grew up in the house that we are renting. The road we are living on is named after her mom's family!  I am so relieved to have a home to settle into the day we get there!

We will have room to do a garden, chickens, & bunnies! (we want to raise English Angora rabbits for their wool so we can spin it & make it into yarn! We might raise one meat rabbit to see how we like rabbit meat. I'm still getting used to that idea...)


Here is a picture of the house:

Emily, Caley & I plan to start a cooperative blog once we get settled into our cottage/farmhouse! (all 3 of us will post on the blog) the name is: Heritage Homemakers .  (there is only a "welcome" post right now.) I'll post on here whenever we make a new post on Heritage Homemakers for those of you who aren't following the blog. :)

"I have been with you wherever you have gone....
And I will provide a place for my people Israel and will 

plant them so that they can have a home of their own 

and no longer be disturbed..."

 2 Samuel 7:9-10 (NIV)

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A Bible Verse

Recently I've been struggling with being content in my circumstances & waiting on the Lord. Waiting for HIS timing, and HIS will to be done.
I want to share a bible verse (well, a chapter, really) that really encouraged me! (I copied it off from Bible Gateway)

Philippians 4 1-20 (New King James Version)

 "¹ Therefore, my beloved and longed-for brethren, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, beloved.

² I implore Euodia and I implore Syntyche to be of the same mind in the Lord. ³ And^[a] I urge you also, true companion, help these women who labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the Book of Life. 

⁴ Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice! 
⁵ Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand. 
⁶ Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; ⁷ and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

⁸ Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things. ⁹ The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you.

¹⁰ But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at last your care for me has flourished again; though you surely did care, but you lacked opportunity. ¹¹ Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content: ¹² I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. ¹³ I can do all things through Christ^[b] who strengthens me. 

¹⁴ Nevertheless you have done well that you shared in my distress. ¹⁵ Now you Philippians know also that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church shared with me concerning giving and receiving but you only. ¹⁶ For even in Thessalonica you sent aid once and again for my necessities. ¹⁷ Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that abounds to your account. ¹⁸ Indeed I have all and abound. I am full, having received from Epaphroditus the thingssent from you, a sweet-smelling aroma, an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God. ¹⁹ And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. ²⁰ Now to our God and Father be glory forever and ever. Amen. "  (bold emphases mine)