Here’s the recipe for the Three Berry Pie I made for Trinity Sunday. It’s so easy (once you get the crust made) and yummy you have to try it!
Hospitality
May 30th, 2010 by Aubri
Today I realized the importance of being prepared to host a guest at any minute. We had someone stop by who is in town for the night with no plan on where they will stay. Phil offered one of our extra rooms. I’m glad we have the space and happy to help someone out when they need it. It also made me relieved to know that one of our guest rooms was presentable and with a little arranging, ready for company. It got me thinking that it would be nice to always have little things on hand to make our home in situations like this not just somewhere to “crash” but a pleasant experience for a guest last minute or not.
Some ideas I had are:
*Clean towels and washcloth of course
*Soaps, lotions, shampoos for their use
*An alarm clock with the correct time!
*Extra pillows and blankets
I like to have what my family calls “pillow treats” for company that I’ve been able to plan for but in cases like this I guess I have to do without. And wouldn’t fresh flowers and fruit be nice to leave out, but how often do I have that? Oh well.
Anyone have any other ideas? I’d love to hear them!
Happy Trinity Sunday
May 30th, 2010 by Aubri
The Importance of Being Feminine
May 30th, 2010 by Aubri
It’s important to take special care to maintain femininity. Especially in our culture which seems to be doing away with all distinctions of gender. I don’t want my girls to ever fall for the lies the world has to offer on this issue. Men and women are different. Women can’t do anything a man can do. And this isn’t just ok, it’s very good. It’s God’s wonderful design, He has created a divine order whether we like it or not. I want my daughters to like it.I want them to be certain that God made them little women and to seek to please Him in their “womaness”. I want them to enjoy being little girls for as long as they can then become the little ladies, the little women, that God in His goodness has made them. I want them to look forward to the rewards that God gives only to women and may someday give to them; submitting to their husbands, bearing and raising children, taking care of their home by making it a place of love, cleanliness, order, kindness and simple pleasures.
I want them to be feminine in the ways they behave, dress and speak, with modesty and politeness. Even if they grow up only wanting to play baseball, skinning their knees and hating baths, I still expect their character to be of godly ladies.
Of course I know all of this begins with ME! So it is my goal to be more aware of my own gifts of femininity, guard them and demonstrate them to my little ladies. Many of these gifts come so naturally to us women, we don’t even think about them but some are so maimed with our sin we can be very careless in neglecting them or even denying them.
There are so many simple things I can do to begin teaching the girls the delights of womanhood. I’ll admit some are not so simple, it’s not always easy to submit, to “love” being pregnant, enjoy rearing children or keeping a clean home, and everyone at our house knows how much I love frumpy stained t-shirts and sweatpants, but I want to do a better job at emphasizing the joys over the burdens and the beauty over the blah.
“Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothes. Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight. For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to make themselves beautiful.” 1 Peter 3
