The Prayers of a Righteous Man Availeth Much...

Do you ever feel like Elijah?  All alone?  I know that there are brothers and sisters everywhere, and reading these blogs, people of like minds.  Sometimes they seem so hard to find when you move into a new place.  Even other Christians can't understand our lifestyle or mindset.

Our two older daughters go to public school and so are influenced by those around them.  We have a no dance policy.  Not at home :)  Here we can dance all we want.  My fifteen year old wants to go to dances.  She knows that these in no way honor God, but "everyone else" gets to go, even the Christian kids.  Nothing good ever goes on at these dances.  There are kids drinking and doing drugs.  The way the boys and girls interact is WAY too friendly.  Yet, she feels the pressure of being different.  She's not going to go, but I wish that she would desire to please God more than man.  Hard to do at fifteen.

Then there's our friend.  He's a backslidden Christian, who has been dating a non-Chritian.  She's pregnant and going to have an abortion.  My dh has talked to this man and the man feels the "least he can do" is bring her to the clinic.  This woman has problem pregnancies, and-yes this pregnancy could be a danger for her, but it breaks my heart.  I cry out for this child who now has to pay for the mistakes of his or her parents.  What have we become?  I'm as guilty as anyone else.  My voice is hardly ever heard.  My prayers are for such a small group of people.  I could do so much more.  Please join me in praying for this situation. 

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Cattitude

The rain didn't let up until this evening.  I really wanted to get some pictures to share with you.  As I was taking the clothes off of the line tonight, Crystal, the cat, decided to pose for me.  Thought I'd  post it.  She's obviously very photogenic.  Crystal is the cat that came with the house when we bought it.  She was God's answer to our little one's prayers.

And then there was heat....

What a welcome noise.  The sound of a gas furnace blower.  We now have heat.  My husband, who can do anything, just installed our first ever gas furnace.  In all of the places I've lived during the last 20 years, I've had woodstoves.  Now, I'm all for self-sufficiency and all, and we left a wood furnace in the basement for back up, but to not mess with firewood is a first.  I'm loving it.  The price of firewood skyrocketed around here last year and we haven't cut enough of our own to get us through.  This is nice.  No more going outside to the woodstove to stoke it at 11:00 p.m.  We have a wood cookstove in the porch that I still use.  It's nice to have options.

We spent Saturday down in the Cities at the 4-H State Dog Show.  Dd1's dog surprised us all and came away with a couple of blues.  It was a God thing.

I'm going picture taking later today if the sun comes out and I'll post some gorgeous (??)  pictures.  :)

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Harvest Festival

The Harvest Festival in town last Saturday was nice.  Our two younger children participated in the pedal tractor pull.  They did well.  No trophies, but a vow to get their legs stronger for next year.  The farmer's exchange included chickens, ducks, rabbits, dogs and kittens.  There were also giant pumpkins grown by one of my new neighbors.  Huge.  This same neighbor brought us over some watermelon and it was great.  Here in northern Minnesota, it's not easy to grow full size melons.  Got to get his secret.  At the festival, there was also a  classic car show, which my ds loved, and a flea market. 

I think that the festival officially started the fall season.  Since Saturday, we've had rain (praise the Lord) and the temps have dropped.  We had a high of 49 yesterday.  We still have to get the furnace in.  I've been stoking up the wood cookstove on the backporch every morning.  I've even been cooking breakfast on it. 

Time to get breakfast on and school started.

Stop by again.

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Camping

We finally got our yearly camping trip done.  We went up the North Shore of Lake Superior and into Canada to Thunder Bay.  It was beautiful.  Unfortunately, my dh got sick at the last minute and had to stay home.  We hiked some, and went to visit Fort William in Thunder Bay.  We stayed at a Municipal Campground so it wasn't REAL camping.   But the ground was just as hard and my sleeping bag got just as wet when the heavy dew leaked through the wall of the tent.  So that felt like real camping.

This is High Falls on the Pigeon River.

Buildings and furs at Fort William.

The Lord gave us beautiful weather for our trip and it was great as a back-to-homeschool fieldtrip.

Have a Blessed Day.

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