Today's Study and Plans

Exodus 21:14 And if a man borrow anything from his neighbor, and it is hurt, or die, while the owner of it isn't with it, he shall surely pay for it. 

If you harm someone’s property while borrowing it, you pay for it. If you borrow your neighbor's lawn mower to mow your lawn and it breaks while you are using it, you pay to repair it.

15 But if the owner of it is with it, the borrower shall not pay for it. It was hired and is paid for by the rental fee.

If you hire someone to mow you lawn and his mower breaks down, however, that’s the owner of the mowers problem, not the one doing the hiring.

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Today's Bible Study-

Exodus 21c - Of Theft



Romans 6

Today's work in Romans 

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4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. 

5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. 

6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

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4 In the same way, my brothers, when you died to sin with Christ, you were freed from the Law. Now you are "married" to another, even to the One who is raised from the dead, so we can produce fruit for God. 

5 Because when we lived for the flesh, the sinful passions brought out by the Law worked in our bodies to produce the fruit of death. 

6 But now we are saved from the Law, since it is dead to us, so we can serve the Spirit in the new way, instead of the old way of serving the letter of the Law.
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Today's Hymn  The Nintey and Nine

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3308 recorded steps yesterday. a lot for a Sunday since I don't wear the pnone.

Lots to do. Need to make some salve.
Friday we went to one of the local shelters to look for a dog. We prayed before going, and later, when we brought our old dog to meet our first choice, that God would help us get the right dog. 4/5 of the dogs were boys, and so no options (our boy dog is good with all girls, but only about half the boys, and we just don't want to chance it.) 

Half the girls were too Pit-ty for us. I know Pits can make great pets, but Hubby and I both think they are ugly. Not "so ugly he's cute," just plain ugly. 

I glanced at the little spotted female on the end, but because she was only a medium sized dog I passed her by and we seriously looked at a border collie X. Still not really a big dog, but bigger. She absolutely told Jiffy she was boss, and he told her in no uncertain terms there was no way he would submit to her, so she was a no go. We figure this was God's way of telling us she wasn't the right dog for us.

So, I went back to the little spotted dog (by little I mean she will only be about 40 pounds when fully grown). She is only around 6 months old and ran wild, malnourished, for her early life. She hasn't even been at the shelter long enough to be spayed yet. But, oh what a sweety! Just the right combination of excited to meet us and not quite sure of herself (so she won't be a bully). She even wagged up to Josh (6yo), but then got scared of her own boldness and ran back to the shelter worker holding her leash. 

But she is so small :-(

I thought about the mastiffs at the other shelters, and that my Hubby had said if we didn't find a dog we liked at this shelter, they were all having an adoption special and he and our oldest could go Saturday to one of them. 

But then I "saw" little Pepper Anne cuddled on the couch, catching movies with us, sitting with Jiffy in the front  of the van on a day trip, playing with Josh and Jane. I have never "seen" a dog with our family before bringing it home before. I have "seen" other things, and known that God was telling me which path to take, but never in adopting an animal. 

So what could I do? Even if she is small, she is a member of our family. I think we need her, and she certainly needs us. 

She visits the vet Thursday and we pick her up Friday. 

To Do:

• Mount Never Rest (laundry) 
• Pull music for worship service
• finish getting the books closed for the month
• finish setting up the newsletters for the blogs I am doing
• switch my son's phone
• order new eye drops
• fix my display purse
• weekly home blessing
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Tuh Done (what I've finished for the week):

• Got two of the newsletters ready to go.

Imagine Life Without This"The blessing and the curse of the human brain is that it’s good at adapting—to the good and the bad. Once it adapts, we’re used to what we have. Rather than being in awe of being alive, of having food, water, and shelter, we take them as givens. And then we want more."

For my Daily routines, see the sidebar.

Monthly Habit we are building:

Making our Beds every day.

This is something I have done for a long time. It really does make the whole house seem cleaner.

Weekly zone focus:  

Living Room

(This is the zone we are tackling all our monthly and less often chores in this week)

Today's Meals:

• SOS
• SOS
• ? EEkKKK! I was going to cook up a turkey I have in the freezer, but I forgot to take it out yesterday. There is no way it can be defrosted by super time. :-(

FlyLady Daily Mission

• fire Drill the Living Room

Tami's assignments (Tami is a homeschooling mom of 6 who is a partner of FlyLady):

• Monday - Declutter & Dust the Living Room

  Tuesday - Declutter the Entryway

  Wednesday - Declutter Items from the Front Porch

  Thursday - Declutter in the Dining Room

  Friday - Declutter/Detail Clean Anywhere in Zone 1 or 5

"To take the first step in faith, you don't have to see the whole staircase: just take the first step." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This applies to a clean house, too.

"Anything worth doing is worth doing Imperfectly" - Flylady

"Baby Steps."

"You can do anything for 15 minutes." 

"You are not behind. Just jump in where you are."

"Your house didn't get this way overnight. It won't get under control in a day. It takes time."

How about you? What's on your list today?

Do you use a feather duster? Do you like it? 

Have a great day!

I highly recommend Flylady.com

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Today's Bible Study-

Exodus 20- Commandment #10: Don't Covet
Romans 5- Faith Brings Peace and Joy
Today's work in Romans 6
12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. 

13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. 

14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

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12 So, don't let sin rule your physical body, obeying its passions. 

13 Neither let any part of your body become controlled by evil, but let yourselves be controlled by God, because you are now alive instead of dead, and let your bodies be instruments of righteousness for God. 

14 For sin can not control you, because ye are not under the law, but under grace.

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Today's Hymn  Jesus Paid it All

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4885 recorded steps yesterday; 7366 the day before.

To Do:

• Driving Lessons
• Mount Never Rest (laundry) 
• Start working in the yard and garden (when it quits snowing)
• List some more books with eBay and mail what sells this week.
• List stuff with Craigslist.
• Decide on events for both the church and my business.  (:-) found some Facebook pages that will help this! May have one lined up for June 9)
• Pull music for worship service
• Make salve
• Get oldest son's phone company changed.
• grocery shopping

Tuh Done (what I've finished for the week):

• The weekly blessing
• fixed the vent
• ran important papers to town
• took a friend out to lunch for her birthday
• figured out how to add a second site and newsletter to mailchimp

Why Top Recruiters Are Almost NEVER Top Earners 

I decided a long time ago I wasn't going to be "that" family member; the one always trying to make sales or sign up downlines. 

Homeschooling for mental health

"Because how dare we suggest that dealing with bully torments and teenage cliques are necessary “socialization” required to raise whole human beings? That is like saying that being cooked in an oven is necessary in order to know how to heat up a lasagna."

For my Daily routines, see the sidebar.

Monthly Habit we are building:

Making our Beds every day.

This is something I have done for a long time. It really does make the whole house seem cleaner.

Weekly zone focus:  

Family Bath and 1 other room (Flylady is doing her guest room. I Don't have one, but I do have some things I need to do in the kids rooms.)

(This is the zone we are tackling all our monthly and less often chores in this week)

Today's Meals:

• SOS
• SOS
• ?

FlyLady Daily Mission

• Shine your bathroom sinks

Tami's assignments (Tami is a homeschooling mom of 6 who is a partner of FlyLady):

• Shine your bathroom sinks

"To take the first step in faith, you don't have to see the whole staircase: just take the first step." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This applies to a clean house, too.

"Anything worth doing is worth doing Imperfectly" - Flylady

"Baby Steps."

"You can do anything for 15 minutes." 

"You are not behind. Just jump in where you are."

"Your house didn't get this way overnight. It won't get under control in a day. It takes time."

How about you? What's on your list today?

Do you use a feather duster? Do you like it? 

Have a great day!

I highly recommend Flylady.com

The New Testament "Ups the Anti" It raises the standard. Lust is equal to adultery, as is divorce.

Matthew 5:28 “But I say to you, That whoever looks on a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.”

Luke 16:18 - Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery, and whoever marries her that is divorced from her husband commits adultery.

Matthew 5:27 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, "Thou shall not commit adultery."

28 But I say to you, That whoever shall divorce his wife, except for the cause of [the misuse of sex, adultery], causes her to commit adultery. And whoever shall marry her that is divorced commits adultery.
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Today's Bible Study-

Exodus 20- Commandment #7: Don't Commit AdultryRomans 5- Faith Brings Peace and Joy
Today's work in Romans 6
4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 

5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

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4 And so we are buried with Him by baptism into death, so that just like Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, we should also walk in a new life. 

5 For if we have been united with Him in a death like His, we shall be also be raised from the dead like He was.

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Today's Hymn  For the Beauty of the Earth. This is a thanksgiving hymn. I think we will learn it in church.

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? recorded steps yesterday. Didn't wear the phone.

To Do:

• Driving Lessons
• Mount Never Rest (laundry) 
• The Weekly Home blessing 
• Start working in the yard and garden (when it quits snowing)
• List some more books with eBay and mail what sells this week.
• List stuff with Craigslist.
• Decide on events for both the church and my business.  (:-) found some Facebook pages that will help this! May have one lined up for June 9)
• Pull music for worship service
• Make salve
• Get oldest son's phone company changed.
• Fix the dryer vent.

Tuh Done (what I've finished for the week):

• Nothing yet :-)
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Why Top Recruiters Are Almost NEVER Top Earners 

I decided a long time ago I wasn't going to be "that" family member; the one always trying to make sales or sign up downlines. 

Homeschooling for mental health

"Because how dare we suggest that dealing with bully torments and teenage cliques are necessary “socialization” required to raise whole human beings? That is like saying that being cooked in an oven is necessary in order to know how to heat up a lasagna."

For my Daily routines, see the sidebar.

Monthly Habit we are building:

Making our Beds every day.

This is something I have done for a long time. It really does make the whole house seem cleaner.

Weekly zone focus:  

Family Bath and 1 other room (Flylady is doing her guest room. I Don't have one, but I do have some things I need to do in the kids rooms.)

(This is the zone we are tackling all our monthly and less often chores in this week)

Today's Meals:

• SOS
• SOS
• Roast

FlyLady Daily Mission

• declutter the family bath (mine doesn't need it.)

Tami's assignments (Tami is a homeschooling mom of 6 who is a partner of FlyLady):

• declutter the family bath (mine doesn't need it.)

"To take the first step in faith, you don't have to see the whole staircase: just take the first step." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This applies to a clean house, too.

"Anything worth doing is worth doing Imperfectly" - Flylady

"Baby Steps."

"You can do anything for 15 minutes." 

"You are not behind. Just jump in where you are."

"Your house didn't get this way overnight. It won't get under control in a day. It takes time."

How about you? What's on your list today?

Do you use a feather duster? Do you like it? 

Have a great day!

I highly recommend Flylady.com

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Exodus 20:6 And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love Me, and keep My commandments. 

The consequences of serving God also last up to four generations. I am still reaping the benefits of my God-fearing great-grandparents, in fact.

It is interesting that in my nutrition class in college the teacher told us that a mother’s nutrition before she ever even got pregnant would affect her grandchildren! How healthy a woman is when she gets pregnant determines how healthy her child will be, if that child will have the basic building blocks she needs to in turn produce a healthy child. I find it interesting that science is reaffirming God’s statement here that what we choose now will affect up to four generations later, and how much more affect spiritual things will have than merely physical!

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Today's Bible Study-
Exodus 20- Commandment #2: Don't Worship Idols

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Romans 4- Abraham's Justification by Faith
Today's work in Romans 5
19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
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19 For just like by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of One shall many be made righteous. 

20 But the law was given so that sin would abound (be made more visible). But where sin (is more visible), grace (undeserved favor) is even more abundant (even more visible).

(And herein is the dilemma of all Bible translators; do you translate word for word with adjustments for grammar, or do you translate the meaning? This verse translated literally from the Greek reads like the King James. That is an accurate translation, even accounting for modern grammar. However, taking the entire scripture into account, "abound" should be "made visible.")

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Today's Hymn Written after viewing this painting.

"I (Jesus) have done all this for you. What have you done for Me?"

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8152 recorded steps yesterday. :-)

Hubby took the day off yesterday and we rode a train. 

First, we woke up at 4:30 and drove to Reno to catch a Greyhound. The bus station only allows 2 hour parking, so we parked in a public parking lot a couple blocks away and hoofed it.

After a lovely ride to Sacramento on the bus, we had 1 1/2 hours to get from the bus station to the train station 1 1/2 miles away. I am impressed we walked it in 30 minutes! Most of the kids and I walk around the block before school most days, about a mile in 26 minutes, but Hubby and the boys with jobs aren't used to that. I think we were able to go so much faster because Sacramento is pretty flat, while we live on the side of a hill.

A small rest, and then instead of waiting for the shuttle, we walked from the station to the boarding area.

On the train, we walked from the last car to the snack bar 3 cars away, and back.

Such a beautiful ride! We drive the highway that sort of parallels tracks a couple times a year and the view is world-class-beauty. It's just gorgeous!

The train tacks a slightly different path through Donner's pass that is even more beautiful.

The kids had a blast and Hubby (a serious train fan, as well as a travel-the-western-US buff) got see things he has never seen in his life. It was a day to remember, for sure!

The train station was about 3 large blocks from where we parked, so we had walk after the ride.

This all added up, according to my pedometer app, to 3.3 miles of walking.

When a word ends in the symbol/phonogram "a" it says /aw/ (in my accent), the same sound in "father" and "water."

On schedule for the week:

• Driving Lessons
• Mount Never Rest (laundry) 
• Weekly Home blessing 
• Start working in the yard and garden
• List some more books with eBay and mail what sells this week.
• List stuff with Craigslist.
• Decide on events for both the church and my business.  (:-) found some Facebook pages that will help this! May have one lined up for June 9)
• Pull music for worship service
• Finish Romans 5
• Make salve
• Get oldest son's phone company changed.
• Pick up some chicks. (the "cluck, cluck" kind. All of our current ones lay brown eggs. The ducks lay white ones. So, I want some "Easter eggers," green-egg-layers. We have had some before, and the eggs are naturally green shelled.)

What to do while breastfeeding, with a lovely exert from Pipi Longstocking on going to school.

The mess of real learning and how to survive

"The reality is, all our meals are eaten here, at this house, in this kitchen, at this table. Every crumb falls on my floor. Every dish goes in my sink. There is no janitor or cafeteria-crew. All the books, papers, craft supplies, science experiments, sports gear, shoes, coats, art materials, musical instruments … all of it is contained in my house. The same one where I live. The same one I clean."
I have read many a working mom saying "I do all those things the stay at home mom does AND hold down a job!"

No. No you don't. You send them off to someone else to supervise. Some one else who has a janitor to clean up after them.

A stay at home mom, especially a homeschooling one, not only does the teaching and supervising (babysitting), but all the janitorial work. Heck, the working mom even usually has a janitor to clean up after HER for the mess of the majority of her waking hours.

So, yeah, don't even go there.

Why did you have so many children?

For my Daily routines, see the sidebar.

Monthly Habit we are building:

Making our Beds every day.

This is something I have done for a long time. It really does make the whole house seem cleaner.

Weekly zone focus:  

Entry, dinning room, porch, and yard (Flylady's entry must be into her dinning room.)

AND Anti-procrastination week.

(This is the zone we are tackling all our monthly and less often chores in this week) 

Today's Meals:

• SOS
• SOS
• Roast and Taters

FlyLady Daily Mission

• Scrub the stove

Tami's assignments (Tami is a homeschooling mom of 6 who is a partner of FlyLady):

• Declutter a kitchen cupboard

"To take the first step in faith, you don't have to see the whole staircase: just take the first step." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This applies to a clean house, too.

"Anything worth doing is worth doing Imperfectly" - Flylady

"Baby Steps."

"You can do anything for 15 minutes." 

"You are not behind. Just jump in where you are."

"Your house didn't get this way overnight. It won't get under control in a day. It takes time."

How about you? What's on your list today?

Do you use a feather duster? Do you like it? 

Have a great day!

I highly recommend Flylady.com