A grest Christmas Giveaway!

Hisbeloved is giving away a chance to win 3 sets of Christmas Cards through Shutterfly! Follow the link for your chance to win a set!

Christmas will be here before we know it!

Contest Giveaway at Hisbeloved's! 

Winner's to be chosen on November 1, 2011

© Monika Hardy

Proverbs 31 Practical Helps

 After a few years of caring for family and after turning 50 this year, and blogging here for quite a few years I find myself in a new season of life. God has seen fit to turn this online ministry while caring for my Mother in law with Alzheimer's to a local outreach ministry. 

I am not ending this blog, but have decided to share the new one with you all for now as it has a more local definitive direction.

Instead I'll be intertwining the two sites for now. 

It will still entail the Titus 2 command of older women teaching the younger women, creating relationships that will lead to lives walking with Jesus,

by both the older and younger woman. 

Also teaching the younger women 

to love their own husbands and children,

and encouraging Domestically Inclined Hearts. 

In this particular season the ministry takes on a Practical Helps Workshop form. There are two workshops this summer on Home Food Preservation and Frugality. There is much more info on the new site, and if you are interested and in the area, come join me. If you are not local please pray that God will show Himself strong through this weaker vessel. 

~~~~Proverbs 31 Practical Helps~~~~

© Monika Hardy

Where to turn?

Ever consider making some changes in your life?

If you have where is the first place you turn for advice?

• A friend
• Google
• Neighbor
• Classifieds
• Blogs

It is so easy to be distracted from the real issues in life, or look for advice in all the wrong areas.

God who created the heavens and the Earth, who knows the end from the beginning, is all wise and the best place to seek wisdom or guidance is from Him! 

So as I am still, I can hear Him speak through His word, or others exactly what He wants me to do and be. 

Along with the guidance from Him I can walk in peace knowing that I am in His hands and exactly where He wants me to be. It's not always a popular place, or a comfortable place, but it is the perfect place. 

So as you ponder your next step, stop, drop and roll into the arms of Jesus, and lean into Him and listen to His heart beat, listen to Him speak to you, and act on it.

Guard your heart with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life! Proverbs 4:23





 © Monika Hardy

Something new

I found a new Pearl in the Ocean of Blogging

God is there for you

She has posted some answers for those that are 

asking questions concerning life on a lovely new site.

© Monika Hardy

Memorial

Thanks to the many members of our military both past and present, we were able to go to church and freely worship this past weekend and I hope and pray it stays the same for the future of our children and grandchildren. My heartfelt thanks to all the families who are still forging forward in the details of everyday life with a loved one not at their side, but across the world standing guard and fighting for our freedom and the freedom of others!
Almighty God is still on the throne, and He is in control! Stand firm those of you who sacrifice so much for this Lands freedom, and may God Bless you and your families and keep us all safe while we are apart.

© Monika Hardy

End of world on the 21st? NO

I posted this on my face book page but wanted to share it with you all. Mr. Camping sounds sincere, but he is sincerely wrong.

According to the highest authority... no man knows the day or the hour of the end of the world except God! and that comes after the Rapture, and seven years of Tribulation a lot worse than we see now, and after the Millennium (1,000 years of God ruling on earth with the Bride at His side) THEN ....a "new heaven and a new earth" Read Revelation 19, 20, 21 and 22...oh, just read the whole Bible :)

I am thankful that God took the time to inspire men to write down His love letters to us and that He thought it important enough for us to know, a long time ago I might add, that NO ONE knows the day or the hour of Jesus return to the Earth, except the Father Himself, for His Bride! That way His Bride, the true believers will be expecting Him at any moment!

Are you clothed in the righteousness of Christ, or or still wallowing in the filthy rags of self works? A Bride makes herself ready to meet her Bridegroom. Be prepared for Jesus is coming soon...He promised!

© Monika Hardy

Spring! I think

Spring has sprung! I think. I hope I didn't miss Spring last week on the one day the temp rose above 60 degrees. At least I was able to pant some seeds and a few plants that were getting leggy just sitting indoors waiting for some sun.

There is the hope of renewed warmth at the end of the week. I missed the local Farmers Market this past weekend, as I was enjoying my grandchildren! Good reason to miss the Market. I will be looking for some chocolate mint the next time I make it to the Market. The chocolate mint makes the most wonderful tea.

After the weekend of rain I see the little sprouts popping up already
Radishes
Loose leaf lettuce
Cilantro
Tom Thumb Lettuce

Even the peas I planted a month ago finally sprouted now that the temps have gone up a bit.

But as every good or bad gardener knows...the weeds grow the fastest!
I don't want to use any chemicals so there will be much pulling of weeds in my future.
Thankfully I've found that on a warm afternoon, a bottle of vinegar can kill the toughest of weeds!
Just don't use it on the lawn, or it will soon be a two toned lawn...you don't want to know :)

So on the agenda...
In the Laundry room...loads to wash and hang in the warm breeze today
In the Kitchen...A fridge to clean and pots to polish, and plants to keep alive until we reach some warmer temps.
What I am reading...A book my son and Daughter in law gave me for Mother's Day...Verses of Virtue by Beall Phillips. I just love poetry and especially poetry that focuses your mind on what is pure and good and lovely and of all things of virtue!
In my heart...Thankful for answered prayer, restoration, healing, and a future of Hope!
In the craft room....a wonderful way to help others right now on a link from my Daughter in law, to help those in Alabama and other states that have been hit hard by tornadoes...
Sewing Love
During the week...Time with some friends and hospitality

May your week be filled with sunshine and the Son of God!

© Monika Hardy

Quote of the day

"The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly."— Søren Kierkegaard

Updated links

In answer to some of your requests I've updated the most popular post on Domestically Inclined.

I've had to update some of the links to make them available once again.

This post was originally written in September of '08,

but could easily still be useful today. 

Enjoy and happy homemaking! 

 Old Fashioned Homemaking Skills 

© Monika Hardy

Wordy Wednesday

The wettest season on record, ever, has left skies gray and dreary. Yet, I see the hints of Spring outside.

Soon the weather reports will actually forecast sunshine...I hope! 

The seedlings I've planted indoors are getting spindly looking for some source of light, even though I've got grow lights. I've also planted a second crop of seedlings, and waiting for the first peas to pop up outside.

• The tulips are peeking through the ground
• The trees are budding
• Weeds are growing! 

In the Kitchen: Still working on some organization to clear the counters.

What's for dinner?: Something quick and nutritious without high fructose corn syrup 

Reading: Latest edition of Country Living Magazine.

Thrift store find: Just found a pattern for Pantaloons for the grand girls!

Praying for: Wisdom for our National Leaders

On my heart: "If I slip into the place that can be filled by Christ alone, making myself the first necessity to a soul instead of leading it to fasten upon Him, then I know nothing of Calvary love.” 
~Amy Carmichael




© Monika Hardy