Happy Housewifery

Ya know i have told you all many times how when Jim got saved it was a new life for us,,Jim wanted to just care for his family and do what was right,,He struggled alot with his bad temper and his jobs,,But he some how kept working ..at many different jobs,,Ya know by the time he was really healed i was a basket of missing marbles,,i had my own demons of fear to battle,,And i cudnt very well ask him to pray for me as i didnt want to reveal my fear that he wud leave again,And i wasnt able to tell others either as they were wondering if he was really healed this time too,,So i suffered a really lonley Hell on earth,,i cud tell no one but Jesus ,,And finally He set me free of my fears,,And Jim was truely healed by the blood of Jesus,,This morning as i thot of Mother Theresa i thot of how i too had to lay down my life for Jesus ..,,i knew i cud wreck Jims healing had i revealed the terror i felt inside,,i knew God had done a work and i knew i cud make or break the miracle,,God was building me a spiritual house to bless my family..Cud i live in it,,and have the 3 more children He had promised me,,? I chose to walk as Mother Theresa did,,i saw myself as a missionery in my home..i had worn my hair sort of long and layered,,feathered ya know ..But i decided to let it grow and i wore a bandanna around my hair,,i kept it clean and brushed but hidden so i wudnt be worried about it,i was busy let me tell you,,i cooked mostly from scratch,,Well i have told you how we went off all goverment help,,i went from having 500 bucks a month to having 200 a month to spend on food,,But i had counted the cost of the life i had decided to live ..And some how i decided i wouldnt turn back,,And this meant not buying new shoes for myself for yrs,,i was so busy at home i never knew what was going on in the neighborhood, ,or with friends or anything, But i had decided to be a missionery in my home,,i put down what i wanted and exalted the Lord,,i put my needs last,,We had so little ,,What kind of mother wud ask for something when her little ones needed warm snowsuits for winter? i remember praying for warm socks and mittens for them,,But shud i have said “Well God wants me to have the best of everything.. i am not living like this,,living poor is for the unbeliever” Heck no ,,God gives us a set of circumstances to live out,,Can He trust us to be poor if thats the hand the world has given us?..Not always the question is “Can we trust the Lord”? But can He trust us as wives and mothers? in a less then perfect life,,And growing up my family was middle class,,Dad always had nice cars for our family and a nice home,,Dad always had a good job..But i had decided to live in swubmission to what my husband cud give me,,i submitted to my husband as unto the Lord,,Jim had taken his place as priest of the home,,and i wanted to obey God as the virtuous wife and mother,,i became a missionery in my home,,And this was as important as going to a foreign country to give my life for Christ,Some of us are called to walk in hard places right now,,But lets show His glory in this place,,Lets not give up until we see His glory,,When our faith is tested in fire and we come out with no smell of smoke upon us then His glory will shine upon us ..and we will glorify God..

When i was just a lil girl i played with my dollies almost every day,,Even when i was 12 yrs old i played with them,,i didnt let anyone see me when i was 12 ..but i loved my dolls,,i wud wash their hair and comb it,,But when i was younger my lil girlfriends and i wud play house on my back porch,,And sometimes on the front porch,,Grandpa Brady often sat on the front porch so we didnt want to bother him..But we wud pretend the porch banister was the stove and we wud pretend to cook on it,,And a tall box wud be the refrigerator, ,And we wud pretend to make meals and feed them to our baby dolls..And when Jim got saved and we had almost nothing ,,i made a play house it seemed like i did as a child,,What i didnt have i pretended i had,,But this opened up my creativity and imagination and it brot me so much joy,,i imagined i was in big farm house,,And when i looked out the window of my house i saw a big red barn…Actually it was my neighbors house,,But i imagined i was on a farm and i was living off the land,,Because i had next to nothing to make a home,,So i just pretended,,i guess i had faith,,The Bible says that we are to come to Christ as children,..with a child like faith,,In this world with things going wrong it seems like all at once,,i think it makes us too worried and too grown up,its like we get bound with ropes and steel spiritual wires,,i think we need to relax as homemakers and be creative,,be as children in a back porch playhouse,,Believei ng we have what we ask God for in prayer..Let us trust in God as children wud ,,believeing that He can care for us,Well i have to be gone this morning ..Aunt Tootsie if ya wanna you cud put this writing on my blog? Thanks yur a doll..love connieh

Ya know Jim came to the Lord in 1979..Well we had been thru Hell on earth,,But we made a decision in our marriage to go Gods way,,We had been the church route and it was like rehap..If you want it to work it probly will ,,but its not for everyone..JIm and i had a way of driving everyone at church nuts,,So we decided to leave them be,,in peace,,But we had decided to go back to the land,,We had done this off and on for yrs,,But we planned to have 3 more children and so we decided to feed them we wud have to get serious about making it,,And thank the Lord for Garage Sales,When Jim first came home i had very little dishes,,i had about one coffee mug..Jill had bot it for me,,it was white with big orange letters on it that said “You gotta Believe”..And thank God for that cup..And some how i got ahold of Country Living magazine,,And really in the beginning this magazine was like a new Revolution in living,,It was great because it showed you that what was right about your homemaking was what you liked,,It no longer dictated to you how your house shud look..No longer cud you only have 3 main colors in your livingroom.. The rule became ,,if you like it use it,,no matter what color it is..Well i cud hear Mom dictateing to me,,”A chair,,an end table.the couch ,,an end table with a lamp on it,? Well i loved this new country Living style,,i called it the Country Look..But it freed me up to know i wudnt go to jail if i put a chair next to my couch without an end table inbetween and with a lamp on it ,,Well when Mom saw my new Country Look she said “oH isnt that nice,” i kmow she was ready to kill me,,But this worked for me,,i had barely any plates or dishes..i had barely anything anyway,,So i started going to Garage Sales and i bot dinner plates,,Not a set,,i cudnt afford a whole set,,So i got a plate here and there,,So none of them matched but each was a plate i liked,,Mom said “CONNNIEEEEEEE NONE OF YOUR PLATES IN YOUR CUPBOARD MATCH’?????? ? Well Mom then went directly to the store and bot me a set of dishes,,But i really liked the mismatched ones and used them for every day,,And the ones Mom bot i used for company,,and holidays,,i also bot plastic place mats and they matched,,We didnt have but a little diningroom table..it seated 4 ,,So some of us sat at the table to eat and then i had a little toy table for the littlest kids..Aunt Mary,,Jims sister gave us her big table so that all of us cud sit together,,i still love my big country table..My kitchen only has the counter space of an ironing board,,and no room for a table..So i used my big Aunt Mary table to roll out pies and cookies on,i put a plastic table cloth on it over the wood surface,,But thank God for the Country Look as it gave me confidence to do what i needed to do to make a home with “Whatever”.. love connieh

Dear Mothers,,well i finally got my Black Bean Soup made yesterday..Oh wow it was good,,i had only had the black beans in with other beans in my soup …But i wanted to see how it wud be with mostly black beans ..To my surprise these beans are sorta sweet..i cooked them with green peppers and chopped tomatoes,And i had a pkg of onion soup so i put that in,,And at the end i added a can of plain corn..Oh i almost forgot..i had fried up a bit of bacon in my soup pan first,,i use an old cast iron soup pot with a bale handle,,with the cast iron you can do anything with this,,i guess they call this pan a dutch oven,,Anyway i put this soup in the oven at about 300 degrees to cook for about 3 hrs,,put in salt and pepper,,But anyway do you like black beans Cindy or anyone? i thot they were sweet they tasted almost like a berry to me,,Is that how they are sposed to taste?..These black beans i wud think wud be good in a Pasta Salad..But in useing the b. beans you wud want to make sure you had alot of color around them,,i soaked mine first as the beans make everything else black if you dont,But the dried beans store well..And they are cheap and taste good,,i just bot a big sack of red beans too lately ..And i have other beans too ,,i just think its a good time to stock up on dried things like rice etc,,You cud store all of these things in jars,,i wud suggest that maybe you cud store your sacks of beans and rice in the freezer for a while incase there is any bugs in the sacks,,i know it sounds gross,,!!!!But i have read to freeze flour too for a few weeks..At our Dollar Stores they have about every kind of dried beans you cud want,,JOhns wife Christina will sit down and eat a can of red beans right out of the can,,she loves them,,Anyway i just think its good to stock up on all the differet kinds of beans and lentils and dried split peas and chick peas ,,Are the chick peas the little yellow peas? Gabonzo beans wud be good to have on hand too..My Mom used to make 3 bean salad,,She used green beans and yellow and red beans..She put in onions and peppers too and made a dressing with vinegar and sugar salt and pepper,,Jim loved my moms 3 bean salad,,But i think there is alot you can do with beans,,and serve them hot or cold..i wont plant green beans this yr i will just use the dried beans,,i love planting tomatoes and peppers of all kinds,,i want to plant alot of basil this year too..And hopefully many different kinds of lettuce,,includeing mustard greens,,Onions and potatoes are cheap so i wont bother with them,,Carrots are cheap to buy too,,But nothing beats a backyard Iowa tomatoe and i want to can some this year,,Last yr i froze mine..Peppers freeze well too,,i just wash them and slice them up and put them in a bag,,A few yrs ago my brother Scott had millions of hot peppers from his garden,,And he took a needle and thread and sewed them together,,and hung them in his kitchen to dry,,He wound them around so they hang all together not on a line,,And the the bunch of peppers is about a yard wide and 5 ft long,,its a work of art,,And Scott uses the hot peppers when he makes chilli each week..He LOVES chilli..like no one i have ever heard of,,He has eaten it every week for about 30 yrs,,He also makes burritos with it ,,Then he makes stew each week ,,and he adds lentils and other beans,,He eats alot of beans and he is healthy as a horse,So you girls sit up to the table and eat your beans and i mean it,,love mother

Nuff said about that,,We are all in different stages of knowing Christ,,Yesterday my friend Jan and i went out for lunch,,We had a nice time,,and then she stopped by to visit here at the house,,She is very political and keeps up with World News etc,,I think many of us need to talk about the world and whats going on in it,,As we ate our lunch at the grocery store Cafe,,they had the TV on..And they were telling about the shootings in NYC,,I cudnt hear it all from where i was sitting but i wanted to just put my head down and cry my head off..What if my daughter was there,,?Well when we got back to the house i turned the tv on to see what it was all about,,and i knew it didnt involve my daughter..Christian ..i get a kick out of these preachers that tell their people that we live in the Kingdom of God so we dont have to notice what the world is doing,,Our economy is supposedly different and we wont go broke because we live in a different kingdom,..Hello? ???? Unless you Christiams get into reality? we will all die,,The laws arent what will change our world,,Its revival??Its always been revival? See the fat cats are goin down,And they shud do it like men? Cryin and beggin is very unbecoming to all of us,,But its this stuff that makes our apponents the unbelievers laugh their butts off,,While we are hiding our heads in the sand the unbelievers are taking over,,And why does Fat Cat want us to keep away from the News of folks goin broke and losein all rhey have ? Let me see,,um..Dont get me goin,,But this morning i am thinkin of the KIng of England and the heavy taxes he put on Gods people..And i am thinking of the Catholic Priests that you had to pay to get your dead loved ones out of Pergatory.. Hmmm not good,,And i am thinking of Dolly Madison this morning,,she opened her home for the men of God to get together snd discuss their great ideas of how to change their country..They got together in small groups and talked things over,,Up to then they only had the local taverns to discuss things in,,Yesterday as i talked with Jan i felt their was important things happening in my livingroom,, She encouraged me to speak out with what i had to say,,And i encouraged her,,But i feel more then ever it is not a time for the Believers to run and hide ,,But a time for private conversations to be had,,To intermingle with folks you believe in,,Toot often has good points of view and she agrees with you Angie..And i agree with you too Angie on alot of your ideas of Christianity, ,But we need to agree to disagree sometimes..But i think its a time to talk,,As i said in my earlier writings that only Jesus is the answer for our country,,only revival will change the Spiritual temperature of our country,,But as we get together with friends and say what is in our gut concerniing our world ,,i think then we can really see what is honestly in our own hearts as Christians,, and in our own hearts is an answer ,,We as Christians are the dreamers and visioneries, ,God speaks to us concerning our Nation,,We have an answer,,and it needs to be drawn out..

Yes i  want to write a reply here and Aunt Tootie we can put this on the blog if you wanna,,And this will be the Part 1 today of my writing Vicki ok ? Thanks,,i really want to write on this,,And go to the link  ladies and see this interview with this punk rocker,,its good,,Ok well the little film was an interview with a punk rocker who was a Christian but isnt  in the church.Ya know i can get the ear often of kids like this because i tell them i dont go to church,,i am a friend of the church but i dont indulge,,ok this boy on the film i forget if it told his name ,,but i will call him John,,Anyway  John is a Christian but is a baby Christian..He sees the Lord thru his own eyes and from where he is at,,As he grows in Christ he will see that being gay is wrong..and he will be able to minister to gay people..But he is at the level he is at now and if the religious folks dont interupt him he will keep growing in the Lord,,But shouting at him about the sin of homosexuality isnt going to teach  him anything,,Yes these kids make us nuts,,But this age was different then when i was growin up,,Heck all of us girls in highschool worried if our skirts came to the bend of our knees or not,,,Everyone wore about the same stryle,,And if our skirts came like an inch below our knees or an inch above them we were considered unstylish,,And ya know sex wasnt out there like it is now,,,Now the gates of sexual perversion is wide open.You can do  ANYTHING,, and thats ok,,There is no morlal compass,,And our kids have to deal with this,The gay lifestyle is the worst of sins,,Jill prayed for her sisters who were gay and they are both delivered,,And first her brother and he was on the 700 Club giving his testimony,,He got delivered in about 1978..and for this boy John in the film to be with the Gays is playin with fire,,But JOhn is a Christian !!!! And God will deliver him,,He will grow out of it,,After i got saved i tried to win folks to the Lord,,Cussin ..with a beer can in one hand and a cig in the other,,preachin like a wild woman,,Well i learned better for God sake,,And Jim and i wud beat  the hell out of each other,,And he was milder then i was,, i loved to fight especially if i was bored,,i think being bored is the worst feeling i can have still,,But ii learned thank God,,that their was no peace in fighting,,And it breaks things,,One time this old boy friend of mine came to the house and was visiting with  Jim and me in our first apt..,,And Jim got tired of  the guy and  he got up and threw this guy over our balcony..But Jesus knew that we wud eventually get straightened out,..We had Jesus with us,,And the kid on the film has Jesus,,And Jesus will grow in this kid and he will see the light  of Chirst in all parts of his life..We have to let Jesus do His job ya know? Yellin Bible verses at  punk rockers aint gonna do it,,We as older Christians  need to pray for these kids and let the Holy Spirit convict them and set them free,,We cant manipulate these kids,,We have to be honest with them and love them where they at..They have to understand thru Christ why drugs are wrong or the gay lifestyle,,As they are young they are in a training time with Christ as teacher,,i told MaryL right after Jimmy got out of the Navy that Jimmy was really cocky,,And she said “Dont worry Connie ,,Life will take it out of him”..And thats true ..life can be hard,,And when some of these kids come eyeball to eyeball with the devil they will surrender all,,They are tossing satan about like a beach ball right now,,,But wait untill satan turns into a   heavy ball and chain on their ankle ..life wont be so fun then..,,And they will long for the comforts of Christ,,And they will then go on a spiritual journey to find HIm..And they will thirst for Him and give their lives for Him the true and living God,,The further down these young people fall the deeper many end up in Christ,,They seem to build a fortress for satan and then the rest of their lives they find ways to climb back out ot the  pit they dug for themselves,, But if they love  Jesus that is the key,,And the kid on the film loved the Lord and He is ok ..He will make it,,love connieh

Here is the link that Connie is talking about: Country Boys

http://www.pbs. org/wgbh/ pages/frontline/ countryboys/ view/religion_ hi.html

And ya know some people you pray like hound dogs and nothing happens,,Its like howlin at the moon,,nothing works,,And at that point if its been yrs you gotta think ,,”Somethin aint workin here “i think this is when ya gotta suspect demon possession and strong holds of satan,,But dont think it is God holding you in this torment,,It isnt that the loved one is impossible its just and only the devil..He dont wanna let go but he has to..He has no right to lord it over you,,YOU AINT HIS PROPERTY,,NO WEAPON FORMED AGAINST YOU WILL PROSPER..The Word says that your ememies will come at you one way but God will get them back 7 ways,,We as prayer warriors have to learn to rest in God,,We need patience,,We have to deal with problems as they come,,We cant borrow trouble,,and let our vain imaginations dictate to us how life is gonna be for us,,God is the one in charge of our lives,,We must learn to trust in Him..And our children will make mistakes,,some big ones sometimes,,i know i knew some Gays in highschool.. And one of them as a joke called my mother and told her i was Gay,,She believed them and accused me for many yrs of being Gay..Lord have mercy,,talk about a curse over my head..Then a Dr wanted to take my womb out after i gave birth to Mary,,And my poor mother thot it was because i had cancer,,i told her i didnt,,but she wudnt believe me,,i had a blood transfusion in 1985 right after Mary was born,,The blood had never been checked for Aids..My mother thot for yrs i was dying of Aids,.My brother thot i had lock jaw for yrs because i got a nail in my foot and just pulled it out and threw it away,,i never had a tetnus shot ,,i scared my relatives to pieces because i wud never go to a Dr..But my mother accused me of everything you cud think of,,And it was a hard burden to bare for me,,She thot i had all the kids to get more food stamps,,Well i am not going to go thru all of the pain of childbirth for 50 bucks more food stamps a month,,Me and Aunt Toot were never left alone to have a baby,,Someone was always accuseing us of something,,We cudnt afford to even get up in the morning or die,Toot worried all the time as a young mom about her funeral and that she didnt have any life ins,,i had bigger fish to fry and figured i wudnt die as i was too poor..Toot said yesterday about Mary bringin folks in for me to pray for,,”Cant ya see what our moms wud have done if we had done that? “..My mom wud have said “Who are these people and get em outta here”..But well girlfriends times have changed,,love connieh