Happy Housewifery

Ya know we want our children to have good minds and to be creative..But we expect them in our homes to obey us..Well this is the same as submissive wives are,,We have our own minds and we have alot to offer and to bring to the table as Christians.. We have submissive hearts and we want to please our husbands,,to honor them,,But we can feel free to pray and to to have our own secrets in God,,The Lord made us like that,,And if you start making a god of your husband then the Lord will cause him to fail in order to bring you back to Jesus as Lord of your life,,We have ideas as keepers at home that are important..? We can come up with ideas that no one has ever thot of? We are valuable in our homes..This is our ministry and God will speak to you concerning your homes,,But ya know we are lving in dangerous times,,And many of our leaders are waggin back and forth from pillar to post..Obviously they dont know anymore about what is goin on then we do,,So its time to take a “time out”?And think about what YOU really believe and who are you listening to and are they right?God can tell you,,Ya know i have read articles speaking big companies that will pay some people to stay home and think of ideas,,Ideas to make a company run better..If you are so busy all the time,,And if you make yourself go from one Bible study or prayer meeting after another ..Always avoiding a time to be alone then whats goin to happen to you when trouble comes?Ya know i get a kick out of Medical Drs,,They make you think they will always be there to care for you,,But when you get old ..and they get sick of ya.. you go to the nurseing home whether ya wanna or not,,And in there most people aint gonna feel sorry for ya.And especially if you have no ins or money to pay the piper..Esp in this time of hard times,,But i think we do have to take some personal responsibility for our health..i mean this health care system on our country stinks..i mean dont we know it,..i mean dont look now but ya better be takin care of your own health and living a more close to the earth life while you can,,This summer i have a married couple that will help me with my garden,We will make it twice as big as usual..Now i dont need to do that for my own needs,,But i long to be an example to my children,,i am not worried for myself and the Nation,,Heck i will make it,,as i always have,,But i want o leave a memory of gutsy-ness that my children will remember,,Last nite Mary called and ask me to pray for her friend,,She put me on the speaker phone,,”Mom pray in tongues for this lady” i did ..and i heard the lady tell Mary,,”Shes for Real”..Man that means alot to me,,If i can live my life to be an inspiration of courage and character ..then i will have won no matter what,,How many people do we know of who have lived honest lives and didnt give up on their principals when the goin got tuff? i hope i will not give up ..i hope i will always pray and live a personal relationship with Christ,,Time will tell hu? To thine own self be true..Who are we and where are we going in Christ ? Not where are we going as a Nation but where are we going as wife and mother and keeper at home,,???

This morning the Lord led me {i think it was Him}to look up the deal on the Gentle Spirit Magazine,,Ya know Wendy we talked about this before,,Do you still get that magazine? You know i didnt know Cheryle was that popular,,What i read was really an eye opener for me,,Well to some extent..For one thing it shows me how much trouble someone like her cud get into,,What i am happy about is that everyone has to know that i wish i was holier then Thou but with my kids all over the internet no one wud mistake me for being an example..And certainly no one like Dr Dobson wud have to throw me off of his list of people he wud endorse,,as i never wud get on his list to start with,,So i am pretty safe,,What you see is what you get on this grp..i aint proud of that,,i wish i had 11 children like Cheryle did,,She is hilarious,,! ! She raises 11 seemingly perfect children and instead of her kids going nuts,,its her !! How did that happen? Nothing makes sense anymore,,i wud give my right arm to have 11 children who were Christians ..And i wudnt care what my husband did short of being an ax murderer,,But what comes up to me in what i read about her is this,,Those who the Lord uses can get into ALOT OF TROUBLE..But atleast alot of people know that about me and i am pretty open about it,,Aunt Toot wud tell on me if i wasnt,,Toot dont read her replys only the original messages on the email,,So i tell secrets on replys,,Wendy i wish you wud comment on all of this as you have followed Cheryle thru the years,,Like how do you think she fell? what led up to it,? She is prolly back on the straight and narrow now ,,i mean from what i have read she is,,And like Toot says “You cant unscramble eggs..Does she have children now between her and her new husband? Well she fell and got back up and is trying evidently to make the best of it,,i dont condemn her,,i am just interested as it is all an eye opener for ME ..alot of people think i shud get out more,,And when i do get out there,,man alive,,its a wonder i am still ok,,i think we all have different callings,,As a writer i have that inner voice,,And without it i am almost lost when it comes to writing,,i cant get too busy with people..Too much noise and distractions take me off on a rabbit trail that goes to No Place,,i mean i think it depends on your gifts..Some women need to be out and about more then others,,and thank God for them.But for me i need the solitude,But Wendy i wud just love for you to write and give some insight that you have seen concerning women who write as Titus 2 mothers,,i see so many of them fall,,i wont name names ..But like scissors that get lost and you never find them,,{i have bot i am sure 100 or more pairs of scissors} in my life,,i have NEVER thrown any away,,so where are they?And what happens to Titus 2 mothers when they get old? Love connieh

a know the more i hear about what they are doin to our food supply the more i dont eat meat..i mean if they are gonna goof something up i wudnt want it to be meat..i eat very little of it now,,i can get my protien from beans and peanut butter if the peanuts dont kill me that is,,,My brother Scott has an acerage,,But he hasnt had chickens in yrs,,But he says he plans to get some if the economy dont get batter..He said he wud get a few hogs too,,Folks in the old days even in town wud raise a hog to butcher in the fall..My other brother is always out hunting like our Dad was,,Last Christmas he gave me deer meat,,i atleast know it is clean meat,,Chrissy used to be a vegetarian,, i made this one soup she really liked,,i basically cooked the different dried beans and added fresh tomatoes and onions and green peppers,,i prolly added tomatoe sauce too,,i think i added taco seasoning too,,no meat at all,,It was very good tho..Another time i made this soup like this and i got some of the soft shell tacos and i cut them up like noodles..You can just use kitchen shears to slice them up..Put them in towards the end when the soup is mostly done,,i think i just cooked them about 15 minutes,,You cud add some salsa to this bean soup too for some extra zip.i used to add some salsa to my vegetable soups too..i remember Emily as a lil girl eating my soup like that,,And Dixie said “Emily will you eat my vegetable soup with salsa in it like Connie made hers?” And Em shook her head yes as she ate,,She was the cutest lil thing with blond hair and big blue eyes,,She was so ornry and her Dad wudnt spank her,,And Dixie waited until Bill went to work to give Emily a spankin,,One time Bill spanked her but he felt so bad about it he apoligized,, Em and i laugh when she tells that story..I want her to write a book about her mom and dad and their little farm..Emily helped her Mother garden and i kmow Em cud have her own garden and it wud be a good one,,i know she has knowlege packed away in her heart that she prolly dont know is there,But i will tell ya one thing if Dixie was alive right now she wud be havin a hay day..She loved gardening ..and this economy wud push her harder to garden and can her food,,She wud till up her whole yard and plant vegetables ..not just her garden area,,She wud go totally back to the land..Like Em says “Thank God for Dad because Mom wudnt have used electricity at all”..Dixie figured if the Amish didnt need it she didnt either,,She hated tv with a passion,,She loved makin do with what she had,,Em got a job when she got out of highschool ..And so while she was in town she wud pick up groceries for the house,,Dixie wud remain on the farm for weeks without leaveing,,She hated to go to the store and loved just being on the farm with her chickens and her dogs and cats and rabbits,,She was content to be a homemaker,,She was so close to the Lord,,To be in her presence was like bein with the Lord,,No matter what sickness you had she cud pray it off of you,,She was healed many times herself,,She had such a heart for our friend Rose,,And so often Rose wud need Dixie and Dixie wud venture off the farm to go see Rose and pray for her,,love connieh

Dear Mothers well tomarrow morning i will be gone early with Emily ,,Dixies daughter..So i wont be able to write,,i dont think..unless i get up earlier then usual..Today i felt so happy,,i dunno,,i prayed alot and listened to the Lord,,i thot alot about Dixie and about Carla Emerys book,,The Encyclopedia of Country Living..This book helped me so much in the 70s,,it gave me courage,,Carla writes about living off the land,,And selling produce at the Farmers Market..Dixie ..Jill and i all read Carlas book and kept it out on our kitchen counters or in our kitchens some place,,i was believein the Lord for Jim ..he was in prison at the time,,i was hopein he had really gotten saved this time and that we wud both settle in for a good long time ,,And we did and he never left again,,Thank the Lord,,But wow i had to count the cost ya know,,It was 1979 And once again i had put all my eggs in one basket and was gamblin on our lives AGAIN ..And also i was wondering how we wud feed our family,,Well Carlas book gave me hope,,i figured i had some land and i cud garden too and i cud go back to the land and grow what i needed ,,i cud make my own bread and grow my own herbs for medicine and cooking,,i remember one spring Jill and her daughter stopped in for an evening visit,,I think Shelly was about 16 yrs old,And Jill said “We just bot a bunch of 10 cent seeds and we will make a garden with them,,I am spending as much as i can on seeds”..We were all dirt poor,,We barely had the money to pay for our house and utilities and barely enuf for food,,Jill prayed over her gardens and those 10 cent seeds wud grow like wild fire,,She babied every plant,,If a weed got in her garden it was sorry for it..She had the neatest gsrdens you cud imagine,,Her vegetables looked like they were fresh from the store,,And she canned all summer and fall,,Dixie did too,,i canned too but i was like Annie Pregnant alot of the time and i had more kids anyway then Jill and Dixie,,But ya know my family is raised now,,But its like the spiritual climate is the same..i feel that need to get back to the land ,,like i did back then..And my main point here is this,,”We can make it” If some of you arent familiar with Carla Emery ..maybe you cud Google her name and see her books..She died in i think 2005..But i think you cud get her books off ebay,,,But those books have everything in there about canning food from the garden and drying foods.Also about growing herbs and preserving them ..How to use them for medicines and in cooking..Wendys blog has some neat films on gardening,,i loved them,,But we need to become more self sufficient.. and grow our own foods if we can,,Carlas book wud really help to encourage you ..Tricia do you have this book?..Wendy you probably do right? love connieh

Dear Mothers wow i watched Billye Brim again this morning teaching about the Great Awakening in our countries history..i got out my book The Light and the Glory and i am rereading it,,i mean what will save our country?,,only prayer ..only Jesus will save us,,Not the Republicans or the Democrats,,If anyone starts argueing with me over politics i tell them this,,”If ever an Independent was elected as president there wud be Hell to pay on both sides,,”Because those old birds are payin each other off.. Money is runnin that whole shootin match,,We better hope we know how to pray at this midnight hour,,We need revival to get the Lord in on our mess,,i try to watch the News ..And i really dont know the truth,,i mean we just know what the newsman knows,,And is that the TRUTH ..or is it a boatload of SMACK??iWe need to pray and believe God for a GREAT AWAKENING in our land and really around the world..And yet i hear many of you who are on fire with the trials about you and you cant think outside of that..i hear ya,,When i was going thru my many trials in the 70s i didnt hardly know anything about the Vietnam War..But for those who can pray for revival in our country ,,Please do pray..i am going to be praying at noon each day…My friend Barb and her husband will be helping me with our garden again this yr..Dan wants to plow it up and make it twice as big as last yrs..i hope that many of us will have big gardens and be able to can some produce,,But if you cant have a garden then i wud suggest stock pileing some canned goods..i know Jason ,,Chrissys husband will be planting his tomatoe and pepper plants in 5 gallon buckets and setting them on the fire escape by their apt in NYC..And he was talkin last yr about a book that was called something like Radical Gardening,,? i will have to call him and ask what it was,, i wud like to get that book,,One of these days Jason will whisk JOy off to some farm land out WEST..He says he wants to raise horses,,i see them raiseing horse.. chickens..cows too.,,Yrs ago i had a vision of Joy standing by a wood cook stove,,Shes smart,,she cud survive anything..Chrissy said the other day when we were talking that Jason has plants everywhere in their apt.Jason is a wonderful husband for Sissy..And she is a good wife,,They have a special love for each other,,Mary and Brad called yesterday and left a message on my phone while i was at the Bone Crusher,,i was happy i didnt scare the life out of Brad,,i wondered if i wud ever hear from him again,,Well i guess the poor guy is a glutten for punishment,, Either that or he really loves Mary and knows he has to get along with her scarey mother,,i dunno..love connieh

Chrissy had sent me Rubys dress that she made for the Art museum in NYC,,i have it hanging up in my livingroom,, Well last nite in an email she said that an Art Museum in illonoise wanted to have a show of her costumes..So Sis said she may need the Ruby dress back for a while,,What a riot,,!!!!.. Where will Ruby end up next,?i mean i wud have to be deaf dumb and blind not to see that there is an anointing on Ruby,,i shud be writing Ruby Stories but that wud mean i was calm enuf to do it,,?This is why Aunt Toot wants me to watch Little House on the Praire Shows and get calm and write Ruby stories,,Well the Waltons too,,i dunno what it will take for me to get calm enuf to write abour Ruby again ,,Annie is often on my heart ..so pregnant and so much work to do,,And she needs writing that will knock satans socks off,,Phillipa is like that too,,Needing whiskey that leaves their throats on fire,,Angie with her brood of children loves the homemaking spirit,,You remind me of “Dixie” Angie,,i want to write things that hits the one who needs it the most..And yet i have to listen to the Holy Spirit first..Ya know it really doesnt matter what we think..It has to be His presence that is exalted,,i have prayed so much lately for His presence to be felt by those of us who need Him so much,,And the bottom line is that only faith pleases God..This earth and its physical presence is not the truth..What carnal man has to say is not the Truth unless he is guided by the Lord,,It seems i have too much on my mind lately,,i need to hide away unto God..love connieh