I am up early here writing. I hope you all have enjoyed Emily's writings as much as I have. Emily is going through some problems and writing about her Mother is really good for her and nice for all of us.
When Em said that her Mom canned 800 quarts of food a year, this was true. I remember Dixie saying that she filled her canner twice a day in the fall when the food was ready to be canned. Her canner held 8 quarts. She made a lot of grape jam from her grape vines. She had a huge apple tree and made a lot of applesauce. Then she had a freezer that she filled with apple pie filling for winter pies. Then, of course, she always had a huge garden and canned her vegetables and fruits. She tried to make everything they ate and hated to go to the grocery store. But if she did have to have store things, she took the labels off, as she didn't want to have store advertisements in her house.
Like Em said, she hated worldliness. She had been out in the world before she was saved and so wanted nothing more of it. She had a wild life before she knew the Lord. A very hard life and that was enough. Emily, if you want to tell any of that, you can, as a lot of the ladies could relate.
I remember when the spirit of wisdom first came to Dixie. And, oh, I would sit at her feet to hear her speak of the wisdom of God. Well, if you had heard her, you would have loved it, too.
Emily was always fascinated by her Mother, even as she got older. Dixie would just go about her business and talk about Wisdom as her sister. You always felt when you talked to Dixie you were talking to her Sister Wisdom, too. She always talked about how we need to cry after the Wisdom of God. I used to tell her, "Dixie, this stuff is dynamite. So many women need to hear this."
And she would say to me, "Connie, the feminists would laugh their heads off at you if you were to tell this to them."
I would say, "Yeah, but not every woman would laugh."
I mean if Emily and I weren't here to tell you about all of this, you never would have heard it from Dixie. And I was always the writer. Dixie would give me paper and say, "You are the writer, Connie." And Now I guess Emily is a writer, too -- a good one.
Emily, you are like Laura writing about your mother. Ya know, this is why Laura began writing, is because she missed Pa and Ma so much, and her sisters and the baby boy who died. Dixie and Em loved to read the Little House on the Prairie books. Emily was brought up on them and all the cook books and song books, take offs of Laura's books. Dixie used to tell us girls, "Connie, there is wisdom for today in those books." And there sure is.
But Dixie was a forerunner. She was the head goose who led the rest of us in a "V". She cut the wind for a lot of us to follow.
And the thing with learning wisdom is that one can never learn it all from one who has the wisdom of God. You have to learn the wisdom by experience, right Emily? We can pick up a taste for it or an inspiration. But we have to get the true wisdom from God. Just Him and us.
I am such a Word person. I was brought up in my faith in a little Baptist church. And those Baptists are pretty stiff but stay a lot on the Word of God. So when Dixie started talkin' about Wisdom, I really prayed about it. Dixie had more Spirit than I had. So the wisdom didn't come to me as quickly. So I was always in the Lord's face about it and in the Word of God.
And you all should study it, too, as I did. Because if you don't, then the devil will come to try to take it out of your heart. And if you stand there and say, "Well, Connie said this and that" -- well, no, only the Word of God can rebuke the devil. You have to know on your own why you are the wise woman who builds her home.
Ya know, deception is out there as thick as mud. But I tell ya, I am almost never confused anymore about what I believe. Because I know the wisdom of God concerning being a keeper at home. That is a basis for truth.
But, no, this stuff with women preachers and all will be the ruin of ya. Women are not to take authority over men. Not in the home or any place. And especially not in the church of Christ.
I save myself more grief just because I know this. The Lord takes me to the craziest meetings to show me stuff. I mean stuff that is like a circus side show. And everyone is always going to these meetings where women prophesy. Now why do we need so much prophesy? And it isn't prophesy for the whole family. It's this prophesy for the wifes gifts to be used outside the home. Nothing about the home or the children. Just about women being like movie stars. What a bunch of junk!
But all of this religious garbage being preached by these so called women preachers are making way for more deception. And the most godly people are falling for this deception! But as the teachings are lost concerning home and family, the stage is set for horrid deception. I wonder if this is the deception in the end times that will deceive the very elect. I feel it could be.
Walk in holiness and don't divorce your husband. Stand for the family. Take care of the children. Your salvation is in taking care of your family. This is your holy covering.
