Spiritual Housewifery

Dear Mothers,

Well, it is snowing like crazy here in Iowa. Wanted to share also a recipe idea.

Dear Mothers,

Thursday Emily, Dixie's daughter, stopped for a visit. It was a visit outta this world, of course. And Em brought me groceries as her Mom always did when I had the whole family here.

As we visited, Emily was telling me about when her Mom would be in prayer at the kitchen table. Emily said she knew well not to interrupt when her Mom was praying. But Em said when she was young, she would want something really bad like a new bike or something. So she would get anxious about it and, knowing her mom's prayers were always answered, she would try to interrupt her mom's prayers with, "Mom, ask God if I can have a new bike. " (Or whatever it was at the time.) Dixie would turn from the face of God to Emily and say, "You ask Him, Emily." And I can't count the times I have heard Dixie say to Emily as we were all visiting at the kitchen table, "Emily, you have Jesus Christ. What more do you want?"

Dear Mothers and Wives,

Ya know for so long in the church world, it seems that either ya got preaching on the gifts of the Spirit or the teachings on marriage and the home. And the teachings on the home never have the teachings on miracles in it. But as we look at the Word of God, we see the teachings on the home mixed with the supernatural.

This is gonna be a message and a half. So get ready. The backdrop of this writing is something I have wanted to write on for a while. And Jill wrote back about Dixie, as I had written about Dixie and I asked Jill if she had anything to write and she did. I don't know if it went to the letters group or not. I hope it did. In her writing, she told of the good works Dixie did and so did I. And in Jill's writing she talked about how I had loved Dixie so much but it was all so obvious that she never said Dixie loved me.

That writing yesterday about Elijah just vibrated when I wrote it. So I am writing a second part. I don't know why but I think there is a lot in that writing.

I was reading more in the book of Kings last night. It's interesting that Elijah was described as a wild man like John the Baptist and he roamed in the wilderness, too. And when folks heard about John the Baptist, they thought he could be Elijah raised from the dead. He had the spirit of Elijah. But both of these men fought Jezebel and John lost his head.

Dear Mothers,

Good Morning! This morning I am thinking of the scriptures in Psalms 37:2 Delight thyself also in the Lord and He will give thee the desires of thine heart. Well, I have always felt that this means that, as Believers who have given their hearts to Christ, our deepest desires would be His desires for us. The desires that are deep in our hearts that cause us to chase God with a holy abandonment unto Him. That if these desires are scriptural and are not desires of the flesh, then these are desires from God. The burning desires to glorify God, to me, are desires put on our hearts by God. It is how He leads us and guides us into righteousness.

Dear Mothers of the Home. Good Morning! Praise the Lord for another day to cook and bake and sew. To submit to our husbands and to care for our precious children.

Yesterday we went to Mary's to help her with some things. Brandon went to work. Mary has been so downhearted lately. I told her, "Betsy (nickname), you gotta just keep on goin'." Christian Joy wanted to join the Peace Corps when she was just outta high school. Jim thought it was too dangerous and didn't want her to go. So she runs off to NYC to be a fashion designer. How dangerous is that? But I talked to Mary about that yesterday. I said, "Nina (another nick name), this is an adventure. If you were a missionary, you would go through this stuff."

Well, yesterday was really busy. Our son John and our little 3 year old grandson Romeo were here for the day. Christine works part time. Then she came here after a few hours and then John went to work.

Romeo kept us laughing. Jim was painting the living room and he had asked John to move the piano. We asked Romeo to help and we made him think he moved the piano himself. What a good boy he was yesterday.

I fixed burritos for lunch and then, when Christine got here in late afternoon, she ate some, too. We had a big lettuce salad to go with it all.

Oh, in myself I see the trials and tribulations of the world. I want to head into them with the word of God. And yet His anointing is my bread and drink. I have no life or call outside of Him. His anointing is so precious to me. I am not the world's water girl. I am His daughter. I am under His authority and my water is precious. I want to water everyone I see and yet my water is not my own. I borrow it from Jesus and I dish it out only as I gaze heavenward.