bread and water

As I began my fourth year of home schooling our children I was more stressed than ever!  I was branching out of my comfort zone and piecing together different curriculum's for a different style of teaching.  I knew this would be better for the kids but harder on me. Sigh. I'm really trying to be a good Mom here, can't you tell?   On top of that I was dealing with some health issues and dietary changes, packing and unpacking from evangelistic meetings (have you ever packed and unpacked with a house full of boys?), and having church in our home (the same day we are packing to go out of town).  Sometimes life gets overwhelming.  Sometimes I try to handle life on my own without asking the Holy Spirit to help me.  I don't know why I think I can do it on my own.   And then I realize I CAN'T do it on my own. I rub some of my Young Living Rutavala Oil (for stress/sleep) on and pray! I come crying to Jesus, "Help me Lord!"  ...

I was brushing my teeth with activated charcoal powder yesterday when I had this thought.  Did you know that activated charcoal can whiten your teeth? You can order it online and put it in a small container in your bathroom.  Wet your toothbrush and dip it into the tasteless, gritty charcoal and brush away! It is crazy to me that something BLACK can turn something WHITE . It is also crazy to me that God can take my black ugly SIN and turn it WHITE as snow. "Unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood," Revelation 1:5 "Purge me with the hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow." Psalm 51:7 "Wash ye, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow." Isaiah 1:16-17 "Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarle...