When Pearl and Evangeline or I have a birthday, our favorite gift is to receive a surprise from Serene. No, it’s not something from the shop! We love it when she makes one of her great concoctions--something that no one has ever tasted before.Serene creates new recipes every day. What will it be this time? We can't wait to try. Of course, it won't be anything you'll ever see in Trim Healthy Mama. A lot of Serene's recipes don't get past our family--they are too "way out" for most people, but they are always amazing, and of course always in the super food realm!
I’ll let you have a peep behind the scenes. On one of Evangeline's birthdays Serene came up with a new recipe along with a poem to go with it:
To VangiBabe
What can you give a girl with golden hair
Who thinks "out of the box" and makes every head stare?
Can you go to Walmart and buy her some socks,
Or something normal that fits in a box?
Shop at the Mall for apparel with prices steep?
She could make better herself from the back of a sheep!
Buy her some shoes? She likes bare feet in the soil!
Soaps, trinkets, or hankies? She'll shudder and recoil!
What about a book? The best one in the store?
She'll have read it already, it will be a bore!
I could get spicy sausages and fermented butter,
But I did that last year for her birthday supper!
So I'll make her some "out of the box" chocolate truffles,
She'll like them better than store-bought skirts with ruffles,
I'll fill them with ginger, hot peppers, and Oolong tea,
Grass-fed gelatin and vanilla; and she'll scream with glee.
She'll eat them for breakfast, even at midnight,
This is what I'll do to fill her face with delight,
I'll send them along with a prayer in my heart
For her best years yet, to unfold and now start.
Love from Sereniebean.
I got to taste one before she went over to Vange's. They were DELECTABLE! Melt in your mouth!
Blessings from Nancy Campbell
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Isn’t that amazing? Motherhood goes into eternity. It is the most lasting career in the universe. I met a lovely mother today who has seven children that she fought against all odds to bring into the world. But she also had 21 miscarriages. Wow, just think of all the precious lives she will meet in eternity! What overwhelming joy.
Currently, my brother and his wife and part of STORY WORTH where they write about their lives in answer to questions from their family. I love reading their stories and the other day my brother shared this confession. It’s a good story to read to your children too.
I love these words. We don’t trust when it is easy but when it is the hardest thing of all. And we always find that God is faithful. His everlasting arms are waiting underneath us.
A daycare worker was sharing with me that they take in babies from six weeks old. And yet dog breeders do not sell their puppies until eight weeks and up to 12 weeks for toy breeds. How is that human mothers can give up their babies so soon? What has happened to the value of mothering? This worker also mentioned that many mothers never even check to find out when their baby or toddler slept or what food they were given for the day or when. Where is their concern and yearning over their child?
Isn’t it so wonderful that the Bible uses the same Hebrew word to describe the womb of the woman as God’s tender mercies and compassion? As you embrace life in your woman you are showing the love and and mercy of God. As a mother comforts her babe so God comforts and consoles in all our adversities.
I love Thy kingdom, Lord!
Do you love showing hospitality?
The nurturing, cherishing, teaching, training, influencing, and the powerful prayers of a mother can never be underestimated. Your influence is powerful, dear mother.
God created male and female. He has no other plan.
Every new baby that is born into the world reveals again the existence of God.
...is a powerful thing. It keeps the world going. It brings security. It reaps the reward of those who are faithful in the little things. Be encouraged today, mother.
Some time ago, my husband was at the bank and got talking to the teller (he loves to talk to people). The lady asked what he did, and he replied that he was a pastor and that we also we speak and write about strengthening families. She proceeded to tell him a little story.
Dear ladies, you will look at these links below and think I am advertising. No, I haven’t even had time to go on to these sites myself. But the other day I was traveling in the car and had time to browse through my Instagram.
Proverbs 24:16 says: “A just man falleth seven times and RISETH up again.” You may have fallen. You may have blown it. But get up again! Each time you will be stronger.
I posted yesterday about living in the true reality, the reality of the heavenly world. How can we practically do we do this?
The reality of life is our day-to day responsibility to manage our homes. Feed, nurture, and train our children. Attend to all the interruptions that are sure to happen. But there is another reality, a reality that has the power to impact our daily lives. It is the reality of the heavenly.
This Scripture comes in the context of persecution against the people of God. The BSB translation says: “With flattery he will corrupt those who violate the covenant, but the people who know their God will FIRMLY RESIST HIM.”
There’s nothing more powerful, amazing, impacting, influencing, overwhelming, and high-powered as motherhood. You are determining the destiny of the nation.