Being God's friend

Due to wet weather we postponed the planting of yesterday to today, still we kept with the schedule pretty good and we are seeing the peas already coming through, potatoes are in, four kinds of varieties, and lettuces and chards as well as the wild flowers and our herb garden. Next week we will do lots of weeding and cultivating, since the rains are making everything green and growing, and leave the following week for the next group planting.

We were given the cow, she is such a sweet  cow, Bessie is her name and it suits her very well. We have plenty of milk now, making butter on Friday, whipped cream and still lots of milk to think what to do! Perhaps we will try mato, a fresh cheese from my country,  that is eaten at desserts with honey or olive oil and salt.

We are also harvesting nettles and the first dandelion flowers, and putting them to dry for teas.

It is interesting to note that some families have a tendency to have boys, and some families a tendency to have girls. I have been observing this for quite a while, and can say that in general you could see that the mother that is more of a round disposition favors the birth of boys and the more skinny type the girls; it is linked to their personality, the former being more in tune unconsciously with the natural cycles and yet slower to be impressed by the forces, and the latter being more nervous and as such grasping the forces earlier when they are weaker. I am trying to see the parallel in the plant world, where the forces are so plainly seen in form.

Lately the laziness in awakening has been bothering me, I see it as a sinful attitude, pampering the flesh one more minute as I lay comfortably with the blankets. Now  that I have the responsibility of milking Bessie at 6 in the morning, I wake up promptly, yet I can see this is only a crutch, an almost physical necessity that brings me to comply with the Spirit and wrest away from my flesh, yet, it is rightly done? I am still aware of my weakness, if the crutch disappeared would I be still lazying around in the morning? That is the difference with Godly sorrow and worldly sorrow, the one changes your heart and sin is overcome, the other may have the outward appearance of a change of heart but it is not so.  Yet also there are times where we are instructed to resist temptation and other times when the right thing to dio is to flee from the devil, what is the difference between them? How can we know which one to do? This is an example easy to write about,  the lazyness in awakening, but there are many other examples of these  struggles in our lives, crowding our minds, hearts and actions. May God help me overcome sin in my life, may I yield to Him for it.

 

Being God’s friend

I thought I was walking close to you, Oh God,

I had heard your calling, your footsteps I trod.

For trials in life I looked up to you,

and though it took time, I followed your rule.

Now once more I’ve fallen, I lost your sure sight,

Why it has to happen if I am your bride?

Temptation comes swiftly like in David’s times,

Before I could gage it I dropped from your arms.

Oh please, God forgive me, come near me again,

Fill my mind with sweetness of your promised land.

Take all the temptations away from my heart

And take captive my thoughts to obedience at last.

The love due to my spouse shall I tend with care

The more the occasion is loaded with snares.

Help us in our faith, so love increases,

The Holy Spirit’s claim, obeying eases.

If you but just use us as weapons in war

I sure would gladly bear this trial and more.

Oh, God please have mercy, let us soldiers be,

We’ll pray in your army as you see a need.