Whatever's been happening here...

Busy, busy, busy..... Today my brother, Shawn & his two children, Kirra & Ezra came in from Hawaii. So, Kirra is out riding horses with Elisabeth & Abigail, Ezra and Deborah are picking out melodies on the piano behind me & I am back inside working on colonial era dresses for our George Washington Family day next weekend.... well, that is, that is what I should be doing. Instead, I am writing on my blog?!

This morning Elisabeth and I went to Bible Study with some sweet ladies from Muldoon Baptist Church. We are studying with Beth Moore in the book of Esther! That is one incredible study right there, I highly, highly recommend it to any woman! I have thoroughly enjoyed digging into the word & watching the story come alive to me! I mean, I've read the book of Esther many, many times & learned it's story by heart since I was a little child in Sunday School, but to see the pieces of the puzzle put together in ways that I've never imagined... seeing parallels between the circumstances in Esther and prophecies & songs and writings from other places in the Bible, and seeing how God's name, though not officially in the pages of the book of Esther, is most definitely on it, has been so, so awesome! My favorite quote, and I learned this at the beginning of the study... recently has been this. Cause you know how we, especially as homeschoolers, and protected young people are told again & again to surrender the pen of our lives and our stories to the hand of God for Him to write. Well, the truth that I found so incredible is this : "When we trust our lives to the unseen but ever present God, He will write OUR LIVES into HIS STORY & every last one of them will trun out to be a great read with a grand ending... And not just in spite of those catastophies. Often because of them. Don't just wait and see. Live and see."

Now about those dresses....