Simple Woman's Daybook

The Simple Woman's Daybook

August 18, 2008

Outside my window... I can see the tips of the corn stalks.

This year we planted 12 rows of corn. I say we because in

June when it was time to plant corn, I broke my thumb. I

did not know how I was going to plant my corn. After

pondering about my problem I began praying. Asking my

Lord how he was going to solve this problem. Well, a friend

from my church came over and planted 4 rows of corn, while

I sat there with my broken thumb. What a blessing. Then

my son finished planting the rest of the rows.

I am thinking...about all the ways the Lord has blessed me

this summer. It is truly amazing that He has taken me off

seizure medicine and I am able to live fully again. This was

my first summer in over 10 years that medicine has not

controled my mind.

I am thankful... for my life. I can breathe, and walk and love.

The Lord showed me LOVE.

From the kitchen...there are no pots on the stove and no dishes

in the sink. On Saturday my daughter and I made waffles.

That gave us breakfast for 3 days.

I am creating...a curriculum for the school year 2008-09.

I am wearing... a green skirt with a beige sweater.

I am reading...Isaiah 8

I am hoping... for a great school year with my daughter.

I am hearing...the quietness of the day.

One of my favorite things...is finding rest.

A few plans for the rest of the week... there are poems to be

read and music to be played and a mind to be educated. I am

so glad I am able to home educate my daughter.

It was a wonderful thing, this plant of mine.

I did not know its name, and the plant did not bloom.

All I know is that I planted something apparently as

lifeless as a grain of sand and there came forth a green and

living thing unlike the see, unlike the soil in which it stood,

unlike the air into which it grew.

No one could tell me why it grew, nor how.

It had secrets all its own, secrets that baffle the wisest men;

yet this plant was my friend.

It faded when I withheld the light, it wilted when I neglected

to give it water, it flourished when I supplied its simple needs.

One week I went away on a vacation, and when I returned the

plant was dead; and I missed it.

Although, my little plant had died so soon, it had taught me a

lesson;

and the lesson is worth while to have a plant.

"The Nature Study Idea,"

L.H. Bailey

Here is a picture thought...

These are four o' clock marbles I planted from seed.