Summer Roads

Mom and I took a different way home the other day from a meeting, and I couldn't resist pulling over and taking this picture. I love back roads! Mom noticed that the trees almost form a heart.

VBS

Last week was Vacation Bible School at our church. 

Ana and I were assistant teachers and I also took pictures and video for a slide show that was shown Sunday. :)

Bethany's 'treasure box'.  :)

 Reviewing our Bible verses.

Craft Time!

 The children enjoyed making these woolly sheep!  (Although their 'wool' is really made of cotton..)

 Mrs. D and Mrs T.  <3

  Several of the children were all excited to get their Bible verse memorized each day, and they all got along well which was a blessing. :)  It was a busy week!, but we enjoyed working with the children and the other teachers.

Antique Store!

The other day Mom, Ana, and I went to the small town near us to mail a package.  Afterwards we stopped at the antique store and had fun browsing among all the old things.  Antique stores are like museums, only better, because you have the option to buy the item you are looking at! :)

Calling cards

BOOKS!!  

I liked the words on this pitcher:

 "Trust in God.  

The husbandman's diligence provides bread."

True Success

"There are many kinds of success in life worth having. It is exceedingly interesting and attractive to be a successful business man, or railroad man, or farmer, or a successful lawyer or doctor; or a writer, or a President, or a ranchman, or the colonel of a fighting regiment, or to kill grizzly bears and lions. But for unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly makes all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison."

~ Theodore Roosevelt

June Sunday Evening Fellowship

One Sunday evening a month the people from our church gather at one family's home and sing, share Bible verses, and then have a snack.  It's a fun time of fellowship!  This month it was at the home of Dr. R. a retired trauma doctor. 

 

For the majority of the time Amy and Mrs. C. took turns playing the piano...but near the end Dr.R. played the piano and we all sang certain songs he had selected.

Singing!

The yummy 'lunch' - what they call a snack around here!

Mr. L dishing up ice cream - his favorite!

Beautiful sunset over one of the lakes on our way home. (Taken through the van window.) :)

Holiness

Holiness begins in our minds and works out to our actions. That being true, what we allow to enter our minds is critically important. The television programs we watch, the movies we may attend, the books and magazines we read, the music we listen to, and the conversations we have all affect our minds. We need to evaluate the effects of these avenues honestly, using Philippians 4:8 as a standard. Are the thought stimulated by these various avenues true? Are they pure? Lovely? Admirable, excellent, or praiseworthy?

~Jerry Bridges

Setting Sun Shining Through the Trees

Fullness of Joy

 "You will show me the path of life;

 In Your presence is fullness of joy;

At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore."

~Psalm 16:11

D-Day

Today in history: 

On June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day’s end on June 6, the Allies gained a foothold in Normandy. The D-Day cost was high -more than 9,000 Allied So...ldiers were killed or wounded -- but more than 100,000 Soldiers began the march across Europe to defeat Hitler. 

"Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Forces: You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hope and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere are with you...." 

(General Dwight D. Eisenhower - June 6, 1944. D-Day). 

If you can, pause today to remember this day in history and keep in mind those that gave their lives. Freedom is not free.



Remember Those Who Died Like Men