• New Years Eve Eve

    Date: 2008.12.30 | Category: Bible, Family Journal, Homeschool, Life, Scripture | Tags: ,,,,

    For me today I am usually thinking, “Right, the year is done, can we just get on with it!”

    2008 was a good year for us as a family.  Nice and quiet, low-key, nothing majorly out of the ordinary happened, no major incidences to deal with.  Life was good.  We embarked on a year of home education for the girls (our 5th) and for Dave.

    It seems we’ve had less of those years than the other kind, so in a way, it was time for one.  I hope and pray that 2009 will be more of the same.  Peaceful and quiet, doing God’s will, living and loving life.

    These scriptures are in front of me at my desk, things I meditate on often:

    But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.  Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.  James 3:17-18

    And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient,
    2 Timothy 2:24

    Our people must learn to devote themselves to doing what is good, in order that they may provide for daily necessities and not live unproductive lives.  Titus 3:14

    So our lives are spent in right living by being obedient to God.  We try to the best of our abilities to what is right in the eyes of God.  As I read on a blog post comments section today – “I’m performing for an audience of One”.  This is essentially what we do as a family, we go about our days quietly and unassuming to do our Father’s will.

    God Bless you and yours as you end this year and start a new one.  Remember every day can be and should be a fresh start with God, He chooses to forget our sins so that we can be new creations.