Virtuous Girlhood

Bible Verse: Psalm 10:17-18

“O Lord, You have heard the desire of the humble;

You will strengthen their heart, You will incline Your ear

to vindicate the orphan and the oppressed,

so that man who is of the earth will no longer cause terror.”

Homemaking Tuesday: With All Your Heart

      Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving. Colossians 3:23-24

 I’ve been thinking a lot about these verses lately. I don’t know about you, but I work a lot. I wash dishes, I clean my room, I write e-mails, I fold laundry, I make breakfast, and I could go on. I bet you have a list of things you do too. Sometimes I feel like the list of things to do keeps getting longer and longer.

If you’re like me, pretty much all I can think about when I’m doing these mundane tasks is, I just want to get this done so I can go off and do what I want to do. All I can think about is how to finish up quickly. Rarely do I put my heart into the task. This is very easy to do I can tell my hands to wash the dishes, but it’s much harder to put my heart into a task.

 But God has been changing that. Over the past few weeks He’s been helping me to see this simple truth. In whatever I do, it should be for Christ. I should do everything I do as though I am working for God. So when I wash the dishes, I’m washing God’s dishes. When I vacuum the carpet, I’m vacuuming God’s carpet. When I write an article, I write it for God.

I know that this can sound funny, but when you think about it this verse says that we work for God. So none of our work is for mom or dad or our boss, it’s all for God. All of the things we do on a daily basis should reflect the love of Our Lord.

But how do we work at something with all our heart? First try to start thinking about your work as though you were working for God. Every time you approach a task, approach it as though God had given you the task. Then attack the task with the strength that God supplies.

Then there’s the heart. Put your heart into it. Let your heart spill over as you work. Pick up your feet and do it with every fiber of your being.

It’s not easy to do this, especially when I’m tired and the thought of sweeping is enough to send me deeper into the couch. Yet God always seems to gives me strength to get through those times. I finish the task.  

My challenge for you is to wake up tomorrow morning and whatever you do work at it with all your heart, be that washing dishes, folding clothes, collage, job, vacuuming, loving your siblings, or whatever, work at it the all you heart.

Remember this: God is at work within you doing things that you can’t imagine. Maybe you can’t see it all, but God does. Do what you’ve been called to do for today and let God take care of the details.

Bible Verse: Psalm 21:2-4

“You have given him his heart’s desire, and You have not withheld the request of his lips.  For You meet him with the blessings of good things; You set a crown of fine gold on his head.  He asked life of You, You gave it to him, length of days forever and ever.”

Bible Verse: Psalm 139:13-16

“For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb.  I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, and my soul knows it very well. 

My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrotght in the depths of the earth; Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; and in Your book were written for me when as yet there was not one of them.”

It’s A………

BOY! He was born on August 18th, 2010 at 3:39 pm weighing 9 lbs. 10 oz. and 20?long. 5 days before his due date August, 23rd 2010!His seven older siblings are delighted with his arrival and his parents praise the Lord for His watchful care over another successful homebirth with midwife attending. His daddy caught him. He is a adorable chubby little man. Both mommy and baby are doing great.I may be slower in posting for the next few days. Although my dear contributers Sarah, Rose, Rachel, Laney, Grace, and RL will still be posting.BTW: If you comment and don’t see your comment let me know via e-mail, as I think my spam catcher is catching comments, and I have NO way to get them out. Sorry!Blessings,Miss RJ

Product Review! Rose of Sharon Acres #1

I received the following product in exchange for writing a review. While I consider it a privilege to receive free products to review, my review is my honest opinion and thoughts of the product.

Rose of Sharon Acres was kind enough to send the following products in exchange for writing a review: (look for part 2 tomorrow!)

Spearmint Eucalyptus Goat Milk Soap:
I was delighted with the result of this soap as I found it very refreshing and relaxing as well as having a very pleasant scent,
My sisters and mother really liked this soap as well. It made my skin so soft and silky!

“Set in a foundation of skin loving Extra Virgin Olive Oil and the natural emollients found in Goat Milk, the scent stimulates your senses while the foundation feeds your skin. What a combination!”

This soap costs $5.75 and its size is 4.3 oz.

Avocado, Mango and Honey Goat Milk Soap:
As avocado is one of the vegetables that gives you glowing skin, this soap was very helpful in refreshing my skin, the honey gave me glowing skin, as well as with the Spearmint Eucalyptus soap my sisters & mother liked it too. The first time I used this soap I had dry heels and after I washed my feet a couple of times with this soap it went away.

This Bar Costs $6.75 and weighs 5 oz

Tooth Chips with Neem Bark and Xylitol:

I found that the tooth chips Really helped my teeth they made my entire mouth felt refreshed instead of mildly refreshed with commercial brands it gave my mouth a minty fresh feel, I also like it that the tooth chips are free of toxic ingredients such as a couple of the most popular ones: Fluoride, SLS (Sodium Lauryl Sulfate) and Dyes. these are only a few of the many toxic ingredients found in many commercial brands of toothpaste. My family found that these tooth chips really helped their teeth as well. Plus it whitened them.

The tooth chips come in 2 different sizes 2 oz costs $9.50 and 4 oz costs $14.75

A note on how this business got started:

“I’m a graduated homeschool mom…when my eldest daughter finished all her homeschool requirements at 16, I asked our youngest what she wanted to keep her company. Her response was a ‘goat’.  She wanted to sell milk.  We jumped into it for her not knowing anything about requirements or goat quality.  She was happy with her 3 goats.  I wanted more…they are really sweet animals.  That was the beginning of this business - the rest has been God’s had.  We pray in our customer base as only He can direct people to our small business. The eldest daughter is now married and the youngest is going to college (and still lives at home under her father’s covering).  Rose of Sharon Acres keeps me busy and keeps the ‘girls’ in feed.  My prayer is always that our products and company ethics will be a blessing to all that come our way.”

Break!

Hello Everyone,

I’ll be taking a break from blogging as, my mom went into labor at about 1:30 AM this morning. She’s still in labor (this is her 8th baby) and we hope she’ll have a easy delivery. It’s being a LONG wait and the little’s are kinda of missing mom, so I have my hands full trying to keep them quite and busy! LOL! As the oldest of 8 children I am really busy right know so please be patient with me till I get back into the blogging realm. But, my four other contributors will still be posting!

Thanks,

Miss RJ

P.S. I’ll let you know when this little one arrives, and FYI I think my spam catcher is catching some comments so, if you don’t see your comment please e-mail me. Also, I have no way to go into my spam catcher to get your comments out sorry! Continue reading »

Bible Verse: Psalm 37:4-5

“Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart. 

Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in Him and He will do it.”

Cover Your Hair Raffel Contest!

I don’t know if you aware but CoverYourHair.com is giving away a $200 gift card to a lucky winner, at one of the locations below:

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To enter is easy and free, just click the link below to sign up:
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Good luck!

Miss RJ

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Bible Verse: Joshua 1:9

“Be strong and courageous!  Do not tremble or be dismayed,

for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

Last Chance To Enter!

Okay, ladies this is your last chance to enter our Blue Ridge Gypsy Studio $30 Virtual Gift Certificate Giveaway! As I decided to end it on Monday, August, 9th, at 9:00 AM. You can enter here.

Happy Entering!

Miss RJ

Bible Verse: Psalm 126:2-3

“Then our mouth was filled with laughter and our tongue with joyful shouting; then they said among the nations, ‘The Lord has done great things for them.’  The Lord has done great things for us; we are glad.”

Writing Tips: Great Websites and Blogs That Help Writers

 Thanks Sarah for your tips!

As a writer, I am always looking for good resources to research my books and to help me improve my writing skills. Here are some of the websites and blogs that I have found helpful and a little bit about them.

Encouraging Emerging Authors.
This is a website I found recently, and it is really good; right now they are doing a lot on poetry. I don’t have a lot to say about this blog as of yet because I found it just last week.

Literary Pursuits, is done by my good friend Jessica. This blog is great for stretching your mind and writing skills. Jessica gives a writing prompt every weekend (this week it is a picture) and you write a short story and post it to your blog. Make sure you add your name to the list so that others can read your work. It is a lot fun, and I can’t wait to see what all of you write about.

A Writers blog, is another one of my favorites. She is an amazing author and she even sometimes posts chapters of the book she is working on.

Random Thoughts, is done by my good friend Arianna. She also posts on writing on a regular basis, and she just finished doing interviews with a bunch of bloggers who write.

Where the Map Ends, has a lot of really great writing tips by a published author. He is really into fantasy and stuff like that, but most of his tips are useful for any genre.

For research, I start with looking things up on Wikipedia. This is not a Christian site, but it is clean (at least all the pages I have read are); I use it a lot to look things up.

Do you know any great writing blogs or websites?