For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?
~ 1 Corinthians 4:7

The Ultimate Question...

What is the plural of octopus? Is it octopi or octopusses?

The Answer:
We would go with "octopuses," a perfectly legitimate English plural, and the oldest attested to. "Octopi" is also an acceptable choice, and one in wide use, but you run the risk of being informed that it's incorrect. Well-meaning people may tell you that -i is a Latin plural, but "octopus" comes from the Greek. While this is true, the word in fact went from Greek to Latin, and only then to English. While the plural is irregular, it's hardly out of bounds.
Those who don't like "octopi" sometimes suggest that the correct term is "octopodes." Nobody ever uses "octopodes" outside of arguments about the plural of "octopus." Nor should you.
In short, stick with "octopuses" unless you really prefer the sound of "octopi."
—The Editors

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It's about time...

So. 

I thought it was about time I posted something about me personally. Something real.

And I love this color, so here we go...

I'm not really sure how to feel about quitting my job. I am happy about it, but I've had a job for so long (which technically isn't that long--it just seems like it). It's kind of weird.  But leaving that behind, I'm really excited about the upcoming school year. Which means plans, organization, schedules, and goals.  I thrive on these things. It's me. 
I'll be teaching Andrew Geometry and helping him to finish up on his Algebra II. I'll also be helping quite a bit with his English Lit. Oh, and piano lessons with Cathryn will start soon as well. =)

Enough about me. I get too boring. lol

Verses that have stuck in my mind today:

"Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart?"

~Job 38:36

"Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place. Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret. Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own right hand can save thee"
~Job 40:12-14.

"There was a time when..."

"Heirlooms we don't have in our family. But stories we've got."
~Rose Chernin

I do believe, after the Lord's word, memories and stories are the most precious things we can share and pass on to our younger siblings (and children, grandchildren, etc.). What children seem to remember the most about visits with grandparents is the innumerable stories of "the olden days" that they will never know through their own experiences. Well, that's what I remember the most anyway. 

This post kind of goes with the previous one in that we should always be able to make time for stories--the kind of stories that actually happened. This is how our era lives on after we've left this earth. Individual life history is just as important as world history. Everyone impacts the lives around them. Everyone changes the world. Everyone has a story to tell...

What will your story be?

Let's Take Time...

Artwork by Sabrina Ward Harrison

"Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste."
~Benjamin Franklin

 

Quote

Every true wife makes her

husband’s interests her own.

While he lives for her, carrying

her image in his heart and toiling

for her all the days, she thinks

only of what will do him good.

When burdens press upon him

she tries to lighten them by

sympathy, by cheer, by the

inspiration of love. She enters

with zest and enthusiasm into

all his plans. She is never a

weight to drag him down, she is

his strength in his heart to

help him ever to do nobler

and better things.

~

Homemaking

~

J.R. Miller

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I am now following Blessed Femina and have really enjoyed what I've read there so far. Here are some quotes on the blog that I absolutely loved. =)

“I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

"Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste." 

- Charlotte Brontë

 "How sweet the name of Jesus sounds In a believer's ear It soothes his sorrow, heals his wounds, And drives away his fears."

-John Newton

"As you read, pause frequently to meditate on the meaning of what you are reading. Absorb the Word into your system by dwelling on it, pondering it, going over it again and again in your mind, considering it from many different angles, until it becomes part of you."
-Nancy Leigh DeMoss

The truths that I know best
I have learned on my knees.
I never know a thing well, till it is
burned into my heart by prayer.
-John Bunyan

My King

"You're a God who has all things, and still you want me."
-BarlowGirl

Incredible thought, isn't it?
That even though He could have anybody, everybody, or no one at all, He chose me.
My soul is over joyed. :)
I could never live up to this great honor, and Him knowing this, chosen still am I.

Quotes

Give me, for a beautiful sight, a neat and smart woman, heating her oven and setting in her bread! And, if the bustle does make the sign of labor glisten on her brow, where is the man that would not kiss that off, rather than lick the plaster from the cheek of a duchess?”

- William Cobbett in Cottage Economy (1821)

“To me, homesteading is the solution of all poverty’s problems, but I realize that temperament has much to do with success in any undertaking, and persons afraid of coyotes and work and loneliness had better let ranching alone. At the same time, any woman who can stand her own company, can see the beauty of the sunset, loves growing things, and is willing to put in as much time at careful labor as she does over the washtub, will certainly succeed; will have independence, plenty to eat all the time, and a home of her own in the end.”

-Letters from a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Stewart

“…Why do we cherish being forgiven by God? There are answers to this question that would dishonor him, because there are benefits from forgiveness that a person may love without loving God. We might say, “I cherish being forgiven by God because I hate the misery of a guilty conscience.” Or “… because I hate the prospect of pain in hell.” Or “…because I want to go to heaven to see my loved ones and have a new body with no sickness.” Where is God in these reasons for cherishing forgiveness? In the best case he is there in all these reasons as the real treasure of life.

If so, then these delights are really ways of cherishing God himself. A free and clean conscience enables us to see more of God and frees us to enjoy him. Escape from hell at the cost of Christ’s blood shows us more of God’s commitment to merciful holiness and his desire for our happiness. The gift of seeing loved ones highlights God’s  wonder in creating relationships of love. Getting a new body deepens our identification with the glorified Christ. But if God himself is not there in these gifts-and I fear he is not for many professing Christians-then we do not know what forgiveness is for.”

John Piper, Don’t Waste Your Life

 

Quotes found on http://www.painterofwords.com/