My First Pumpkin!

My First Pumpkin!

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A lot has been going on lately. Not near enough time to play on the computer.

Have you ever cooked your own pumpkin? I had never cooked a pumpkin before, the one in the picture above was my first. One thing I learned, pumpkins are very hard to cut, hubby had to cut it for me. This will not be my last, I enjoyed getting pumpkin from a pumpkin instead of a can. I made a crustless Chocolate Pumpkin Pie, it was really yummy.

If you are not familiar with Revive Our Hearts, jump over here and check it out. This ministry has been such a blessing to me lately. I listen to the programs in the morning when I’m getting ready and sometimes on the weekends when I’m piddling around the house. They have an archive of great messages, I highly recommend the Esther and Rahab. A few weeks ago there was a conference in Chicago, True Woman ‘08, I wanted to go to it so bad but wasn’t able to. The great thing is that you can listen to the speakers online. John Piper’s message on The Ultimate Meaning of True Womanhood is really good. I haven’t listened to all of the messages, but you can find them here. They also have 30 Day Challenges, I am currently doing the 30 Day Husband Encouragement Challenge. I’m only on day 2 so far. I pray this will be a blessing to my hubby.

What a wonderful God we serve, I am so excited about what He is teaching me lately. I am really learning to watch my tongue. I think it was about 2 years ago that I focused on the for a type of new years resolution…….well it’s here again. I was listening to the study on Revive Our Hearts, God’s Beautiful Design for Women, Living Our Titus 2:1-5. The program is titled Your Words Reveal Your Heart, there was one thing that she said that has really stuck with me (not that there wasn’t a lot that was good). Titus 2:3 says “The aged women likewise, that [they be] in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things” We are to be cultivating these things so that when we are an older woman, we exhibit these things. We should be exhibiting these things now, before we become older women. The thing that hit me like a ton of brick is “false accusers”, if you look that up in the Greek, the word is ‘diabolos’, the word for satan! When I say something about someone that is unflattering, I am being like satan. How many times do we try to excuse something we say because the someone we are saying it about has wronged us? I’m ashamed to say I’m guilty. God has really been holding my tongue so that I think about this before I speak lately. Our tongues are a powerful thing. What a convicting thing to be reminded that when I do not take control of it, I am being like satan.

I hope you will check out some of the above links and that this ministry will be a blessing to you as it is to me.