Lately I’ve been getting back into reading blogs thanks to twitter. I know it’s an odd place to be motivated to read blogs but everyone posts about giveaways and I’ve found tons of great Christian blogs, challenges, and homeschooling moms. In the process of reading all these new blogs I realize that I really do want to get back into the habit of blogging. I’ve always thought I don’t have much different to say than what is already being said but you never know who you might touch through your blog.

I have two posts in my head I just need to take pictures of the projects so I can post about them. So look for more from thecraftyhome!

This is one of my favorite moments of the day. When my little man drinks his bottle and just looks up at me perfectly content and at peace. I see such love and trust in those eyes. He has no worries and is just at rest.

We are to come to the Lord with a child like faith. He has done so much for us and will continue too and we need to trust in His grace completely. When we trust and rest in our Father’s arms we will find true contentment and contentment with godliness is great gain.

I would challenge you today to take a moment to rest in your Father’s arms or better yet live at rest in your Father’s arms.

[6] Now there is great gain in godliness with contentment,
(1 Timothy 6:6 ESV)

[57:1] Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me,
for in you my soul takes refuge;
in the shadow of your wings I will take refuge,
till the storms of destruction pass by.
[2] I cry out to God Most High,
to God who fulfills his purpose for me.
[3] He will send from heaven and save me;
he will put to shame him who tramples on me. Selah
God will send out his steadfast love and his faithfulness!
(Psalm 57:1-3 ESV)

It’s time to start thinking about Christmas cards again! I can’t believe it. I love to do picture cards, when I actually get around to doing cards, because I just think they are so much more personable. So when I saw on facebook that Shutterfly was giving away 50 photo cards to bloggers who wrote a review about this years photo cards I was all in! So I clicked on the link to look at the 2010 Christmas Cards and I just can’t decide which is my favorite. There are so many to choose from I can tell that it will take me many hours to pick my favorite. So go check out all the great cards and if you have a blog do a review yourself and get your own 50 photo cards for free. Oh and this is the one I’m thinking of right now but I reserve the right to change my mind.

So I kept seeing really strange updates this month on facebook like “I like it on the table” and “I like it on the kitchen counter”. My curiosity peeked I went searching for answers and found that like last year’s color of your underwear status updates this was for National Breast Cancer Awareness months and is in regards to where you like to put your purse. Now the point of this is to get attention because people will think it is sexual and ask you about it and then you can tell them what it’s about.

Now my question is should a Christian participate in this? Is it really appropriate for a Godly, Christan woman to post something that is meant to be deceivingly sexual in nature? Is that truly modest? I would have to contend that the answer is no. Come on Christan woman!! Rise up and act like modest Christian woman in a world that is increasingly immodest.

[3] Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, [4] and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, [5] to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.
(Titus 2:3-5 ESV)

We are to be reverent in our behavior. Reverent means deeply respectful. And as young woman (and I would say even old since the old are teaching this to the young) we are to be pure. Is posting something like that pure? The reason we are to act in this way is so “that the Word of god may not be reviled.” We are to act in such a way that it doesn’t ruin our witness or what the Word of God says. We need to be thinking about our words and how they line up with the Word.