Current Mood: Happy

Welcome to my little sanctuary on the web. This is where I go to get away from it all, I guess you could call it my version of a bubble bath. As you can see I have a new wordpress layout and I just love it. It was hair pulling at first but so worth it. I’m still in the process of moving all the Adoptables in and revamping the old linkware graphics that I use to have here. So please check back for the new and improved Christian graphics coming up. I want to thank you for visiting and pray that the Lord will shower His blessing on your day. If your interested in learning how to draw your own pixel graphics, like the ones you see in the linkware section, you might be interested in joining my other site at Tweedie’s Country Nest .

Current Mood: Intelectual

Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.  3 John 1:2

Our bodies are not our own,  they were bought with a price.  They are also the temple of the Holy spirit and as such, the word of God tells us that we are to take care of them by eating healthy.  The Lord has given us in His word,  the wisdom and means to know which foods are good for us and which we are to avoid.  As children of God we can’t put just anything in our mouths and expect the Lord to grant us health simply because we ask a blessing over it.  We are to use wisdom and discernment in choosing foods that are best for our bodies.  With all the food do’s and dont’s out there, sometimes it can be very confusing to know what is or is not ok.  I’ve decided to have a little section on things I feel the Lord has led me to personally in answer to my prayers on the foods I should avoid.  Personally I feel that anything “Man Made”  is not the best.  My family and I eat foods as close to natural as we can (if it doesn’t come straight from the garden, we don’t eat it).  Here lately,  food is more about convenience and taste rather than nutritional content.  No wonder Americans suffer with so many diseases, obesity and health problems.  Here is one article I ran across (among thousands!) about artificial sweetner, that I felt led to share.  I know we’ve been told that too much sugar is not good (which is correct according to Proverbs 25:16) Yet this supposed ”healthy substitute” is much much worse.  If you are currently using artificial sweetner,  please read this article about the long term effects.          

http://myaspartameexperiment.com/

Current Mood: Thrilled

I’m finally back online after the big ice storm.  It hit us late Saturday night and our power went out early Sunday morning.  They said that about 50,000 people were without power.  It took them 4 days to get our power back on and some people are still waiting for power.  It was an experience that’s for sure.  Praise the Lord for gas heat or we would have frozen to death or had to find another place to stay. LOL  All the hotels (who had power) were booked up and then some.  So hubby went to the store for some  and such but everything was gone except some tiny little motif candles which we bought tons of.  We had to buy the big 5 gallon jugs of water to fill the toilet tanks up so we could still use them (we have a well which uses an ELECTRIC pump) It was like little house on the prairie at night.  ROTFL It was still pretty dark even with all the candles so we really couldn’t do much so we invented games to intertain us and the kids until bedtime,  told bible stories and just had fun talking.  It was a big realization how electronic stuff dominates our lives.  Peoplpe are always complaining that there’s just not enought time but most of it is spent sitting in front of computers, TV or video games in seperate rooms and then families just seem to drift apart that way.  Praise the Lord for Sabbath,  the one day of the week where we as a family, turn off the world for 24 hours and spend time with the Lord and our precious kids.  Most of our beautiful trees suffered terribly.  It looks like a tornado ripped through the place.  I loved the huge pine trees we had in our yard but most of them broke in half.  You can see the pictures below to see how much ice built up on the poor things.  They just couldn’t take the strain. Sigh.