Thinking and Planning

Though I don’t write about it every day, I do think about two things every day and often into the night. I wake up asking for the Lord’s grace for the day, for His grace is sufficient for me. After I get up I spend some time praying, covering those that I love and know and those that I may not have met but know they need prayer.

When the school day starts for Little Jon and me, we start with a prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. As our home schooling starts, and during the day, my life is wound around things to do now and planning for things to come. Whether lessons or hopes for the future, prayer plays a big part in the planning. There are things to be accomplished, things to be bought, people and places to see.

I do not know how people make it through a busy day without consulting the One who knows not only our past and present, but our future as well.

The Father and His Son direct our steps, but they expect us to interact with people. He uses others to bless us even as He uses us to bless others. One of the great blessings available to us here in Dallas TX is the availability of book and craft stores.  Another blessing for me is the Internet. I have been able to not only find books for my grandson’s classes, but books on gardening, poultry, and small backyard farming.

Once in a while we make a trip to the Tractor Supply Store in Mesquite TX. They have the cheapest incubator that I have found. They also keep me supplied with various magazines – some on gardening and some on poultry. I wish we had a duck/goose magazine I could subscribe to.

The poultry magazines run $7-$5. I recently found a book on chickens for a similar price: Keeping Chickens by Liz Wright. The author is from England or Australia. I like reading it because it has a slightly different perspective than American writers.