The “Gleanings” posts that I’ve been doing the last year or so have been wearing on my conscience lately.I’m not sure that going about the Pinterest portion of those posts is necessarily good blogging conduct since I’m essentially using someone else’s images to put the post together. I feel like it’s walking the line in a grey area and I’d rather “abstain from all appearance of evil” and refrain from running the risk of stealing content.
From now on these posts will be using the embedded Pinterest code. The way I’ve been doing it, if someone was searching the internet and came across a picture in one of those posts, they could pin it from my site instead of going to Pinterest and repinning it. Good for me, bad for the writer of the valuable content. The problem is that if you’re one of my cherished subscribers, you’ll have to click through to the blog to see those if I’m not mistaken. Sorry if that disappoints you or is an inconvenience. (Which is why I haven’t done it this way before now.)
I hope you continue to find value in these posts and that they are a source of inspiration and encouragement for you!
So here are some of my most popular pins from October & November:
•Preserving Food and Sanity (3 Part Series)
If you have never preserved food, give yourself time to learn this new skill. It is far better to start small, maybe with one kind of vegetable than to attempt to grow all you own food and get discouraged. I wrote about this topic in garden planning. Make small, attainable goals, learn from your mistakes and successes, and use your experience to have a better garden the next year. Eventually you will be the expert that others turn to for advice.
•A Christian Homeschool Trap- Part Two: Some Solutions
The future of many children in Christian Homeschool families is little more than sanctified humanism with goals being very much the same as those in the world, but with a Christian veneer…
Just think about it for a moment. What do your children need to learn so as to walk in the way of the Lord, God’s Word. Where do you learn the Word of God? Well, in the Word of God. Before there was curriculum and most every family had a Bible, or pieces of it, that is what they used to train their children. Yes there may have been small books people used but they were minimal and mostly biblically based. Stop and think about it for a moment. You can teach your child to read, spell and, yes with some ingenuity, even do math using God’s word. The great benefit of using the Bible is that not only will your children learn to read but also they will be sealing God’s word in their heart. That cannot be said about reading “Cat in the Hat” or “Jack and Jill”. Again, I think it is a fear that our children will be different from others around us, yes even in the church, that tends to make us balk at such a simple curriculum. But different from the world is what we want.
•I haven’t looked at the vaccination debate too much since we made our decision a decade ago… I’m appreciating the refresher course.
Vaccination Series
There are several varieties of vaccinations that contain aborted fetus cells. {In this post, I am not covering all of the vaccinations that contain these cells – there are more than what I have listed below.}
Yes. You read that right. Aborted fetus cells.
I was blown away when I found this out in my research.
You see, I am pro-life. I believe that life begins at conception. When one cell multiplies into millions of cells – it is alive. When a heart starts beating 22 days after conception – it is living. Abortion is killing a baby. Killing is murder. I cannot take part in this. A growing number of parents are finding this fetus culture fact, and are outraged that the information has not been disclosed to them before. In the vaccination ingredient list, the aborted cells are referred to as “human diploid tissue”, thus admitting that they have killed a human.
•Joe vs. Joel GMO Debate video- I actually haven’t watched yet, but heard some really thought-provoking excerpts that make it seem like it would be worth the time to see Dr. Mercola debate Joel Salatin.
•If This, Then That
I have been using this website for a few months now and love it! And I’m not even using it to it’s fullest extent- only for searching Craigslist. Basically, what I’m doing is creating “recipes” with a Craigslist search that I’m looking for. For example, right now I have one for mulch hay, a few different breeds of heritage hogs (I don’t recommend searching for Large Black hogs this way though, just saying), and Bernese Mountain dog. This is how I found my treadle machine that I hope to restore this winter. So whenever someone posts an ad with one of these items in it, I get an email sent to me.
What a time saver! Now I don’t have to remember what I want and keep going back to search for it. The work is done for me. I love valuable internet tools like this!
•The Two Ways
For a while after Chloe was born (pretty much until I became pregnant again) I struggled with postpartum depression- a first for me. It was awful and I hope never to feel that way again, but if I do I’m putting this sermon into my arsenal and will use the preached word to fight against it! I couldn’t possibly recommend listening to this enough if you are going through a period of depression yourself or sharing with a Christian who you know is.
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