Odds and Ends Online

We recently had several little things our family was in need of, and I didn't want to pay shipping for several different sources. http://www.mothernature.com/ to the rescue! And shipping was free on orders over $49.

Chillin' with Agave

All the real cooks out there may already know this, but around here, we just recently discovered that agave nectar does great in the freezer. It keeps homemade popsicles from freezing into an ice block and makes slushies more spoon-friendly. We're also having good success thus far with replacing the sugar in our ice cream recipe, though we haven't yet completely substituted one for the other.

Set Apart

Holiness does not consist in mystic speculations, enthusiastic fervours, or uncommanded austerities; it consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as God wills.

--Nineteenth-century Scottish theologian John Brown as quoted in The Pursuit of Holiness by Jerry Bridges

Dual Responsibility--Ezekiel 33:6

But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.

In Pursuit of Freedom

. . . slaves to passion cannot be free in any other significant sense

--Douglas Wilson

Ectopics

Here's a link to a very enlightening article that was first brought to my attention by its publication in the Samaritan Ministries newsletter we receive:

http://inashoe.com/2008/06/11/ectopic-pregnancy-and-the-sanctity-of-life/

The more I learn about the medical field, the more I realize the importance of asking questions.

---As a side note, I found Kim's post for today (something like "Milestones of Motherhood") very accurate for my experience thus far!

My Monkeys