Posted in Friends & Family, Life, Children and Dishes, Quotes, Raquel on Sep 15th, 2009 1 Comment »
This morning started well. The day didn’t look so hard, and even Theresa being gone with three of the older children all afternoon, there should be plenty of time for me to work on homework for my medical terminology class. I had visions of finding time to bake bread, and definitely to continue my [...]
Posted in All About Words, Quotes, Rants & Rambles, Raquel, Thoughts on Being Womanly on Apr 17th, 2009 5 Comments »
“The Valkyries were the shield maidens who kept the halls of heaven. Odin used women warriors as his honor guard because if he’d used men, they might have been worshiped for their own strength and skill and cunning. He could glorify himself through women warriors because he was the source of their strength and [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, I learned something new today, Life, Children and Dishes, Quotes on Nov 8th, 2008 17 Comments »
Have you ever considered flowers? Other than being pretty what purpose do they serve? Some flowers are edible, but I’m sure that their nutritional value is outweighed by the novelty of eating flowers. There are some flowering herbs that are good for flavoring food or maybe for medicinal uses, but other than these few instances [...]
Posted in Life, Children and Dishes, Quotes, Rants & Rambles, Raquel on Jun 11th, 2008 3 Comments »
Well, it’s about that time again; the time when I don’t want to bother composing an interesting blog post about my life, but have found a song which fits well with my life right now (i.e. is smacking me upside the head about something), and therefore post the lyrics for everyone to mark as read [...]
Posted in Quotes, Raquel on Oct 15th, 2007 No Comments »
This is the first part of East to West, by Casting Crowns. The rest of the lyrics are here.
Here I am, Lord, and I’m drowning in your sea of forgetfulness
The chains of yesterday surround me
I yearn for peace and rest
I don’t want to end up where You found me
And it echoes in my mind, keeps [...]
Posted in Quotes, Raquel on Sep 8th, 2007 2 Comments »
“It is my own belief…that every good and beautiful thing which man has produced in the world has been the result of his faulty and sin-blocked response to the creative Voice [of God] sounding over the earth. The moral philosophers who dreamed their high dreams of virtue, the religious thinkers who speculated about God and [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Quotes on Aug 31st, 2007 No Comments »
There is a saying that goes something like “Before enlightenment- chopping wood and hauling water. After enlightenment- chopping wood and hauling water.” It is very true.
Posted in Quotes, Raquel, Thoughts About Heaven on Jul 12th, 2007 2 Comments »
I think I found my new theme song. I’ve always wanted my own theme song, and while I’ve used, say, Ride of the Valkyrie as a temporary theme song on occasion, I’ve never found one that really fits. This one doesn’t cover all the bases either, but it seems to suit this stage of [...]
Posted in Quotes, Raquel, Thoughts About Beauty on May 7th, 2007 No Comments »
 ”There are times when it is nourishing to scrub a tub until it sparkles or wax and polish the floors until the smell of wax takes over. Polishing your brass scale until it comes up to a pale yellow shine or caring for your plants or washing a lovely piece of crystal can be a [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Quotes on Nov 28th, 2006 No Comments »
Now, I am very aware that Bob Marley was not a Christian. He was a Rastafarian. And I know that the song “Is This Love” is a romantic love song. It’s really very sweet. But even so the song still seems to apply to this household God has brought together. Especially to our relationship with [...]