Love at Home

When There's Love at Home...

Inside of our Family Room

I love the hymn, Love at Home.  When I was a girl growing up, from time to time when my siblings and I would squabble my Mom would sing this song.  I can hardly think of this song without remembering my childhood, and my Mother singing those words to us.  At the time I was bereft about it, but now it is a fond memory!!

There is beauty all around when there's love at home

There is joy in ev'ry sound when there's love at home.

Peace and plenty here abide, smiling sweet on ev'ry side.

Time doth softly sweetly glide when there's love at home.

Love at home, love at home.

Time doth softly sweetly glide when there's love at home!

In the Cottage there is Joy when there's love at home

Hate and envy ne'er annoy when there's love at home.

Roses bloom beneath our feet; all the earth's a garden sweet

Making life a bliss complete when there's love at home.

Love at home, love at home.

Making life a bliss complete when there's love at home!

Kindly Heaven smiles above when there's love at home;

All the world is filled with love when there's love at home

Sweeter sings the brooklet by; brighter beams the azure sky.

Oh, there's one who smiles on high when there's love at home.

Love at home, love at home.

Oh, there's one who smiles on high when there's love at home!

Hymns p. 294

And the Rebellious Shall be Pierced with Much Sorrow

Sorrow...

The Rebellious Shall Be Pierced With Much Sorrow

One of the most significant lessons I have ever learned is involved with the story of a prize Holstein heifer calf who got into the alfalfa, and bloated because we could not build a fence which would hold her. One day after dad had built a particularly strong fence to hold her in, I remember thinking to my self that I still hoped she would get out somehow. At that time I admired her independence and wanted her to assert herself against the best efforts of my dad. Well, she did get out and ate green alfalfa, and despite the best efforts of dad to save her, it cost her her life. I remember my feelings the next day when her body was being hauled away in the by-products truck. Her rebellion had cost her her life.

Sometimes our rebellion against authority can cost us dearly. The very things that seem to restrict our freedom are the things that ultimately assure our freedom. True freedom only comes from obedience.

D&C 1:3, And the rebellious shall be pierced with much sorrow for their iniquities shall be spoken upon the housetops, and their secret acts shall be revealed.

—Jack R. Kapp
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Family Ups and Downs

Family Changes:

 

I love these people more than any others in the world!!! I am so grateful for them. We've been through a lot together, and we continue to go through a lot together!!

So many of the trials we are experiencing, I never dreamed we would be experiencing. But here we are, in the middle of some heavy stuff that I won't go into!! I know The Lord is helping to make my burdens lighter. I know that He helps me when I turn to Him, and when I position myself to receive His help by choosing the right. If I don't make good choices, He can't help me as much, even though He wants to.

 

 

 

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