Man Does Not Live on Bread Alone

Our nightly after dinner devotions have been going through the gospel of Luke. Tonight we read the passage from Luke 4 regarding the temptation of Jesus. Our pattern with devotions is to read the passage (taking turns) and then to talk through the passage carefully to see what we can learn about Jesus (and how others respond to Him) and how we can apply it to ourselves. After this we pray specifically about the things we learned and for other requests as well. Tonight, after going through each of the temptations of Christ, we talked about how important it is to desire God more than anything, even food! (Jesus says in response to Satan, "Man shall not live by bread alone" (and of course from Matthew it continues, "but by every word that comes from the mouth of God."))

We talked about how God should be so important to us, that even breakfast should be less important! I smiled to see how sobered our children were at this thought!

Claire prayed very sweetly that the Holy Spirit would make us aware all the time if Satan was tempting us, and that we would know that Bible well enough to respond with Scripture to temptation.

What a great prayer! Please pray this for us all~

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Today I snapped a picture of my hard-working girls doing the laundry, they are learning a lot!


You know that I can't get by too many blogs without another picture from our kitchen:


Here Claire and Julia are cleaning out a pumpkin, they really enjoyed it, which made me very happy, as this was an exercise in "working well together."

Here is the pumpkin roasted, and the seeds drying to be roasted tomorrow. Right now they are each scraping out their pumpkin halves, so tune in tomorrow to see what we end up making!


Sarah was not to be outdone, and she has been dying for a long time to make this special treat (she learned to make it in Sunday School.)

Sarah's words, "This is Sarah's special treat. Sarah's loves this special treat and wants to make it 100 days." What is it Sarah? "It's cereal with brown sugar on it" How do you make it Sarah? "First, you get a big bowl that fits in the microwave. Then, you melt some butter in the big bowl. Then, you stir the melted butter. Then you add brown sugar and cinnamon, a bit of cinnamon. And then you put some cereal, 4 cups of cereal (actually 8) into the bowl. Then you stir that all up. Then you microwave it. Then you lay it out on the counter. Then, you let it set. After you let it sit for 2 hours, then you eat it!" We all loved this special treat! Good job Sarah!