Sabbath Day and Rainy Days

Count Your Blessings - Days Fifteen and Sixteen

Can I get an Amen! on being grateful for the Sabbath Day? Thank you. I couldn't make it through the weeks without a break and rest from the cares of the world, and the spiritual nourishment of going to church and worshiping with like minded people.

Today I'm grateful, as always, for rain. I enjoy rainy days, especially because I can stay home and do things like put on a quilt, make soup and cornbread, and otherwise exercise my homemaking skills. Having worked outside the home for a while I have compassion for all women who are forced by circumstance to do that; while at the same time I don't really understand the women who choose to leave home and family to work, but that's okay, the freedom to choose ones path is a blessing. I'm a homebody and like being able to set my own agenda and schedule for the work that gets done.

I was singing in the rain

"If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; Then I will give you rain in due season. . ."
(Leviticus 26:3-4)

Our prayers were answered this week with a fabulous rainstorm on Tuesday night. I've tried to find out how much rain fell but can't find a source for that information without paying, which I'm too cheap to do. So. Anyway, it was lots!

The temperature Wednesday and today, Thursday, has been so much cooler too, such a relief after the horrible heat wave of the last few weeks. We've had the windows open with a lovely breeze blowing through the house. I love the way old house have windows on all four walls so that a breeze can blow straight through. I've lived in modern houses with absolutely NO WINDOWS on the side of the house that gets the prevailing wind and find that those are the hottest, most stuffy houses. I like fresh outside air whenever I can get it.