Homemaking

Connie's Kitchen

 

{From the Archives of Connie's Letters. September 19, 2007.}

 

Dear Mothers, 

 The Fall it seems is the time the Lord always calls so many of us back to the usual comfort foods that we have a lot of the year..Whenever I think of my family I think of how I started many comfort meals with a pound of hamburger. . Even if we were having company the meat portion remained the same..a pound of hamburger. . . I could be generous with the potatoes and beans or corn etc but the meat was a small amount. . I would make a lot of biscuits and gravy and vegetable soup with hamburger . . One favorite meal I made with wieners was this. . I would get out my big cast iron skillet and fry a pound of hot dogs. . You could fry onions and peppers in too. . the wieners, whole not cut up, and the onions in rounds. . Then when the meat was brown I would pour about 3 cans of pork and beans over this, drained. Then stir in about a fourth cup of brown sugar and a fourth cup of ketchup and a squirt of mustard. And lots of Black Pepper for Papa. . and salt. . Then bake this in the oven for about a half hour at medium heat. . 

Ya know, left over baked beans is good in sandwiches. . Back in the Depression Era? Meat was sometimes hard to come by unless your husband was a hunter. . So since beans had protein like meat the housewives used a lot of beans for meals. . I once read of a Depression era sandwich that I tried and love it to this day. . I eat it often. . You take some bread and spread some mayo on it and the left over baked beans. . You put a slice of onion on it and some lettuce and a slice of tomato. . This is my favorite sandwich. . But during the summers on the farm many families had all the vegetables and fruits they could eat. . So this was a wonderful Depression era summer lunch..

Wild man used to eat radish sandwiches with butter on them or salad dressing.  . He didn't like mayonnaise. . I liked it but never got any until after the kids were raised and left home. . For years I never got to drink instant tea unless we went some place as I couldn't afford it when the kids were home. .To belt out 3 bucks or so then for a jar of instant tea was out of the question.. I mean once in a while if we had extra money I got some instant tea but that wasn't often. . I made a lot of sun tea in those days..

I made sure, as the Depression era mothers did, to always splurge on Papa's coffee.  He didn't ask for a lot but I wanted to always run ahead of him and get him a name brand coffee to please him.. He deserved it and it took a lot out of him to work for all of us..So I tried to always have hot brewed coffee for him each morning before he went to work. Or on cold evenings if he was home late he knew Mama and the coffee would be warm at home waiting for him. . .

Most of my life I am waiting for Papa. . And now I am waiting to see him in heaven.  "I love you Papa if you are reading this. . . I am tryin to honor your memory and be an example to the kids." 

Love Connie

 

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Old Time Country Mothers

Connie's Kitchen

 {From the Archives of Connie's Letters, September 2008.}

Dear Mothers,

Good Morning. I have been thinking lately about my Aunt Eileen's farm. . I remember when the beans from her garden were coming on in the summertime. . The farm women were always up early in the morning for chores. But in the afternoon they would all sit around the TV. . .  watching Soap Operas and snapping green beans to can when the soaps were over.

Gram lived in a little house on the farm property. . So she would help with the canning too. . Mom used to say, "Your Grandma would roll over in her grave if she saw how bad the soap operas of today have gotten." And oh yeah she would have.  I remember when I was about 7 and the Honey Mooners were first on TV. . Gram Canaday would stay in the kitchen but would say, loud enough for the family to hear it. ."He doesn't need to talk to her like that." Meaning how Jackie Gleason spoke to his wife. . . Gram thought the Honey Mooners was a dirty show. . Gram probably never tasted any kind of fermented beverage in her life. . Soda pop was a stretch for her. . She never drank that either. . Never wore lipstick. .When my mom and her sisters came home with fingernail polish on, their dad tried to wash it off with soap and water.

The housewives back when I was growing up wouldn't even wear shorts hardly at all, no matter how hot the summer was. . If they did have shorts on and someone talked them into going to town for something, they would say, "Well let me change clothes. . I wont wear shorts to town."

My mother wouldn't wear any colors that were bright when I was growing up. . She did later on as the styles changed. . But she would say. ."I wont wear orange, it is too loud". . Loud colors were colors that brought attention to the woman. .Women were to be quiet and lady-like and always under control.

Love Connie

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Mother is Keeper of Christmas

Connie's Kitchen

 

{From the Archives of Connie's Letters. December 22, 2009.}

 

Mother is keeper at home, and keeper of Christmas. . . The guardian angel of home.

  I have heard families say, after the old fashioned mother died,"Why doesn't anyone want to get together for Christmas anymore?" Well in the old days, Mother always brought everyone together. She would invite everyone home for the holidays. When she died, then an older sister would carry on the family tradition.. But someone always took on the role as guardian of the home and family. Someone would take the role of Mother and gather the family up and love them and call them home. 

 I remember back as a child. . I mean on Christmas? You had Christmas with the family. . . And Mom invited family and anyone around us who needed a place to come for Christmas.  If I asked to bring someone no one knew, Mom would say, "Well sure, tell 'em to come on ahead.  Everyone is welcome."

Oh the women cooked and cooked.  The aunts brought pies galore. We children couldn't wait for Christmas. The families back then were so fenced into family and traditions. . Mother made sure that each year the traditions were followed to the letter. . Mother was the keeper of family traditions. And we children knew what to expect and that made us feel content and happy and loved.

On Christmas eve, we children got to open one present. Then on Christmas morning we opened our other gifts. . About a week before Christmas, one of the aunts or my mother would have the Christmas dinner and Christmas gift exchange for the relatives. But the eve of Christmas and Christmas day was private, Just my Dad and Mom and we kids. It was a sacred day for just us. Mom and Dad weren't religious. But in our home, family was very important.

And ya know family traditions wont just show up and hit ya over the head.They have to be planned and decided on by the mother in the home. Almost like making a covenant with God to be faithful to love your family. . . To show Christian love and care. . And some families don't have a strong mother to take this role. And so we as wives need to take up this place.. and be the keepers of Christmas Homes.

Can we pretend to adore Baby Jesus in the manger at Christmas and not love our brothers and sisters who are right in front of us? Dear Keepers at home, let's somehow, this year, put our Aprons on and make a Christmas for our loved ones. . Let's build some landmarks of traditions like walls of protection for our children.  Isn't this how we would truly worship the living Christ and remember His birthday? By loving one another and serving those who He died for?

 Let's celebrate His life with love and a heart warming home. . A home where Mother is keeper of Christmas.

 

Love Connie

 

 

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Peace in the Home

Connie's Kitchen

{From the Archives of Connie's Letters. October 6, 2009.}

  Ya know Jim and I went through Hell and high water, but the end of our married lives was peace.  No we didn't have perfect lives around here but we were happy.  

Oh my gosh we were poor. . . We ate lots of cornbread and biscuits and gravy, Gobs of mashed potatoes and every meal began with one pound of hamburger.  Mary still says I make hamburgers like no one else.  Well I always used the hamburger with all the fat in it, it was cheaper. . The kids now - days buy more lean meat.  Man we lived on fat.  All of my kids were thin and Jim too.  I got fatter as the kids got older.  But I was always really thin when the kids were babies.

But we as wives need to learn to be wives again and old-fashioned mothers. We are called to be home and to pray for our families.  We are to be raising priests and prophets and handmaidens for God.

We live in a rotten society.  But that doesn't mean that the Bible has changed, Or that God changed His mind on a wife's call to domestication and holiness.  

And it don't matter if the adult kids are livin' like Hell.  Who cares, we are to pray for them until they get it right.  We gotta get in the dirt with 'em and help them out.  Fear screams at us that we cant do that.  But yeah we were sinners once so we can get down in the dirt with the kids.  Well God can't.  He is holy.  But He expects us to have mercy on our own flesh and blood.  It don't matter how old they are.

Oh I want to say so much to you wives and moms as a Titus 2 mother.  I want to teach you to be equipped for every good work.  I just wanna say, "Don't look at the world and what it is doing in this age. Just do what the Word says even though it may seem out of date, it isn't. The teachings in the Word for women are true.  It says we are to be chaste, discreet keepers at home. 

Be pure in all things.  Do what is right dear moms. Give your lives to the Lord and serve Him.  Be missionaries in your homes.  Raise your children for the Lord with whatever you have.  Be Marys and Elisabeths. . . Sarahs and Ruths.  Let these Bible prophetess' be your examples. Draw and woo your husbands through prayer to be men of God.  Be their sword bearers and helpers.  Pray for them until you see His glory."

Love Connie

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All of My Children are Taught of the Lord (Difficulty of Motherhood)

Connie's Kitchen

{From the Archives of Connie's Letters. February 7, 2010.}

 

 

Part 1 -  "Dear Mothers"

 

 Dear Mothers,

Well a storm is coming again.  We missed the last one. . . I have to go to the store. . I need to make sure I have the wash done in case the power goes out.

This winter has been, um, snowy?  Yesterday Mary called on her way to work. She lives about 15 miles from town. So she usually calls me on her way into town.  I told her the news about Sissy.  And I said, "Your Sister still does her shopping at the Salvation Army.". . Mary said sadly. . . "Mom, we don't even have a Salvation Army in our town."  I said, "You're a Hultquist and you have no Salvation Army near you? That's almost a crime."

I have told the story about the wheel chair at the S.A...But I need a good laugh.  One time when Mary was about 10 we were all at the S.A. And Mary got tired of looking . . . So she went to the back of the store and sat in this old wheel chair to wait for us. . Well this Christian man was back there and he began to talk to Mary. . He told her that he knew it must be hard to be sick and in a wheel chair. . . Mary was so shy she didn't say anything.  Pretty soon it was time to go and Jim yelled for the kids to go. . . .Mary, of course, jumped out of the wheel chair and ran for the door. . . That poor astonished man probably thought she got healed or something.  Mary told all of us the story later on.  I told Mary she should have just said she was resting in the wheel chair waiting for her family. . . But Mary just stayed quiet. . . What a girl.

Another funny story was this:  Jim would pull into the Salvation Army parking lot and give the kids a lecture before he allowed them out of the car. . . He had given them each a couple bucks to spend. . . He would say to the kids,"Now when I say you can go?  Don't you all start running like crazy people for the door.". . But when he said they could go. . . "GO" they would!!! You could hear the pounding of running shoes on the pavement. . Like a fast herd of buffalo they would stampede for the S.A. 

Sis always told me,"Mom some day I want to work for the Salvation Army so I can get all the good stuff when it first comes in."  When Sis first came to NYC she would go to the S.A. and buy clothes and she would then sell the clothes at the Vintage Stores. . If you have an eye for what people like you can make some pretty good money doing that.  The first dresses she created were from old prom dresses she got from the S.A. . Jimmy lived in NY at the time too.  He said he would see women walk by down-town in prom dresses Sis had made over from the Salvation Army.  They were women who normally wore the most expensive designer dresses. Jimmy said he laughed his head off when he saw these women walk by.

Mary has a real eye too for style.  But she is much more country . . She loves the long flowing skirts and dresses.  She loves to decorate at home.  Mary's look is more Wild West. . Well sometimes, and other times not. 

Both girls could make it no matter where they were.  Sis said she would have died in NYC had she not known how to make corn bread.  And she said she lived on beans and rice too, and lentils. When she first went to NY she said she was so amazed at the pan-handlers. . She felt bad for them until she saw their expensive tennis shoes and red and green hair. . She said she thought, "Dad worked at anything and supported all of us kids. . These kids can find a job too." Sis told everyone about her Dad working and taking care of all of us on a very small wage. .

 

 
Part 2 -  "All of My Children are Taught of the Lord and Great is Their Peace"

 

And no, I didn't want Sis to run off to NYC. . . My Christian friends comforted me with a serious tone,"Don't worry Connie, she will be back. A lot of kids run to NYC after high school . .but very few ever make it in NY.  Its expensive and she won't be able to keep up with the big guns there. She will be glad to get back home." 

But as time has gone on Sis has stayed. . I had cried and prayed she would come home but she didn't. Somehow I raised her to dream and to see beyond the natural . . And at this point this is how it has played out in her life.  Now Dan is with her in NY.  He lives up the street. I wonder what he will do. Dan makes his own way too.  He works at whatever he can to pay rent. But his dream is his music. .  . I am happy to say that my kids work for what they need. Mary is pregnant ya know? And she will stay home once she has her baby. Mary is so happy.  What a miracle she is. My dream come true. There is such JOY when she phones me. How happy I am for her.  If she has a girl she is naming her middle name after me, Elizabella Constance {Connie}. . . If its a boy he will be named after Jim,"James Russel." Russel after Brads middle name.  Mary is so full of joy.  I tell her, "Mary I am so happy for you to have such a joyful thing happen to you.  God is so good.". . She and Brad are such miracles.

But boy has it been wild raising these 6 kids. .  . Its like a wild circus ride that you can't get off of. . . You yell at the guy running the ride every time you ride by him. . . "Stop this thing I want off." But he smiles and acts like he can't hear you. . And you yell, "Stop the world I want to get off." But you keep going round and round and round and round. . .

 

 Part 3 -  "Through the Valley of the Shadows"

 

 And ya know Mary Lehman my mentor taught me so much about loving my children. The older Titus mother was to teach the younger mothers to love their children.  Mary L. would tell me so often,"Connie just love those kids. . . They will do ok.". . Well I think in the old days if a kid acted up you threw 'em out as soon as they could work, and be on their own.  A rebellious son could throw the whole family off, or a daughter too. . But now a days its pretty dangerous to do that.

Jim's and my way was to walk with the kids through the Valley of the Shadows of Death.  In other words, you stay in touch with your prodigal. . . Even though you don't want to. . . Its hard when you have a kid that is hell bent to go nuts and drive everyone else nuts too.  For a Mother, its like running into a burning building to talk with a person who is calling you names. Been there and done that.  But ya know I was never willing to let the devil have one of my kids, not one.  

And no.. me and my happy band of Pinocchios are not very good examples of Christian living. . . My face is red as a beet.  Jim is tucked away in Heavenly Glory so I can't blame him for why all the kids do what they do.

But like Mary L. always told me,"Connie love is the answer," I never really got that as a young mom. But I get it better now. . . Its hard but I get it.  I read one other comment when I Googled my name the other day. . . one Lady said, "Well you can't help but love those Hultquists." I think of that often.  As my face is red and I am scared to death, I think of my life as a widow. . . How imperfect we Hultquists are.  But you-alls love, I think, has been a real healing to me.  Hopefully in our imperfections you can't help but love us. . .

 

Love Connie

 

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Little Housewife Booklets

Connie's Kitchen

{From the Archives of Connie's Letters. April 29, 2011.. 6:22 a.m.}

 

Dear Sisters at Home...

 

This morning I was thinking of the lil magazines I got at our Antique Shops here in our town. . It was when I was a young wife and Mother. . 

They were from the United States Government.  It was during WW2 when they used food coupons to ration out the food. . There wasn't enough food to go around as they needed it for the soldiers in the war. . So anyway, about once a month the Gov. sent out these lil magazines telling the housewife how to use less sugar and other staples. . Because for example .  . the store would get just a certain amount of sugar, So the housewife could only buy maybe 3 pounds of sugar for the month.  So these lil mags would tell the lady of the house how to substitute honey and not use so much sugar. 

These women used to cook with a lot of raisins. . . And the raisins would be the sweetness in her cookies or muffins. . . Of course the folks who lived on a farm fared so much better than the city people, as they could hunt for game and have bigger gardens etc. . 

The little magazines were 2 bucks, back then, when I bought them at the Antique Shop.  So I could only afford one here and there.  But oh how I loved those lil mags. And I would say to the Lord, as I would read them, "Lord I so wish, now days, the Gov. would still send out these magazines to encourage the mothers."

 

Love Connie

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Homemade Housewife Book

Connie's Kitchen

{From the Archives of Connie's Letters. May 11, 2010.}



  I used to write my housework ideas down.  If you can make an old fashioned, housewifery book. . . it will come in handy. . . Maybe just take notebook paper and bind it with ribbon or brown string.  Make a cover for it out of maybe a brown sack.  On a Sunday night, in the evening, write ideas for the following week of housewifery.  

Make a general idea of a 7 day menu, mainly for the family meal for each day. . . Such as Monday:  goulash. Tuesday: hot dogs and beans, etc,. Just a general idea.  Then write a grocery list for your week . . Then top clean each day and do deep cleaning after naps. .  . from like 2:00 to 4:00.

 Have a special project like Monday: wash bedding. Tuesday: do extra baking, etc,.  But write down each day what the special project would be.  Just make a schedule of ideas and try to follow them or bounce off of them.  If you get distracted, at least you still have your housewifery ideas to look back on.  

  And ya know, I am just making suggestions.  If you try some of these ideas and you can't get them to work, just tweak them to fit your life.

  Basically top clean in the mornings and get the family meal started by 9:00 a.m. and the kitchen cleaned.  Then fix lunch and rest with the children.  Then, in the afternoon, do your special project, like sewing or doing extra baking, or cleaning out closets, or under your bed.  Or a special day to do extra gardening, or paint the porch.  

But by like 4:00 start supper.  Then free time after supper to do family things.  Then put the children to bed with plenty of kisses and hugs and prayers.



Love Connie



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Easter Preparations



{From the Archives of Connie's Letters. April, 2014.}


Part 1  (Easter Preparations) (April 12, 2014)

Dear Mothers, 

I am up in the night writing. . . Aunt Tootsie came early afternoon yesterday to help me with some Easter preparations....We had a good time..Then we had a pizza delivered for supper. . 

I had made a Pumpkin Cake too. .This is how I made it. . I used a yellow cake mix, 2 eggs and a can of pumpkin, and a cup of raisins. . I just put the canned pumpkin in a bowl and added the 2 eggs and I beat this up with a spoon. .Then I added the dry cake mix to the eggs and pumpkin and I stirred this good.  . last of all I added the cup of raisins. . Also for spices, I added Pumpkin Spice and extra cinnamon. . . Just stir this up really good ..Then pour this cake mixture into a big oiled baking pan...and bake at 350 degrees until it is done.. about a half hour...To see if the cake is done, I just stick a paring knife in it..or a tooth pick ...if the knife comes out clean, then it is done..

Anyway Mary's family is coming for Easter and David's family. . Then some family friends too. .We will have a ham and mashed potatoes. . My 2 brothers will come with their families. . Everyone brings food to go along with the ham dinner. . 

We always have a good time. . Hopefully we will have a sunny warm day. What are you all having for Easter? 

Mothers, just walk by faith. . No one's family is perfect . . Just cook up a nice dinner for Easter. . If your husband is gone, just make your dinner as if he will come in the door any minute.  . Don't be sad. . its Easter. . Jesus was raised from the dead. . Nothing is impossible with God !!! Love Connie

 Praise God. . Jesus is Alive !!!


Part 2  (Psalm 91: Under the Shadow of His Wings.) (April 17, 2014)

Dear Mothers, 

Yesterday I was going into the store and something strange happened.  . . First I have to say I was soooooo tired ...I had gone to the Dollar Store and now needed to get some groceries for Easter. . 

But on the way into Aldies, I thought I saw a big eagle or something fly over. . I could see the shadow of his wings on the pavement. . But I couldn't see any bird anywhere. . 

Aunt Toot, after hearing my story, said "Connie maybe it was an angel.." Jill said, after I told her,"You were under the shadow of His wings.." The scripture that I thought of was, They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. . They shall mount up on wings as the eagle. . They shall run and not be weary and walk and not faint.


Part 3  (A Lovely Easter) (April 21, 2014)

This morning I am sitting here wondering how on earth I did what I did yesterday with Easter dinner. . When everyone got here I had most things done.  Usually I need a lot of HELP !!

"Tiffany" my sweet girl.  . David's wife said, "Well Connie, last year when we came you didn't even have the ham in the oven yet". . I had forgotten that.  . I have come a long ways since last Easter. . And the Easter before that, my brother had Easter at his house. . 

For you who don't know, I was diagnosed with Parkinsons. . But I am fighting it and believing God for a HEALING in Jesus name. . 

Tiff brought the mashed potatoes and the green bean casserole. . . and dinner rolls. . I bought an apple pie and I made Easter cupcakes for dessert. . My brothers brought deviled eggs and a relish plate. . . and I baked the ham. . When the ham was done, I had my brother Kirk slice the ham up and I made ham gravy. . . it was too salty. . Next time I will use less broth and more milk to make the gravy. 

But I am super grateful to the Lord for helping me and giving me a supernatural strength. . Jesus is our healer. . . He sure healed my marriage and he can heal all of us ..No matter what it is. . .

Love Connie

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Christmas Time

{From the Archives of Connie's Letters. December 8, 2007.}


Many years ago when I had a lil 5 year old boy, we got kicked out of our apartment just before Christmas. . A church moved us to another apartment, thank the Lord. . And when we got there, we had no food.  It was a sad time. 


I remember my lil boy telling the landlady, that threw us out, . . "It's almost my Birthday."  I sat at the window in my new apartment and looked out . . I spoke to Jim out there somewhere in that snowy world. . . "Where are you, Jim? It's almost Christmas."  


I just thought, "Why Lord ..why haven't you answered my prayers?" God knew ahead of time what my life would be like. . I was so devastated, but the Lord knew my future. . He had it in His hands. . The Lord couldn't even tell me the glorious answers to prayer that I was about to see in the years ahead. . .


Had an angel come to see me and told me my future, I wouldn't have believed it.  But I was to go on and see 26 more years of a healed marriage. . I was to spend 26 of the most glorious Christmases I could ever imagine.


I was to see my beloved husband give his heart and life to Christ. . I was to have 5 more children. . I didn't know how good God was. .  . I was to give my story of a healed marriage, not just to my state of Iowa, but around the world. . I didn't know the goodness of God or his power. . I wasn't even a writer then. . I was young, just 25 years old. . The world just looked at me and Jim as 2 accidents going some place. . 


Years later, after the Lord gave us a miracle, a lady who was a politician's wife came to me for counseling. . She paid me to counsel her. . She was a dear saint. . That was mind boggling to me. 


 Now at this Christmas time, in the natural, looks so bleak to me.  I think back to that snowy Christmas years ago when all seemed lost. . . . And I think of how God made it all up to me and gave me double blessings. . He gives us exceeding and abundantly more then we can think or ask. . 


 As you follow Christ you will see His glory.  . Decide that you will not be defeated and that you will not quit. .


love Connie

 

 

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Warm and Happy Kitchens

 {From the Archives of Connie's Letters. Fall 2006.}

Mothers who have busy warm kitchens and happy hearts can make good bread.  Your yeast is alive and loves to be warm and active. I think old houses seem to make good bread. I think it is because of all of the other yeasts in the house.  Yeast is in the air and a housewife can learn to harness and use whatever yeast she needs. Like a sour dough starter is harvesting yeast for bread and rolls.

I know this house is loaded with yeast of all kinds. The Old time mothers knew all of this and used what she had to make her food.  But I usually tell a young mom that if she can’t make a good family bread then it was because she didn’t love it enough.

A happy kitchen with steaming soup simmering on the stove and the coffee pot perking is a joyful place to make bread. Your bread won’t rise in a cold kitchen and if is too hot it will die.

The old time mothers used to sing in their kitchens. An old friend of mine used to say that her Mom always sang a certain song when she made bread. When she got done with all of the verses then she knew the bread had been kneaded enough.

My friend thought as a child that the song was a part of the recipe. So when she grew up and was a young bride in her own kitchen she thought she had to sing the same song. So she did!

In the old days when the family needed to be cheered up, mother seemed to be the inspiration to get them up and going.  Mother would announce, “Well, you all are hungry so I will fix supper.” 

Maybe the afternoon was quiet and not much going on. But as mother would get up to put her apron on things would begin to move about again.  She would scurry the children about to pick up their games and get ready for supper.  She would tell the boys to bring in the wood for her cook stove and some for the fireplace.  Mama would tell the girls to help peel potatoes. Pretty soon the family would smell Mamas biscuits and fried meat on the stove.

Last of all before the family sat down to supper Mother would stir the gravy. As she stirred she would tell the girls to set the table and slice the bread, Light the lamp on the table and call Papa in for supper.

Meal time was an event, a time to fellowship with the family. After supper mother would set out a starter for bread making the next day.  After the supper dishes were done and the girls dried them and put them away, the table was cleared and Mother got out her mending. Papa read the evening paper and the children played games and did  homework.

The winter kitchen was the warmest place in the house and the family stayed in there and kept warm.

Is your kitchen warm?

 Love, Connie

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Angels Unaware - Take Care of Your Husband

 {From the Archives of Connie's Letters, July 2012.}

Mary L. used to tell me about her mother... She would tell me how they were homesteaders in South Dakota.... She said that her Mother loved her Dad so much.. And that she took excellent care of him...

Her Mother always fixed wonderful meals for him even when she and her husband were old.  Mary said one time, after she was married, she had come home to visit her folks.. And the next morning she wanted her mother to sit and watch a show on tv with her..  But her mother said she wanted to be like Jesus and minister  to her husband.."Jesus has come to serve"..Mary said she never forgot that.. 

Mary always had a servant's heart.. Mary told me that her mother told this story in the old days about a stranger that came to their house ..  Her Mother served this man a meal and then he went on his way.  But this stranger told her mother that her dad would live a long life because her Mother took such good care of him..

Mary's dad lived well past 90 yrs old.. Mary and her mom thought this man was an angel unaware..

Love Connie

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Religious Feminism

 {From the Archives of Connie's Letters, December 2012.}


Part 1


Dear Stay at Home Mothers,

What a privilege it is for me to write to you...What a privilege it is to have inspiration ... I felt for a while I was losing the anointing to write...And when Nancy Campbell who writes the magazine Above Rubies ask me to update my testimony "Bring Him Home"I felt I had nothing to say.. I felt like a little girl on stage with nothing but a feeling of being totally blank.. I felt completely empty.. But lately the Lord is encouraging me.. And He is letting me feel the rain drops of blessings. . but for the Showers I plead. .I sit in a place this morning to be able to influence a lot of Mothers in their Homes.. and I am gonna do it if it kills me.. And it is surely easier with an anointing. .But I am gonna write with or without an anointing.. And it is my privilege ..it is my blessing. . and I thank God for it. .And I will write until you all say you don't need me anymore...

I stayed in my marriage when it was hard..and you can too.. We don't have to give up..Yes the economy in our country is bad...Yes the morals in our country make me heart sick too.. Everywhere we look it seems there is no hope.. But I didn't give up on my marriage and I wont give up on my country either. .The Word says IF MY PEOPLE WHO ARE CALLED BY MY NAME WILL HUMBLE THEMSELVES AND PRAY THEN I WILL HEAL THEIR LAND. . .

France once said .."To change a country we need good mothers.." Feminism and especially religious feminism is one of the worst curses on our country today.  .Mother is encouraged to leave home and get a job .. Feminism is an unholy blazing fire that seems to have left a lot of women amazed in their tracks. .  They are paralyzed with FEAR..They have forgotten to do what is right...

This Fire of fear has an unholy smoke that seems to be able to go where it desires to go. .And it leaves abandoned crying children in her paths.. Crying neglected children ... Starving neglected children ..even in our country..

Part 2

"If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."
- 2 Chronicles 7:14

This scripture promises us that our land of America can be healed..If we as Mothers seek His face and turn from our wicked ways..We need to pray for our husbands and our children..We need to rise when it is yet dark and pray and prepare spiritual meat for our households. .  We need to live in a quiet submission to our husbands..and let our works of righteousness be our testimonies..We need to let our husbands take spiritual authority in our homes..And yet we need to seek the Lord ourselves not just use our husbands for yes and no answers...We need to speak to our husbands out of a meek and quiet heart..when God tells us its the right time to speak ....Yes the Feminist will tell you that you are an idiot to not make your own rules..

Well I will say to the feminist.."So how is that workin' out for ya"? The feminists have nearly destroyed our country..the religious ones especially...How has this plan of the religious women in authority helped our children..? our families ? No it has been our destruction. . And it seems so many men have just given up on themselves as heads of the home..its easier to let their wives take over..It may be easier but there will be a Hell and a destruction to pay in the end..

Part 3

 We Mothers need to fight our battles in our aprons..What if we could each be a Suzanna Wesley in our homes ..Suzanna's husband was a lot of the time in debtors prison. .She lost what ? i think 8 of her 19 children in death. . And yet she managed to cause revival in her country of England through her 2 sons she raised for the Lord. . John Wesley was an evangelist and Charles was the song writer..

Love Connie

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Living by Faith

{From the Archives of Connie's Letters. May, 2013.}

Part 1


I feel my writing is very important ... How could any Christian mother look at our precious country and not be moved to do something to help our America back up. .

We older Mothers are to help the younger moms to stay home . .

We need to be examples to them.  As we encourage the young moms, then we help them to make decent homes for the children.

Feminism is such an unholy spirit . . It slaps the face daily of innocent children. . Nothing hurts like watching your family break up. .My greatest heartache lately is that I haven't been able to write .. But the Lord God is making a way for me where there is no way. .

Ya know lately I have been looking through my MARY JANE'S FARM magazines..T hey have a lot of ideas about old fashioned housekeeping etc..  When Jim was healed he started to work steady. . And hey I knew I had to do some radically different things if I planned on making it. . At first Jim only had minimum wage jobs. .One job he had they expected him to work over time and they paid him half the wage for overtime. .So if he made 4 bucks an hour, and if he worked 2 hrs over, then he only got paid 2 bucks an hour for the over time.  . instead of 6 dollars ... Crazy stuff.. But he had a job..and that was wonderful..

The Word of God says that there is gain in all labor.. If you love the Lord and you are working for His glory then the Lord will reward you for your labor. .I just thought, "Ya know God has given me these children and He expects me to take what I have and buy food for them." The Lord never let us down.. .I always had what I needed to feed my family..

Part 2

I think so often of the Depression era mothers.. But the mothers coming up in our country, when its all said and done. may just outrun the Depression era mothers.   I mean the 1930's presented some very hard times.. Still. .with God all things are possible. . If I had a houseful of children right now and I didn't know how to garden or cook from what I had in the house. . I would be learning how. .

I remember going to the store with about 10 bucks to last for the the rest of the week. . I bought about 3 pounds of hamburger and a big sack of potatoes.. and I think I bought a chicken...and that was it.. But now for you ladies everything has gone up sky high. .and the wage law hasn't gone up as much.. .You all have a lot to believe God for. .Every wise woman builds her house and the foolish tear it down with her hands.

God is with us dear mothers.. No matter how much money we have or how little.. . He is able to help us to make it and care for our children. . . With Health care the way it is in our country, we better keep our eyes on Jesus.. .Our President says we are no longer a Christian nation...That breaks my heart..But each of we moms who ARE Christians can make a difference. .we need to encourage each other.. So often I get emails from mothers who read my testimony. .they say "I never could have made it without your testimony.." it kills me inside .. I feel I am so inadequate.. But I just keep peddling along. .and I hope you girls will keep peddling along too. .we all have something to give and to encourage each other with..

Love Connie

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Missionary at Home

{From the Archives of Connie's Letters, May, 2009.}

 
Ya know i have told you all many times how when Jim got saved it was a new life for us,,Jim wanted to just care for his family and do what was right,,He struggled a lot with his bad temper and his jobs,,But he some how kept working ..at many different jobs,,Ya know by the time he was really healed i was a basket of missing marbles,,i had my own demons of fear to battle,,And i couldn't very well ask him to pray for me as i didn't want to reveal my fear that he would leave again,And i wasn't able to tell others either as they were wondering if he was really healed this time too,,So i suffered a really lonely Hell on earth,,i cud tell no one but Jesus ,,And finally He set me free of my fears,,And Jim was truly healed by the blood of Jesus.

 This morning as i thought of Mother Theresa i thought of how i too had to lay down my life for Jesus ..,,i knew i cud wreck Jim's healing had i revealed the terror i felt inside,,i knew God had done a work and i knew i cud make or break the miracle,,God was building me a spiritual house to bless my family..Cud i live in it,,and have the 3 more children He had promised me,,? I chose to walk as Mother Theresa did.

i saw myself as a missionary in my home..i had worn my hair sort of long and layered,,feathered ya know ..But i decided to let it grow and i wore a bandanna around my hair,,i kept it clean and brushed but hidden so i wouldn't be worried about it,i was busy let me tell you,,i cooked mostly from scratch,,Well i have told you how we went off all government help,,i went from having 500 bucks a month to having 200 a month to spend on food,,But i had counted the cost of the life i had decided to live ..And some how i decided i wouldn't turn back,,And this meant not buying new shoes for myself for yrs,,i was so busy at home i never knew what was going on in the neighborhood, ,or with friends or anything, But i had decided to be a missionary in my home,,i put down what i wanted and exalted the Lord,,i put my needs last,,We had so little ,,What kind of mother would ask for something when her little ones needed warm snowsuits for winter? i remember praying for warm socks and mittens for them,,But should i have said “Well God wants me to have the best of everything.. i am not living like this,,living poor is for the unbeliever” Heck no ,,God gives us a set of circumstances to live out,,Can He trust us to be poor if that's the hand the world has given us?..Not always the question is “Can we trust the Lord”? But can He trust us as wives and mothers? in a less then perfect life.

And growing up my family was middle class,,Dad always had nice cars for our family and a nice home,,Dad always had a good job..But i had decided to live in submission to what my husband cud give me,,i submitted to my husband as unto the Lord,,Jim had taken his place as priest of the home,,and i wanted to obey God as the virtuous wife and mother,,i became a missionary in my home,,And this was as important as going to a foreign country to give my life for Christ,Some of us are called to walk in hard places right now,,But lets show His glory in this place,,Lets not give up until we see His glory,,When our faith is tested in fire and we come out with no smell of smoke upon us then His glory will shine upon us ..and we will glorify God..
love Connie.

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Feminine Desperados

{From the Archives of Connie's Letters, April 2010.}

Part 1 "Feminine Desperados"

Good Morning Ladies,,i woke up this morning not wanting to write,,Actually i
wanted to run over the hill..i felt like i have led you ladies into the
desert to die,,Wendy you prolly think i have been terrible..i hope i can
sorta explain..The Lord led me as He finally got me outta bed to again read
this book i have..Mary Elisabeth gave this book to me at Christmas,,i have
told you about it before,,the book is called WOMEN OF THE CIVIL WAR,,Of
course the author of this book calls the heroines of these stories
"feminists",,But the women themselves wud twirl in their graves if they thot
someone called them that,,These women were true to their families for the
most part..Why is it if a woman is a bit wiley or industrious she is called
a feminist ? Chrissy Joy my girl who lives in NYC says "Well Mom you were a
feminist,,You had to be to do all you did " Well no i just followed the
Lord,,ON our Radio Show Aunt Toot wants to interview me one of these
days,Toot knows me and knows just what to ask me to get me goin,,it shud be
a fun interview,But may God help us,,i am prayin an hour a day for this
Radio thing,,Only God can help us,,,But anyway i want to tell you all about
some of these women of the Civil War,,The feminine Desperadoes were the spys
for either side,,One woman who hit the newspapers was an actress who turned
spy..Her name was Pauline Cushman,,She was almost hung but escaped,,When the
wives men went to war some of the women went with them,,To me this is as
today,,Many husbands are fighting spiritual wars,,Just because some of us
are not getting shot at that doesnt mean we are not in a war,,We are in a
Spiritual War with unseen forces,,Satan is tearing up family homes with both
hands,,Satan is out to destroy our homes ..

Part 2 "Fanny Ricketts"

Ok heres the story on Fanny and her work in the Civil War,,When her husband
Captain James Ricketts was taken as a wounded prisoner , Fanny went with
him,,She became a prisoner too in order to be a nurse to her husband,,She
nursed him back to health several times as he was captured,,And many of the
other wives did this also,,Some brot their children,,Some became cooks for
the army so they cud watch over the health of their husbands,,They made sure
if they were wounded that they got the food they needed,,The wives didnt
just stand by and watch their husbands die,,The mother of the home was her
families counselor..and nurse,,Of course the mothers with lil babies had to
stay behind to care for the children,,They wud have died in an army
camp..But then some of the wives had lost their homes and so continued to
follow the army camps with their children,It wasnt easy anyway you word
it,,Cant ya just see one of those wives sayin,,"Well i cant take this,,i am
gettin a divorce,," Well in a war you lose it seems either way,,A divorce
only makes it all worse,,if you are doing without now,,you will have less
after a divorce,,The name of the game is patience,,Wait on God..If ya wanna
make the devil mad and upset his game?Smile sweetly the next time you fall
into diverse temptations,,But anyway,,no,,Fanny Ricketts was no
feminist,,She was a virtuous woman,,and she saved her husbands life ,,She
did him good all the days of her life...

Part 3  "True Women"

Most of the wives during the Civil war stayed behind and ran the
Homesteads..They didnt hit the streets lookin for boyfriends as the modern
tv shows wud portray,,But their husbands knew these women were capable wives
and mothers,,And that their wives were to be trusted to care for their homes
and children,Their marriage covenant was a sacred promise to God,,They wud
stay True until death,,The virtuous woman does her husband good all the days
of Her life,,And ya know when we went thru this with our Mary,,Jim had just
died,,i was glad to deal with Mary for my own self as her mom,,But i felt i
was left here to honor Jim and to deal with Mary on his behalf,Our Mary was
so special to Jim,,He was 45 when she was born,,she was his precious
baby,,and mine too,,She was our lil Shirley Temple..For my own sake i cudnt
let her die,,But i kept thinkin of my Darling Jim.And how broken hearted he
wud be if Mary had died an addict,,i just cudnt let Mary go,,for Jims
sake..i wanted to honor Jim..and i will all of my life,,i want to stand
honest before God when i reach Heaven,,And the way to stay honest before God
is to stay honest before your husbands,,Mary wrote me a note and put it in
my book.."To the Bravest woman i know"..All of this from a daughter who
barely spoke to me for almost 3 yrs,,But as i persevered to honor my husband
who was dead,,This brot me to a place of honor in my daughters eyes,,And she
was healed by the blood of Jesus. . Love Connie

 

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Childhood Vaccinations - The Way It Was

Part 1 - "Childhood Vaccinations"

Good Morning Ladies,...i am up early doing some housework..Also i was reading some articles about childhood vaccinations..and how they are linked possibly to Autism..It seems this subject is an on going debate..My oldest children were vaccinated..But then when David and Dan came along i didnt want them to be vaccinated ..i felt their was enuff being said about the dangers of vaccines to make a good mother wonder what it was all about..i was thinking " Now that many parents cudnt be all that wrong for all this time"..Well Jim wanted me to get the vaccines ...so what i did was this..i ask Jim if i cud wait until they went to school to get their Vaccines.This way they wud be older and cud tell me if they were sick or hurting some place...Then when Mary came along { our last baby} we didnt get her vaccinated at all..Jim and i both felt pretty strong at that time that all this Autism had to be coming from some place..We began feeling uneasy about anything concerning public school..So we began homeschooling in 1988..Baby Mary was 3 yrs old ...Dan s first yr of homeschool was 1st grade and Davids was 2nd grade..We made John homeschool too and take 7th grade over as he got all F's..even in Art and Gym..!! i got so nervous thinking that John wud NEVER get an education..i let the State come in and test John..and they said he was a Genious..i thot the "TESTERS" were on drugs or something..But they were right ..John grew up and now has a good job and works hard..Thank God !!!Well i will write a 2nd part on this..

Part 2 - "Quarantined"

I grew up in the 1950s..One family in our neighborhood had a mother who worked full time..If any of we children got the measles or mumps or any childhood disease, our Mother kept us at home..You cudnt go to school ...We knew these diseases were dangerous and needed special care...The neighbor mothers were to make sure that all the families knew that their children had a contagious disease and that no one was to go to the sick childs house..Of course each home then wud get the mumps ..One by one..In a few weeks then all was quiet again..In my Mothers day..they wud put a sign on the door that said :"Quarantined"...i think i read once that if you went in a house that had been Quarantined you wud have to pay a fine..This was back in the old days..Everyone knew that these diseases were contageous..But thanks to feminism and no mother in the home..we cant have any childhood diseases..The babysitter cant risk taking them..So with this debate over what causes Autism ? will probably never end..The feminist must be able to have her rights as much as a man ..She shudnt have to stay home with a sick child.....Well so goes the war..Now alot of women have to ,work..i understand..There are alot of single mothers ...love connie

 

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Women in The Pulpit

{From the Archives of Connie's letters, July 2012.}

Part 1 - Women in the Pulpit

OMG i guess i like to live dangerously!! The Ladies are on the grp
discussing whether it is right or not for women to preach and take
spiritual authority over men..Well to me it is like this.."Well yeah you
cud ride a cow to town to get groceries...But ya got a horse so why dont ya
just ride it ? The cow is busy with giving milk and quietly chewing her cud
and eating grass in the back 40..But still ..yes she is strong enuf to
carry our Harriett to town..The cow is as smart as a horse...well able to
do the deed.. But ladies it wud be alot easier to ride a horse????..The
Bible says a woman shud wear a covering to show she is under her husbands
authority.. i think this is one reason women have so much trouble with head
aches and nervous problems..and female problems.,,Wives and Mothers belong
at home ..They need a spiritual covering of peace,,They are not made to
bear the burdens of men..Our men are getting so stinkin lazy
spiritually..You Christian feminists feed your Baboons tons of bananas
..and they hardly have to go to work..Now ya wanna feed them spiritually
too? Why dont ya just put a big pacifier in his mouth and let him watch tv
all day while you go to work...Then he comes home from work ,,if he goes at
all..and he starts a fight with you so he can go play tv games at the
neighbors...How much more will you do for this baby before he runs out on
you? The wise woman wud see thru all of this...She wud see that she is the
weaker vessel..She will see that her place is in the home..Her gifts are
the hidden gifts ..the quiet meek spirit is her confidence..In quietness
and confidence you will find your peace..The works of righteousness is
peace and the effects of righteousness is is quietness and assurance
forever..Isaiah 32....

Part 2 - No Prayer ? No Power


There is Spirit of fear in our country right now that cud
stop a herd of buffalo on a dime..You women shud go HOME and get ready for
some Heavy interceding in the Holy Ghost..If ya dont know how to walk in
the Holy Ghost then Child of God .you better do some findin out... it isnt
money that is gonna keep you,,It isnt .your bright ideas that will save
you...There is Holy work to be done..Yes do your house work and care for
the children and submit to your husband...But we need to be spiritually
working too..We need to be spending at least an hour a day praying for our
families..We labor for gold..but no labor for the Holy Spirit..When you are
alone in the house, lay on the floor before Jesus and cry out to Him....Pray
Sister pray for your families..Except the Lord build your house they labor
in vain to build it..We dont know all of the secrets of the Holy
Spirit..But He is our counselor and our helper..our teacher..He will guide
us into all truth..We can trust in God ..He will care for us..No weapon
formed against us will prosper..its so important that you be able to depend
on God alone and His Word..If we get really upset we need to know how to
take our Bibles into the bedroom and read the Word until we feel better..I
am finally able to do this.,,Even if Jim had the tv on i cud pray in the
same room...and keep my mind on the Lord..Not always but most of the
time..i am still workin on it..But sometimes i have to pray for maybe 3 hrs
to get myself back to the Lords rest and peace..But do what you need to do
to keep yourself in the will of God..Great Christians who saw great
miracles were men and women who spent much time in prayer and fasting...No
prayer ? no Power..Much prayer..much Power..And send the nutty women who
are upsetting you back out the door..WHO CARES IF THEY DONT LIKE IT? Your
children and your husband need you at home ...to tend the home and to tend
to the business of the home..Your business at home is to sweep and vacuum
and bake and cook..Also it is to learn Wisdom and to learn how to work
Wisdom..If you get built up in God then no one can take you out..Be some
trouble for the Devil..Keep him on the run...Keep him scared of what you
will do next..{I am scared of what i might do next }soo i hope the devil is
too..

Part 3  -  Our Stability

The Bible in Isaiah 33;6 says "And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times and strength of salvation ; the fear of the Lord is His treasure.." The Book of Proverbs is a Book of Wisdom..Prov 1;20 says Wisdom crieth without ;She utters her voice in the streets..verse 21 she crieth in the chief place of concourse in the openings of the gates ...Well we dont hear Wisdoms voice with our physical ears but with our spiritual ears..with our heart ears..we hear Wisdom speaking..And we hear Christian Feminism in the spirit also ..we hear it also with our heart ears ... But we also hear with our physical ears the voice of Feminism..It seems Feminism is everywhere ,,,being taught over the tv etc..Everywhere out in the world it is taught as if it was the Gospel Truth,,,The Bible calls the C.F. the strange woman..She isnt like the women of God..What are the traits ladies of the Bible based women..Can you find her traits in Proverbs? Can we discuss this in a quiet way ?  love connie

 

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The Virtuous Woman

The woman with the issue of blood knew if she cud get to Jesus she wud be healed..When she touched the hem of Jesus' garment virtue came out..And virtue is what caused her to be healed.

"Who can find a virtuous woman ? Her price is far above Rubies"..

Virtue is a power ..a moral power..The virtuous woman is a strong woman..She is a woman of valor meaning she is war like..she is a good fighter in the Spirit..The virtuous woman has strength and is very powerful..

But her strength is not as a man's...If she acts like a man she insults herself and leaves behind her greatest power... that of virtue....love connie

 

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Hard Times

{From the Archives of Connie's Letters, July 2011.}


Part 1  - Hard Times


Dear Mothers,,,

This writing will be to those of you who are going thru tough times,,which is most of us right ? These tough times are where our miracles will happen,..The hard times are the starting of our miracles..We stand amazed as satan does his work and we think and pray,,"Where are you God"???We pray and pray and our kid is still a knot head and our husband is still a drunk or wont come home or whatever,,Satan seems to stand there happily and we dont see God tryin to stop him..But we are Sarah's daughters of faith and are not afraid with any amazement,,The reason we get so off the Word and off of His will is that we are judging our situations thru the flesh and not thru Gods Word..Gods Word says our husbands are sanctified thru us as Christian wives and our children are holy.,,Our families are set apart for God..God is saving them even NOW ..We have to have a "Knowin" that these promises of God for our families are true,,This KNOWIN in our heart comes thru reading the Word of God and meditating on the scriptures,,i heard this man on tv lately talking about his own Mother,,She lived back in the old days,,He said she didnt have a tv or phone or anything to distract her,,She stayed at home and was a homemaker,,And she prayed all day long as she did her work..She saw many miracles,,And this was how the old time Christian mothers lived,,They prayed until their kids were saved and their husbands were men of God,,Most men who became great men of God had a mother or wife prayin for them,,i know David Wilkerson talked about hearing his mother calling his name before God..Even as a boy outside playing he wud say he cud hear his mother calling out his name before God in her bedroom with the window open,,Lets us be like these old time Mothers and call upon God to save our families.

Part 2   - Ya Got to Get a Knowin'

Oh dear Mothers we will get no where if we keep judging our lives thru
the flesh,,We are part Heaven and part earth,,Our spirits will live forever
into eternity...Our reborn spirits will live forever in Heaven,,This time
on earth is but for a moment ..It is a vapor the Bible says,,Lets live for
our real home in Heaven,,Lets quit looking at this worlds reality and find
the truth which is Gods kingdom,,May His will be done on earth as it is in
Heaven,,God promises us that our children will all be saved and our husbands
too..Its a done deal..Its already done,,It isnt done when your husband walks
the isle at church,,Its done when you get that KNOWIN in your heart,,"My
Husband is sanctified"..He is set apart unto God..!!! We receive our loved
ones to God in prayer,,Later we do see them walk the isle..the truth comes
to them and they are saved ,,But first the miracle comes to Mother on her
knees before the throne of God..She has prayed and stood on the Promises of
God..And Mother gets a KNOWIN that all is well with her boy,,he is safe and
God has His eyes on him..No really good Mother ever sleeps until her kids
are all safe ..Our tendency is to walk the floors until all is well ....And
Mothers heart can never be quiet until all her lambs are in the arms of
the Good Shepard..  love Connie

 

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Husband as a Warrior and Fighter

{From the archives of Connie's letters, November, 2011}

Dear Mothers,,

ya know ,,its funny..But lately i have been giving Jims
testimony..But again as i said before,,he is hard to explain,,And yet there
is a truth in there that i want to get out,,i thot if i wrote it i wud some
how get it straight so i cud explain Jim..A few days ago the Lord had me and
my friend talk to this young couple about getting married ...They are
living together and have one child and one on the way,,I gave them mine and
Jims testimony,,,and about our healed marriage..Then i went on to explain
how Jim became new after he got saved..Well the story of Jim before he was
saved kept the kids riveted for sure,,But as i see it but cant exactly
explain it,,it goes like this,Jim was a warrior and fighter before he got
saved,,And some how he brot this warrior mentality into his Christian
life,,Before he met the Lord he some how looked past me,,i was like a fly
on the wall,,Honestly had i dropped dead he wudnt have shed a tear,,I am
not exaggerating,,And after he came to the Lord..i became his treasure..Jim
became a warrior ..a fighter for his family..This is what is hard to
explain..who Jim became.......He sure didnt become like any Christian man i
ever saw,,My boys to some degree have picked up on Jims personality,,i hope
they get all of who Jim was..Like Jim wud tell people "My wife dont need to
work,,she has worked enuf"...Even after the children grew up he didnt want
me to work..He wanted me to be with him most of the time,,i think Jim
became who alot of young men will have to become or they wont make it..It
seemed that Jim armed himself to be a fighter for his wife and children,,, Jim
rarely ever put any of us down or tried to degrade us..Even if John was in
trouble ..Jim wud build John up...John was ours and that was it,,And if i
put one of the kids down for what they did ,,Jim wud tell me i was
wrong..But if the young men of today cud really understand who Jim was
after he got saved they wud find that knowing the Lord is truly an
adventure,, Love Connie

 

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