Simply Living & Risen Acres

  Fall is here! Yay! Florida is really falling this year. What I mean to say is Florida is not hot like usual. We don't have the leaves that change with fall. We have the occasional palm leaves that fall to the ground. Gosh! I hate palm trees! The sun does an occasional blaze here and there. It's Florida! It's the season of perfect weather. We don't really get to sweater weather but sometimes it's cold enough we can wear a sweater. My family and I have done our pumpkin carving and gave the carved pumpkin right on over to the girls....hens. The girls devoured that pumpkin. This was the first year I actually made pumpkin puree. I made pumpkin muffins for coffee and Lawrd it was amazing! What a difference homemade pumpkin puree makes! Of course, I bought one pumpkin to be able to make the puree. If I had known how easy the pumpkin puree was to make I would of bought like twenty pumpkins to have puree for the year! I did go out and try to buy some more pumpkins but the ...

  You know what is tough? Is where to start or how do I start? The only thing that comes to mind is...well, well, well, look what the cat dragged in! That's it! That's all I've got! I've got so much on my mind that I do want to share and bam! I loose the nerve. Saturday and Sunday is my only days off. I do work half a day on Saturday. I have so much to do....to catch up on. Do you plan your day out? I do! I was thinking yesterday, while cleaning, how to overcome the fear of sharing deep thoughts? You know, for example, fears of being alone or why can I not serve God like I would love too. For some reason I was thinking about testimonies. I remember as a little girl being in church and our elders would stand up and testify about how good God had been to them. The elderly would say how they were still standing after going thru hardships. They would always say," I have served God for twenty five years and I am still standing here." As a little girl I didn't t...