Tuesdays with a Twist Blog Hop #389

Welcome to Tuesdays with a Twist #389!

Before we get to the blog hop today - checkout this post:
Caramel (in the middle) Apple Muffins


Grow a COVID19 Victory Garden!  There are many wonderful seeds available at Mary's Heirloom Seeds (click picture below):

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Good Morning and Welcome to another No Rules Party!

We're your hosts & co-hosts 

Marci @ Stone Cottage Adventures
Angie @ God's Growing Garden
Checkout my amazing "Featured" Pinterest Board

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Features!

Each co-host will be sharing her own picks for Features. This gives everyone a better chance of being featured. Be sure to check all of our blogs to see if you were featured! 

My Features this Week are:

1. "You Are Not at the Mercy of Your Feelings!" by Living Our Days

2. "Pumpkin Hummus" by Comfort Spring

3. "DIY Christmas Tree Napkin" by Hello Sewing

If you've been featured we'd love for you to grab a button.

The party starts every Tuesday at 7am EST and will continue until Saturday at 11:59pm.  Feel free to stop back any time and "like" your favorites.  Please visit other blogs if you have a moment. 

Share older posts as well as new ones.  No limit on links!

*Pictures should be your own* 

By linking up you give us permission to use these photos

 (with proper link backs) in our features.   And now for the party!

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Grow your own!
Many wonderful garden products from
 "Mary's Heirloom Seeds"!!
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You're the STAR - Week#1 GARDEN (October 2020)

The Autumn colors are really beautiful right now - I hope that you are enjoying this beautiful season.
Thank you again for joining us!

There are many ways to follow me:

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Before we continue onto the Linky party I wanted to share from my blog:

Cranberry Walnut Apple Crisp with Coffee Whipped Cream RECIPE

WELCOME to the October 2020 "You're the Star" Blog Hop!
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WELCOME to GARDEN feature week of the October 2020 "You're the STAR" blog hop!
Meet your GARDEN week Hosts 

This week is GARDEN feature week
Swing by the GARDEN Hosts blogs:
Angie @ God's Growing Garden
Marci @ Stone Cottage Adventures
WT @ Unexplained Underfoot Objects
Annie @ 15 Acre Homestead

This is a month long Linky party featuring YOU!

There will be 4 different features each week and 4 different feature categories.  Just to be clear - this is NOT a themed party - you may link up ANY family-friendly blog posts any day of each month. 
The "theme" occurs in our weekly features:
WEEK#1 GARDEN - gardening, homesteading, recycling, outdoor activities &/or preserving (this can include any type of green living,  repurposed ideas, outdoor concerns, posts relating to farm animals etc all while remaining family friendly)




(All features were chosen from the September 2020 "You're the Star" blog hop)
Caramel Apple Freezer Marmalade by Cindy's On-Line Recipe Box

War Memorial Rose Garden by Mille Fiori Favoriti

Chestnuts - Not Just For Crafts by My DIY Ol

Perfectly Plant Based Pesto by Ridge Haven Homestead

If you've been featured then please grab a STAR button below:

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All Hosts/CoHosts will post this blog hop on every Monday of each week.

Please link up your family friendly blog posts below!

It wouldn't be a linky party with YOU!

(IMPORTANT NOTE: by linking up you understand that you might be featured next month and if so, we will use some of your photos from your post - rest assured - we will always link back to your lovely blog.  We might also share your fantastic posts on social media.  Also, you may link up as many family-friendly posts as you like & YES - other blog hops &/or giveaways are welcome {giveaways and blog hops will NOT be featured though}  Thank You & ENJOY! )

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Old Fashioned Sunday Hymn Sing #90

Welcome to the 90th Old Fashioned Sunday Hymn Sing!

I miss the old hymns that I remember from my childhood - there were no drums, no electric guitar and no mind numbing beat. It was just voices and maybe a piano or an organ. The choir led the congregation in singing - and the words of these hymns are poetic. I realize that there is a need for the modern "seeker oriented" worship music - but it is also necessary to have deeper songs (no offense intended to anyone who prefers the newer church songs).

I decided to have an "Old Fashion Sunday Hymn Sing" once a month on this blog.

I personally do NOT have a great singing voice - I used to play the guitar & piano but my voice is NOT an instrument. That's the great thing about this digital hymn sing, you can warble along without being embarrassed or without offending anyone else.

The hymns that we will be studying are taken from an old hymnal from a Baptist church that is no longer in existence - "The North American Hymnal" published in 1956 by "THE ROGER WILLIAMS PRESS"

I will also try to find a version of the featured hymn on "YouTube" to share with you each month.

Today's featured hymn is "Thou My Everlasting Portion" written by Fanny J. Crosby (1820-1915) & composed by Silas J. Vail (1818-1884).    

This author is one of the most well known American hymn writers of all time.  Fanny Crosby became blind at the age of 6 weeks from the mistreatment of her eyes during an illness.  She received a good education at the New York Institution for the Blind and later became a music teacher.  She was married in 1858 and didn't begin writing hymns until 1864 (when she was 44 years old!).  Because of her blindness she knew many portions of the Bible by memory!

"But as for me, it is good to be near God.

    I have made the Sovereign Lord my refuge;

    I will tell of all your deeds." 

Psalm 73:28

I have included 2 versions of this lovely hymn (below the lyrics).  Enjoy!

Turn with me to number 410 in your hymnals and let's sing:

Thou My Everlasting Portion

written by Fanny J. Crosby (1820-1915)   composed by Silas J. Vail (1818-1884)

1. Thou my everlasting portion, More than friend or life to me, All along my pilgrim journey, Savior, let me walk with Thee.  Close to Thee, close to Thee, Close to Thee, close to Thee; All along my pilgrim journey, Savior, let me walk with Thee. 

2.   Not for ease or worldly pleasure, Not for fame my prayer shall be;  Gladly will I toil and suffer, Only let me walk with Thee.  Close to Thee, close to Thee, Close to Thee, close to Thee;  Gladly will I toil and suffer, Only let me walk with Thee.

3.   Lead me through the vale of shadows, Bear me o'er life's fitful sea;  Then the gate of life eternal, May I enter, Lord with Thee.  Close to Thee, close to Thee, Close to Thee, close to Thee;  Then the gate of life eternal, May I enter, Lord, with Thee.

A special thanks to "SE Samonte" for sharing this with us!

A special thanks to "Ebenezer Newton-Mensah" for sharing this with us!

Other Hymns on this blog:

Thee Will I Love, My Strength, My Tower

Open My Eyes That I May See
He Is Able To Deliver Thee
Brightly Beams Our Father's Mercy
I Know Whom I Have Believed
His Way With Thee
The Haven of Rest
Unto the Hills Around Do I Lift Up
For the Beauty of the Earth
My Times Are In Thy Hand
Rescue the Perishing


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The Science of Life - DNA

The Science of Life - DNA

I have never seen so much importance put on "science" until this Pandemic started.  Now don't get me wrong, I think it's great, but it got me thinking about why "science" is almost ignored when it comes to gestational development and the topic of abortion.

Today I am starting a new series where we will study the science of life.  This series will be free of attacks and politicization.  I am going to detail a single part of gestational development in each post in the absolute basic of scientific terms (basic because that is my scientific level).  Which brings me to my disclaimer and details:

1.  I am NOT a doctor and I am NOT giving medical advice or any advice of any kind.  The information below came from my online research.

2.  I will NOT be publishing any comments.  This is an attack free series.

3.  I will be sharing my opinion from my Christian perspective which will appear below the dotted line.  If you do not wish to read my Christian perspective, then simply do NOT scroll past the dotted line - it's that simple.

4.  Sometimes I will include articles that emphasize or enhance the scientific topic of the post.

We will begin by defining the basics as it pertains to DNA:

DNA - short for deoxyribonucleic acid, is the molecule that contains the genetic code of organisms.

Zygote - fertilized egg cell that results from the union of a female gamete (egg, or ovum) with a male gamete (sperm). In the embryonic development of humans and other animals.

Conception - When the single sperm enters the egg, conception occurs. The combined sperm and egg is called a zygote. 

The zygote contains all of the genetic information (DNA) needed to become a baby.

This DNA is totally different from the mother and totally different from the father - a unique human (no other being will have this DNA makeup).

Study Shows Identical Twins Do Not Have Identical DNA

DNA gives adults their freedom and LIFE back.  From the News 

(click on each statement to read the story):

DNA helps free innocent man who spent 15 years in prison for murder

20 year old cold case solved by DNA evidence and frees man from prison

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In my opinion, Psalm 139:13-16 proves without a shadow of a doubt that life begins at conception.  "You knit me together in my mother's womb" - can't get much more obvious than that verse.  Or "when I was made in the secret place" - this is conception.

I believe that at conception both the physical and spiritual life begins - our body and our soul.  "Your eyes saw my unformed body" - that is LIFE!!  God knows who we will become, where we will go, what we will do in our life at conception because we are made by Him.  "All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be" - every single second of our life is planned ahead of time by God and that life starts at conception.

If you have had an abortion in the past and are struggling with that decision today, then please know that God will forgive you!

 "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness."

"All unrighteousness" covers all sins.  Pray to God, confess your sins to Him and He will forgive you!

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Fun Fridays #44 - CHILLY TRICK-OR-TREATING

Fun Fridays #44 - CHILLY TRICK-OR-TREATING
Happiness and laughter are so good for our health!
"A happy heart makes the face cheerful" Proverbs 15:13
(click HERE to read the health benefits of laughter)

This is a series called:  "Fun Fridays".  On the first Friday of every month I will share with you an old photo or something from the recent past that made me happy;  in hopes that it will at least make you smile 😊


I actually don't think this picture was taken while "trick-or-treating" but I can remember many Halloween nights where my costume was totally covered up by a warm coat.  A few nights even had flurries in the air.  Even during inclement weather we continued until our treat sack was full.  This year will be different for many children due to the Pandemic but fun will still be had! (I am the younger girl in the picture above and the older girl is my cousin).
ENJOY!

Click to view other Fun Fridays:

#31 - Coffee & Cake on the Beach
#32 - September Sumac at Point Pelee
#33 - Non-Scary Happy Halloween
#34 - Fall Farm Dog
#35 - And Santa Said....
#36 - One Piece Snow Suit
#37 - Macrame Kitty-Cat Hanger
#38 - Crocheted Pillow Baby Props
#39 - Braided Beauty
#40 Garden Boy
#41 Beach Burying
#42 The Day I Met My Sister

#43 Marsh Canoeing

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