You're the STAR - Week#1 GARDEN (February 2022)

Did you get that winter storm?  We only got about a foot of snow (I say "only" because originally they were predicting 20 inches).

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

A Decade of Blogging - FEBRUARY RECIPES

WELCOME to the February 2022 "You're the Star" Blog Hop!

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WELCOME to GARDEN feature week of the February 2022 "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

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 January 2022 "You're the Star" blog hop)

Our Root Cellar & How We Came To Have One by Scratch Made Food

Orchid Beauty by Mille Fiori Favoriti

How Branches Make a Magazine-Worthy Room by Cottage Shoppe

January Hibiscus by Comfort Spring

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 #103

Welcome to the 103rd 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 "O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go" written by George Matheson (1842-1906) & composed by Albert L. Peace (1814-1912). 

This hymn was divinely given almost as if The Holy Spirit wrote it directly through the author.  This is George Matheson describing what happened when he wrote today's featured hymn:

"Something happened to me, which was known only to myself, and which caused me the most severe mental suffering. The hymn was the fruit of that suffering. It was the quickest bit of work I ever did in my life. I had the impression rather of having it dictated to me by some inward voice than of working it out myself.

I am quite sure that the whole work was completed in five minutes, and equally sure it never received at my hands any retouching or correction. I have no natural gift of rhythm. All the other verses I have ever written are manufactured articles; this came like a dayspring from on high. I have never been able to gain once more the same fervor in verse.”.

This is a compilation of posts I did about "LOVE" from 1 Corinthians 13

(click HERE to view "True LOVE Is......"

I have included 2 videos below the lyrics.  The second video has an added chorus but is a perfect addition.  Enjoy!

Turn with me to number 361 in your hymnals and let's sing:

O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go

written by George Matheson (1842-1906) & composed by Albert L. Peace (1814-1912)

1. O Love that wilt not let me go, I rest my weary soul in Thee;  I give Thee back the life I owe, That in Thine ocean depths its flow May richer, fuller be.

2.   O Light that followest all my way, I yield my flickering torch to Thee;  My heart restores its borrowed ray, That in Thy sunshine's blaze its day May brighter, fairer be.

3.   O joy that seekest me through pain, I can not close my heart to Thee;  I trace the rainbow through the rain, And feel the promise is not vain That morn shall tearless be.

4.  O Cross that liftest up my head, I dare not ask to fly from Thee;  I lay in dust life's glory dead, And from the ground there blossoms red Life that shall endless be.

A special thanks to "Fountainview Academy" for sharing this with us!

A special thanks to "asisaactheband" for sharing this with us!

Other Hymns on this blog:

All Creatures of Our God and King

Sweet Hour of Prayer, Sweet Hour of Prayer

In The Service Of The King

A Shelter in the Time of Storm

Does Jesus Care?

Christ Is Coming

Must Jesus Bear the Cross Alone?

Send The Light

O I Love To Talk With Jesus

Jesus, Thou Joy of Loving Hearts

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Take Up The THANKFULNESS Challenge!

I challenge you to thank God for something everyday for one year!  Either write it down in a diary OR share with us on a blog.  If you have a blog & would like to share your THANKFULNESS posts with us, then please fill out this form: 365 Days of Being THANKFUL form - click HERE and you will be added to the THANKFULNESS page.

Fear NOT Fridays #2 - Fear & the HEART

Fear NOT Fridays #2 - Fear & the HEART

I once heard a preacher say that "do not be afraid" occurs 365 times in the Bible.  That's enough for every day of the year, which means that we should never live in fear.  I have not yet confirmed that amount of "fear nots" but that sermon inspired this new series: 

Fear NOT Fridays.

Once or twice a month I will feature a Bible verse or passage from God's Word proving that we should NOT be afraid.  

I do want to clarify one thing before continuing - "fear God" is NOT the same as being afraid.  When it says "fear God" in the Bible that means showing reverence, respect and absolute awe of our Heavenly Father.  Whereas, fear means - a very unpleasant or disturbing feeling caused by the presence or imminence of danger.

We learn in Ephesians 6:12 (see below) that we, as Christians, are fighting a spiritual battle everyday.  What if the entire world is currently in an information war? - a war of the mind?  We are constantly being bombarded with things that we should fear, like the current illness/virus or the impending winter storm with dangerous ice.  FEAR, Fear, fear on social media, television, computers, smartphones - fear is being broadcast everywhere and all the time.  Again, near the end of the verse below we see that our struggle is against the evil forces in the heavenly realms.  Well, our fear is what those evil forces feed on - we are making them fat by being afraid.  That is why this series will help us rid our lives of fear and thereby starve the evil of this world.

 

Featured verse:  John 14:27

How does fear affect the heart?

(Disclaimer - 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.)

When we are afraid our heart responds in 3 ways:

1.  A quickened heartbeat 

2.  An increase in pulse rate & increased blood pressure 

3.  A change in breathing patterns (shortness of breath or rapid breathing)

When we study the featured Bible passage we see that Jesus said that we should not allow our HEART to be troubled or afraid.  Jesus left us His PEACE through The Holy Spirit.  Since the Holy Spirit is inside us all the time, that means His peace is always there to draw from.  There will always be situations that will scare us but when we learn how to draw peace from God within, then that access will never go away!

Related posts:

(Please click on each title below to view the entire post - ENJOY!)

The Science of LIFE - HEARTBEAT

Forever LOVE

True Love Is.......

Previous FEAR NOT posts:

Psalm 23:4

Fear & the Heart

Have You No Faith?

God Is With You Wherever You Go

God Will Never Leave You

We Are Children of God

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You're the STAR

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Take Up The THANKFULNESS Challenge!

I challenge you to thank God for something everyday for one year!  Either write it down in a diary OR share with us on a blog.  If you have a blog & would like to share your THANKFULNESS posts with us, then please fill out this form: 365 Days of Being THANKFUL form - click HERE and you will be added to the THANKFULNESS page.

22 Treasures - CHOCOLATE

22 Treasures - CHOCOLATE

Today is the second of February in the year twenty twenty-two.  The number 2 is an interesting number.  There is no other number that I can think of that has the same result when it is added to itself and multiplied by itself [I am not a mathematician so I could be wrong.  And, I am not including zero because zero is nothing (literally nothing 0 + 0 = 0 and 0 x 0 = 0)]:

2 + 2 = 4

2 x 2 = 4

Four is the same answer whether 2 is added or multiplied by itself.

Also, on the twentieth of this month it will be a palindromic date (read the same forward and backward):

2/20/2022

With that being said, since 22 (2 and 2) are so unique, I thought I'd start a new series during the year 2022 called:

22 Treasures

In this series I will pick a topic (like - CHOCOLATE) and I will feature 22 treasured blog posts from this blog about that topic.  And, that topic will be split into 4 different categories.

Today we are featuring CHOCOLATE in these 4 categories:

Cookies

Cake

Breads

Other Desserts

(Please click on each title below to view the entire post - ENJOY!)

COOKIES

Orange Dark Chocolate Chip Cookies

Neapolitan Cookies

Cashew Parsnip Chocolate Chip Cookies

Swirled Mocha Almond Biscotti

2 Hearts Beat As One Cookies

Cherry Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies

CAKE

Minted Lava Cake

Magnificently Moist Mocha Almond Brownies

Coconut Truffle Lava Cake

German Chocolate Vanilla Loaf Cake

Chocolate Orange Truffle Cake

Hazelnut Mocha Brownie Pie Squares

Chocolate Spice Lava Cake

BREADS

Chocolate Filled Strawberry Muffins

Orange Muffins with Chocolate Ganache Middle

Minty Cocoa Scones

Pumpkin Cocoa Bread with Dried Cranberries & Chocolate Glaze

OTHER DESSERTS

Mixed Nutty Mocha Ice Cream

Chili Pepper Chocolate Creme Brulee

Grandma Tower's Chocolate Bread Pudding

Tangerine Chocolate Rice Pudding

14 Days of Chocolate

Other 22 Treasure posts:

CHOCOLATE

BREAD

SPRING

EGGS

SALADS

SPRING GARDEN PRODUCE

FLOWERS

BERRIES

SUMMER

ZUCCHINI

TOMATOES

PRESERVING

SERIES

APPLES

AFTER SCHOOL SNACKS

POTATOES

SWEET POTATOES

ADVENT

DECORATION

COOKIES

CHRISTMAS MUSIC

NEW YEAR'S EVE TREATS

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Take Up The THANKFULNESS Challenge!

I challenge you to thank God for something everyday for one year!  Either write it down in a diary OR share with us on a blog.  If you have a blog & would like to share your THANKFULNESS posts with us, then please fill out this form: 365 Days of Being THANKFUL form - click HERE and you will be added to the THANKFULNESS page.

Tuesdays with a Twist Blog Hop #458

Welcome to Tuesdays with a Twist #458!

Before we get to the blog hop today - checkout this post:
Frank's Flowers - Reddy Rosie

Photo by Angie Ouellette-Tower

February is full of flowers - checkout wonderful flower & herb seeds at Mary's Heirloom Seeds 

click HERE to shop for the best seeds

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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

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. "Flowers for the Victorian Parlor" by My Little Old World

2. "January Flowers" by Comfort Spring

3. "DIY Wedding Floral Series - Tulle" by Studio 27 by Jennifer Adams

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!
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