As you’re reading, I’ll be wheels up for Wisconsin, with a couple of cohorts for a ladies day in Spencer. I’m excited because it’s been a while since someone requested the topic of “Home” or any of those lessons about the importance of keeping the home and shining His reflected light from our homes (although every spiritual topic is related to this foundational aspect of our Christian lives). . I’ll be talking this weekend about hospitality, organization, motherhood and evangelism. All of these are topics I can get pretty “worked-up” about, because all are fundamental commands for Christian women and all have such obvious eternal ramifications. Did you know that the New Testament prescribes a place of priority for God’s women and that place is home? SO excited to get to talk about this from the Word!
It will be a themed trip because I’m also planning to take Colleyanna to Pepin, Wisconsin, to see one of the “Little House on the Prairie” Museums, on the day prior to the ladies event. (It’s her very first time to fly! She is hoping for a window seat.) I think this particular museum is a tribute to “The Little House in the Big Woods”. We are reading these books together and we have progressed now to “Farmer Boy.” We are learning a lot together. (Yesterday was a comparison of the economic disparity between childhood in New York (Almanzo) in the 1800’s and growing up all over the sparsely populated plains and prairies (Laura and Mary) in the same era.)
Coincidentally, I discovered that the annual “celebration” of Laura Ingall’s Wilder is happening in Pepin on the Friday we will be there, so we will get to watch the home-making skills of the late 1800’s come alive in various recreations on that day. We recently spoke in Branson, Missouri and went through the museum and homes in Mansfield that commemorate the author, herself. God is so good to be in the tiny things and seemingly co-ordinate our “book-learning” with travels on so many adventures. I’ve been watching this providence for three generations of learning now and it astounds me.
It will also be (right on theme) Mother’s Day while we are in Wisconsin. We’re planning to celebrate a week late because we all want to be together. In keeping with the travel theme, Colleyanna is finishing up a hand-sewn gift project for her mom. We have ripped out a few seams that went crooked or that tucked an extra layer under the foot (and I also think a treadle sewing machine sews faster than Colleyanna does on this Bernina). “Whatsoever you sew, you shall also rip!” But this little gift is going to be finished before we leave on this trip! (Don’t tell her mama!) Colleyanna is way excited about this.
Also right on theme, are the demands in this house today. 100 percent of next year’s Digging Deep got to the designer yesterday! When that happens, I feel like I’ve torn a ribbon at the finish of a long marathon, lots while lots of other things have been blown by and left in the dust (literally.) I’m not sure about the quality of the study. I had no second eyes, this time, to peruse the contents. But I am sure about the quality of its primary reference work! I hope you’re planning to join us next September. I cannot wait!