Bee~ Journal of then...

Amen! He is so good, so very good to meeeeee!!! BB, I'm so glad to know you are still walking close to the Lord and living the good life there.

Me too, sis! I have made my fair share of mistakes, but He is good and His grace is sufficient!

This year has been so very tough but that's when God show his best. So many miracles and things that we thought were curses turned out to be blessings in disguise. Only God can turn bad into good. Just today a member of our church called and said they had firewood for us. They have brought about 3 cords and have a lot more they are planning to bring later this week. We will have to pay very little for firewood if anything next winter. What a blessing!

That's a HUGE blessing!!! I have a feeling it's going to be a cold winter....there's an old saying that, when the food supply to the wildlife is in extreme abundance, the winter will be bad. This year the food supply in the woods is extreme, from blossom to berry, nut, and fruit.

My uncle has two giant oak trees down that he's cutting up for us and giving us too...we just need to take the splitter over there, split it and haul it on home. That should fill up the wood shed a good bit and we also have some huge trees down on our place to cut up and split, so it's likely we won't be buying firewood this year either.

God is surely good! Looks like it's going to be a great garden year as well, so His provision is astounding here....I'm just thanking Him in amazement all the time.

Finally got the blessing of rain and lots of it today and kept thanking God with each new downpour. We really, really needed it!

Had the grandgirls out for the past few days and that too has been a rich blessing. They are so very sweet, cute and funny that it's like sunshine right in the house!

Bee I think you might be right about the winter. I have never in my life seen so much fruit on the blackberries. It is unbelievable. The peach and apple trees have a good amount of fruit also.

I just had a thought so I decided to tack this on the post. In the bible it talked about every so many years you were not suppose to work but let the fields rest. The year before the yield would be way more so they could save it. Also, Joseph was warned by a dream to store up the excess for the time of famine. Maybe a time like that is coming?

I think you are on the money. There's no doubt a time like that is coming, we just don't know when....but it could be as soon as this, couldn't it?

Our peach trees are loaded big time also and apple trees clear across the state are loaded like we haven't seen in some while...ours are doing well also, though not loaded like the better trees.

Could be it's just a good year or it could be a good chance to store up some extra foods if one has the extra jars on hand. I'm not a prepper, by any means, but if you have excess food growing in the yard, why not put that stuff in a jar?

I need more jars. Many, many more jars! I haven't learned to can yet but I have big plans!! My apple trees look good, I hope the frost is over and they STAY good!

Word of mouth garners more jars than any other method I've used. Just let people know you intend to can and folks will be dropping off Mom's or Grandma's old jars just to get rid of them.

I've had full pick up truckloads of jars given to me in this manner...so much that I could never have used them all and ended up giving many of those away to other people intending to can.

Blessings all round, from the rain to the fruit to the canning jars, which can be filled and passed on as blessings to others as well…