Our youngest grandchild, our granddaughter, Destinee.

 

Wings of the Morning

 This morning I read PS 139 and verse 9 caught my attention. Afterwards I stepped onto the porch, enjoying the cool breeze. Then, I came inside and wrote this poem. Hope you enjoy.

 Our granddaughter graduated high school last night. When I looked at the photo,

 I thought, "Oh my!"

She looks like her 2X great grandmother!

Then I remembered, when she was 8 yrs old, I took one and did this connection with her great grandmother, Vera's daughter.

Amazing! And some say genetics don't count!

 

Years ago, I put some of the verses I had learned onto cassette tapes. I listened to them occasionally to review and keep the verses in my mind.

A few years ago, I talked them into my computer program and have a file of them. I also have some done by other people that I have the disks for.

Often when I cannot sleep, I quote them until I fall asleep.

Now that I am older, I am finding that some of the verses are leaving me.  So I have started listening to them more often. It is neat to listen to them as I do dishes, or other household chores.

What do you do to help you memorize verses and review them?

Ps 119:11  Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

 

Sometimes, we are worried and have a fearful heart.

We need to wait on God. He knows what is best for us.

 

My New Phone Case

Well, I was going to try to do this on my phone. I don't see how to add a photo, though. I guess I'll have to wait until I get to my computer. so much for things being easy. I was wanting to start posting more often and thought using the phone would be a good way to do it. oh well. 

OK, I am now at my computer and here are the pics. Well, now when I try to upload the pics, they show up as a computer code! OK, I figured it out! My goof! I was in HTML view instead of Compose.

God bless you and have a good day.

UPDATE:  I redid the pic to show the rest of the dates and give-aways!

Belinda Jo's Books

 

OK, it's time to give away some eBooks! I haven't done it for a while. I wanted to have them all at one time for several days -- no gimmicks, etc. But it's not working out that way. So here is a pic with the listings of which books for which dates. Note the devotional books are only for the 5th. I will try to do them again later if anyone is interested. Just go to Amazon and search for my name. Belinda Jo Adams

Merry Christmas from me to you!

 All set up and ready to sell.

I plan to be set up this year for the event! Come see me! And ALL the other vendors eager to sell their wares.

Christmas in the Cross

Do Butterflies sleep?

Taken with my phone: Moto G Power (2022)

This morning in the cool, crisp air, I walked to the mailbox. On my way back home, I saw the glimpse of an object on the ground. Stopping to look closer, I thought it was a dead butterfly. I took out my phone to get a picture of it being it seemed whole and not damaged. Then I decided to go to the house for my camera. I thought it be nigh to impossible that I would find it again. I counted my steps to the shrub at the corner, got the camera, went to the shrub and counted my way back and lo, and behold, it was still there, and I saw it! So, I took a couple pics with my camera. And it was not dead. I saw it change positions, then I saw an antenna move. So, my next question was, do butterflies sleep? So, I did a search and came up with this page.

do-butterflies-sleep

Taken with my camera (Canon Powershot 530 HD) 

Note: It can take much better pictures. It depends on the photographer. :)

 I've had three things to happen to me lately about my writings and other people.

#1 At a family reunion, one of my husband's nieces (in-law) came up to me and said, "I didn't know you were a writer." I asked how she knew now. She said she was on Amazon looking for a book and one of the suggestions was by me!

#2 One of our church members saw my books for sale in a local store. She told me she knew I had written a book, but she didn't know how many!

#3 My neighbor found a little packet of sign language stationary at a secondhand store. She knew I know sign language so showed it to me. I grinned and told her that I had made that! She said no, it had a price on it. I said, yes, the price is in my handwriting! :) I guess it was one that I had sold or given away and it ended up at the secondhand store.

Neat huh?!

TEENAGERS

 1820 teen as an adjective or noun; 1895 teener; 1925  teenage – adjective or noun; 1955 teenaged.

 If the word teenage was not used before 1925, what were people from age 13-19 called back then?

My guess is adults. They worked, raised families, went to college and fought wars.

             Teenagers – The word teenage was not even a word before 1925[1]. Teenager did not gain popularity until 1930’s and that was because of rock music. What were people from age thirteen to nineteen called before that time? I think, probably adults. Many of the people these ages were married with children of their own. Some were in college, for school was finished at a much earlier age than now. Some were cowboys or outlaws. The ones who were still at home were preparing for adult life by doing part of the work on the farm or working in factories to help earn money for the family. The people who were those ages did not sit around the house and waste time or complain of boredom. They were busy helping the family or raising their own family.

I believe today many of the people those ages have too much time on their hands and do not know what to do with it. They sit home alone while both parents work to give them things, wander the streets, or hang around in gangs. More young people should strive to help their family and study hard to make something good of themselves for their future family and our nation.

I know we cannot, in our society, have people who are in their teen years doing all that was done back previous to a hundred years ago, but we could give them more responsibility. Then they can feel as if they were part of society and not just in ‘in between years’ waiting to grow up.

Update 2022: During the past couple decades; I have known parents who have looked at their child-rearing years as ‘raising future adults’. Each of those families has succeeded in their effort and I watched their children become responsible adults without a lot of heartache.

I have wanted to share this for a long time but being I did not have a ‘solution’ to the situation, did not know how to do so. But, the last two mornings on the radio show Focus on the Family, there was a man talking about Parenting Teens Toward Adulthood. It was a two-part program. I would suggest that if you have children that you listen to these programs. He has a solution to the dilemma parents seem to be facing today!

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[1] Teenager – teenage – adj – or noun – b1925; teen – adj – or noun b1820; teener – 1895; teenaged – b1955; teen – v – annoy – b 1150 – English Through the Ages by William Brohaugh

Websters: P. 1211

 Cute Note: 1000AD, teen was used to mean injury & 1150AD, teen was a verb meaning to annoy.