A Hen and Her Chicks

Today is Saturday, our family farm day. I am excited by the fervor in which my husband has embraced homesteading and has been studying. A privacy fence is being built and the chickens' coop will soon be placed near the camellia bush right outside the window of the sunroom where I do my work. Yesterday I watched the chickens go to and fro their favorite little perch. 

Right now Sebastian is sitting here with me in the dark and quiet of the morning. The poor thing has a fever and I've given him medicine. He wants to sit out here and have devotions with me. May that be a desire of his all the days of his life. Yesterday a child's illustrated Bible arrived that I had ordered and Baz and I started reading it together last night: "You shall impress these words of Mine on your heart and on your soul; you shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontals on your forehead. You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road and when you lie down and when you rise up..."(basically all the time)(Deut.11:18-19) "Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he shall not depart from it."(Prov. 22:6). I have felt convicted that I have not been diligent in this department. I think of many famous godly people (such as Mother Theresa and Dietrich Bonhoeffer) whose mothers played a crucial role in who they became in the Lord. Anissa, this will be the greatest work you will be entrusted with. "To whom much is given, much is required"(Luke 12:48).

These are my little chicks, my little hatchlings and I pray that I might be made worthy to care for them, teach them and lead them into Your arms. "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her! How often I have longed to gather your children as a hen gathers her  chicks under her wings, but you would have none of it."(Luke 13:34)

Be with my babies this day Lord and evermore.

Amen