His Garments will be Our Garments....

The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his Lord. Matt.10:24 This verse is the basis's for the thoughts here in this post. What He has experienced is an example of what we could experience and why then are we so surprised at trials? Our journey begins when He calls us unto himself and we by faith reach out and touch the hem of his garment as the woman did in Matt. 9., we confess to him that we need him, we are sinners, and he cleanses us through his blood. Then in Mark 10:50, and he casting away his garment, rose and came to Jesus, we are to put away the old life and put on his garment. Acts 12:8, ....Cast thy garment about thee and follow me. So then we follow and thus we are new born babes in Christ, we are wrapped with his garment again, in a sense in swaddling cloth, growing in grace and knowledge of the Lord. As we are on this journey of faith we will likely have many garments to put on, sometimes it shall be a garment of praise, Is.60:3, ...a garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. Should not we wear this one often, offering thanks in all things? It's hard! Now as we trod forward there are so many days, years that we shall wear the garment of light, maybe all seems so simple, Ps.104:2, Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment. As Christ had to wear a scarlet robe, Matt. 27:28-31, and put on him a scarlet robe...and they spit upon him...and after that they mocked him, it was a garment of such that entailed mocking and scouragings, remembering we are not above our master, therefore we too might have to endure railings and mocking from others as we follow Christ, his garment upon us! Then there be the times of being clothed with the garment of the deep, trials as such, Ps 104:4, thou coverest it with a deep as with a garment. We do not understand his ways nor the garment of the trial that he has put on us, who can discover the face of his garment, Job 41:13. Sometimes we are given our own raiment, as he too received, they took the robe off from him, and put his own raiment on him, and led him away to crucify him, Matt.27:31. We are given our own raiment, our own cross to carry and this one is the heaviest of all, it is the sackcloth or garment of mourning, Ps. 69:11, I made a sackcloth also my garment. But you know what, these garments will be worn for a while here on this earth but they shall all wax old as a garment and one day we will get that wedding garment on and we will put on the white robes, Rev. 7:9. We thus shall be clothed in his garment of righteousness!!!!! As I thought about all these garments that we will very likely be called to wear, he wore them, so why should we not?? It just gives me encouragement to keep going on this journey knowing the garment of sackcloth that I am wearing is not in vain! I do not know what garment you are having to wear right now, and I prayerfully say I hope you have first of all touched the hem of his garment, may he give us grace to seek to have the garment of praise on in the midst of our circumstances! Still learning.........

Work, work around here, Terry is getting the garden ready for fall planting. We still have okra and tomatoes going now, hoping to keep them from the heat to take to the farmer's market. I think some are going to work on the fences on the lease land. Mercy is taking a nap and I am becoming very sleepy as I write this. I think my situation has pretty much ended, so thankful it was much easier this time! Last night we helped our friend David with some stuff at his house and he served us dinner, thanks David!!!! And if you hear us hollering on August 5th, it will be because we are hooked up to high speed internet, thanks to David finding a connection about 5 miles from here. Oh I hope it works, this dial-up is soooooooo slow and such a pain!!! Anna is still making zucchini bread like crazy!!!! So I guess thats about it around here, I was so looking forward to being pregnant and getting to journal it with you all, maybe the Lord will have mercy and grant it yet! I told Terry the other night if I were to get pregnant again, I was not going to tell anyone until the baby got here! :) We'll see........

Thanks for stopping by...... (pictures in a bit , when Anna gets back)

Cindy

Hope....

If I did not have a hope for the things that are unseen, I would be in such a despairing state in the ways that providences are taking me through with the seen. And that hope is in the truth of scripture! Ps.119:15, I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways. I hold the Lord's doings with this situation in high esteem, I respect what he is doing by faith. Ps. 119:32, I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart. Just another opportunity to have my heart made more right, to have it enlarged with his graces as I pass through this "path of the Lord." It looks like this miscarriage is not going to be complicated at all, which I am soooo very grateful. My body is already tapering off and I feel good. Thank you for your prayers. I read again Ps. 139 yesterday, and was blessed to know that even though this little ones substance was so tiny, he knew it, My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret..... Terry and I believe that at the moment of conception, there is life! I will continue to pray that prayer and if he is willing, may he make us fruitful! I will be joyous if he chooses to and if not, then I am so thankful for all the ones he has given, I cannot complain!!! I will hope in his word because he will give what he deems best!

Well today, we are doing our "Working Wednesday," the guys are here today and they have been doing much needed lawn care, maintenance, outside cleanup, and Terry is doing some paper work that is long overdue! We are very excited about 60 acres of land that we are going to lease, about 15 minutes from our house, and be putting our cattle on and then expanding our herd. We hope to get a bull soon as Anna's heifer is coming in heat. Always wonderful to have expansion of the farm and productivity!

Just wanted to give a quick update and did not want you all to worry, it looks like the Lord is being so gracious and allowing all to go smoothly and we are thankful. I am doing ok with it all, I guess thoughts are lingering before me as we approach August and memories with Joel, and to think that in Aug. 06, he had about 60 days of perfect health until the fevers started in Oct. All the dates are unforgettable. Remembering the first of Aug. too is when we got all those "cow hats." It seems so much time and events has come in between since he was here with us, like another era of life, so it is with all those thoughts that I feel a bit heavy, wonderful memories, yet now looking at them with knowing the outcome is painfully hard, but HE lives and therefore Joel lives!!!!!!

Cindy

I'm the One.....

I am the one that has a miscarriage that lasts 41/2 months to complete, I am the one that has a son that gets cancer, only 600 cases in a year and we are one of the 600, I am the one that has two positive pregnancy tests last week now having some bleeding and another test taken and it shows negative......what is going on?????????? I do not know!!!!!!! Possibilities are... the baby did not implant. Now the waiting game again or rather I should say an opportunity for patience and then I will get experience and then comes hope! Of course we are disappointed but once again trusting the Lord knows what we need and when. It seems the phrase "thy will be done" is getting said alot more, it should be said all the time but its sometimes hard, isn't it? I 'll keep you posted when something changes, now we just wait and see what happens.

Now....the pictures tell what we have been up to over the weekend! We went to my dad's in Hot Springs Ar., on Friday and we have returned back home this morning! We have not been there since Joel and Josiah were 9 months old, so it was long over due! My dad and Shirley were so hospitable with wonderful meals, snacks and great fun on the lake. They have a house right on Lake Hamilton. The children were in the water constantly. Josiah was so brave to swim all around with his life jacket on, this was his first time and he did great! The bigger ones had a great time tubing, knee boarding and wake boarding. My dad had a boat full and pulling some and the the big guys had his other boat full and pulling another load! I would see one boat zip by and then here comes the other one! To me some of the things they were doing looked rather dangerous but they said it was sooooooo fun and the faster you went the greater crash opportunity you had! Caleb and Daniel really got the wake boarding down really well. Later in the evening last night my dad's neighbor took them out in this high powered boat and they were zipping back and forth till almost dark, Micah had to get a flash light and wave them to come in out on the dock. We enjoyed the time with my dad and Shirley! He was so excited we came, it was kinda spur of the moment! The four older ones also had the opportunity to play at their church on Sunday, they did a great job and the congregation gave them a standing ovation! I had to brag about that:) We are thankful too for safety and the van working well. we got up and we were on the road going there and coming home at 3:00 AM because of the heat, so most everyone slept. Now we are home and getting regrouped, and I am feeling tired so I might have to sneak a nap in! The one picture with Bethany, Caleb and my dad, I took on their dock, their house is in the background so you can see how they live right on the lake!!

Thanks for all the wonderful and encouraging words about the pregnancy, all I can say is the Lord knows and cares and he will once again see us through.

Cindy

A Modesty Question.....

I had someone e-mail me a question. She has been reading our blog for a while and noticed that all of us girls wear skirts in the pictures, and I am always excited to answer questions of why and how we do things around here, so I wanted to share with you all the answer I gave her as you might wonder about that too. The scripture says we are to be set apart, not to be conformed to this worlds system, that we are a peculiar people, that we are strangers and pilgrims and so if we are given these titles, it seems fitting to carry these truths out in our daily lives......

Hello ********,

Thanks for asking, and yes we do wear skirts all the time. This could be lengthy so prepare yourself. I will share my testimony of this. When Terry and I married I wore jeans and shorts like most. After the boys were born and we were around families and especially this one family that was a big influence and through this family I saw a testimony of modesty. I guess the real clincher for me was the scripture in the old testament that talks about a woman not putting on man’s clothing (jeans) was what brought the conviction and that was in 1993. I shared with Terry these thoughts and that I wanted to start wearing skirts/dresses on a reg. basis’s and for our girls too, so we did. Now as the boys got older and they were around 12 years old there was another season of change, up to this point I wore t-shirts, and they were not necessarily too tight but enough to show a form or shape. I noticed that one of the twins would not make eye contact with me over a period of time and finally had a talk with him and I was being a stumbling block to him, so at that point us girls started wearing more of a blouse or button down the front shirt. For our family these changes have never hindered our abilities or caused us not to be able to perform chores or participate in sports here with our family. There are some scriptures that we base our convictions on. I will give the ref. as I am not a good typer so if you could look them up Prov.31:10-11 and Prov.5:19 this talks about not being spoiled and this was a verse that I felt backed up our ideas of wearing blouses instead of t-shirts. In Prov. 5 it talks about our husbands are the ONLY ones that are to be ravished with our breasts and if we wear tight t-shirts that show our form other men are seeing what’s behind the clothes and therefore in one sense we are getting spoiled. Other scriptures I Cor. 6:20, a principle here tells us we are not our own and to glorify God in our bodies and spirit. So to me we can say adorn our outward bodies to please the Lord for who he created us to be and to show that we are grateful for his workmanship of being a woman. Col.1:21 talks about being reconciled, that means to change thoroughly from, I am a new creature in Christ so why would I wear old garments of the old nature. You have to understand that these are principles here that can be applied to modesty. Col.3:3- talks about how we are HID with Christ in God, here we can draw a principle of how we need to be hid behind clothing that does not draw attention to parts of our bodies and like to the top with tight t-shirts or tight jeans. I Thes. 4:6. This talks about how we need not defraud another, defraud means placing desires in others that we can not rightfully fulfill. Like if we stir up other men by the way we dress, we are defrauding them. I Tim.2:9. This is a command here telling us to adorn ourselves in modest apparel. There are some who see this scripture as referring to a long flowing garment. These are some basic ones here, maybe a start for you to study and meditate upon. I hope this has not blown you away but I feel like it is the truth of scripture and as the scripture says to be a Berean and search and see if these things be so. Blessings and may the Lord grow each of us to be more like him even by our adornment. An excellent resource on this topic is Cathy Corle’s book “What in the world should I wear?”.

Cindy Morris

Guess What????????????

Guess What..........

WE ARE EXPECTING A NEW BABY!!!!!!

Tears of joy came this morning after I read the test. I was so shocked and happy at the same time. Funny thing, yesterday I took a test (and it was the 23rd) but after 15 minutes or so and nothing happened, I stuck it in the drawer and thought o well. This morning I thought I would do a morning test and within 15 minutes it showed positive. I got the test out I took yesterday and looked at it and it showed positive too, I could have known yesterday but I guess it was a treasure hid in a drawer for today! This is certainly an answer to prayer and we are very thankful for the Lord's mercy. I have prayed that verse in Ps. many times asking the Lord to make me fruitful in old age, 92:14, They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing; to show that the Lord is upright; he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him. We will be praying the Lord to have mercy and grant this pregnancy according to his will and I will be grateful for each day that I get to carry a new little life! This is our 17th life, treasure,reward that the Lord has blessed our family with. Its complicated to keep all the numbers straight, we have had 13 on the ground, now we have a little boy in heaven and three tiny treasures there, and now one in the making. Praise the Lord for his mercy!!!!! I guess if you think about it, pray the Lord's will to be done!

Danielle heads back today, We have had a good time. One thing for sure, she knows the real Morris' now. Pray for her as the Lord brings it to mind as she gets back to her routine and that the Lord would bless and order her steps!

Have a great day, it's a good day for our family!!!!!!

Cindy