| About "Heartchange" Dear Sisters I just love to communicate with other like-minded women around the world. I love to be a home maker. I love to learn new recipes that really work for our family. I love to work hard, as well as potter in our garden. I love to watch new growth, and see the fruits of my labours. I love to teach my children new things, and watch the expression on their faces when something has really delighted them. I love to see my children love to be at home, and occupy themselves with new projects, showing much interest in many areas of life, loving life. Most of all, I love to see them learn about the Lord. I love to hear their comments, when we discuss matters from His Word in our every day lives. I am learning all the time. Right along with my children. Right along with the rest of you. I am not capable of anything spectacular; other than being a capable sinner! For so long, I have had a heart's desire to change the way I am. I have bad habits, you see! I am not orderly by nature, and I am far too impulsive for my own good. Domesticity hasn't always been on my priority list, and I'd rather laugh and talk with friends and family than do what I need to do each day! My walk with the Lord hasn't always been an easy road, due to the fact that I have again and again fallen into my old ways. Guilt has set in, to the extent that I have felt it would be easier for me to stay in those old ways than to even try to live the way the Lord would have me live. I have sought the Lord's Will for me. Slowly but surely, I am beginning to see. Slowly, but surely, my heart is turning. I asked the Lord, and He is instructing me. I have read numerous books and magazines on home-making, homeschooling, home training children and being a goodly wife and mother. I have enjoyed each and every one of them, and have learned much. One thing has struck me, though. In many of these materials, there is a lot of teaching on what we should be and do, but very little on HOW to be and do it! Show me reality. Show me how things are done. Give me examples. Teach me practicality. Let me learn the application of all these qualities..... In the change of my heart towards home and family, I desire to learn application. How to increase my faith in God. How to be a keeper at home. How to have a merry heart. How to submit to God and my husband. How to earn my husband's trust in me. How to do him good and not evil. How to bear fruit with the use of my hands. How to practice kindness and generosity. How to be strong and honourable. Mostly, how to love and how to show love to others. My hope and prayer for 'Heartchange', is for it to be as practical as possible. I am honoured that you are all here with me, as we learn together. Getting to know the 'nitty gritty' and feasting on abundant Life in the Lord. I pray that the God Who created the Universe gains glory from these efforts, as you read of how we live our lives, in our humble knowledge (yet learning) of Him. With love in Christ Jesus Helen |