Taken from Back To The Bible
In Woodrow Kroll’s devotion Early In the Morning, he told of a story about a man named Andrew Frazer.
I wish I could be like this man. This man had a worn Bible. When he spoke before a crowd about Christian things he spoke and expounded on details most people don’t realize.
Later a man named H. A. Ironside asked Frazer how he became so learned in the Bible. I love his reply . . . He said,
“My dear young man, I learned these things on my knees on the mud floor of a little sod cottage in the north of Ireland. There, with my open Bible before me, I used to kneel for hours at a time and ask the Spirit of God to reveal Christ to my soul and to open the Word to my heart. He taught me more on my knees on that mud floor than I ever could have learned in all the seminaries or colleges in the world.”
I wanna be like that and I wanna teach our 4 children such an attitude.

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This site, The Chronicle of Higher Education looks like a real interesting site, a place where the intellectuals use creative words to express their views on deep and thoughtful subjects. Actually, I don’t know what it’s about yet but I’m gonna have fun looking through it.
I found it looking for mulberry recipes.

I found some mulberry trees just recently and I’ve been researching the internet. Here’s a website that gave some good info about Oklahoma Mulberry trees. It is called Dave’s garden.
FRESH MULBERRY PIE
3-4 c. fresh mulberries
1 c. sugar
3 tbsp. tapioca
1 1/2 tbsp. real lemon juice
2 c. cherries (opt.)

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On This Day In History
1927: First transatlantic flight made by Charles Lindbergh~
American aviator Charles A. Lindbergh completed the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean on this day in 1927, traveling from New York to Paris in the monoplane Spirit of Saint Louis in about 33.5 hours.
1932: American aviator Amelia Earhart became the first woman to pilot an airplane solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

Here’s a site to help young students to study history’s timeline of explorers.

Taken from Heartlight
1739~
Methodist hymnwriter Charles Wesley, 31, on the first anniversary of his religious conversion, penned the hymn, “O For a Thousand Tongues.”
1740~
English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in a letter regarding Jesus’ character; ‘He was God and man in one person, that God and man might be happy together again.‘
1864~
Belgian missionary priest Father Damien, 24, was ordained on the Island of Hawaii. Born Joseph de Veuster, the Picpus Father began a work among the lepers on the island of Molokai in 1873. Contracting the disease in 1884, Father Damien succumbed to it five years later.
1944~
German Lutheran theologian and Nazi martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote in a letter from prison: ‘God alone protects; otherwise there is nothing.’

Taken from Encyclopedia Britannica
1862: U.S. Homestead Act signed
On this day in 1862, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, which provided 160 acres of public land virtually free of charge to those who had lived on and cultivated the land for at least five years.
Wow! 160 acres for free, if you worked hard to cultivate it, what a deal!

A good way to go toward healthy eating is to avoid the 5Cs
cookies
cake
candy
chips
cola

Ginny spent the night at her Grandpa’s. On the way back home, Grandpa took Ginny home in his pickup truck. He always listens to country music. This song was on the radio. Today Ginny looked it up on YouTube. It’s a good song with a good message:

Here’s a live version from the audience:

@ The ACT site you can prepare to take this college entrance exam. It also gives high school students good advice in preparing for college.