The fun has begun

Mom has been having the patience test of her life as I filled her kitchen, dining, and laundry rooms with dirt and pots and seeds. I've been having a blast doing it, well, most of the time anyway. Here you can see my babies are already sprouting. These are the laundry room plants.

More photos to come soon as the project expands. :)

These are zinnias. I have also started some of my peppers, chrysanthemums, petunias, lupine, eggplant, shasta daisies, and who knows what else...I forget.

Purity

Purity has been on my mind lately as many friends around me have had questions or concerns arising in their own lives or in the lives of ones dear to their hearts. I have see many wonderful examples through the years, of couples striving to keep their relationships pure and right before Yahweh at all times. I'm thankful for each example and greatly encouraged. Today's world does not value purity in the way Yahweh desires for his beloved to value purity.

There are two books I would like to recommend to any single person who values purity, singles who aren't happy with the worlds way, or who are simply curious, or for parents who desire their child to remain pure through thick and thin.

His Perfect Faithfulness, The Story Of Our Courtship by Eric and Leslie Ludy

The Magic Touch, A Jewish Approach To Relationships by Gila Manolson

Though these books are geared toward singles, I would definitely recommend them to all. Both are easy reading.

When I first read "His Perfect Faithfulness" I was only 14 years old. My mom had brought the book home and dad still likes to recall that the first time she handed him the book, he threw across the room and said "why do I need to read a book on courtship? I'm already married!" He must have had a change of heart because he read it and shortly after we had a pile of copies to hand out to other families we met. A while has passed since then and the book has been collecting dust on my shelf till a few weeks ago. I picked it up and was uplifted once again by this couple's story of how Yahweh directed their steps in purity. Now it's loaned out, my only copy, so coming this week, I plan to put in an order so I'll have copies on hand once again.

As for "The Magic Touch", I think it's a good read for anyone but especially for you singles who may be a little skeptical about pursuing purity in relationships with the opposite sex. Are you wondering if you are missing out on something special by not partaking in the worlds version of building relationships? I would hope that "The Magic Touch" will help you to see that it is the world that is missing out on Yahweh's plan for building good relationships through purity.