Harriet Tubman

 

• She was born in 1820 in Dorchester County, Maryland to Ben and Harriet Ross. Her real name was Araminta Ross.
• As a child she was a slave for James Cook and she had to check the muskrat traps.
• As she got older and stronger, she was assigned to field and forest work, driving oxen, plowing and hauling logs.
• She married John Tubman in 1844-1851, he died then she married Nelson Davies 1869-1888, he died.
• They (Nelson) adopted one child, Gertie in 1874.
• She and her brothers escaped from slavery on September 17, 1849.
• For 11 years she returned repeatedly to the Eastern Shore of Maryland, rescuing some 300 slaves in about 19 expeditions. She also provided specific instructions for about 50 to 60 other fugitives who escaped to the north
• She was a Union Spy in the Civil War.
• She died on March 10, 1913 in Auburn, New York.

Saskatchewan

 

• It became a province of Canada on September 1, 1905.
• The area is 651,036 km or 251,366 sq mi.
• The population is 1,089,807
• The capital is Regina. It was established in 1882. The first mayor was David Lynch and the present one is Michael Fougere.
• The biggest city is Saskatoon.
• The flower is the Western Red Lily.
• The tree is the Paper Birch.
• The bird is the Sharp-tailed Grouse.
• The highest point is Cypress Hills which is 1,468 m or 4,816 ft.
• The first premier was Thomas Scott and the present is Brad Wall.
• The motto is "From Many Peoples, Strength".

God bless you,



Faithful Fridays~Spiritaul Gifts

Faithful Fridays is a day where christians can share there faith, a song, a bible verse, a bible study that you are working through or anything that God has put on your heart to share. You can go to Joy's blog Doodle Bug to get the rules and picture.

All Christians have Spiritual Gifts given to them by God. But so many Christians don't know what their gift is, or if they do know what it is, some don't use it, or they may know what it is and use it in the wrong way. We all should strive to know our Spiritual Gift and to use it correctly.  Here are some ways to help us.

• If you don't you what it is.

It is very important to find out what your Spiritual gift is. You need to know your gift because you can help your church so much by knowing what it is and helping in that area of your gift. And if you can't figure out what it is pray about and ask God to help you find it, and ask other Christians that you know because it is easier to pick out someone else's gift than your own.  Here is a great link to take a Spiritual Gift test.

• If you know what it is, but don't want to use it

 You can help so many people if you use your gift. Like if your gift is teaching and your church is looking for a teacher for something you can sign up. Not only will you be using your gift for God's glory, but all the people you teach will learn about God. Or if your gift is encouragement and you know someone that is going through a tough time you can go and see them and encourage them. God will be happy and so will that person. If you don't know where your gift is needed, ask God what you should do, or ask the church to see if they need help in your gift area.

• If you know what it is and using it, but in the wrong way

Believe it or not you can use your gift in the wrong way. Like if your gift is teaching and your church needs help teaching the 5 year old Sunday School and you sign up. But after the first day of teaching you feel like you didn't do any good and the kids tired you out in 2 minutes. Well apparently that is not the way God intended you to use it. Some one else with the gift of teaching will come along and sign up and have no problem doing it. So then you sign up to teach the 10 year old Sunday School and after the first day you feel like you have done what God has wanted you to do then that is the way you should use your gift. Everyone is different in the way they should use their gift and it will be all the same to God. If you are trying to figure out how to use it ask God to show you how and where to use it.
Spiritual Gifts are straight from God and He wants you to know what it is, use it, and use it in the right way.
God bless you,

Wacky Wednesdays~Elephants

Wacky Wednesdays is a day for bloggers to share something funny like a song, a joke, something that someone said, a story or just whatever is funny. The rules are if you want to do Wacky Wednesdays is that you have to follow me and comment to say that you are doing it.
Here is some jokes about elephants.

Q. Why should a elephant carry a key?
A. To unlock it's trunk.

Q. What did the elephant do when it broke it's toe?
A. It called a toe truck.

Q. When an elephant comes to visit, how do you know it is going to stay?
A. It brings it's trunk.

George Custer

 

• He was born on December 5, 1839 in New Rumly, Ohio to Emanuel and Marie Custer.
• He attended the Hopedale Normal College in Hopedale, Ohio. After Hopedale he attended the United States Military Academy.
• He taught a school in Cadiz, Ohio.
• He married Elizabeth Bacon on February 9, 1864.
• His service/branch was the United States Army and the Union Army.
• His rank was a Major General.
• His years of service was from 1861-76.
• His commands he held was 3rd Cavalry Division, 2nd Cavalry Division, and 7th U.S. Cavalry.
• His last and well known war was the Battle at Little Bighorn.
• He died on June 25, 1876 in Little Bighorn, Montana.

British Columbia

 

• It became a province of Canada on July 20, 1871.
• The area is 944,735 sq km or 364,764 sq mi.
• The population is 4.4 million in 2011.
• The capital is Victoria. It was founded on August 2, 1862. The first mayor was Thomas Harris and the present one is Dean Fortin.
• The biggest city is Vancouver.
• The flower is the Pacific Dogwood.
• The tree is the Western Red Cedar.
• The bird is the Steller's Jay.
• The highest point is Mount Fairweather which is 4,663 m or 15,299 ft.
• The first premier was John McCreight and the present one is Christy Clark.
• The motto is "Splendour Without Diminishment".

Clara Barton

 

• She was born on December 25, 1821 in North Oxford, Massachusetts to Capt. Stephen and Sarah Barton.
• She became a teacher in 1838.
• When the Civil War broke out she wanted to go to the front lines to help the wounded. In August of 1862, she was given permission to go to the front lines.
• In 1864 she was appointed by Union General Benjamin Butler as the "lady in charge" of the hospitals at the front of the Army of the James.
• She ran the Office of Missing Soldiers after the war in Northwest, Washington, D.C.
• She was introduced to the Red Cross in Switzerland while she was there and wanted to bring it to America. And she did on August 22, 1882. She was the first president of the American Red Cross.
• She never got married.
• She died on April 12, 1912 in Glen Echo, Maryland.

Wacky Wednesdays~Occupations

Wacky Wednesdays is a day for bloggers to share something funny like a song, a joke, something that someone said, a story or just whatever is funny. The rules are if you want to do Wacky Wednesdays is that you have to follow me and comment to say that you are doing it.

I found some jokes about occupations and I would like to share them with you guys.

 

Q. Why does a golfer wear two pairs of pants?

A. In case he or she makes a hole in one.

 

Q. Why are baseball players so rich?

A. Because they play on diamonds.

Q. Why are movie stars such cool people?

A. They have many fans.

 

Q. Why do carpenters believe there is no such thing as stone?

A. Because they never saw it.

 



 

Alberta

I love to learn about places or look at maps. Maps can keep me entertained forever. So I decided to do a post once a week about a province or territory in Canada. The first place will be Alberta, well, because I live here.



• It became a province of Canada on September 1, 1905.
• The area is 661,848 km. or 255,500 sq. mi.
• The population is 3,645,257 in 2011.
• The capital city is Edmonton. It was established in 1795, made into a town on January 9, 1892, and made into a city on October 8, 1904. It's population is 817,498 in 2012. The first mayor was Matthew McCauley and the present mayor is Stephan Mandel.
• The biggest city is Calgary.
•  The flower is the Wild Rose.
• The tree is the Lodgepole Pine.
• The bird is the Great Horned Owl.
• The highest point is Mount Columbia which is 3,747 metres or 12,293 feet.
• The first premier was Alexander Rutherford and the present is Allison Redford.
• The motto is "Strong and Free".

God bless you,

Thanksgiving

So today is the Canadian Thanksgiving. On January 31, 1957 the Parliament of Canada proclaimed that...
"A Day of General Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the bountiful harvest which with Canada has been blessed - to be observed on the 2nd Monday of October."

It is annoying when people say they are thankful for stuff but not who they are thankful too. I mean you can't just say thank you to no one because it just doesn't make any sense. So instead of saying I am thankful for try saying I am thankful to God for because then God gets the glory and it makes much more sense to be thankful to someone.
I will praise You, O Lord, with my whole heart;
I will tell of all Your marvelous works.
Psalm 9:1
The verse is saying that we are to tell all about what God has done for us and given us.
Here is a list of what I am thankful to God for.

• That God loves all of us and promises to never leave us
• That my brothers and I can be homeschooled by our awesome teacher our mom
• For my family and how crazy and fun we are
• For my babies aka my donkeys
• For the awesome youth group at our church
• For our church
• For my books that I don't think I could live without including my Bibles
• For my music that I don't think I could live without either
• For all my friends 
• For my violin, I have so fun with it!
• For our town
• For our house and acreage
•  For Christmas because it is the most wonderful time of the year.
• For food, especially rice!
• For my followers because I wouldn't write on my blog if it wasn't for you guys
• For country things like music, the style, clothes, etc.
• Old TV shows, I just love them!

God bless you,

Mary Slessor

• She was born on December 2, 1848 in Aberdeen, Scotland to Robert and Mary Slessor
• She had to start working at the age of 11 at a mill part time. The mill company provided school for the children workers so she spent half of her day at school and the other half working. At the age of 14 her father died so she had to work even harder from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• When she heard the news that David Livingstone had died she wanted to follow in his footsteps to Africa.
• In September of 1876 she arrived to West Africa.
• She stayed in Africa for 3 years but when she got malaria she was forced to go back to Scotland to recover. She stayed in Scotland for 16 months then went back to Africa.
• Her religion was Presbyterian.
• She died on January 13, 1915.

Faithful Fridays~Love Your Neighbor As Yourself

Faithful Fridays is a day where christians can share there faith, a song, a bible verse, a bible study that you are working through or anything that God has put on your heart to share. You can go to Joy's blog Doodle Bug to get the rules and picture.

Last night at youth we learnt about loving others as yourself. The main verse we looked at was...

 

"....You shall love your neighbour as yourself.

Matthew 22:39

 

I have always wondered what it meant by saying "as yourself". Because I don't love myself, so I thought until last night at youth where I learnt what it means to love yourself. It means to care for yourself. Like when you get money who is the first person you think of spending it on? Who dresses you? Who does your hair or brushes your teeth? Who gets the most effort in your day? I bet most of them are ourselves. You don't have to care for other people like the questions above, but put the same amount of time and effort into others as you do for yourself. 

 Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself.   Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.

Philippians 2:3-4

So it is saying sacrifice what you want to do or what you are doing to make others happy. Don't always think about yourself.

 



 

 

Fall Time

My mom LOVES to decorate for every season and most holidays. And because fall is almost over in Alberta I thought I should show you guys what our house looks like all decorated up for fall.

Our dining room



 

Above the living room window. My favourite part of the fall decorations is the crows, they look so real.

 

Under the window in the living room.

 

Next to the same living room window as in last two pictures. My mom loves using the McDonald's little fall dolls for decoration.

 

Above the office desk.

 

In the dining room. My mom just bought this from her favourite store. Isn't it so pretty?

 

The dining room.

That was all of our fall decorations. Christmas decorations will be coming anytime soon now that it is almost November 1st.

God bless you,



Wacky Wednesdays~Fish Jokes

Wacky Wednesdays is a day for bloggers to share something funny like a song, a joke, something that someone said, a story or just whatever is funny. The rules are if you want to do Wacky Wednesdays is that you have to follow me and comment to say that you are doing it.
I found some jokes about fish and I would like to share them with you guys.

Q. What fish are the richest?
A. Goldfish

Q. What animals are weight watchers?
A. Fish, because they carry their scales with them.

Q. When is a wall like a fish?
A. When it's scaled.

Faithful Fridays~Love God With Everything

Faithful Fridays is a day where christians can share there faith, a song, a bible verse, a bible study that you are working through or anything that God has put on your heart to share. You can go to Joy's blog Doodle Bug to get the rules and picture.



 

Last night at youth we learnt about loving God with everything you got. The verse we were looking at was...

  And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.

Mark 12:30

We learnt about each one (heart, soul, mind, and strength) and what it means.

• Heart

It means to show/prove your love for God and loving Him above EVERYTHING else. It means that you can't just say you love Him and then not read your Bible and pray but go to some party doing stuff that is just plain wrong. But you have to show that you love Him by the way you act and speak and do stuff pleasing to Him.

Therefore you shall love the Lord your God, and keep His charge, His statutes, His judgments, and His commandments always.

Deuteronomy 11:1

• Soul

It means to show love with emotion. You know how some people just start crying when singing a worship song or lifting their hands, that is showing you love God with emotion. But you don't have to do it that way because there is other ways to do it.

 

My soul longs, yes, even faints
For the courts of the Lord;
My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

Psalm 84:2

 

• Mind

It means you have to think about God and learn about Him. You have to believe everything He says. Because if you think  and learn about things not pleasing to Him then how can you learn about God and see how awesome He is.

You will keep him in perfect peace, Whose mind is stayed on You, Because he trusts in You.

Isaiah 26:3

• Strength

It means to use physical energy to show that you love God. Showing Him that you will do anything even if it hurts you to show that you love Him.

I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD;
I will make mention of Your righteousness, of Yours only.

Psalm 71:16

 

 

Jesus went all in for us by dying on the cross so that we can go to Heaven. He showed more love than possible. So we should try more to go all in for Him and show Him that we love Him.

 

God bless you,



 

 

 

Wacky Wednesdays~Moms

 

Wacky Wednesdays is a day for bloggers to share something funny like a song, a joke, something that someone said, a story or just whatever is funny. The rules are if you want to do Wacky Wednesdays that you have to follow me and comment saying that you are doing it.

This picture is so true! My mom is exactly like this and I am sure that a bunch of others are too. I am also pretty sure that I will be like this too when I am a mom.

George Muller

 

• Born on September 27, 1805 in Kroppenstaedt, Germany to Johann and Sophie Muller
• As a boy he was a thief, a liar and a gambler. At the age of 10 he was stealing government money from his dad, and while his mom was dying, at the age of 14, was playing cards and drinking with friends.
• He went to the University of Halle to studied Divinity
• He started going to these prayer meetings and after a while was convinced that he needed salvation. So when he went home from a meeting one night, got down on his knees and asked God to forgive him. 
• He married Mary Groves on October 7, 1830-1870 she died, then he married Susannah Sanger in 1871
• They (Mary and him) had 2 children, Lydia, born on September 17, 1832 and Elijah, born on March 19, 1834. They also had 2 still-born children.
• His first orphanage was built in 1849 at Ashley Down, Bristol.
• On March 26, 1875 he and his wife Susannah started a 17 year period of missionary travel to 16 different places.
• He died on March 10, 1898 in Bristol, England.