My own personal stroke story from years ago; to my Dad experiencing a more severe stroke in January 2024- Thankfulness, faith, and healing tools through it all.
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When I felt the first few nudges of “you need to pull her out and homeschool Dana. It’s time “
I screamed back.. “ hahahaha no thank yooooou!!!!” And kept on moving. Head down. Ignoring the prompts.
A few weeks later.. it was still being laid upon my heart. The same nudges, only more so. I thought “really God?! Why now? I have a business to run. A house to keep up. A family to run after and feed. How will I fit homeschooling Into the already jam packed fullness of life?”
I already knew the answer. But sometimes it just feels good to whine back a little doesn’t it? 🤷🏻♀️
The final nudge wasn’t so much as a nudge as much as a good shove forward lol
The answer to all those questions? The one I already knew… because we have walked through nudges before. The call to obedience.
God says “I love you. I know what’s best for you. I know what’s best for Emma. Trust me”
Faith. Trust. Laying down our own selfish ambitions and truly handing over the day to day. The dreams and goals for business. The days that feel like there are no hours left in them. Trusting God with it all.
Guess what? He provides. He always does. Sometimes it looks a little messy at first. Sometimes the blessings come right away, and sometimes they take a little longer to see. But they are always there. Because God is faithful. ❤️
We finished our first month of school at home and can say that we had more sweet and good moments than we did frustrating ones. Hallelujah. 🙏🏻 We are enjoying school together ❤️
I felt like I lost my business hours to work and just fit it in an hour or two a day; and barely that some days… and where I felt like that would make it suffer? The Lord blessed my business with the highest sales we have had in several months.
I haven’t quite figured out how to fit in the exercise routine regularly or how to be completely on top of taking care of our home but that’s ok.
Obedience is always worth it. Trusting in Gods plan and just taking the step of faith in trust is worth it. His plans will ALWAYS be better than mine. I know and believe that with my whole heart.
Sometimes it takes the gentle shove to get there 😆
Fire 🔥 Cider recipe comin in HOT!!! We love using our essential oils, getting fresh air, Exercise, vitamins and water too… but check this out! It tastes wellllllll horrible 🤣 but I swear it works amazingly well!
Just in time for cold and flu season!
Hey guess what?! We don’t need to be sitting ducks just waiting for our turn to get sick. That’s ridiculous!
Taking a few proactive approaches with things that God made for us to use (does it get any more perfect and planned out than that?) will help us get along very nicely! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Here is the recipe!
Grab a big glass jar with lid.
Cut up: 👇🏻
🧅 1 onion into quarters
🧄 1 garlic , peeled and smush each clove before adding to jar
🍊 1 orange sliced into skinnier slices
🍋 1 lemon cut Into quarters
Press these to bottom of jar
Then add:👇🏻
Thinly sliced fresher ginger (2 small 2-3inch chunks will do)
2 cinnamon sticks
1/2 cup of freshly sliced horseradish (I couldn’t find any this time so I omitted this one)
2 jalapeño or Seranno peppers 🌶️ sliced in half
1tsp peppercorns
Two sprigs of fresh Rosemary (I used dried Rosemary because the store didn’t have any fresh today)
Fill jar to top with apple cider.
(Optional addition is to add 1/4 honey)
Add a piece of parchment paper between jar and lid so that the vinegar doesn’t erode lid making it rusty.
Place on kitchen counter in a darker , cool place. Shake once a day gently for 3 weeks.
Let me know if you try it!
Strain with cheesecloth or fine strainer and keep in fridge approximately a month.
Feel the onset of a bug or cold coming on? I like to Take a tsp a 2x a day until I feel better.
Or maintenance could be a quick tsp a day to keep the bugs away altogether!
Enjoy!!
Peppermint!!! Oooooh yah. It’s really really THAT good!
Who doesn’t love the smell of peppermint anyways?! It is soothing. Uplifting… calming. All the things.
We use it for :
🌱Headaches - a drop on temples, and across forehead!
🚗 Tummy aches /car sickness. One drop works like a charm !
🥵 Cooling down a fever or a hot flash;) (for my FRIEND of course!! 😉 ) a drop on the back of neck or rubbed down spine? So nice. Cools ya right off!!
🧑🍳 Rubbed into Sore /tense muscles feels amazing. And gosh a drop tastes so good in a batch of brownies!
Do you know that not all essential oils are created equal?
🤔 I remember my first experience with peppermint essential oil given to me as a little gift at the finish line of the Lulu half marathon several years ago. It was from a popular chain store.
I used it for headaches but it just didn’t do the trick fully. I seemed to have to use a lot of it quite frequently. It kinda made me think essential oils were ok but not super great.
And then I smelled Young Living peppermint for the first time and it was potent! I used ONE drop across my forehead and within minutes and I had relief. I didn’t need it again for the rest of the day!
I knew it in that moment. Quality matters. 😍
Distillation processes matter. I want one or two drops to work well. I don’t want diluted. I don’t want a batch that has been distilled /steamed more than once. (That’s like a watered down cup of coffee! No thanks! Lol )
I don’t want chemicals used to make the oils. I want purity because it works. Because it’s safe and effective. Man; I love knowing that every drop out of these bottles are just that!
