A truth of life that I am rediscovering: it is far easier to make a budget than it is to stick with it! My family has been budget-less for years now, but with the economy as it is we are back to using one. I had no idea how much I was spending on food! I'm going to have to look for some ways to eat as healthy as we have been or more so, a little less expensively.

An encouraging passage from a book I am reading: It is from the book "The Bruised Reed" by the Puritan writer Richard Sibbes. "He 'binds up the broken-hearted' (Isa. 61:1). As a mother is tenderest to the most diseased and weakest child, so does Christ most mercifully incline to the weakest. Likewise he puts an instinct into the weakest things to rely upon something stronger than themselves for support." Makes me think of when Paul wrote, "When I am weak, then I am strong."

I'm looking forward to Thanksgiving and setting a day apart to be thankful for all the blessings the Lord has given my family this year. There have been so many.