I realized a few things when I went in the pantry to clean it up - I use a lot of valuable space for things that aren't food! So....what do I actually need to do with the things I WANT vs the things I NEED? That's going to take a weeding out and a little more time than I had when I went in to clean!
Freezer before. Seriously - I don't think that having 200 flavor ice for 3 years is a good thing.
Freezer after. I know how much beef we have left from the last steer - and we need to get another one ready! It's a process though. Fix the fence; fix the corral; fix the bulls so they're steers (hahahaha!)
Anybody know that shelf life of #10 canned wheat? I don't. Some of this is going to take a little research.
Following up with our focus on culture, I found this very interesting and alarming! In Illinois right now, the State Board of Education approved a new rule for statewide curriculum mandates called the Culturally Responsive Teaching and Leading Standards. Essentially, it's a new law that forces teachers to "Embrace and encourage progressive viewpoints and perspectives. That's a fancy way of saying that teachers are mandated by law to discuss current political controversies in class and they have to organize what they call action civics (field trips, student protests, lobbying expeditions) on behalf of causes like gun control or the green new deal. They have to admit that there's unlimited numbers of genders and prioritize representation of these 'genders' in the classroom. They are doing everything they can to bring this to the national level so that this can be the 'standard' in all schools. If a teacher says they will not teach these things, he/she gets his/her teaching license taken away.
This illustrates the point that we are trying to make - we need to be the cultural instructors in our families! We need to make sure that we all know what things are true and what standards we follow. This storm of absolute LIES needs to stay out of our homes. It needs to stop with brave families who stand for what is right!
Several quotes I found that may be helpful at this time:
*if you don't know what you stand for, you'll fall for anything
*There are some as wolves among us. Among our own membership, men are arising...diverting from the right or correct, and being obstinate in the wrong, willfully, in order to draw the weak and unwary members of the Church away after them. (Harold B. Lee; January 1973)
*The time is fast approaching when it will require a great courage for Latter-Day Saints to stand up for their peculiar standards and doctrine - all of their doctrine, including the more weighty principles such as the principle of freedom. (Ezra Taft Benson; October 1964)
*Behaviors which once were considered inappropriate and immoral are now not only tolerated by also viewed by ever so many as acceptable. (Thomas S. Monson; October 2011)
Do we know where to look for what our standards should be? Do we know how to change ourselves if we need to? Do we know how to stop the storms of the world?
please share any help or thoughts you might have; we can all use the support!
February will be Scott and Brandee's month for posting on the blog.
Sometimes we don't realize we've changed untill we have to stand against the storm. Making that stand can be the hardest test. It's important to realize we are never alone when that time comes. We may not see it when we look around but it's there. It's always in greater number than the opposition. The stand is always worth it. You might loose everything in this world because of it but you will gain it all in the next.
ReplyDeleteHow do we stop it.
Zero tolerance. Loud voice.
As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
I think the self life, if stored correctly is about 30 years for that stuff. 15 years is ually the average of food storage containers like that (from the bishop store house). If that's where is came from, I believe that sister marlow has a list of the items and their shelf life. Might be a good thing to have.
ReplyDeleteWay to go on the pantry!!
ReplyDeleteAs I see posts across my social media platforms, from friends I grew up with - members and non-members - I find I am constantly being forced to discern the truth from what they are saying. A large part of what is posted is opinion that has been in circulation so long, people have decided it is fact. Do not fall for this. One of the reasons Mom and I decided to make this safe haven of information is to help our families search out truth to fill our homes with light - instead of the dark of the storm. Daily judgement calls are required to maintain the safety of souls in this storm. I believe it is no mistake nor coincidence that the first lesson in the Book of Mormon is about Nephi asking FOR HIMSELF if what his father THE PROPHET said what true. Turn to prayer.
Lyrics to think about:
1. Where can I turn for peace?
Where is my solace
When other sources cease to make me whole?
When with a wounded heart, anger, or malice,
I draw myself apart,
Searching my soul?
2. Where, when my aching grows,
Where, when I languish,
Where, in my need to know, where can I run?
Where is the quiet hand to calm my anguish?
Who, who can understand?
He, only One.
3. He answers privately,
Reaches my reaching
In my Gethsemane, Savior and Friend.
Gentle the peace he finds for my beseeching.
Constant he is and kind,
Love without end.