When you think of me ….
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“When you think of me, you must think of me as one who is truly happy. It is true, I want a great many things I haven’t got, but I don’t want them enough to be discontented and not enjoy the many blessings that are mine.
I have my home among the blue mountains, my healthy children, my clean, honest husband, my kind, gentle milk cows, my garden which I make myself. I have loads and loads of flowers which I tend myself. There are lots of chickens, turkeys, and pigs which are my own special care, I have some old gentle horses and an old wagon.
I can load up the kiddies and go where I please any time. I have the best, kindest neighbors and I have my dear absent friends.
Do you wonder that I am so happy? When I think of it all, I wonder how I can crowd all of my joy into one short life.”
~From the letters of Elinore Rupert Stewart. Excerpted from “Letters of a Woman Homesteader”.
Thanks Christy for sharing.Checking the library to see if they have this book as I love to read anything about this time period and the pioneers.
What is the name of the book and the author?
Hey Diane! I listed it beneath the passage. It is a wonderful book and true story to boot, from her letters to a friend back home 🙂
Gratefully,
Christy
I shall have to get the book, The exerpt was lovely.
This is so beautiful. God has blessed us in so many ways.
I’m downloading it to my smartphone now. Thanks for sharing; I needed to hear this.
Denise
Beautiful! God has a lot of beauty in this world and it doesn’t cost anything!!!!!
Thank you for sharing that inspiration. I love singing the hymn “count your many blessings name them one by one, and it will surprise you what the Lord hath done”.