In the early morning and late evenings, there is the promise of fall in the air. I can taste it if I am outside early enough, and it is delicious. Did you know that fall is the best time of the year? My garden thinks so too.

I am still updating the sideblog for anyone interested. I post about one or two new links each day, and that is a pace that works well for me. In another life season (that has nothing to do with fall, but everything to do with five little ones), I think I could write more. But this is enough for now.

Amy’s Humble Musings official quote person, Elisabeth Elliot, writes on the subject of finding the will of God for your life:

Sometimes I am asked to speak to young people who are toying with the idea of being missionaries. They want to know how I discovered the will of God. The first thing was to settle once and for all the supremacy of Christ in my life, I tell them. I put myself utterly and forever at His disposal, which means turning over all the rights: to myself, my body, my self-image, my notions of how I am to serve my Master. Oswald Chambers calls it “breaking the husk of my individual independence of God.” Until that break comes, all the rest is “pious fraud.” I tell these earnest kids that the will of God is always different from what they expect, always bigger, and, ultimately, infinitely more glorious than their wildest imaginings.

And speaking of “breaking the husk of my individual independence,” my fourth child looks like she should try some of that:

Uh oh

It’s lipstick.