Aug 7, 2015

Can I Really Enjoy Simple Living?


Hello! It's been tough for me to sit down and write. So much on my mind and so many goals to reach. I really didn't intend for this blog to be consistently about heavy topics, but weighty matters are burdening my heart right now. I'm not fearful, but I am concerned about all of you out there. I trust God implicitly; I've known Him for a long time and He is faithful. I just feel that I have to share what's on my heart. Hopefully by now you know I have to keep it real.

It’s been over six years since I began composing my original Enjoy Simple Living website which has recently been converted to this blog. My desire was to draw people closer to our Creator and His ways and to help you get through challenges in order to come out stronger and wiser on the other side. 

I wrote transparently about my struggles with anxiety, marriage, parenting, stress, and my relationship with God and life in general. I had an inward sense that life and the world was getting too complicated, unnatural, entrapping. I yearned desperately to enjoy a simple life. 

I have learned, and continue to learn, much since then. The world has gotten drastically more complicated as well. Big things are happening. I can see it. People all over are talking about it and experiencing it. There are people in power who have figured out that if they can convince and program us to believe that freedom is dangerous, we will gladly give it up and embrace or go along with giving them worldwide control. 

Does that mean we should give up on simple living? I don't think so because I believe it is the way we were intended to live. It is the path down which God has led our family. We need to be productive, close to nature, quiet, and simple.

Just as I watched as the water gushed forth from our newly drilled well, my heart wells up with gratefulness, humility, and joy when I think of God's provision and greatness. It is through learning to trust Him during many years of my own gut-wrenching trials that I say that.

I may often use the term "hard times". I don't know just what will happen but I've been studying a lot of people who have a pretty good idea. I think we need to prepare. As Joseph stored grain during the seven fruitful years to prepare for the coming seven years of famine and as Noah obeyed the voice of God even though he was scoffed at by unbelievers and had never seen rain, this is the time to get ready. Prepare for a great depression, social instability, war, whatever. Just seek God, research and get prepared as best you can.

The devil doesn't take days off of work. Evil always seeks to triumph and I watch as the deluded masses of people flock to join the apparent victory; to be on the winning team and to learn to love their captors. But they will not taste victory nor freedom. It will be ever-illusive until Jesus returns. Only then will we know peace and freedom. I don't try to change people anymore (in my own strength). But I do try to speak the truth in love. I can't pry someone's eyes open, but God can remove the scales.

Thank you for reading my heart. Please take care and enjoy every beautiful, simple moment; giving glory and honor to our great Creator and loving Father.





Jun 30, 2015

Hagmann & Hagmann Report - Jade Helm 15 In Biblical Prophecy

My last post was a Hagmann and Hagmann Report video on information about the extensive private data being wrongly collected and stored from each of us and the use of Artificial Intelligence as it relates to Jade Helm. The following video is the next day's report which covers the larger picture and refocuses our attention on what really matters.





Jun 19, 2015

Know YOUR Reality (Part 2)


This is part 2 of my Truth in Alternatives post about uncovering our widespread state of deception, thinking for yourself, and taking off the blinders fitted to you as a newborn instead of being a host-mind for the underhanded policies of political, power-hungry parasites. To find truth, you must be willing to be open to new ideas that you may currently believe to be preposterous.

Some people actually do want to stay in the dark. They’re too frightened to journey down an unfamiliar path. They’re afraid of what horror they may encounter and simply don’t want to contend with the consequences of knowledge. Once you know something, you can’t un-know it.

But I can’t stand to do that. I must know MY reality, even if it hurts. You will feel pain either way, but approaching life with intentional thought and action is empowering rather than defeating. Being passive is more dangerous than knowing truth, unless you are an enemy of truth.

Learned helplessness that comes from repeatedly being denied freedom, autonomy, and individual expression, as well as passivity, has been carefully cultivated into our souls through public schools, media, and entitlement programs etc. It has become a national epidemic that our corrupt “leaders” use to fool us and keep us compliant. It weakens and robs you until you are only a broken, defeated, frustrated fragment of the man or woman you are meant to be.

I know many will not wake up, because truth is often spurned and it’s difficult to revive yourself when being shaken awake from a deep sleep. “Just ten more minutes…” you say. But if you hear the alarm, wake up, get up, live with purpose and seek to increase your understanding of truth. You don’t have to jump on anyone’s bandwagon, just move closer to reality and give yourself the opportunity to make informed choices.

Do you see what is going on? We are groomed from birth to unquestionably submit to towering authority figures in order to know what we are supposed to do, think, feel, and believe. Our degenerating culture is set up through all manner of social behavior propaganda in order to slowly and steadily program us to conform to the ideals of godless/occultist/satanic social engineers because they think we’re morons. In a way we have been dumbed down, but their own wisdom leaves much to be desired. These social engineers are a relatively small group of elites who are working towards a global, one world government (that means the end of our Constitution and freedoms).

By the way, they also practice Eugenics with plans to drastically reduce the population of the world. Sound crazy? It is crazy. Crazy true. Truth is stranger than fiction. Where do you think people get fictional story plots? It is easy to research and find evidence for what I’m telling you. I know this may be a lot to take in at once. The following documentary will help you to understand how the perfected art of mind control has been perpetrated on virtually everyone.


They have succeeded in making much of our society love their captors and slavery to “Big Brother”. Many people don’t have a clue what it would be like to truly be free and instead have been working and consuming for the increase of wealth, power, and pleasure for those at the top of the pyramid. And we’ve been, as a whole, programmed to believe that this is good.

Do you willingly accept your position as a wage slave (working for a master) and have no vision or strong desire to be free?

Do you believe that debt and credit can be good?

Do you resist the idea of living a simple, self-sufficient lifestyle?

Are you repulsed by any proposal to grow most of your own food and learn skills to be more self-reliant?

Do you sneer at the idea of not shopping at a grocery store for your food? “I mean, where else would you be able to get food anyway? Doesn’t it magically appear on store shelves?”

Would you rather be (and have your children be) spoon-fed a government indoctrination education instead of being self-taught and learning naturally, more likely to be able to think critically and come to the knowledge of REALITY?

Do you honestly believe that your current relatively comfy and routine lifestyle will just continue on indefinitely and that “things aren’t so bad” or that “they’re getting better”?

Do you comfort yourself with the idea that if tragedy strikes, the government will rescue you?

Does the term civil disobedience offend you and make you want to loyally run straight into the arms of Daddy Government to tell on those bad people who dare to think for themselves and resist tyranny and lawlessness? Blind obedience to evil is nothing to be proud of.

We are merely pawns and experimental subjects in their sophisticated mind game. We have to work to renew our minds, strip away the layers of deception and mind control  and be lead by the Spirit of God, not people. Just reading this or hearing the truth is the beginning of expanding your mind and breaking your programming.

Prepare yourself to confront and deal with reality. Begin thinking for yourself. Try something different. There’s nothing to fear. Would you rather have hard truth and know your personal reality or allow yourself to be unwittingly manipulated and induced into a submissive stupor by a temporarily comforting, addictive, and deliberately crafted con?

I know this is surreal and hard to accept, but life can be like that. It’s surreal to witness or be in a terrible car accident. It was surreal to watch the twin towers be brought down by demolition. Don’t you think it was surreal for the people who were put on trains to be put in concentration camps? Don’t you think it could happen to you? When the proverbial train is wrecked, the elites want you to lie there passively in disbelief as you watch yourself bleed to death instead of shake it off and fight back… or else plead for their damning salvation which effectively hands over your rights and increases their power.

Tyranny is just as much a threat today as it was in the 1900s, 1800s, and 1700s. America is not immune. Our leadership is plowing right through the Constitution and dismissing its tenants because it does not jive with their push for a new world order. What or who is to protect our freedoms now? The answer to that is the same as it was in the beginning of the United States: We the freedom-loving people. Yes, people, the condition of America and the world is much worse than the average person is aware of. PLEASE educate yourself, watch the videos I’ve linked to, and prepare as best you can.

I CHALLENGE YOU:

Turn off the television and tune out of mainstream broadcasting for a while. In case you didn’t know, mainstream media is controlled and manipulated. Like I said in Part 1, you’re not likely to find much helpful truth there. Instead, begin a search for truth in the alternative avenues of independent media. Dare to listen to and learn from other views.

Sure, you are bound to have to dismiss some nonsense (just what is it exactly that you think is being constantly pumped into our society masquerading as the official truth?), but at least you have a chance to find truth. You’ve been dealing with nonsense your whole life; the only difference is now you can begin to learn to distinguish a little better between a false front and the reality behind that front.

AND, don’t be so quick to dismiss everything that goes against what you currently believe as irrefutable fact to be nonsense. That’s the whole point of this challenge: to put yourself on a quest to test EVERYTHING. It’s okay to question your long-held, deeply protected beliefs and convictions. Otherwise, you could be narrowing your exposure to professionally packaged pretext. May the truth stand and the cards fall where they may.

Don’t misunderstand. Truth IS narrow, but if you’re looking for it on the broad path, you will miss it by 100%. Seek God’s kingdom first and he promises to meet your needs.

“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and hid; and for joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.
-Matthew 13:44

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self confidence."
-Robert Frost





May 19, 2015

Truth in Alternatives (Part 1)


I have some intense thoughts to share with you today. I will not always write about things like this, but I am a reflective, thinking person. I investigate. I seek knowledge and understanding. I dare to live outside of the proverbial box that “they” fight to keep us in. I am not scared of change and development and I have a few observations that I want to convey. Remember, I’m speaking from the perspective of someone living in America and from my personal opinion/experience.

Many people think it is too risky to turn to the internet or alternative sources for truth and fact. Instead they insist through implication that you should form your opinions and beliefs on what is commonly admonished and publicly approved by mainstream authorities; be it the institutions of government, religion, public education, medicine, finance, etc.

The only problem with this way of “thinking” is that the truth is hardly, if at all, to be found in such capacities. Popular media and, thus, popular opinion is controlled and engineered by people who have self-serving agendas. To them, you and I are just the “little people.” But at least they’re nice about it and allow us to feel, once in a while, that we actually do get to think for ourselves and have complete, God-given freedom. That way we don’t fuss too much, stay in our place, and are more easily led to the slaughter.

Don’t understand what I’m talking about? That’s okay. Research. That’s the point of this post; to urge you to find out for yourself and be aware that there is a whole other side to the official stories we are told every day to pacify us and soothe us to sleep as would frigid waters that carry us away into permanent unconsciousness. 

Truth Is Not Popular 

Also consider that the truth is not popular. It is not in the main stream. It must be personally sought out amongst the varying side streams – alternative streams. You deserve to know both sides: what the “experts” are telling you and what they are afraid you might find out. You mustn’t be enlightened; it would hurt their bottom line and weaken their level of control.

And as far as experts go… First of all, experts are only experts at what they’re taught, not necessarily what is true, right, or beneficial. Entire corporations, operations, industries, and even research organizations are often established based solely on inaccurate expert conclusions that persist, not because it’s successful or benefiting humanity (because it’s not), but because it turned out to be a moneymaker or platform for power. 

I won't name names but use your imagination, check into what I'm saying, and begin to pull back the veil from over your own eyes. Dare to entertain the thought that I'm not talking about strange, barely known, off-the-wall companies that get run out of business for lack of integrity and therefore won't affect you and yours... who is held accountable anymore anyway?... but major ones you most likely have or do support. 

Consider yourself a shrewd skeptic? Fine. Just make sure you're being just as skeptical of mainstream ideas and conventional practices as you are with alternatives. The next time someone tells you that what you currently think is impossible really is possible, listen. Don't be so quick to dismiss contrary ideas or options. Question why, how. They may know something you don't. It just may change your life for the better when you realize how much responsibility for your family's "well being" you've entrusted to others and begin to take it back. All that these "others" can do is further attempt to fool and pressure you into believing that they know what's best more than you do/can.

We are all collectively being affected every day. Withholding pertinent information can be just as detrimental as giving false information. The control of information and the economy are commonly used tactics for enforcing control over a populace. No, not just in some other, far off country. I'm talking to YOU.

It’s mind-blowing to come to the realization that what you have trusted your whole life is indeed hollow and propped up in order to keep the cash flowing in and the monopoly expanding. Forget about you.  

All The Experts Are Dead 

Second, as I read in a recent Deliberate Agrarian blog post, I now also agree with the notion that all the experts are dead. What that means to me is that we view experts as practically knowing everything you can know about a topic. But the only way to know all YOU can know about something is to no longer be alive. Your ability to learn has stopped. If you are still alive and your learning has stopped, there has been a death of education and growth. 

The only unchanging foundation of principles one can surely stand on is God’s Word, and a careful translation and understanding of it at that, of which God will reveal to individuals in his own time. It’s okay to not know everything. In fact, if you do know everything, I would be inclined to not listen to you much. Be a seeker. Be a student.

You may be genuinely amazed (as I was) of just what lengths to which many people will go for profit. It is easy to be naive and gullible; thinking we can trust any person or any entity that presents itself in an official capacity... or, could it be possible that we've been deliberately dumbed-down and health-impaired so that we won't be able to think - or think straight - enough to recognize the difference between right and wrong and know when we're being deceived and ripped off? Food for thought. 

Greed really does cause people to turn a blind eye and keep a closed mind about growth, learning new information, and making changes. You will find that the root of all evil is the love of money.

Somehow, as I get older and more experienced, I find less and less room in my life for anything that comes out of the mouth of an “expert”. In my opinion, conventional expertise is often frustrating, costly, endangering to life and limb, over-complicated, and practically useless. Not all of the time, but probably most of the time. If you want to know in what arenas of society I concede to this theory, re-read paragraph two above.

I have a lot to say on this topic, but for now I’ll just sum it up. For about the last 10 years, I have been compelled to challenge EVERYTHING I’ve ever been influenced to believe and know as fact. I encourage you to start doing more of your own thinking and to be open to the possibility (and probability) that much of what we are taught to follow and submit to is fraudulent, deceptive, untrue, and smoke in mirrors.  

Seeker of The Truth 

One of the meanings of my daughter's name is "Seeker of the truth". She is that indeed and so am I. Have no fear that precious truth will be lost or abandoned; seek and trust the Truth (Jesus/Yeshua) and let the cards fall where they may. Sometimes the best way to sort through a huge mess is to scrap it and start over.

Because this post has expanded further than I intended, I will post the second half separately. The next time I touch on this topic, I will encourage you to really know your personal reality instead of embracing denial and I will give you a direct challenge.





Apr 28, 2015

Herbal Remedy: Poison Ivy



I fell in love with herbs a few years ago. I continue to learn about and experiment with them. With so much increasing (deliberate) instability in the world, I believe understanding how to use herbs is a very important part of living well and self-sufficiently.

The herbal remedy I want to share with you is for treatment of poison ivy (and similar plants). The following is my anecdotal experience with poison ivy in particular and how I treated it.

Poison Ivy

Recently, while clearing our land, my husband ended up with a small poison ivy rash on his wrist. It got pretty bad and after a couple of days of keeping it covered with a bandage, we realized he should air it out. We had been applying raw apple cider vinegar to dry it out, which is another recommended remedy, but it wasn’t healing as quickly until we kept it mostly aired out. It did go away and the ACV apparently did help dry it out and temporarily eased the itching. However…

The following week he got more poison ivy, but this time it was all over his forearms from cutting down trees and handling branches covered in the ivy. Of course, he hadn’t realized it was there until it was too late. He wasn’t looking forward to having an oozing, itching rash up and down his arms. When the itch got bad, he asked me for a good remedy to give him relief. I did some quick research and decided to use Bentonite clay.

Bentonite clay absorbs toxins, poisons, and heavy metals like a champ. To treat the rash, this is what we did:

In a non-metal bowl, with a non-metal spoon, mix: (when wet, the clay will draw metals into it)

¼ cup Water
¼ tsp Sea salt
Approx. 10-15 drops essential oil (Mint, Lavender, etc.)
Hubby preferred mint (we happened to have wintergreen) because of its cooling/tingling effect.
Approx. ½ cup Bentonite clay
Add a little at a time until you reach a wet, creamy consistency.

I get my bentonite clay from the Bulk Herb Store.

With his fingers, he spread the paste all over his arms and let it dry for at least 15 minutes, then rinsed it off. He did this every 12 hours for two days. He said it burned, but was much more tolerable than the itching. We were both thrilled that the itching subsided and the rash went away completely before it got as bad as the first rash. He was able to work and sleep in peace. He did wear a long-sleeve shirt to work and sleep to keep it from spreading, but other than that, we are confident and excited that we have a simple way to get rid of poison ivy.

What's your experience with treating poison ivy naturally?





Mar 3, 2015

Food Forests


In my last post I recommended a gardening film: Back to Eden. I also mentioned that I’ve been waiting about three years to have the opportunity to fully utilize the concept. Just this year I’ve come across another fantastic, natural way of growing food becoming more food-secure.

Food Forests

Food forests are a blend of permaculture and wild forest (that's my definition). In other words it resembles a more food-abundant, edible forest. A typical forest does supply many edibles, but you can create your own forest with your own choice of food that, once established, produces delicious fresh food on its own every year.

The best videos I’ve seen online so far about permaculture food forests are at GeoffLawton.com. You can watch the videos for free by signing up for the newsletter to get instant access (I rarely get emails from them). You will gain an immense amount of knowledge by these videos. You can also purchase and take a permaculture design course offered by Geoff. When they are promoting a current course, the videos may be temporarily inaccessible, but keep checking. They are available right now.

I’m so grateful I found this information at this time because it drastically shifted my plans for the land we are purchasing. We are now incorporating these ideas into our design. It will take years to get established (mainly the trees), but there’s no time like the present to begin.

I counted 37 videos and growing. Here's a list of four of them:

Surviving The Coming Crisis

Property Purchase Checklist 
-Very informative and practical

5 Acre Abundance on a Budget

Cell Grazing
-How cell/rotational grazing cattle fits in with food forest design.