Is self-sufficiency possible?

I know there has been a lot of talk about self-sufficiency and I’ve even written about it a bit but can anyone truly be self-sufficient?

Screenshot from Bible Chat app
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Dairy Free Cream Cheese Icing

One of my kiddos who loves Red Velvet Cake recently requested one for her birthday. We had to make it dairy-free… it was a little work but we succeeded. I used a boxed cake which said it was dairy-free.

I’ll try to update this with a printable recipe card later but you can print out the cream cheese icing recipe and write in the changes.

Cream Cheese Icing

Dairy Free Cream Cheese Icing

Ingredients:

  • 8 oz cream cheese (dairy free)
  • 1 stick margarine (dairy free)
  • 1 lb confectioner’s sugar
  • 1 t. vanilla
  • 1 t. Cream cheese flavoring (optional)

Directions:

Cream all of the icing ingredients together and spread on cooled cake.

Sprinkle the top with any crumbs that may have fallen off the cake.

July 2025 Life Updates: Blessings upon Blessings

Where to start?

Well, it’s been crazy busy. We’ve had a LOT going on but we are surviving one day at a time with God’s grace. He is so GOOD to provide us what we need when we need it even if we haven’t asked. HE truly knows our needs before we do.

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May 2025 Garden Walk and Updates

Hey y’all… time is flying by so fast!

I’ve posted a new garden video on YouTube with the link below but I’ll try to show you a few pictures here as well.

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A Walk Through the Garden

A walk in nature always amazes me and reminds me that we serve an awesome GOD! We are surrounded by his love and mercy but often we get so caught up in life that we don’t see it or feel it.

We are so blessed to have an abundance of nature in our own backyard and garden… this reminds us our of creator every day.

It makes me ponder how amazing the Garden of Eden must’ve been… I’m sure that our garden can’t be anything close to that but it can be a place where we can talk to God and feel his presence as He surrounds us with His love. The burdens of this world melts around us when we allow ourselves to take in all of His glory.

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