Beeloved behind the scenes
Dearly Beeloveds,
For those of you who have not met me in person, I am Denise, Christ-loving wife of my strong and constant right-hand, Dave, and mother of five beautiful home-schooled children. Beyond the love and satisfaction I have found in the simple normality of everyday family life, I have a deep love for all things natural and an insatiable desire for all things new! Having a bee-keeper as my father growing up and by no small co-incidence now one as my husband, I have always been familiar with the sweet and familiar presence and smell of honey and beeswax in our home.
I have long known about the amazing benefits of honey, but only more recently had a desire to research and experiment with other amazing products produced by my familiar friends, the bees. A bee-hive is a treasure-chest of goodness, delight and perfection, and the produce of the bees certainly a gift from God to mankind.
As any bee-keeper knows, beekeeping means that there are always an ample supply of honey and beeswax, and bees for that matter, around the house. This has meant that I have had plenty of opportunity to experiment with different formulations and recipes which have become most useful to us as a family. I hope to share more of those treasures along the Beeloved journey, also some of the amazing parallels and wisdom that my heavenly Father has shared with me along the way.
My Father is not only the master gardener, but also the keeper of us, the bees. He intends for us as His own unique people to produce a sweet, most useful and fragrant honey to a lost and dying world as we understand our place and purpose and work together in harmony accomplishing His will and purposes on earth.
One of the most amazing things I have noted about a beehive is that, in spite of having the queen bee at the steer- (a woman who evidently spends most of her time having babies!), every bee knows his place and purpose in the hive. Only the wisdom of man, which God calls foolishness in His eyes, would doubt that there is a master orchestrator behind all the buzz and purposeful activity in the hive!
My heart is that as I, an insignificant queen-bee who spends most of my time tending my babies in just one of the many hives that my Father is carefully keeping watch over, submit Beeloved to the master orchestrator- Jesus Christ- He may take it and make something useful of it. Something that will be a sweet fragrance to Him and all those who use and enjoy our joint creations!
May He guide us as the Beeloved family to become whatever He wills with us, may He work with us to produce and accomplish whatever is on His heart and will bring Him pleasure.
From our Beeloved family to yours,