I am so thankful for the work I see God doing in the lives of our children! I am learning from them! I’ve been especially delighted, over the past few months, to see both our at-home daughters growing in their appreciation for the community life of believers and the fellowship and encouragement that thrives in that community. Today I would like to share a post that our daughter, Bethany, has written […]
Read More →Category: Encouragement
Helping Our Children Confess
“Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted” (Galatians 6:1, ESV). Yesterday, as I read the first chapters of Joshua, an account brought back memories of the “old days” — the days when it was obvious that one of the kids had done something naughty. The evidence was all […]
Read More →Some Ideas for Studying Your Bible
How many of us struggle with reading the Bible on a regular basis? We know we should do it. We know God speaks to us through His Word. We commit and re-commit to reading our Bibles each day, and then we find ourselves not doing it again. Marking in my Bible helps me pay attention to what I am reading. Marking in my Bible gets me actively engaged with the […]
Read More →Loving the Bible in a Hands-On Way
I remember waking up almost every morning to my mama reading her Bible on the couch. I was completely fascinated by the whole thing–the special colored pencils, the special black pens that she had a never-ending supply of, the pictures and notes she drew in the margins. We’re not very alike, but the fact that she drew rainbows in her Bible is a good indicator that we’re related. 🙂 I, […]
Read More →The Older Woman on My Bookshelf – A Review (and Giveaway) of “The Hidden Art of Homemaking”
I don’t read very many books more than once. My “to-read” list is way too long to use up time reading a book I’ve already read. But over the last few days I’ve been reading The Hidden Art of Homemaking for the fourth time. Every time I read this book I come away refreshed and inspired. And every time I read it, I’m in a different season of life and […]
Read More →Musings on a Cat Mess
I didn’t step in it – this time. But my husband did, in the dark as he left for work early in the morning. Then he walked through our room, back out, and through the entire house to the back door. I know, because his footprint was in the mess our cat had very rudely deposited on the floor during the night. The trail went from one end of the […]
Read More →Don’t Give Up!
Tomorrow our second-born son celebrates his 26th birthday! He is the son who made me wonder if I wanted to be a mother anymore. 🙂 He is the son who was toasted at his wedding by one of the men in our church, who smiled as he said that years earlier he would have voted Joseph, of any of the little boys in church, most likely to end up in […]
Read More →Against Tolerance…
Those of you who have children online, children who follow blogs — do you know what they are reading? The internet and social networking make it much more difficult to know our children’s “friends” and the people who are influencing their thinking. People “come into” our homes through the internet that we may never “meet”. And just because a blog is written by someone who claims to be a Christian […]
Read More →More Than Enough
I was reading The Jesus Storybook Bible to my little Ruby the other day and in between several readings of the “one about the sick girl” we also managed to read one about Jesus feeding the five thousand. Jesus instructed the disciples to feed the crowd of people who had been listening to Him talk. When they started discussing what they could offer such a crowd, one boy produced his […]
Read More →Mother’s Day Thoughts
“…for apart from me you can do nothing” (John 15:5, ESV). Last week I spent a little over thirty-six hours on full-time duty caring for two of my little granddaughters, with two of their little cousins joining us for the evening. Those thirty-six hours were filled with: Unproductive and oops-too-late runs to the bathroom, punctuated with hilarious comments and sweet hugs Total meltdowns over a cat that was innocently sleeping […]
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