Try this quote on and see if it fits. 🙂 I know it sounds fantastic; but think it over. It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good . . . On every level of our life . . . we are always harking back to some occasion which seemed to us to […]
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The Advice Book: A Treasured Graduation Gift
It’s been almost ten years since my homeschool graduation party. I got some great presents, and I can still remember some of them: A family heirloom pocket watch. Pens and notebooks. Generous friends and grandparents gave money, which helped me buy my first digital camera. Most of these gifts have been used up (or become seriously outdated), but my most treasured gift still sits on my bookshelf, and I still […]
Read More →Still Learning
I don’t remember where I had been, but I came rolling up the driveway just as Daniel, our oldest son who runs Doorposts was getting in his car to go get his wife and children to join us for lunch and the afternoon. “Hey, I just remembered, today is the day Kevin Swanson is interviewing you for his program!” he said as he opened his car door. “Gasp! When? ” […]
Read More →Family Meals with Joy!
Preparing for company always provides plenty of opportunity for sanctification! As I looked forward to our Easter feast with all the family together, I so enjoyed this post by Nancy Wilson on hosting family meals and celebrations with joy. She and her husband host a meal each week that brings their grandchildren and adult children around their table. In this post, Nancy is preparing for their special Easter meal, and […]
Read More →What I’m Glad God Has Done
I’m glad God chose to give us six children! We got a late start. I was twenty-eight when we married. In the twelve years that followed, God blessed us with six little ones and the strength to care for them! I’m glad God is a God of mercy who has carried those little ones through the “perils of childhood.” He spared the life of our firstborn, who would have died […]
Read More →What I Would Do Differently, Part 3
“Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things” (1 Corinthians 13:7). What else would I do differently if I could go back to my early days of mothering? I would memorize 1 Corinthians 13 sooner and pray for God’s grace to take things less personally: The “oversights” and “blunders” that are simply a husband thinking like a man instead of like a woman. He’s not trying […]
Read More →What I Would Do Differently, Part 2
“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast” (Eph 2:8-9). If we are saved by grace alone and not by our works, we can rest in the truth that our children are saved by grace alone and not by their works – or ours. We can quit worrying about whether we’re […]
Read More →Hope for the Liar
Lying comes naturally. We shouldn’t be shocked when our children lie. They’re born with old sin natures, and that’s what old sin natures do. Man has been lying ever since Adam and Eve believed the lies of Satan, the father of lies. Because it is sin, lying should be taken seriously. But we must resist our own temptation to sinfully over-react when our children lie. At best, sinful anger, scolding, […]
Read More →What I Would Do Differently, Part 1
“. . . I began to speak less to the kids and more to God. It was actually quite relaxing.” Wow. That statement stopped me in my tracks. The words are from Paul Miller’s book, A Praying Life. They are quoted in a book I’ve been working my way through over the last few weeks, Give Them Grace: Dazzling Your Kids with the Love of Jesus, by Elyse Fitzpatrick and […]
Read More →How Do We Know What God Wants Us to Do?
“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect” (Romans 12:2, ESV). “So, how do you determine which things God wants you to do each day?” This was a question asked in response to a recent post about doing the things God has called […]
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