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Drawing Near Our Children During Bad Attitudes
How are we to respond to bad attitudes and bad behavior in our children? Although we seldom feel like it, we need to draw near to them.
Our 2020 Advent Plans and Traditions
A few weeks ago I received an email about planning for Advent - and I was SO grateful for the reminder! Honestly, I've never thought about it this early, and I've enjoyed spending the last few weeks really thinking through and considering what we plan to do this year for the Advent season. I wanted …
Why we chose to switch to homeschooling Part II
How God began to prepare my heart for our switch to homeschooling long before I realized what He was doing.
Can we hardly wait to continue our course?
I was struck by these words through the Message translation of Philippians 1 recently. Since motherhood is the course that marks most of my days, it caused me to pause and consider: how often do I go to bed at night and awaken each morning with this perspective? Now, I don't mean to liken motherhood …
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Your Husband is not your child.
One of the pastors at our church spoke these words this past Sunday as he addressed wives during part of his sermon. Your husband is not your child. Now, this is a simple statement with which most of us would probably agree. Of course our husbands are not our children. I think I even nodded …
Dear Future Daughter-in-law…
Dear Future Daughter-in-law, It may seem strange to be writing a letter to you right now. After all, B is barely a year old, and I know I am not promised to see him live even another day. I know it's possible that you don't exist and that he will never marry. But I know …
Wife/Mother = Student
I legally fit the title of "student" until completing graduate school this past December. From ages 4 to 25, I participated in various forms of schooling. After defending my thesis a mere four weeks before my son's due date, my husband and I celebrated me finally being finished. It felt so good. No more papers, no …
Why I Started a Blog
As a young wife and mother, I ask a lot of questions. Titus 2:3-5 talks about how the older women should teach the younger women. In one of my favorite books on this passage, Feminine Appeal, Carolyn Mahaney writes that "it is doubtful that the Apostle Paul had in mind Bible classes or seminars or books …
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