Before our marriage Mark and I decided to trust God with planning our family. We would allow Him to bless us with children when and how He wished. However, after the very difficult birth that we experienced with Matthew, Mark and I began to doubt. God had blessed us with 3 children in two and ...
Our culture and our world emphasize self-esteem and a pride in our accomplishments, but usually the best place to be is not a place of self-confidence, but a place where we recognize our failures and shortcomings, where we realize that we are not sufficient and where we are forced to fall on our knees and ...
**My husband says that posting this post on a "Not Me Monday" is like opening up the paper to the comic section and finding the obituaries. So I apologize to those who were visiting for a chuckle.** Last week when I posted my updated 'To-do' list of things to accomplish before the baby arrives. I was ...
There have been two short posts that I've read in the last few weeks that have given me a lot of food for thought. Amy points out that what we consider trials are 'problems' that many people pray for and would consider an amazing blessing in Somebody Wants What You Have from Amy's Finer ...
I realize that I haven't posted much about this pregnancy and there are a few reasons for that. One is that my pregnancies are fairly typical. I generally experience between 16-24 weeks of morning sickness and exhaustion followed by a time of relative energy and then head into the last trimester with the normal discomforts that ...
As I have been working on my series how to choose a curriculum, I've composed, but not posted a series of posts speaking about several different, popular methods of home education. These may still be posted at some point in time, but as we thought and prayed we realized that it is much more important ...
In the previous posts in this series of "Keeping Your Child's Heart" I've pointed out that the ultimate goal of gaining our child's heart is to make disciples of Christ. In order to do that we must discipline and instruct them (Ephesians 6:4). We can do neither of these ...
I really enjoy reading the book of Daniel. Daniel stands out to me in several ways. First of all, it has some really great stories that are some all time favorites of many children, the burning fiery furnace, Daniel in the lion's den, the hand writing on the wall. It also has ...
When our oldest son Matthew was four years old, we read about the desperate condition of abandoned and orphaned children in India who must live on the streets and struggle for survival. At that point, Matthew declared that he wanted to go to ...
As I read through Isaiah and Jeremiah, two things struck me. It's was interesting to me that here in these books, after we've read all of this inspired history of Israel, God seems to give us His commentary and His response. Israel (and Judah) were immensely unfaithful and in Isaiah and Jeremiah He shares with ...
