Anyone who knows me well knows that I love the Bible. I read it through once a year by reading portions of it every day. It encourages me, convicts me, refreshes me, inspires me. I love the Bible. However: The sixty-six books of the Bible vary a lot! Some are historical, some are prophetic, some […]
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Each of our children are different, with their own personalities, gifts and challenges. It is so important to let that sink in. It is so important not to compare them to their siblings, their friends, or even to yourself. One of our children was not very academic – she found some subjects challenging, but it
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“Are you okay?” my husband asked me. “Yeah, I’m fine,” was my answer. The truth was, I was sort of fine. That is, I should have been fine. But I was sort of not fine. There was nothing actually wrong except my attitude. Circumstances (one child was sick, another one was working at her new
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In the last year, the year of the pandemic, I have tried to take a walk every day. I prefer to walk in the woods or by water as I find walking in such settings refreshes my soul. There is so much beauty, and I often think of lyrics from a song by Rich Mullins:
A memory came to my mind this morning: At one point in my childhood, my father worked on passenger trains. He’d be gone for a few days, then my mother would pick him up at the train station and bring him home (he’d be really tired). He would slowly climb up the stairs to our
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Exercise. Many of us have experienced that when we begin a new form of exercise, be it swimming, walking, running, playing a new sport, using weights, at the beginning we don’t do it that well. But as we continue to do it, we get better. It’s pretty simple, really. I was thinking recently of a
As homeschooling parents, there are many important things we want to teach our children: reading, writing, and arithmetic for starters. But there is an extremely important lesson that we want to make sure our children learn, and learn well! And that is: if we are going to be God-followers, we are going to be different.
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I went on a walk and what did I see? First of all, let me say that I had things on my mind. Sad things. Naturally, as I was walking, I was thinking of these things. I could have easily missed the beauty, being preoccupied with my thoughts. But as I walked on a concrete
I am different. So are you. We know that scientifically speaking, each individual has a different DNA and fingerprints, but beyond that we know that our personalities, our gifts, and natural abilities are unique as well. Why then do we have such a strong desire NOT to be different but to be like others? I
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Some children are easy going, some are not. Some children are parent-pleasers and therefore are relatively easy to raise and home school. Others are not. When a child is being difficult, there are likely reasons, and discovering the reason(s) can make such a difference! Sometimes it is simply that the child born after a parent-pleasing
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