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Why Would You Want to Have a Planning Weekend?

FamilyFebruary 6, 2012992Views 0Likes 2Comments

As Stormie Omartian discusses in her book, The Power of Praying for your Adult Children, “the Lord is very willing to reveal His vision to us. He desires for all of us to have His vision for our lives, to have our eyes opened to understand our purpose and calling so we can respond correctly…

Planning Weekend January 2012

FamilyJanuary 27, 2012965Views 0Likes 0Comments

What a whirlwind month this has been. We took an extended planning time this year – a full week – because we had so many important things to pray about and discuss. It also gave us additional time to be relaxed and enjoy our family a bit more since my husband’s job has been particularly…

The Hopes and Fears of all the Years are met in Thee Tonight

Biblical EncouragementDecember 30, 2011541Views 0Likes 2Comments

As I prayed this morning about what I should write as my last post of the year, I was thinking about how the time between Christmas and New Year's seems to be a waiting time –waiting for Christmas to be over, waiting for New Year’s Day, waiting for one year to be over and the…

And The Winners of “We Gather Together” Are

FamilyNovember 18, 2011471Views 0Likes 1Comment

How will you celebrate Thanksgiving this year? Are things going well with your family and you are ready to celebrate and rejoice? Or are things going really poorly and you don't feel like you have anything to be thankful for? For most of us we will land somewhere in between, but whether you are on top of the…

‘’Me Time is a myth. It is an unattainable, always interruptible, never satisfying piece of junk psychology. Me Time, by its very name, suggests that who we are during the daily grind is not who we truly are.

Are You Continually Searching For “Me Time”?

FamilyOctober 15, 2011894Views 0Likes 4Comments

If you are like most wives, mothers, and homeschool mothers there has been a time when you thought these roles stretched and pulled at you until you would break if you just couldn’t be alone for a while. If only you could finish that project, or read a book, or any number of things that…

Exodus 20:6 NIV “…but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.”

Obedience is its own reward

MarriageSeptember 26, 2011539Views 0Likes 4Comments

Husband Wife Relationship Exodus 20:6 NIV “…but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.” Other than our personal relationships with the Lord, the husband/wife relationship is the foundation that our homes and families are built on. We’ve had a lot of very good teaching in this area. We know…

We started to teach our children from a very early age that this was the proper way for a believer to begin each day.

What Will Your Children Find You Doing?

ParentingSeptember 19, 2011493Views 0Likes 5Comments

As we head back to yet another school year I am reminded that we need to be fed by the Word if we are going to feed our children anything worthwhile. The other morning during my quiet time I found myself watching for my coffee-drinking daughter to appear so we could exchange greetings and smiles. I hadn’t…