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What Would You Do On A Four Day Retreat?

FamilyApril 30, 2015549Views 0Likes 2Comments

This is the second time my husband has blessed my daughters and I with a chance to go away for a few days to write without the interruptions of daily life. No meals to cook, no beds to make, and no house to clean, just four days to seek the Lord, write, relax, and have…

This has been a strange week. I've just felt "off". I know that isn't much of a description, but it's all I have. I have nothing to feel off about, everything is going well, so it seems strange that I would feel this way.

When You Need Help

Biblical EncouragementApril 23, 2015456Views 0Likes 6Comments

This has been a strange week. I've just felt "off". I know that isn't much of a description, but it's all I have. I have nothing to feel off about, everything is going well, so it seems strange that I would feel this way. I have a lot to do with Emily, Rebekah and I leave…

Be Sure To Count the Cost & #AfterMyCoffee Link up

HomemakingApril 9, 2015533Views 0Likes 4Comments

In 1992 when we purchased our first house we naively thought we would be able to renovate the 100-year-old Victorian fixer upper and build a two car garage with the $20,000 we had saved. To us $20,000 was a small fortune and we had scrimped and saved for years to put it together. Needless to say…

…The Word of God is Not Chained 2 Timothy 2:9 – & Link-Up

Biblical EncouragementApril 2, 2015633Views 0Likes 0Comments

Locked in – a devotional by Dennis Fishers 2 Timothy 2: 1-10 I suffer trouble…even to the point of chains; but the Word of God is not chained. 2 Timothy 2:9 Jean-Dominique Bauby’s Memoir, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, describes his life after a massive stroke left him with a condition called “Locked-In Syndrome.” Although he was…

This is what I’m hearing from so many homeschool moms. I’m not sure I can do it another year. How can I do it all? How can I do even part of it well? I hear you.

Do You Feel Overwhelmed? III

Biblical EncouragementMarch 10, 2015738Views 0Likes 77Comments

©Lori Laws & Write the Vision This is what I’m hearing from so many homeschool moms. I’m not sure I can do it another year. How can I do it all? How can I do even part of it well? I hear you. This is what I was hearing from myself too as we finished up our…

As many of you know we have had an annual planning time since 1996 – that’s 19 years of setting time aside near the beginning of the new year to pray, seek the Lord,

Do You Plan Purposefully?

FamilyFebruary 18, 2015552Views 0Likes 0Comments

Or do you just randomly live your life? As many of you know we have had an annual planning time since 1996 – that’s 19 years of setting time aside near the beginning of the new year to pray, seek the Lord, and talk about what we’ve accomplished and to adjust our course for the new…

I think I felt this way ever year of our 21+ years of homeschooling. Some days I still feel that way and I’m no longer homeschooling.

Do You Feel Overwhelmed? II

Biblical EncouragementNovember 5, 2014461Views 0Likes 0Comments

©Lori Laws & Write the Vision This is what I’m hearing from so many homeschool moms. I’m not sure I can do it another year. How can I do it all? How can I do even part of it well? I hear you. I think I felt this way ever year of our 21+ years of homeschooling.…