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How To Prepare Your Family For An Emergency

FamilyJanuary 29, 2020676Views 0Likes 0Comments

Prepare your family for an emergency? Many of us think: Those things may happen to others, but not to us - right? Now we probably wouldn't come right out and say it, but we think it, at least I do. It really shook my faith when two incidences happened relatively close together and to people I know…

Yearly Planning at the Sather House

FamilyJanuary 17, 2019528Views 0Likes 8Comments

This is the 23rd year we are setting aside a week to pray and seek the Lord about His plans for us and our family. When I look back I can see some of what that consistency has accomplished. Many things would not have happened if we had not set aside this time each year to…

Confessions of a To-do List Junky

Home BusinessMay 16, 2018619Views 0Likes 0Comments

My name is Phyllis. I'm a to-do list junky. Yes, that's me. I always have half-a-dozen of them started. One for homemaking. To-dos for my website. Things I need to talk to Dan about. Of course, there is one for each of my children, Eric, Emily, and Rebekah. One…

Wherever your thoughts are, I’d like to invite you to step back, rest awhile, and take another look at the cross. Most Christians have at least one cross — a necklace, or perhaps one on the wall. I have one particularly beautiful one that is hand carved.

As You Approach Easter Week…

FamilyMarch 28, 2018891Views 0Likes 2Comments

What thoughts are crossing your mind? Planning a big meal for family or friends can easily consume our thoughts. Cleaning your house can do that too. Wherever your thoughts are, I’d like to invite you to step back, rest awhile, and take another look at the cross. Most Christians have at least one cross — a…

How To Build a Vision

Biblical EncouragementMarch 8, 2018573Views 0Likes 0Comments

How To Build a Vision - One step at a time. "Purposeful Planning is life planning, not simply homeschool planning. Matters of the home (both physical and relational), your marital relationship, the Lord’s calling for your family, your finances, your children and their character, as well as your homeschool plans, are all addressed. The Sather…

Forget About Setting Goals – Really?

FamilyMarch 1, 2018606Views 0Likes 0Comments

Forget About Setting Goals - Really? What! That was my reaction when I read the title of this article by James Clear. Needless to say, it only took a couple of seconds for me to click on it to read it. My plans have plans. I'm a planning kind of girl so not having goals seemed very strange…

Is There Really Enough Time To Do All…?

FamilyJanuary 14, 2016599Views 0Likes 8Comments

©Write the Vision I would like to suggest that you do something different this year. Let me explain. Dan and I got married in July of 1984. By 1995 we had: Completed 4 years of medical school – we were told a lot of marriages don’t survive medical school Completed 3 years of residency – we…