Last week, I picked up a parenting book that was on my office bookshelf. I probably hadn’t looked at in over ten years. Looking at the condition of the book, I don’t know if I even read it. I found very few Christian parenting books …
It’s January 9 and our Christmas decorations are all still up inside. David did take down the decorations on the front of the house on Wednesday, but that’s it. We might have taken the indoor ones down by now, but I hurt my back Tuesday …
My life has been governed by the school year calendar for the past 53 years. I started kindergarten in 1972. I lived through public school, college, teaching, college campus ministry work, teaching again, working on an unfinished masters, and doing …
Although the calendar says January 2, our little family is still in holiday mode. The Christmas decorations will remain up until sometime next week. Caroline and I are extending our homeschool break a bit further. We’re planning to pick up a …
I shared in July that we made a major change in Ordering the Home For Life Now | Cozy Life Reset – Day 18. The short of it, if you remember, is that we moved David’s office out of the living room and to the basement. The living room is now our …
A year ago I wrote about Switching To Kobo Libra Colour From Kindle. A year later, I still love my Kobo Libra Colour. Love, love, love it. If something happened to it, I would immediately replace it. I love the pen, notetaking, highlighting, and the …
A Christian woman keeping her maiden name is one way to be quickly sorted by many people. To some in the church, it is viewed as completely unacceptable. Although they probably wouldn’t call it sin, fellow believers will view the woman with …
1 Kings 3:1-15 Later, Solomon formed an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt by marrying his daughter. Solomon brought her to the City of David until he had finished building his palace and the house of the LORD, as well as the wall around Jerusalem. …
“Thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left” (Isa. 30:21). When we are in doubt or difficulty, when many voices urge this course or the …
Many years ago, I wrote Content at Home Amid the Tyranny of Change. In that post, I mentioned three well-known writers who were homebodies and didn’t like change all that much (C.S. Lewis, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and Elisabeth Elliot). I was …
