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A Wise Woman Builds Her Home

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The past few months I've been making choices that allow me to focus more on home and health which I previously wrote about in Focusing on Health, Home, and Homeschooling and My Themes and Goals This Year: Health and Home. As part of that, I've been returning to Proverbs 14:1 over and over again.Here are a few of the translations:The wise woman builds her house, but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down. (NIV) The wise woman builds her house, But the foolish tears it down with her own hands. (NASB) Every wise woman … [Read more...] about A Wise Woman Builds Her Home

Solve a Problem Free Printables

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We all have little things that disrupt our lives that we put up with and never take the time to deal with. These Solve a Problem Free Printables help you identify a small issue in a particular aspect of your life that you want to deal with once and for all.This isn't about a huge life change. It should be something small. Something that you continually put off, but a problem that needs to deal with so you can free your mind of it and move on. Solve a Problem Free Printables There are five versions of this printable to use in whichever … [Read more...] about Solve a Problem Free Printables

My Journaling Bible and Devotions Book for This Year

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I received two lovely gifts for Christmas that I'm using this year for my Bible reading and devotional time. Although I have a couple of Bibles I still like to use over and over again, I also like something new.This year I was blessed to receive two wonderful presents I will enjoy using all year long. Mornings with Jesus Devotional The first is Mornings with Jesus 2019. This is a daily devotional book for women published each year by Guideposts. My parents have purchased this for me in the past, but I haven't had a new one in some time. I … [Read more...] about My Journaling Bible and Devotions Book for This Year

Should Bloggers Edit Their Past?

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This website has gone through so many names and approaches over the past fourteen years and, consequently, I've added and removed content regularly. Now that I've finally settled on what I'm doing (and blogging gurus can go jump in a lake), I've been going through my unpublished archives to see if there are things I should bring back.I have a massive collection of archives, full of posts that I've removed from my site (sites, really) for one reason or another. I was looking this week through some of the earlier posts I had written about … [Read more...] about Should Bloggers Edit Their Past?

Merry Christmas, Darling – Singleness at Christmas

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I first published Merry Christmas, Darling in 2005 when I was a brand new blogger. I bumped it up from time to time on my previous blog (2009 and 2013). It wasn't on this website and it is a story I want to share my readers.Interestingly, just a few weeks after I first wrote it we discovered we were finally expecting a baby - on our ninth wedding anniversary. We celebrated our twenty-second anniversary in January 2019.Single at Christmas (Again) I haven’t written much about my single days. Although they are rapidly growing smaller in … [Read more...] about Merry Christmas, Darling – Singleness at Christmas

Free Printable Prayer Journal Pages

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For those who wish to include a faith component in their Creating Your Cozy Life Planner, I've put together these lovely free printable prayer journal pages. There are twelve different designs that highlight praise, answered prayers, and prayer requests. These could be used during your personal quiet time, family worship, or Bible time with your homeschooled children.I prefer printables that are somewhat open-ended and allow me flexibility regarding how I want to use them. For that reason, these prayer journal sheets are undated. They also … [Read more...] about Free Printable Prayer Journal Pages

Peaceful Hymns for Your Sunday

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One of the often searched for posts on my site is "Who Am I?" Sung by the Altar of Praise Chorale. I was listening to it this evening while doing some work here and thought it would be nice to put together a collection of peaceful hymns sung by this acapella chorale and some others.If you aren't familiar with Day By Day, it's a Swedish hymn. It was in the hymn books I grew up with because I grew up in a Swedish Baptist denomination. It felt like home when I opened a hymnal at the church we've been (trying to) attend and Day By Day was in … [Read more...] about Peaceful Hymns for Your Sunday

Are Hard Things Always Good? (And Are Easy Things Always Bad?)

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This was originally written in June 2009 at the height of the "homeschool or you are a terrible Christian and will lose your children forever" movement in Christian homeschool blogging. I was thinking about this topic again and found this post to republish. I have rewritten it a bit because the post I linked to originally is from a blog that no longer exists. But the truth is just the same today as it was nine years ago. By way of advanced postscript, the son in question now attends the U.S. Naval Academy.A prominent Christian blogger with … [Read more...] about Are Hard Things Always Good? (And Are Easy Things Always Bad?)

It Is Husband and Wife, Not Partner, for Christians

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Lately I've noticed a trend among some Christians to call their husband or wife their "partner" instead of what that person really is - a husband or wife. I’m over fifty and no one ever - ever - called their husband or wife their “partner” in Christian circles until the past few years. Why the change? I believe it is part of a bigger trend among progressive Christians, in particular, to eschew using biblical terms so as to seem more with it and less offensive.I think this is a mistake. As the saying roughly goes, the person who defines the … [Read more...] about It Is Husband and Wife, Not Partner, for Christians

Creating a Quiet Time Routine

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A regular quiet time can be a significant part of a growing spiritual life. But do you struggle to maintain a consistent quiet time? Many Christians do. I've had periods in my life with a rich quiet time routine and other times when I really struggled or it even became non-existent.There are a number of reasons why this struggle is real for so many people, but it is always possible to start over again. Rather than feeling badly about your struggle, make the decision to start again and create a new quiet time routine that works for … [Read more...] about Creating a Quiet Time Routine

Free Desktop Backgrounds Wallpaper

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Please enjoy downloading something from this free desktop backgrounds wallpaper collection I've created. Each desktop wallpaper consists of a beautiful picture and an encouraging or thought-provoking quote.In order to use your favorite, right click on the picture and choose "Save image as..." Save it to wherever you keep your desktop photos or photos in general. Then select it when in your background control panel settings.If you like quotes, be sure to check out my Quotes tag. I have a growing collection of posts with beautiful quotes … [Read more...] about Free Desktop Backgrounds Wallpaper

Quotes about Trusting God

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The Christian walk of faith is not without trials. Christians believe that God allows difficulties in the life of a believer for many purposes. As these great quotes about trusting God illustrate, Christians believe that they can walk with trust in God in spite of circumstances.And as each of these quotes teaches, trusting God reaps many rewards both in this life and the life to come for the Christian believer. I hope you will be encouraged by these quotes in your walk with God. Quotes about Trusting God Even when we cannot see the why … [Read more...] about Quotes about Trusting God

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