Simple Living, Homeschooling, Faith, Homemaking, & Books
“Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.” Warren Wiersbe
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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 …
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“If God be our God, He will give us peace in trouble. When there is a storm without, He will make peace within. The world can create trouble in peace, but God can create peace in trouble.” Thomas Watson
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I believe we are each created by God with gifts, responsibilities, and circles of influence. We can only be effective in each area of our life when we carefully consider what is truly important and make decisions accordingly. Sometimes those decisions necessitate that we clearly say “no.” Do you already know and exercise the freedom …
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Last week our little family went out on a few errands. We took a box of books to the bookstore to sell and they purchased everything I brought except the Christian books. So I called the Christian bookstore that buys books to make sure they were accepting books that day. They were so we drove …
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“In order to push back, we have to build a strong edifice against it to protect our children from becoming cogs.”
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“Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls….” Jeremiah 6:16
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So often the act of simplifying is seen as something that would be nice to do. An added bonus to life if we had the time squeeze it in. Is it? Or is the need to simplify truly a deep spiritual need? We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and …
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I have never had an overwhelming desire to do foreign missions. I’ve never even done a short term missions trip. The Lord has provided so many situations right where I am at the time that I’ve never felt that I was short on opportunities to share the love of Jesus with other people. This includes …
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“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Romans 5:8
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“…examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so…” Acts 17
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I’ve written before at length about our long experience with childlessness. I know from personal experience that for many couples dealing with infertility, holidays can be tough. Mother’s Day and Father’s Day most readily come to mind. But Christmas would also rank very high on that list. For the couple without children, Christmas can present …
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Do Moms Need “Me Time”? was originally published March 9, 2009, on my previous blog to accompany a poll I had in the sidebar. I’m republishing it as is. I was tempted to edit it since I would word things differently now, but if I did the discussion that follows in the comments might not …
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May 11 is an official holiday in our home! We celebrate It’s a Girl! Day to commemorate finding out via ultrasound that we were at very long last expecting a girl. We had prayed specifically for a daughter all of those years and experienced a mixture of joy and tears and relief when the technician …
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Belonging to the body of Christ can be one of the most wonderful aspects of our lives. And belonging to a church can truly be one of the most difficult or even worst parts of our experience on earth. In this age of interconnectedness, our belonging to the body of Christ isn’t just limited to …
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Some of the most difficult decisions David and I have had to make as a couple in our eighteen years together has been breaking off unhealthy relationships. We are both wired to try to live at peace with other people. We strongly dislike conflict. Conflict is like physical poison to me. David and I have …
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Teaching Caroline about Jesus and the Bible is very important to us. We want her to have a faith of her own that grows and develops at an appropriate pace and level for her as an individual. Part of that has been finding children’s Bibles that work for our family. (By way of background for …
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God bless this woman for writing this: When church hurts. I’ve wanted to write this post about attending church being painful for a long time, but it took her willingness to write her post to prod me on to write mine. Church truly is painful and hurts sometimes. And maybe not for the reasons you …
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Through the many long years we prayed for a child, we prayed specifically for a girl. I had always known I wanted a girl and David was also inclined to pray that way. When we found out on our ninth anniversary that we were finally expecting a baby, we were naturally very excited. But the …
