A Quiet Simple Life
Sallie Schaaf Borrink
"It is comforting to know that the God who guides us sees tomorrow more clearly than we see yesterday." Unknown
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Over the years I’ve invested a lot of energy into understanding my child and the way God created her as an individual. I’ve written about that journey from many different angles in the hope it would help other parents who find my posts. Lately I’ve been reading more about the INFP type now that Caroline …
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Many years ago I started using “A Quiet Simple Life’ as a part of my blogging. Over the weekend I had an epiphany of sorts as I realized the way I think about this phrase has changed. In particular, the way I think about the term simple has changed. What simple, simple living, and simplicity …
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I wanted to share a word of encouragement this morning, but I didn’t have anything specifically planned. This book stood out to me on the bookshelf over my desk so I pulled it down. I had apparently tucked the back of the dust jacket into this question at some time in the past. And so …
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Lately I’ve been thinking about the internal story we tell ourselves each day. When we watch or read the news, we should always notice the way a story is framed to promote a certain line of thinking. The news presents a slant that is manipulative toward a certain end. Most people are completely unaware of …
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Update January 2022 I’ve decided not to write an additional post about why we are no longer celebrating Halloween, but I am going to push this out as a “new” post. I’m going to add a bit to what I originally wrote below, including the quick November 2021 update most people probably never saw. If …
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We’re relaxed homeschoolers for a number of reasons. One of the chief reasons is because we see ourselves primarily as a family. We’re a family who learns together while putting a high priority on developing healthy relationships. I realized something about myself that has shaped the way I think about learning and homeschooling. Maybe you’ve …
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If I had to sum up our summer on this last day of August, this is it: You can have time or money, but rarely both. This was the summer when Caroline really understood for the first time what it means to have more money and less Daddy. David and I made the decision long …
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For a long time I wasn’t sure how to describe our parenting approach. Labels carry so much baggage these days that I try to avoid them whenever possible. When I was deciding on a website category name for my general parenting posts, I finally landed on Gracious Christian Parenting. Then after I came to that …
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This is originally from January 1, 2011. I’m reposting it today, over eight years later. When I wrote it, Caroline was not yet four and a half. She will be thirteen in ten days. We have wandered in the desert quite a bit during that time regarding churches and such. But God gives me glimpses …
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Sometimes I like to call upon the collective wisdom of the women who read this site. Today is one of those days. A couple of things have happened in the past few weeks that make me wonder how other people make decisions regarding the safety of their tweens and teens. The New York Times had …
