“Do everything, anything, however menial, measuring not by hours or by dollars, but by love.” Amy Carmichael
10 Ways To Be Cozy At Home
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Surge Capacity & Dealing With Difficult Times {Sallie Video}
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Have you struggled during these difficult times? Have you felt something you couldn’t quite name? It might be related to something called surge capacity. In this video, we’re going to look at what surge capacity is and some practical ways you can deal with the reality of living during difficult times. Surge Capacity & Dealing …
The Only Preparation You Can Depend On In Difficult Times
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This was originally published under a different title on March 11, 2009. I thought it was time to bring it back. How much things haven’t changed in the past eleven years. This was true then and is perhaps even more true today. I’m republishing it with only minor editing for readability. (You might even find …
Simple Living This Week No. 41
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It’s the last day of August. Where did the summer go? I know we always ask that question each year, but this year I’m asking it in a different way as I’m sure you are as well. This will be our fourth week of homeschooling. We are off to a good start and I’m thankful. …
Beautiful, Helpful, & Faithful {Sallie Video}
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Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms. If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God. If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen. 1 Peter 4:10-11
Why Are High Profile Christians Bending the Knee and Embracing the False Woke Gospel? {Sallie Video}
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“But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed.” Galatians 1:8
A Quiet Simple Life Means Facing the Truth and Reality
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“A sacred regard to the authority of God ought to lead us to reject an error, however old, sanctioned by whatever authority, or however generally practiced.” C. H. Spurgeon
4 Ways to Simplify Your Life for the Coming Decade
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We’re currently standing on the precipice of something we cannot fully explain. We can sense it’s coming because it’s impossible to miss the signs that things are not right. At the same time, we don’t know how this “thing” will unfold. We can’t even name this thing we see right before us. We don’t know …
Choosing to Create a Better Life, Not a New Normal
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If you go all the way back to the beginning of this site, I began with writing about simple living. Living a quiet life. Making deliberate choices. Those are the threads of thought that have been woven through virtually everything I’ve written whether it was about faith, parenting, homeschooling, or some other topic. I want …
Are We Already In The Next Great Depression?
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I have been asking myself this question for the past few weeks: Are we already in the next Great Depression? I’m far past the point of discussing how we got here and whether or not we did or are doing the right thing. We’re here and we aren’t going back to what was before. The …
Cheerfully Adjusting in a Coronavirus World
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So like all Americans, we are adjusting to this situation. Because we homeschool and are self-employed at home, our life is not disrupted nearly as much as that of many others. For those who are now working from home and their children are no longer going to school, this will be a huge adjustment. Working …
Keeping Your Home Cozy in a Crisis
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The goal of my website is to help you create a life of peace, understanding, and joy for you and your loved ones. This is the theme in The Simple Life Library, the free gift I give when people subscribe. This is continued in the core resource I created and continue to add to – …
Seeking God’s Beauty in a Sordid Culture
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I chose Beautify as my word for 2020 for a few reasons. One, as a statement against the ugliness of the culture at this moment. Two, as a reminder of the real need I have for beauty in my life. Three, to spur me on to not just think about beauty, but to also use …
My Word for 2020: Beautify
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I don’t always choose a word for a new year, but as I was developing my goals for 2020 (which I’ll be sharing another day), I started thinking about a word that encapsulated so much of what I was thinking about and planning for the year ahead. I settled on “Beautify” for 2020. This was …
The Simple Life in Difficult Times
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“It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with the simple pleasures and to be cheerful and have courage when things go wrong.” Laura Ingalls Wilder
When You’ve Lost Faith in the System
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And how do you plan for a future that doesn’t exist? This post has been coming on for a long time. I’ve been turning these ideas over and over, expanding on them through reading, discussing, etc. I do want to start with a disclaimer though. A Christian’s ultimate faith is not in any earthly system. …
Now I Have a Name For It: Dwelling
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Call it cocooning, hunkering down, being a homebody, or whatever. It is me. And it especially describes my life over the past ten years or so. Now I’ve discovered it has yet another name: dwelling. From What consumers do in a downturn: Roughly speaking, consumers have two modalities: surging and dwelling. In the surging modality, …
Creating a Family Economy
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A few months ago Pam sent me links to two articles: The Power of the Home Economy (now archived) and Love is not Enough: Toward the Recovery of a Family Economics (via Wayback Machine now) They were both very interesting and I highly recommend both of them. Sometimes reading about family and family economies is …
