You’re right, (chuckle), there hasn’t been a feminist backlash against the President’s statements. Nor will there be. Not a loud one anyway. Like you, I’ve gone back through the documents, watched documentaries about the start of feminism (and even then, Susan B. Anthony disdained Elizabeth Cady Stanton for continuing to have children rather than fight […]

Posted on April 7, 2014 Updated on April 7, 2014 Psalm 23 has come up in various places in my life lately… you know how God does that? Sometimes He brings something to your face in various ways all at roughly the same time. Quick story: Last week, we thought we’d found a potential house […]

Posted on March 31, 2014 Updated on October 29, 2014 Lately I’ve talked with some friends who are hurting. I should say, who are *also* hurting. From my tiredness, feeling like a towel that has been wrung, all I feel is twisted and dry. I feel very cautious about saying anything about the hurt.  Though […]

Posted on May 12, 2014 Updated on May 12, 2014 There are some things I can’t say without first referring you to this passage (Ephesians 5:17-33). Please read it in its entirety:  Do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. …be filled with the Spirit, …giving thanks always and for everything to […]

Posted on March 24, 2014 Updated on March 24, 2014 This is a guest post, written by my mom, Debbie. As we are currently preparing for a cross-country move, away from my parents, my husband’s mom, & much of our extended family, she had some thoughts she wanted to share. Visit her new website: TheButtonLady.wordpress.com. […]

Posted on May 5, 2014 Updated on October 29, 2014 As parents look to parenting books, methods, advice, and make decisions about how to raise up their children, there are skads of opportunities to encounter really lousy advice. It can be difficult, in this age of TV psychologists and celebrity moms and PhD-toting “experts”, to know […]

Posted on May 11, 2014 Updated on May 11, 2014 Moms, on this Mother’s Day, let’s purpose to be thankful for whatever we are given, however small. Frankly, any holiday can set us up to have unrealistic expectations. Christmas, birthdays, anniversaries… younger women are now even told to expect a “push present” for having birthed a […]

Posted on April 13, 2014 Updated on April 13, 2014 You remember the story. Twin brothers– one with a penchant for cooking, the other a hunter. The cook (the younger of the two) had the favor of his mother. The hairy hunter was his father’s delight. In a moment of desperate hunger, focused on the […]

Posted on April 21, 2014 Updated on April 21, 2014 My husband lost his job at our home church, last November. He applied for a number of positions, mostly in TX, and one in WA. It was, and is, one of the more difficult seasons of life that we’ve walked through. Months of hanging on […]

Posted on May 14, 2014 Updated on May 13, 2014 “How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord, Is laid for your faith in His excellent word! What more can He say than to you He hath said— To you who for refuge to Jesus have fled?” HOW FIRM A FOUNDATION, YE SAINTS OF […]

Posted on May 11, 2014 Updated on May 11, 2014 Moms, on this Mother’s Day, let’s purpose to be thankful for whatever we are given, however small. Frankly, any holiday can set us up to have unrealistic expectations. Christmas, birthdays, anniversaries… younger women are now even told to expect a “push present” for having birthed a […]

Posted on April 28, 2014 Updated on April 28, 2014 Like parenting in general, it helps me when I think about homeschooling in terms of seasons. Each season has its own unique joys, its own unique challenges, and each is discernibly different from the one before. HOMESCHOOLING BEGAN LIKE SPRING Was it that way for you? […]

In life, we’ve been in limbo a number of times, and it’s where we currently sit. The waiting rooms of life happen to us all, and often without warning. Waiting for the tests to reveal, “What is this illness ravaging my body?” Waiting for the right employer to offer a position. Waiting for a proposal from […]

In life, we’ve been in limbo a number of times, and it’s where we currently sit. The waiting rooms of life happen to us all, and often without warning. Waiting for the tests to reveal, “What is this illness ravaging my body?” Waiting for the right employer to offer a position. Waiting for a proposal from […]