We All Have Hope
Early one morning two millennia ago, women went to a tomb in Israel to show their love to Jesus Christ. To their amazement, an angel told them that their beloved friend and teacher was no longer there but had risen…
Early one morning two millennia ago, women went to a tomb in Israel to show their love to Jesus Christ. To their amazement, an angel told them that their beloved friend and teacher was no longer there but had risen…
Family is God’s idea. In His perfect plan, every child is born into a family who loves him or her and then each of those family members loves and serves one another for the rest of their lives. What a…
When I was a young wife and mother, Ray was a campus minister at a church in Oxford, Mississippi. I was blessed to know many Jesus-loving, family-focused, and hard-working older women in that congregation. I soaked up their examples and wisdom.…
I always looked forward to the homeschool convention season when I got to see some of you again and meet some of you for the first time. I was always blessed to hear your stories and learn about your children.…
Miss Frances was one of my special Sunday School teachers. One of my favorite memories of her classroom was the big wooden sandbox table. With a little imagination, a sandbox became a Middle Eastern landscape. It’s easy to share sandbox…
Ray and I spent last week in the breathtaking Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee. On Saturday we followed an easy trail to Cataract Falls. During our walk we had some opportunities to take photos of whole families who were enjoying…
I think God must have specially wired our brains for music. We store a wealth of music in our heads and you never know when a song from the past will pop out of your mental storage bank and into…
I once saw a motto for a business that serves children: “Doing What’s Right for Kids.” It seems to me that we are surrounded by slogans that talk about doing the right thing. Businesses advertise home improvement done right, moving…
I stand in awe of the homeschooling pioneers who risked having their children taken away because they made the radical decision to homeschool. Though we were not pioneers, we began homeschooling in 1990 and have therefore lived long enough to…