At church yesterday, I had conversations similar to ones I have every year at Thanksgiving, conversations beginning with some variation of: “What are you doing for Thanksgiving?” One woman who had surgery only last week was looking forward to her…
Among the many strengths of homeschooling are extra opportunities to shield children from what Ephesians 6:16 calls “all the flaming arrows of the evil one.” Ephesians 6 warns us about the schemes of the devil, of the world forces of…
I have sung the tender hymn “Take My Life and Let It Be” since I sat in pretty honey-stained pews as a young girl in Ashland City, Tennessee. We sang it at church recently, and I made a note to…
When our children were little, I knew a witty older woman who had many fun expressions. When you were at her home at meal time, rather than asking if you were hungry, she would ask, “Are you about to grow…
I don’t know if children have always had feelings of insecurity about their bodies, but I know that I did. I’m embarrassed to tell you all of the aspects of my body that worried me, but I will share the…
It’s that wonderful time of the year when God grows beautiful flowers and delicious fruits and vegetables in the Northern Hemisphere. Then God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit…
