Cherishing Childhood
I believe in the dreaming, playing, exploring, learning time of life called childhood. I am of the “why rush it” school of parenting. I figure the time for childhood is when kids are, well, children. The apostle Paul said: When…
Category Making a Child Feel Loved
Crossing Paths
When we arrived for our second view of the meerkat area at the zoo on Monday, I saw the little guy from Arkansas who had asked me how I got to the zoo. I again saw his large family who…
You’re Mine! I Love You!
When Debbie was in elementary school, she found out that her mother was already expecting her when her mom and dad got married. From that time on, she felt that reality with deep pain. When Debbie was in her 50s, her mother…
Finders Keepers
When Ray and I were in our 20s, we’d never heard of YouTube or podcasts. People listened to talks in two ways—in person and on cassette tape. Back then we heard a popular sermon, which had been recorded first as…
When Someone Speaks Our Name
On Tuesday morning, Ray had his fourth eye surgery since October. The first two were to give his cornea a little polish. These last two have been for cataracts. If all goes well, his surgeries are all done. He now…
Parenting Lessons from Almanzo Wilder’s Daddy
I have written before about the mothering lessons I learned from Caroline Ingalls while reading her daughter’s books aloud to our children. We can learn parenting lessons from James Mason Wilder (Almanzo Wilder’s father), too. When Ray and I visited…