Refreshing Rest
In the last verses of Romans 15, Paul asked the Romans to pray with him. He expressed specific prayer requests, including this one: “. . . so that I may come to you in joy by the will of God and…
In the last verses of Romans 15, Paul asked the Romans to pray with him. He expressed specific prayer requests, including this one: “. . . so that I may come to you in joy by the will of God and…
Perhaps the most popular of Aesop’s fables is the tortoise and the hare, from which we learn the adage, “Slow and steady wins the race.” As the tortoise walked slowly, purposefully, and steadily toward the finish line, he moved closer…
On Saturday morning several members of our family went to a park to walk and play. Squirrels and a chipmunk played in the wooded area between the walkway and the river’s edge. In the water near the bank, I spotted…
Forty years ago tomorrow Ray and I had our first date. Maybe I shouldn’t use that word date in a blog for homeschooling mothers! It would have been nice to have done courtship, but we had a real problem there–we…
Have you used a smiley face lately in an email or text? Me, too. I like to do it the old-fashioned way with a colon and an ending parenthesis (can anything electronic be old-fashioned?), but when I do that on…
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…