The Child’s Story Bible I love reading The Child’s Story Bible by Catherine Vos to our children. It is captivating enough to interest our three-year-old, but rich and meaty enough for our 11-year-old. Points of doctrine are explained right in the text in the same …
Encouragement for single, married, motherhood / family, empty nesters, single-again, and widows.
Life
Jesus Loves Women
The thought that God loved me never crossed my mind as I gasped for air, his hands tightly gripped around my throat. My husband was an angry man and a misogynist – he hated women. If only he had come with a list of …
Hiding the Word in Our Family
In Train Up a Child…Train Up a Mom, we looked at starting with memorizing a verse a week. I shared that my family was beginning with Philippians 4:18, followed by Romans 12:2. The Bible is FULL of great verses to hold in our hearts, and …
Heroine of the Faith
We read in Hebrews 13:7, “Remember your leaders, who spoke the Word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith.” While I have many living heroines and mentors, many of my heroines died long ago. Each one …
Is Divorce Contagious?
There is no question that we influence the behavior–for good or bad–of those around us, particularly in the area of relationships. King David is an example of someone whose marital sins were passed on to the next generation to his son Absalom, who committed adultery …
Priorities for the Day
Have you ever questioned your ability as a mother? Felt inadequate? Felt yourself sinking? That was the situation I found myself in a few years back. I was writing in my prayer journal one morning when I was abruptly interrupted by some sibling squabbles, name …
Train Up a Child…Train Up a Mom
I sincerely desire that my 11 and 13-year-old daughters hunger to read God’s Word daily. But what if I don’t? I would love my children to hide the Word in their hearts. But what if I’m not? I hope their prayer life is a sincere …
Man in My Mind
My husband has faults. His work kept him from home for much of our marriage. He snores. Our ideas of clean are different. Our interests clash. There are times it seems we have less in common than black and white. Slowly I became discontent, lonely …
Love, God
On Tuesday a moving post on the importance of waiting on God was shared by a reader. It wasn’t long before I began receiving requests for the ‘letter from God’ the author spoke of receiving at youth camp. Today our writer is sharing this beautiful …
Date Night Ideas
(An oldie, but goodie–we originally published this way back in 2006. The ideas are still as good today as they were then!) *Frank and I like to go out for dessert in the evenings around 7 or 8 p.m. Going later cuts down on the …