Overview: Personal Bible study can be hard to maintain day after day. Here are doable tips that don’t expect you to spend hours but still give you that injection of the Spirit that you need. It’s 3:00 in the afternoon, and you’re frazzled and grumpy. It’ll be time to start dinner soon, and you wish …
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Do you worry? LOL, that’s like asking if the sky is blue — we all do worry, to some extent. But some of us worry more than others, even though we know that the Bible discourages any kind of worry. “Be anxious for nothing,” and all that. Right?? But a lot of the time it …
How to Trust More and Worry Less — a devotional plan that you can do every day Read More »
I really HATE Facebook on days like Mother’s Day. All those pictures of beautiful families showing their moms such gushing appreciation with all the flowers and the pretty church dresses and the meals out or the meals in, cooked while mom sits in her chair and doesn’t lift a finger… Mine was McDonald’s take-out eaten …
When Mother’s Day is downright DISAPPOINTING — and what to do about it Read More »
“Sometimes the hardest, bravest thing is choosing to live another day in this broken, wonderful world.” –Melanie Dale Because the world is broken, make no mistake. And that means life is hard. Like pretty much constantly. “If it’s not one thing, it’s another.” (Are you hearing Rosanne Rosannadanna in your head? :-) ) Whether it’s …
Complaining affects your brain — try these tips for positive thinking! Read More »
Do you wonder what God’s will is for you today? How do you determine what His wishes are for you on any given day? Do you think your circumstances will give you the answer, or your feelings, or someone else’s advice? Answer: none of the above. Several years ago I had a blog called Being …
Have you ever asked yourself this question? I have had to do it often throughout my adult life. “Am I important anywhere? Where might that be?” And no matter how many times I ask it, the answer remains pretty much the same. But more on that in a minute. First, here’s an interesting tidbit about …
I had a fairly epic failure recently. But the positive changes it has brought about in my life are significant enough that I want to share it with y’all, in the hopes that it may help you, too. You see, through my failure I learned an effective method for dealing with anxiety — or at …
Who is your favorite homeschool mom? Is there one that you wish you could be like? Maybe she is extremely organized, or she has the parenting thing DOWN, or she knows how to create totally engaging and informative unit studies. It’s wonderful to have women to look up to in our lives, because from them …
There came a day I realized I could not keep going the way things were. I could not keep sucking it up and continuing on. I just could not do the job I had been given to do that day. That was the day I first learned about asking for help. It was a Sunday …
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I don’t know about you, but some days I wake up and just don’t feel like doing it. Like, anything. Whatever “it” may be for the day – homeschool, work, cleaning, paying bills, being happy. I just don’t want to, and I often feel like I really just can’t. I feel overwhelmed. Today is one …
Not long ago I was woken up in the middle of the night by a different cause than my usual middle-age issues. LOL. One of the younger kids, who was never characterized by this before and is too old for one to suspect it would happen now, came to see me due to having had …
Parenting: Two Things That Should NEVER CHANGE as Your Family Grows Read More »
Update: Elisabeth Elliot passed away on June 15, 2015. Hers was a life well-lived. Her books are a very important legacy that will encourage and inspire women for years to come. I love to read. And there’s no point in keeping a good book to myself! So right now I’d like to recommend one of …
