I remember a good friend of ours, Nathan, preaching on Fathers’ Day.  He had a rough childhood – poverty stricken, no father in the picture, mothers’ boyfriends and husbands who would mistreat him or abuse him – he said that it took him  a long time to reconcile God as his Father in Heaven, because [...]

In Sunday school a few weeks ago, we were studying Romans 1, and through a rabbit chasing a rabbit course of conversation, I mentioned that we do not watch popular culture television. We don’t have cable, we don’t do whatever HD thing you need to do to get base television stations, and we have no [...]

The next book we’re going to cover, chapter-by-chapter, is:  Lies Women Believe: And the Truth that Sets them Free by Nancy Leigh DeMoss (previously titled Walking in the Truth). We’re going to start it September 3rd.  We’d start this week, but my husband got home Sunday evening after spending the last 29 months in Afghanistan, [...]

Our family is gearing up for the school year.  We start early here – August 11th. Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6 With school comes schedules, and worked into our household’s (strict) schedule are daily devotions.  We do [...]

We finished the last chapter of Vicki Courtney’s 5 Conversations You Must Have with Your Daughter on July 1st.  As much as I enjoyed going through that book with you, I understand that not all of us are mothers of girls, and not all of us are mothers.  But, as this is a site for Christian [...]

I did not grow up in a single town.  My father was in the United States Army all of my life.  He retired when I was 26 years old.  As such, I lived in a couple of countries, several states, several cities, and went to several schools.   Most of us in high school were “army [...]

My daughter, Kaylee, spent the second semester of seventh grade living with her father in Florida.  My boys and I went to spend Spring Break with her.  In our beach house, we had cable – something we don’t have at home.  Kaylee insisted that I watch a show with her about sweet sixteen birthday parties [...]

When my daughter Kaylee was 4, she was an angel in the church Christmas play.  I was in charge of the older kids – the shepherds and wise men.  Convening at the church the day of the big show, we had all of the children in costume and seated in specific front rows depending on [...]

Not long ago, my husband, Gregg, and I were just chit chatting about life in general.  At some point in the conversation, he said to me, “What are you going to do when both of the boys are in school?” I kind of paused, then stuttered.  “Uhhh, what do you mean?” He said, “You know.  [...]

I have been mentally working on a post on this topic for some time.  It’s always kind of been there, in the background, but several months ago, I was blog surfing and came across a blog called Homemaking on a Whim and a post titled, “Is Working Outside the Home a Sin?”  The title kind [...]