“Don’t focus on your fear of burnout; remember to stay open and receptive so that you are filled up with love and energy from God, and from that you can pour out onto everyone around you. Don’t withhold. If you feel yourself drying up, it is because you aren’t connecting with God as your Source as well […]
Practical Principles Form The Backbone of Parenting: here are 3 of mine
We Know So Little About Being Human So there’s nothing new under the sun, after all. Here, a mother’s sense of lostness in the upbringing of her children. From Formation of Character, published 1925: ‘I daresay experienced people get to know all about it,’ said Mrs. Clough; ‘but the mother of even two or three […]
The Writer’s Self-Conscious
There’s a certain enticement toward image-crafting when the art is online. Here are the words, and I love to craft them – bend them, stretch them, move them around, re-shape, delete. Ann Voskamp writes that some women can peaches, but she cans words. Over here, the medium is more akin to scrapbooking – a single […]
The Ways God Works
“What’s your last name?” He asked it abruptly, somewhere in between his story of revival in the South Pacific during the last years of The War, and his story of planting a church in Salem in 1957. “Hey now, wait a second. I think…I think I feel a nudge to ask you this. What’s your […]
Seven Short Thoughts and a Download
First off: My homeschool weekly schedule charts are available as downloads! The number one source of traffic I receive on this site is to my AO-inspired weekly schedules (thank you, Pinterest). I’ve emailed off so many of these things and FINALLY have them on the website as simple downloads. I’m a slow duck, but may this […]
Being Present and Embracing Life For What It Is
Riverbanks The Willamette (will-AM-et) River winds behind the backdrop of my childhood memories, and now it is winding into the memories of my children. It feels surreal on some level, to be back here with my children and living within a half mile of her banks. The scents are heady: water, douglas firs, blackberries; the baking rocks beneath […]
Is There Something Greater Than Being Known By God?
If you’ve poked around my website much, you know that I place a high value on knowing God through the experience of being known by him. My last two posts about Nathanael have as their take away the reality – the TRUTH! – of our being able to be seen and known and loved by Jesus. The opening lines […]
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