Spiritual Growth

 Don’t you love watching little kids run? I mean they don’t run because they really need to up their fitness program. They don’t run because they are trying to get their 10,000 steps a day in a shorter span of time. They don’t run because…

Do you struggle to rejoice? Does the command in Philippians 4:4 make you wince? Always be full of joy in the Lord. I say it again—rejoice! I certainly have days when it’s hard to be full of joy. Hard to rejoice in anything. And what…

Sometimes I have a hard time accepting God’s plan for my life. You too? I remember a conversation I had with my daughter as I was tucking her into bed when she was about four. I said something like, “Anna, you are getting so big!…

“Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all?” Do you remember those words spoken by the evil queen in the Snow White fairy tale? Every time the queen approached the mirror, she fully expected the mirror to reply, “You, O queen, are…

What do you do when faced with surprising challenges? A recent trip to Zion National Park taught me some valuable lessons in persevering through difficulty. * * * * Don’t look down. Don’t look down. These are the words I repeated to myself over and…

Today’s post is by Melanie Wilson, a Christian psychologist turned homeschooling mother of six! Find out more about her at the end of the post. #1  I’ll remember that I have a really good short-term memory. I can memorize information for a test and do…

When my oldest grandson was about a year-and-a-half old, he developed a fascination with clocks. He would look up at the clock and ask, “What time is it?” We would answer with the correct time and go on playing with him or eating our lunch.…

When my husband and I moved to Illinois, we lived in a fifty-year-old home that was full of problems. The basement leaked. The windows were painted shut and the well-water turned my laundry orange. I couldn’t wait to get out of that old house. I…