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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…
Seasons of waiting and delay frustrate us–especially if we have trouble finding purpose in the wait. Elizabeth had a long wait. The Bible tells us that the mother of John the Baptist was “advanced in years” when she gave birth to him. Elizabeth waited a…
Hold up your hand if you like waiting. Although I can’t see your hands through the computer screen, I would venture that no one raised her hand. And yet, because we often need to wait, we want to learn how to wait well I hate…
Where can you take your complaints? I mean, is it alright to complain to God? An incident with my dishwasher helped me understand this better. It all started with a box of dishwasher detergent. We bought a new box of the stuff and soon began…
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…