Just this past weekend, my 15-year-old son and I spent a night and day searching for a little white box in the woods during an…
Workers for the harvest
Do you know what missionaries were created to do? Spread the Gospel. Do you know what missionaries spend a good chunk of their time doing?…
3 Painless Ways to Get Your Teen Son to Love Poetry
Links may direct to affiliate sites. Purchases made through these links may support our family’s work in spreading the Gospel to unreached areas. I have…
Farmer Boy {lessons from life on the farm}
I love the Little House on the Prairie books. My favorite memory of time with my mother is of the two of us curled up on…
Parenting: no guarantees
I remember the moment I realized that parenting wasn’t something that came with guaranteed results. My husband had just returned to work, leaving me alone…
In His own words
About six years ago, I realized I had fallen into a trap. I had become an avid consumer of devotional materials… and a very poor patron of…
Eclipse
“We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by…
Plan B
This morning, Mary Hannah will walk into a classroom and assume her place as an elementary education major. It’s not what she dreamed she’d be…
War and peace
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt,…
The cult of family
Recently, I shared a blog piece to Facebook. It wasn’t anything I had written, and honestly, the topic doesn’t matter. In the course of the ensuing…