Category: Ponderings
What Can Prevent Racism? Part 2
Last weekend I posted an article on racism and my long time friend, Beth from Remade Ministries posed a very good question… [I]f Darwin’s theory of evolution feeds and stirs the pot of racism, then why in history are some of the most egregious forms of racism and acts upon inferiority done by Christians themselves? [...]
What Can Prevent Racism?
I am reaching outside my comfort zone as I write this article, but the topic has been heavy on my heart this week. I have seen a couple of posts on facebook linking uneducated, conservative Christians and racism. At first, my temper was fueled as a gut reaction to the allegations. How dare anyone accuse [...]
Extreme Couponing: What I Am Learning
When we came back to the states last January I started hearing about extreme couponing. I watched the show a couple of times, but was turned off by the attitudes of the couponers and the fact that much of what they were getting would be useless to me. I try to cook as much from [...]
7 Tips on Letting the Lord Lead
On Friday I spoke a little about planting seeds, or putting ideas into motion. As I mentioned in that post, I have a shelf full of notebooks where I write down all my ideas. It seems that I am very rarely short on ideas, but my time and resources continually limited. So what is a [...]
Why I Want to Go to the 2:1 Conference
Do you have a shelf to put your brain on? I do. I call it my “thinking shelf”. It is full of notebooks and binders filled with my thoughts. I don’t journal, as that would take steadfastness and routine. I am working on keeping a schedule and persevering to complete the tasks I begin, but [...]
High Five Moms Podcast: Finding Peace During the Holidays
This time of year, you often hear the word “peace” mentioned more than any other time of year. But is peace really experienced more often? Is peace during the holidays even possible? Five moms have joined forces to discuss “Finding Peace During the Holidays”! Right click to download this episode.
Fostering Love Between Our Children
This week my oldest daughter has been writing “thankful” post on her blog. One of the post that she wrote was about being thankful for her sisters. My oldest daughter is 17 and the younger two are 9 and 6, so there is quite a bit of age difference between them. The younger girls love [...]
Being Thankful and Finding Peace
In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. 1 Thessalonians 5:18 As I was preparing to write today’s post, I was thinking back over this last year of my life. It has been a time of struggle for me, both physically, emotionally, and even spiritually. There [...]
Cooper’s Story – More Detailed Info on Club Feet part 1
I have started to get traffic coming to my website looking for information on club feet, so I have decided to write out Cooper’s story in more detail. I am hoping that it will be of some help to others out there going through the same situation. As believers, the Lord allows us to go [...]
Cleaning Routines
I am not what you would call a “neat freak”, but I have found that my day goes so much better when the house is clean and in order. I try to be realistic, knowing that I have 6 kids. But because we homeschool, we are all home most everyday. And a house with that [...]
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