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5 Books to Read if You’re Thinking About Homeschooling
Five years ago, the pandemic erupted and millions became reluctant homeschoolers overnight. But then something strange happened: some never stopped. As a homeschool graduate who is also married to one and has always planned to homeschool our children, I watched with interest. Fellow mommy friends who had never before considered the educational paradigm in which…
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5 Things I’ve Learned in 5 Years of Motherhood
Five years ago, I became a mother, giving birth to our firstborn during the first uncertain month of the pandemic. Similar to how the year 2020 tilted the world, my little six-pound-nothing baby changed my entire life overnight – and she and her brother have just kept on changing it with each new baby milestone, toddler word learned, and the dawn of the “little girl” era.
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Companionship in the Wilderness at Advent
For many years as the eldest sister of eight, I never doubted I would someday have a houseful of children of my own. Now–well, now I’m in my forties, and that’s not the case. Lanier Ivester, a writer whom I’ve long admired, has walked a similar path. Already this Advent, her brand-new book Glad and…
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Feasting in the Wholeness of Imperfection this Advent
There’s something so beautiful about gathering with friends and family to savor a meal together during the Christmas season. After all, why not take advantage of extra vacation time, decorated spaces, and often, weather that is especially conducive to cozy gatherings? Feasting, done right, is not mere indulgence. It’s a way to celebrate the goodness…
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Advent Is Not An Emergency
The first week of December often flies by with excitement fueling each activity and when the second week arrives it can feel like time is too short, the lists of things still left to accomplish too long, and we can all forget an important element in Advent: soft remembrance. In Glad and Golden Hours, Lanier…
Courage, dear heart; God is writing your story. He created you. He is the One Who gives you identity.
In Him, there is hope. There is freedom. There is grace.
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Featuring George MacDonald
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“This is my last sermon as a single man.”
“This is a message that I have waited 44 years to give,” pastor Steve DeWitt told Bethel Church in Crown Point, Indiana….
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Wrong Number Text Gone Right
This woman texted a Bible verse to the wrong number but the guy on the other end of the message…
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The miracle that could never happen.
The miracle that could never happen happened in 1969 when I remarried. I had thought it was a miracle to marry the first time. To imagine a second was beyond me.