Elisabeth Adams 3 Minute Read Once upon a time, my Christmases really were like Victorian greeting cards. Back when all ten of us lived in one house, when everyone bought presents for everyone else. (With a little help from our mom, if necessary). There were the secrets in the closet, the anticipation of seeing this person’s face when they saw…
Elisabeth Adams 2 Minute Read As a homeschool grad, author Natalie Wickham hears lots of questions about homeschooling. In fact, one of them — “Do you get to wear your pajamas to school?” — inspired the title of her book. At the heart of all the questions from parents, she sees “the unspoken search for the assurance that if they…
Elisabeth Adams 1 minute It’s been years since I’ve read The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, but several snippets of the story remain deeply imprinted on my mind. Especially the long, desolate hallway in the magician’s house: the gauntlet Lucy had to run, in order to rescue those silly Dufflepuds from their inconvenient invisibility. Of course she could imagine…
Elisabeth Adams 1 minute I sat down at the kitchen table with a cup of tea, opened my Hebrew Bible to the Jerusalem postcard marking my place, and began to read: The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah… Three words in, I stopped. I was reading Isaiah 61. Which meant that despite all the debate about whether first century Jews…
Elisabeth Adams 3 Minute Read by Elisabeth A. August 20, 2007 For about four years now, I’ve been making forays into the dense, confusing, nearly impenetrable world of the Hebrew Bible. I started out easily enough: with each English word conveniently underneath the Hebrew, I was practically led by the hand through many of the Psalms. Then I moved on…
Elisabeth Adams 1 minute Sometimes in the very middle of the howling winds of my wants I remember how short a distance I can see and Who knows what truly brings me joy. And so I ask the One who sees to choose my inheritance for me. And then my Abba says “No.” I am cut and bleed and…
Elisabeth Adams 6 Minute Read It was lunch break, and I was sitting down for a quick “Bible snack” when my eyes fell on Proverbs 31:26: “The law of kindness is on her tongue.” Though I’ve read it a thousand times, this time it went right to the quick. Uh-oh. You mean, kindness to the classmate who is doing his…
Elisabeth Adams 6 Minute Read A Time to Wait Dear girls, Lately I’ve been thinking about those of you who aren’t married, or engaged, or courting, or even “just friends.” I stayed up ‘til past midnight the other night, scribbling down ideas for you.I had plenty of time yesterday (while I was removing wallpaper from our bathroom walls) to think…
Elisabeth Adams 3 Minute Read I think the Hobbits were on to something. Tea and scones, porridge and eggs, toast and sausages are well worth considering a second time, especially on a long and cold walk near Mordor when the first breakfast consists of rabbit. The Incarnation, the Atonement and the Second Coming are well worth considering a second time,…
Elisabeth Adams 7 Minute Read Human nature is the original fake. In fact, our moral frailty is one of the sturdiest constants of history: a fascinating and discouraging thought, isn’t it? Modern advertising’s common use of words like ‘genuine,’ ‘real,’ and ‘actual’ clue us in to the fact that it’s much easier and cheaper to make something that’s not real….
Elisabeth Adams 1 minute No, I do not have a friend named Barbara Buncle. However, the book belonging to this title is an old friend of mine. If you’ve ever read D. E. Stevenson, then you know what a light, relaxing, thoroughly British read she provides. Although she wrote in the thirties and forties, her characters are fully as…
Elisabeth Adams 3 Minute Read All summer, I’ve been reading, reading, reading. Taking advantage of living near libraries that actually stock books in English. (!) Mostly fiction, especially the new crop of finely-crafted Christian fiction. Not that dime-store stuff. Not that nutrient-free fiction with the Christian sticker, like cotton candy labelled “all natural” and you thinking it’s healthy. No, something…
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