Gretchen Louise 3 Minute Read There is a Mission style antique chair that sits in our living room. The legs are marked up, the corners worn. The stain has been rubbed off the arms and back from use. I want to be like that chair. Standing firm without giving anyone splinters. Transparent enough to show the wear without wearing a…
Gretchen Louise 1 minute I watched her with her children today. The gentle voice. The soft instruction. She didn’t try to moderate disagreements from where she was at the kitchen counter; she didn’t wait until she was finished mixing the cornbread to explain their error. Swiftly, silently she was there dealing with the offender. She wasn’t so engrossed in…
Gretchen Louise 2 Minute Read With a title like The Meaning of Marriage, this book promises a lot. And it doesn’t disappoint. An indepth study of marriage and how it refines and grows us, this book by Timothy Keller and his wife Kathy is neither a relational self-help manual nor a feel-good book. It sets truth and fact squarely against…
Gretchen Louise 3 Minute Read The only thing I like more than talking and blogging about books is actually reading books. And it’s been a month chock-full of both here at YLCF! I think some of us have gotten more reading done simply because we had promised to review something. 😉 And I don’t know about you, but I’m looking…
Gretchen Louise 3 Minute Read I’m old-fashioned. I prefer old hardbacks to new paperbacks. I would rather read a book with pages I can turn than one that’s contained in a reader or computer. So it only follows that I would always prefer to read the book before I watch the movie. But last fall, I found my “read it…
Gretchen Louise 3 Minute Read I love children’s books. Especially antique children’s books. And so does my husband. We know better than to venture to the children’s section of a vintage bookstore, unless we have lots of time and money! The lone bookshelf in our children’s bedroom doesn’t even contain all their books any more. The ones meant for older…
Gretchen Louise 2 Minute Read Reading Holley Gerth‘s book You’re Already Amazing was like getting a great big hug. In a conversational, across-the-table-at-the-coffee-shop style, Holley’s words wrapped around my heart, encouraging me to embrace who I am. You don’t have to be because you already are. It doesn’t matter if you’re the “it” girl, because “God looks at you and…
Gretchen Louise 2 Minute Read Where is your nook? Is it shady or sunshiny? Inside or out? In a swinging hammock or on your bed? Do you prefer to read curled up on the sofa or in an old rocking chair? Maybe you love to read in the bus on the way to work or on your lunch break between…
Gretchen Louise 3 Minute Read I like to talk about books. If it didn’t already come up naturally with everyone I know, it would be the perfect thing to ask when conversation lagged: “What books have you been reading lately?” (Or, as is more likely for me and other young moms and students, “What book are you trying to make…
Gretchen Louise 2 Minute Read Whenever a program comes on the radio with money saving tips, we listen up — mostly out of curiosity. And at the end of the program, my husband and I compare notes, the result almost always being the same: we’re already following every money saving tip they listed…
Gretchen Louise 2 Minute Read I’m looking forward to getting home, my husband sighed as he stretched in the driver’s seat.
I couldn’t help but agree with a tired but happy, “Me, too.”
We’d just been to visit my family. Back to where I used to call home.
But I’d noticed it even more than usual this time…
Gretchen Louise 3 Minute Read When I was in second grade, my mom would never have guessed that I’d grow up to be a writer. I cried more tears over my second grade A Beka Language Arts book than any other schoolbook except Saxon Math. Drawing lines and putting parts of sentences above, below, and beside was supposed to help…
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