Jeannie Pederson 13 Minute Read How do you feel about singleness? More importantly, how do you feel about marriage? If you are getting a little older, you may also be getting a little discouraged. Perhaps you’ve experienced a broken dream or relationship. Probably many of your friends are married and having children. We single girls can get caught in the…
Elizabeth Jackson 4 Minute Read I am a romantic at heart. Whenever I read a good love story or courtship account, I add “and they lived happily ever after” to the end, even if it is not written in so many words. I often look back on my own life forgetting all the troubles and deep heartaches and remembering only…
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….
Lanier Ivester 3 Minute Read When I was fifteen, I decided that I needed more consistency in my devotions. So, I resolved to spend a certain amount of time in God’s word every single day. And I mean every single. Those of you perfectionists out there can appreciate, perhaps as no one else can, just how tenacious I was in…
Lanier Ivester 3 Minute Read I often feel so completely unequal to the dreams and visions that God stirs in my heart. That is, until I remember that my best bet is to continually pray that I would be ‘small enough and weak enough’ that He could actually use me, rather than bumbling around in His way in my own…
Lanier Ivester 6 Minute Read “The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!” -Marianne Dashwood How many of us sighed at that endearingly-rendered line of Kate Winslet’s in the movie Sense and Sensibility? I know I did, and giggled with…
Elizabeth Jackson 3 Minute Read Most of us have given thought, and perhaps even have high ideals, of what makes a good wife. I know I thought about it often in the days before my marriage, for I wanted to be not only a good wife, but the best wife, by God’s grace, I could be. I did not expect…
Jessica Telian 3 Minute Read Lately I’ve been thinking quite a bit about beauty. Not the girl of that nickname that I met in Thailand (though she did cross my mind), but of beauty as defined by Webster: “the quality attributed to whatever pleases or satisfies the senses or mind, as by line, color, form, texture, proportion, rhythmic motion, tone,…
Gretchen Louise 4 Minute Read “I’m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That’s deep enough. What do you want – an adorable pancreas?” -Jean Kerr, The Snake Has All the Lines To be quite honest, I don’t care what anyone else has to say about beauty. All that matters is that I am beautiful to my man….
Jeannie Pederson 3 Minute Read It is 34 degrees today. That in itself is noteworthy, because typical temperatures in this part of Wisconsin for February are more like 15 degrees. But that’s not the real reason that I had to look twice at the thermometer. Unfortunately, I’ve gotten into a habit of glancing out the window to check the temperature…
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