Next time you have a baby in your arms, hold it up to your ear and listen to its sweet breathing.  It will melt away all the stress of the day and remind you of your rich blessings.

Back in the day, I used to copy scripture in a notebook.  To me, there is something so satisfying about going through the physical process of writing it out on a piece of paper.  I felt a deeper connection to the words as I paid close atten...

Our youngest is 11.  She cried today because she doesn't want to grow up.  God knows I would be more than willing to keep her around longer than we're allowed!  I tried to encourage her with all the great things she has to look forward...

There is a lot of controversy over what it means to be filled with the Holy Spirit.  John MacArthur says that when a person becomes a believer in Christ, he or she is immediately filled with the Holy Spirit.  He said, "Every Christian, ...

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when the desire comes, it is a tree of life. Proverbs 13:12

So often, it feels as if we are saying our prayers into a great unknown abyss.  Prayer is an act of faith that tests our endurance while we wait on God.  The hardest kind of praying, to me, is praying for people I don't know and will never ...

We have been using Tapestry of Grace for about 10 years.  When I first discovered it, I was on the search for something to use for our upcoming study of the Middle Ages, so I called my friend, Kaycee, and we made a date to get a chai from Starbu...

Before our first baby boy was born, it had never entered my mind to think about being a housewife, let alone a homeschool mom.  As we all know, having children changes us.  Holding our new son, I knew that I couldn’t bring myself to leav...

I think that once our kids have learned to read, it's tempting to abandon reading together as a family in favor of basking in the joy of our reader's newly acquired independent skill.  How amazing is it to walk past our son or daughter's room an...

I once made the mistake of thinking that "the money" would always be there.  My husband had been working for the same company for 12 years and everything seemed to be consistently provided.  Then the hardships of 2008 came along.&...

I have never been a huge Francine Rivers fan.  I have always thought of her as just another Christian Romance writer.  I’m just not interested in that, and never wanted to read any of her novels until the curriculum we use assigned one h...