Today was a battle for me. Today I didn’t want to be at home doing laundry, cleaning house, feeding kids, changing diapers, or even doing home school with the kids. Today I struggled with an ugly sin called selfishness. For any of you who know me well, you know that the thing I LOVE most to do with my husband… View Post
What Age is a Titus 2 Woman?
Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. Titus 2:3-6… View Post
The Importance of a Mentor
As a young lady I was always drawn to gleaning wisdom from older women. That part of me has never changed. I would venture to say that deep down inside of every woman is a desire to have an older woman speaking encouragement and trustworthy wisdom into our lives. Someone who has been there… down that old familiar road. For… View Post
Thriving Marriages: Allow Him
Allowing Your Husband to Lead This post is for strong women who are natural leaders, who thrive leading; however I am sure all women could relate in some ways~ right? As a strong, passionate, get things done kind of woman who is habitually leading her children all day through home schooling, when my husband gets home it can be a… View Post
Treating Croup Naturally & Hydrotherapy
Over the years, with 6 kids, you can bet that we have had our run with Croupy Coughs. My second oldest, got croup chronically for about 3 years. You can bet that after a few visits to the ER in the middle of the night, how determined a mama can get to find an alternative way to treat this nasty… View Post
Influence
“As is the Mother, so is the Daughter.” -Ezekiel 16:44 Wow! Talk about responsibility right! If we weren’t feeling the pressure before-man! Being a Mother is such a great privilege, but also such a huge awesome responsibility! So many days I feel the weight of it, and feel like I don’t measure up. Am I doing all I should… View Post
Leaving a Legacy of Biblical Friendship:Part 2
Do your children see you burdened with stress and anxiety? When you have a problem and you need help from another person, are you able to share your burdens with a friend, a brother or sister in Christ? Or do they see you allowing the Body of Christ to fulfill its purpose here on earth, through ministering to you? … View Post
The Legacy of Biblical Friendship
Teaching our Children to be Godly Friends The Legacy of Biblical Friendship: Part 1 Where do our children learn how to be a friend? The kind of friend God calls us all to be? They learn from having friends, experience right? They also learn from our teaching and what we model as a friend. I have a friend who almost… View Post
The Legacy of Reliance
Casting Our Burdens “When the cares of my heart are many, your consolations cheer my soul.” Psalm 94:19 What do you do? When the cares of your heart are drowning you, and you feel like you are suffocating because of pressure and stress. Are you able to give them to God, cast your burdens on him? Are His Words in… View Post
More than Jelly
This past week we harvested around 70 lbs of Concord Grapes from one of my plants that grows around this picket fence surrounding my garden. We were able to make Juice Concentrate for the freezer and TONS of Grape Jelly. At the end of the day after everyone had an opportunity to either remove the grapes, smash them, stir them,… View Post