We’re headed to a wedding Saturday and, while I realize most people will not be looking at me during the ceremony, I still need to wear something a little more appropriate than my tent shirt, running shorts, and sneakers. So, in very much the same spirit as Meredith, and out of a commitment to reality [...]
…The real universe…is one in which personality has meaning because man was made in the image of a Personal God. The impersonal universe of man’s making is one which does not produce a base for creativity. But Christians, who do have a base for creativity, as well as other marks of personality, are very often [...]
I’m starting to think about how I want to furnish the new house. In the living room, it is assumed we’ll have places for people to sit, though folding chairs look more and more attractive the longer I live with children. If the few websites I have perused today are any indication, I might have [...]
I’m starting another rag rug. This will be my fourth, and I’m taking my time, doing more (tedious) things to get it just the way I want it. Hopefully, it will go nicely under my new kitchen sink. In the past, I just cut the strips and tied them together as I went along. This [...]
Well, I got me this problem. [Where's the southern- speak coming from? Living in northwest central Ohio doesn't lend itself to that kind of talk, but reading blogs like Sophie's or Shannon's makes it creep up on a' one right quick ] It started a few weeks ago, when my underwear wouldn’t stay put right. [...]
I’m reading The Hidden Art of Homemaking by Edith Schaeffer, and in it she challenges any wife or mother created by God (that’d be everyone ) to use their creative abilities to the fullest where they are right now, in their homemaking. One chapter talks about drawing, and she says how she would, during her [...]
I like to think myself a capable critic of praise and worship music. That is, I can appreciate any song, right off the bat, that doesn’t repeat its words too often. I usually find that songs that do are trying to compensate for poor writing (Hey, ‘God is good’ works here. Let’s use it five [...]
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The training of a missionary should begin in the nursery; school should continue it; home should nourish it. All influences should be bent one way. That training should not be perplexed by a mixture of thoughts, but expressed in a single line of conduct, clearly recognized for what it is. In other words, till the [...]
As we go through this season of building a home, emotions run high and anxiety threatens to overwhelm. Don’t misunderstand- things are going FANTASTIC- stuff is getting done in a timely fashion, and the weather hasn’t been too much of a factor. For better or worse, however, the whole process has had our undivided attention, [...]
It hasn’t yet been a week of good results, but I am reasonably confident that wearing my running shoes throughout the day is helping to ward off my chronic pelvic and leg pain! A few days ago, I put my sneakers on after my morning heel treatment, and was so pleased with the way it [...]