I have put off pruning our grape for too long. Have you ever stalled from doing something because you were totally intimidated by it? When you have all these grand ideas of growing, nurturing, and producing grapes or hardy kiwis, there is a point that you just have to tackle the learning curve it takes [...]
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Over the next nine months I will be writing about the fruit of the Spirit and its cultivation in our lives. With each post I’ll be including a free embroidery pattern download featuring the month’s topic. — Have you ever stopped to think about how your family will look five years from now? How about [...]
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Life’s little moments are fleeting! We need only blink and another day passes. Where does the time go? “See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil.” -Ephesians 5:15-16 When I think about time, I simultaneously think about its value. We each have so [...]
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An anonymous commenter left this on my blog the other day: What are your thoughts on the relationship between Christian teenage girls and their mothers? Several sweet and Godly girls I know, who are anywhere from 14 to 18, seem to have struggles with the way their mothers run the household. (Again, including me.) Not [...]
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“Parenting is hard”. My friend announced their family motto. I agree with her 100%. There’s the delicate balance between “training them in the nurture and admonition of the Lord” and all that entails, and the work that only the Lord can do in a heart. We require obedience, but obedience must ultimately be from a [...]
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Have you ever been perplexed about your friendships with boys? Have you ever wondered how to handle a crush or unrequited love as you try to wait for God’s best? Should guys and girls even be friends? As girls desiring to become godly women, we want our interaction with young men to be God-honoring and [...]
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Raising the women who will shape the next generation is an important task. Just teaching all the practical aspects of homemaking can be overwhelming as we seek to equip our daughters to be managers of their homes and that’s the ‘easy’ part. Here is one practical tip that I’ve implemented that has made training our [...]
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Some days are just like that. As mommies we know full well what it is like to have a grouchy day, so we manage to find mercy for our daughters when they are having the same kind of day. But, what do we do when our daughters seem to be having “that day” repeatedly? While [...]
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