Standing Firm

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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Dannah Gresh has a fabulous book out called “Six Ways to Keep the ‘Little’ in Your Girl“. It is a book designed to help mothers guide their daughters from their Tweens to the their Teens. No easy feat, right? But it’s always good to start at the beginning–before those tween years. Dannah writes specifically to [...]

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They mean it nicely—I know they do. It’s only polite to ask it of up-and-coming students. There’s really no way they can avoid it without putting themselves in an awkward position. But whenever this topic comes up, nausea slowly takes me. Jitters begin in my pinky toe. I pick at my black blazer, blink rapidly, [...]

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As I sit back and assess my life – I see a couple of issues that have been created by technology for moms: 1.  The iPad, iPod, and iPhone can distract us away from the Great I AM.  I feel this struggle between spending time in God’s word and blog hopping!  We live in such [...]

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  I have major issues with weeds. Not only are they unsightly, but I go through all this work to make my garden look like a Monet painting  and the weeds  have the audacity to plop themselves amongst the pansy’s like they were invited! I didn’t look through my seed catalog and say to my [...]

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Wouldn’t it be nice to know if your daughter was beginning to struggle with body image issues, boy craziness, or computer-addiction? If you received a report of her online activity each month, you’d be able to spot harmful patterns right away, pray for her, and talk to her about how she is thinking and spending [...]

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Many of you are young mothers who one day hope to see your daughters joyfully living the life of a homemaker, even in your own home before they marry. But some of you may be apprehensively wondering, “What will that look like?” Having a visual of what your daughter could one day be doing takes [...]

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English Cottage by Cozy Tea Treasures The mission of homemaking is like a beautiful handmade afghan, in which every stitch is an important part of the whole, and where every row comes together to make the lovely finished product. Every aspect of the homemaker’s life and work within her home is so very important, and [...]

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