Spiritual Support

Embracing Your Imperfections

August 13, 2011

Every morning when I use my L’Oreal Lasting Plum lipliner, I have to trace around a little scar on the right side of my top lip. I got that scar almost 50 years ago, when a 6-year-old boy in my neighborhood threw a rock at me and split my lip. As a result, my lips [...]

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Sacrificial Labor: Life’s Little Ironies

June 11, 2011
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Two days ago, I was privileged to attend the birth of the 4th son of a homeschooling friend. She had requested an epidural sometime midway through the morning, but the anesthesiologist was tied up in the operating room, so my friend was already 9 centimeters dilated before relief came. She did an amazing job of [...]

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Spring into Action… You’ve Been Remade!

April 16, 2011
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I saw a music video this morning from a local Christian group called Tenth Avenue North. As I sat down to write this post, I could not at first recall the name of the song because the cinematography in the video was so overwhelmingly powerful. The song is You Are More, and as the video [...]

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How to Have the Perfect Nap

March 7, 2011
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My son Luke was listening to an Apologia science lesson, and my granddaughter Maggie was dancing to a song playing from a show on the children’s TV channel Qubo. I was holding my newest grandson Wyatt watching him sleep so peacefully in my lap and thinking of my daughter, his mom, who was upstairs also [...]

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Devastation by Fire, by Flood? God will Meet You Where You Are in Homeschooling

May 25, 2010

I have seen devastation by fire, and I have seen devastation by flood. Both are tragic, and destroy most everything in their paths–and especially memories. The destruction by fire I personally witnessed was my parent’s home of over 40 years burning on Christmas Day from a broken candlestick on a dinner table. This was a [...]

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Losing a Custody Battle When I’m Not Even Divorced

April 27, 2010

I guess I need to explain. My marriage is intact, and our 12-year-old remains in a stable home. Most of my blogs are meant to encourage parents who are training their children. This one is just for me to vent a little and maybe do some processing. It is about parenting, however. About 6 years [...]

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Rick & Bubba and Being a Well-Rounded Homeschooler

January 13, 2010

I took my sister to Alabama to be in the studio audience of the Rick and Bubba show’s first radio broadcast of 2010. Unlike their names suggest, Rick & Bubba are incredibly intelligent, articulate, and hilarious men of integrity who honor God in every show — which is syndicated nationally on a secular network. Unfortunately, [...]

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