I was in a Bible study group lately where the question was posed to a couple of retired couples—“So, what’s it like being retired? What do you do with your time?” Free time is one of those coveted commodities in the busy-ness of our ‘working’ years. We’re sure that if we had more of it […]
Never before have I lost my glasses. They’ve always been stuck to my face, ever since the third grade when I crept into class that first day with my new cat-eye glasses. But now, there are multiple pairs… and where did I put those reading glasses?! And there are pills doled out at breakfast—Am I […]
I needed grace this week. I need it always I suppose, the need is just more evident at some times than others. And God’s grace picked me up and carried me through another week of homeschooling. Perhaps someone prayed, I know I did. I had been reading of Moses, and was envying him, not because […]
What mother of us has not felt as Moses surely felt standing before the burning bush…here I am barefoot, standing before you Lord. You are saying you have a job for me to do? I am chosen particularly for it…and yet, this job? Who is sufficient for these things? I am unqualified, overwhelmed, undone at […]
Well, it’s been quite a week…may have started with a sag in hormones, but a bunch of things conspired to exacerbate the situation… Being the time of year that homeschoolers assess what’s been accomplished (and what’s been missed) in terms of academics, I was in this mode well before Rachel requested to see Micah’s old […]