Proverbs 31:13

She seeks out wool and flax and works with willing hands [to develop it]. Although I’m not particularly “crafty,” I love taking raw materials and making them into useful things – whether that be food, children, talent, business ideas, etc. Bringing order to chaos brings me particular joy – for example taking a messy closet [...]

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Proverbs 31:12

She comforts, encourages, and does him only good as long as there is life within her. Oh man, this one is a soapbox of mine… Nick comes alive when I encourage him. When he senses my full support he’ll move mountains. Just the other day he was feeling a sense of direction for our family [...]

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Grocery Shopping and Contentment

My life is very different from this blogger’s, and therefore we do not always agree. But, I love her post today. This is how I am trying to approach our grocery shopping now. You can feel the place of peace and trust that she speaks from, even as you read her words. She touches on [...]

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God’s Purpose for Women

This post is concise, yet hard for me to read. I do think she left out a few things that are set up in Proverbs 31 – things like good business dealings, caring for the poor, being creative and industrious at home, etc. But, she’s right. Women were Not created with the purpose of outdoing [...]

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Another headline

The U.S. maternal death rate is higher than in European countries. Interesting. Even more interesting is the list they give of the cause of death. “The major direct causes of U.S. pregnancy-related deaths are blood clots, hemorrhage, complications of medical conditions, and eclampsia and pre-eclampsia, which are marked by dangerously high blood pressure.” How many [...]

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well-behaved women

Kyla wrote an interesting post today as she was processing the movie “Becoming Jane,” which I would love to go see. Here is the part I found very interesting (hope you don’t mind being quoted, Kyla!) “This is off topic with the movie but I found it odd when I joined the blogging world that [...]

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Oh, my goodness, I love this

From a very long, very good post here: “These belief systems invade the home and make the family unstable. As home keepers we are supposed to guard the home. These destructive philosophies of life come into the home via the media, the mail, the schools, music, literature, the new laws that are made, and even [...]

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Community

For those of you who don’t know, I host a small group for moms with young children. Every Thursday morning, we all get together, bring our kids, and hang out. The kids play and we supervise and even get to chat some. It has been my sanity some weeks. Actually, I first started it when [...]

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Where to start…

So, sometimes life gets just hard enough that you don’t want to write. After three weeks + of sickness in the house, I came to the end of myself. Really, it didn’t even take that long. As of tonight, I have an extremely sore throat, but no other symptoms, and the girls are finally well. [...]

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Mentoring

Do you have a mentor? Someone who has traveled with you throughout your life, and helps to train you in God’s ways, and in how to run your household and how to navigate your relationships? I wrote about those verses in Titus the other day, and I was struck by something. I know very few [...]

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