Sometimes parenting can be discouraging. It is easy to feel overwhelmed or discouraged. Here is a good post that shows us the thought process of a godly person who is having a bad week. Click here.
Filed under: Introspection
I’m entering brand new territory with my girls. We’re teaching them modesty, and I’m coming to the conclusion that modesty is inconvenient. My goal is simple. I want to teach them to love modesty when they’re young so that they love modesty when they’re teenagers and adults. That goal has given me some challenges. Right [...]
Filed under: Modesty and Purity
Tonight in church we sang “Holy, Holy, Holy.” That’s a song we sing a lot at our house, and all three of my children were singing it (well, Laurel was just making noise, but the other two were actually singing the words). It was convicting to notice the energy they sang when they actually knew [...]
Filed under: Discipleship, Salvation
Some of you may have noticed recently the as4me website being quite slow to load. We reported the problem to our web hosting service, and they attempted to fix the problem. When that didn’t work, they moved to us to a new server and the links got messed up. It should work fine now. Sadly, [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized
I’ve never been to a movie at a movie theater. For some of my audience, that’s a remarkable and nearly unbelievable fact. It is also a fact that we have a new movie theater in town; we pass it when we go to church. It has garish LED lights in front that can be seen [...]
Filed under: Discipleship
I am not opposed to babies in the nursery during church services. In fact, I prefer it. But Laurel developed an aversion to the nursery several months ago. I’d keep her in the service as long as I could, and then take her to the nursery, let her cry for a minute, and then stayed [...]
Filed under: Discipleship
Last night, we were talking about our company that was coming, and Bethel asked out of the blue “Are you going to share your beautiful dishes?” I was pleased, because we had a conversation about sharing mommy’s precious dishes months ago. That’s one way we can please God, by sharing what He has blessed us [...]
Filed under: Getting Along
Laurel (16 months old) recently learned how to say no. This is actually a milestone I look forward to, because each step toward communication lessens the frustration of not being understood. Now she can tell her brother and sister to stop teasing her, she can tell me if she wants milk or juice, and she [...]
Filed under: Obedience
Sometimes I think we believe that spiritual growth happens in big steps. Or we focus on our past failures and forget about making right choices now. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, [...]
Filed under: Wisdom
I want my children to come to me when they’re having difficulty resolving a problem. If I’m like my esteemed and more experienced sister-in-law Martha, I’ll give my children strategies for solving their problems, and send them back to try again, only intervening when all resources have been exhausted. I like this approach, and I [...]
Filed under: Getting Along
