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I know now the hard-pressed nature of being a mama balancing countless responsibilities in and outside the home. An intense fear of dropping the iron of their upbringing or education while tending too greedily to the iron of my career… and yet, I’m grateful for this bookend vantage…

My mother worked. Now I am a working mother. Here is how I see it twenty years later.

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Our children are growing up in a world of gray space, an arena lacking definitive lines. And yet, I think they know the world cannot operate in this way.

Training Our Children in Truthful Habits Amidst a Gray-Space Society

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“Why do they change words in some Bibles?” I could sense the skepticism in my son’s voice, a new tone carried throughout his questions in recent days. It’s uncomfortable, yet welcome. I asked him for it, really …

3 Ways to Teach Our Children About Bible Translations and How (and How Not) to Use Them

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“Why do they change words in some Bibles?” I could sense the skepticism in my son’s voice, a new tone carried throughout his questions in recent days. It’s uncomfortable, yet welcome. I asked him for it, really …

3 Ways to Teach Our Children About Bible Translations and How (and How Not) to Use Them

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This fellow mama and I share a bond stretching our century separation — both of us shouldering the education of our children. Did she wonder, as I often ask, am I doing enough?

Will Our Children be Thankful for This Education?

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As our children start to see nature as the theology it is, they’ll begin “thinking God’s thoughts after Him.”

5 Ways to Inspire Your Child in Bible + Nature Journaling

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“Everything’s been taken off the table.” He stares at the larger pebbles remaining, finds the shells, sets them aside for safekeeping. “Now we get to decide what goes back on.”

Why God is Allowing the Hard Things

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My heart sank at his flippant words. All the insecurities I’ve worked to silence reared. Anger rose. That is when we pulled out paper and pens to trace 24 boxes.

Take care how you cross the river, my child.

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It wasn’t the first neighbor I’d fed this response to, and it wasn’t the first time I doubted my own words.

I thought we’d be good at this. I was wrong.

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It wasn’t the first neighbor I’d fed this response to, and it wasn’t the first time I doubted my own words.

I thought we’d be good at this. I was wrong.

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Two months ago, my family turned down the lights. We lit candles, gathered books, steeped tea, and canceled regular activities. We hunkered down. We had no idea, as we stepped into our annual family hibernation – which we set aside two weeks for every year – that in two months we would be embracing an extended season of hibernation.

The Extended Hibernation: Creating a Calm Quarantine

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Raising kids stirs something deep in our souls — an innate knowing that our time is finite. Taking my kids outside in creation, I’m discovering how to stretch our time and pack it to the brim with meaning. God’s creativity provides the riches of resources for teaching the next generation who He is and how He loves us. Join our adventure and discover inspiration and resources for refusing rush, creating habits of rest, living intentionally, and making the most of this beautiful life!

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