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Beneath this virus, there is a far more deadly epidemic spreading. It is the disease that’s reached me long before news of this virus. It is the one that has plagued me my entire life. It is the one that presents symptoms at any uncertainty.

Fear is the virus we choose

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It is the subject I am most eager and fearful to teach my children. The ramifications seem high if I screw it up. To begin, I determined what I would not tell them.

What I am not telling my children about the Bible

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“The world will become a whole lot bigger.” It’s the promise I have made them since they first began tracing “A is for Apple” in their workbooks. It has, and they’ve raced into this new world at full speed, while I hesitate.

A Prayer for My New Reader

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“The world will become a whole lot bigger.” It’s the promise I have made them since they first began tracing “A is for Apple” in their workbooks. It has, and they’ve raced into this new world at full speed, while I hesitate.

A Prayer for My New Reader

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We had allowed it to slip far out of hand when my husband had an idea. “Why don’t we hibernate?”

Our family hibernates once a year. Here’s how it’s changed us.

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I don’t see it until we write that second list. Placing it next to the first, we see what we did not glimpse in the midst of time passing.

Before we look forward

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I have tried not to write about this. It is so hard. So unspeakably hard. A mother and father staring into death. A precious girl found without breath.

As we ask God to raise a dead child, are we bypassing His better promises?

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Advent is here, and just like every year, I feel terribly unprepared. Not only because I have planned nothing, but because I’m terrified that if I do dare to plan, Advent will be lost.

For all of us mamas unready for Advent

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“It was worth it,” she shared with a smile, “I could finally see it.” That is what I am holding out for.

Fellow mama, your labor is not in vain

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“It was worth it,” she shared with a smile, “I could finally see it.” That is what I am holding out for.

Fellow mama, your labor is not in vain

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Behind us the clock went about its business ticking away at our day, but something in me sunk — a moment weighed down to make its mark on time.

I didn’t throw away his art. He did.

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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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