It can be so easy to be overcome by darkness, to believe lies, when you are in a burdened season. You can hear bad news and quickly jump to all the what if’s, and just that simple you are overcome with even more grief. That is why it is important for friends and family to… Continue reading Share Truth to Bless a Burdened Family
I believe the best thing you can do for a family, especially one that is experiencing any type of burden, is pray. When people say they are praying for me, I don’t know if they realize, but I feel and know that that is a big gift. We serve a big God. He cares, he… Continue reading Pray for a Burdened Family
In January of this year, my son was diagnosed with cancer. It turned our world upside down and all of a sudden we were living day to day. Because of the aggressiveness of the cancer, we had to get treatments started right away. Every week from January 1 through the end of July, we had… Continue reading Introduction to Blessing a Burdened Family
Now that we had a home and knew we were accepted to seminary, things seemed more real. We now knew where we would be for the next 4 years of our lives, which was a totally new concept for us. If you know us at all, you know we have been moving almost every year and… Continue reading Quitting Homeschooling
Thanks for sticking with me this far. If you haven’t read my previous posts, you can catch up by seeing how we were Ready to Go, Staying, and Moving. Only God. That can really explain anything, right? He is why I breathe. He is why my brain can tell my fingers to move a certain… Continue reading Only God
My one word for 2014 is Adventure. In my last post I shared what Adventure means to me. Today I want share an Adventure that God is taking me on. When I heard, and soaked in the story of Abraham, I started asking God for my own Adventure. Crazy, right? I asked a little hesitantly at… Continue reading Adventure: When He Says Go, You Go
Joy is my word for this year, though you probably wouldn’t know it because I haven’t posted about it for months. It’s still been on my mind. Some days Joy has been harder to find than others, but I feel it in my heart again. I’m finding it in the right place. Not many people… Continue reading Finding Joy in His Sufficiency
Diet Coke is a thing around here. I don’t know if it is anywhere else, but I’ve grown up around, and continually meet people, who can’t go a day without their Diet Coke. I personally prefer Coke, but that’s beside the point. Often we go to our Diet Coke for comfort, for a drink, a… Continue reading Stop Drinking Your Diet Coke
Saturday was the best day of weather we have had all year. It was in the mid 70’s and the sun was shining high in the sky. (Just for some perspective it was 34 and snowed 6 inches the previous weekend.) You would expect that I would be outside basking in the sun, replenishing my… Continue reading Doing Strange Things and Meeting Real People
Yesterday, I came up with an idea for a new blog post. So, of course, I had seize the opportunity and type it in before the idea went off to no-mans land. I typed in AverageHousewife.com And nothing happened, not a sound. (Have you ever read The Very Quiet Cricket?) The page was blank. No… Continue reading I Was Hacked
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