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The Crazy Lady with Seven Children
Do you ever have days when you really feel like a failure? I had one yesterday. I have a number of small children, and although I want them to love their routine, I also want them to be flexible enough to go without it if need be. After church, we ate lunch there. Then we…
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Child-Rearing: "A Sucker’s Game"??!!
I’m sitting here at my computer, shaking my head, enraged at the article I just read. I’ve read other ones like it, but for whatever reason, today I am particularly troubled by it. A reader, Out on a Limb, sent me this heart-sickening article. And while it is quite discouraging, in one sense, I think…
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Comments Wanted: When Family Doesn’t Understand
Here is Mandy’s choice of topic for debate… What I want to know is why female family members get so upset that my husband and I are having lots of children (and only three as of now!). We don’t give them the cold shoulder because they chose to have only one and have a career…
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Comments wanted: How Do I Teach the Bible?
Mandi’s question….let’s encourage her! “I don’t know if this is the place or not but I am really desperate for way s to teach my children basic things about the Bible. I have an 18 mo old and am due in about 4 weeks. I had this training only in Sunday School when I was…
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A Good Reminder…
It’s amazing the thing a mom discovers when the older children are unavailable…it was just me and the little ones yesterday, with a mountain of dishes I knew I had to tackle. Then the thought occurred to me: “What if they could do it?” So I gave ’em a shot. They not only did…
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Do You Enjoy Your Children?
Well, since I’m still here, I figured I should blog! (This after a sleepless night with false contractions all night only to wake up and have them subside 🙁 If you happen to notice in my sidebar, I’ve had time on chair rest to write a new ebook. It is entitled: “If Your Children Don’t…
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Reader’s Life-Changing Testimony
This is the second letter of this type I have received since I started this blog in February. I am so humbled by God’s work in the lives of this and other such women. I would love to hear from anyone else to whom the Lord has brought change regarding birth control or the issues…
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What We [the church] Used to Believe About Birth Control…It May Shock You
It may surprise you to know that the accepted practice of birth control is relatively new; and before it was a generally accepted practice, it was considered the gravest of sins, by all Protestant denominations, not just the Catholic church. It’s interesting to me how we are so prone to tip-toe around this issue, afraid…
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Keep Planting Trees…They’re Pointing to the King!
I’m nearing the end of my pregnancy…the days are so hot, my back aches, and a task as simple as sweeping the floor or washing the dishes leaves me exhausted. I am tired…but I am leaning on my Savior whose grace is sufficient for me. I hurt…but this temporary suffering is nothing compared to the…
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God’s Sovereignty-An Empty House/A Full House
Anna S. from Ann’s Musings about Home, Family Life and Womanhood (or have you changed the name to Domestic Felicity?)…brought up a good point about birth control and God’s sovereignty. Often, couples are terrified that if they allow God to be sovereign over the womb, they will end up having 18 children…..and some do! But…
