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Lent: Teach Your Children

Lent: Teach Your Children

by Amy Welborn Take care and be earnestly on your guard not to forget the things which your own eyes have seen, nor let them slip from your memory as long as you live, but teach them to your children and to your children’s children… (Deuteronomy 4:9) This is something we tend to fret about,...

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Rejoice Always? Really?

Have you ever been grateful for something negative that happened to you?  Well, maybe not while it’s happening. A friend of mine is a classic doting grandmother. Nothing fills her with joy more than a visit from her little grandson, who lives hundreds of miles away. She talks about nothing else before, during and after...

How significant are you?

How significant are you?

Disappointment crept into my heart when I failed to land a plum writing assignment. This came after I visualized my writing glorifying God and my work becoming significant. I thought that would help me become significant.  It got me thinking about how we become significant and how we judge the significance of others in our...

The Party of Twins

The Party of Twins

The first twins in our family turned two this week. These precious little girls, Emma Grace and Allison McKenna are as different as can be.  Emma has olive skin and straight dark brown hair and gets excited about everything. She’s a mini version of her mom. Allison has fair skin and strawberry blonde hair like...