Family
What Makes A Good Mother?
What makes a good mother anyway? Is it patience? Compassion? The ability to nurse a baby, cook dinner, and sew a button on a shirt, all at the same time? Or is it heart? Is it the ache you feel when you see your child disappear down the street, walking to school alone for the […]
The Mother’s Question
When I was a boy, and it chanced to rain, Mother would always watch for me; She used to stand by the window pane, Worried and troubled as she could be. And this was the question I used to hear, The very minute that I drew near; The words she used, I can’t forget: “Tell […]
Talking To Children About Violence
From Anne Meyer Byler, librarian and PJC proofreader and web site helper: CHILDREN’S TIME IDEAS, OR FOR READING WITH CHILDREN, (POST-September 11 ATTACKS): 1. It’s “ok” to be angry and afraid at times like this, but we don’t want to hurt people in our anger. What are good ways to deal with our feelings? –Feelings […]
Love In The Home
(by a Mother) If I live in a house of spotless beauty with everything in its place, but have not love, I am a housekeeper–not a homemaker. If I have time for waxing, polishing, and decorative achievements, but have not love, my children learn cleanliness–not godliness. Love leaves the dust in search of a child’s […]
Devotion: Midlife
Halfway through life I was living in peace, but God took me by the throat and battered me and crushed me. God uses me for target practice and shoots arrows at me from every side – arrows that pierce and wound me; and even then he shows no pity. He wounds me again and again; […]
Wanted: A Tribute To Mother
By David Sanders We are currently seeking applicants for a divine role in the work force. Very little experience is needed, as you will have complete “on-the-job” training. Must be willing to work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Patience is a must. We will start you out doing some heavy lifting and […]
Depression
Dear Adam… A letter to South Africa ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?… O, my God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer, by night, and am not silent.’ ‘I have been allotted months of futility, and nights of misery have been assigned to me. When I lie down […]
Images Of Mother
4 YEARS OF AGE ~ My Mommy can do anything! 8 YEARS OF AGE ~ My Mom knows a lot! A whole lot! 12 YEARS OF AGE ~ My Mother doesn’t really know quite everything. 14 YEARS OF AGE ~ Naturally, Mother doesn’t know that, either. 16 YEARS OF AGE ~ Mother? She’s hopelessly old-fashioned. […]
Thoughts On Grieving
— by George Colony (Grief is an emotion Colony knows all too well. His wife, Ann, lost her parents on board Egypt Air flight 990 in Oct. 1999) I’m not a psychologist or therapist, but I thought I would share with you some of the lessons about grief that have helped me and others over […]
Children And Prayer
L I V E I T Today’s best advice from Christian books. http://liveit.crosswalk.com/ CHILDREN NEED TO PRAY A few generations back, the normal and formal way to begin and end a child’s day was with morning and bedtime prayers. They were recited out loud, usually beginning or ending with requests for God to bless their […]
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