Wisdom And Righteousness

When You’re Pushing in the Wrong Direction…

  I sit on hands and knees, a paint scraper in hand. Back and forth I work the paint off of these old boards - laid down in the 1920's. Three hours of laying down paint remover, waiting and scraping, has turned into a bigger job than I had planned. It was only after a third of it was done that I realized it. It didn't matter how clean the boards were, or whether I put paint or stain on top, we would still be left with the same old boards - boards that have warped with … [Read more...]

Sweet, Filling Grace…

The berries are smashed and ooze red.  Sweet goodness mixing with sugar in the saucepan.  To make the jam, I bring it to a boil and follow the directions carefully.  Too many berries, or too little boiling might make the jam runny.  Too much boiling, or too much gelatin makes the jam too firm.  It is a tricky balance, this teetering on the edge of not enough and too much.  Our lives can be the same way - us wavering in the middle between awareness of abundance, and the desire for more.... I cut … [Read more...]

When the Heat is On….

  I always thought I lived in a pretty small town.  My friends and I lamented over the fact that there was no shopping available, and that nothing happened in our "small town".  We always thought we needed to go to Phoenix or San Diego to do anything of real importance.  My friends from Yuma are nodding their heads (population 194,000).  But compared to the small town my husband grew up in, Yuma is a metropolis - full of traffic and the bustle of big city life.  (People in Yuma can now … [Read more...]

Why I loved Practicum {And you will too}

  Ok, ok, so I signed up for practicum mostly because I knew they were going to talk about Latin, and let's face it - I needed a new vision for Latin.  We stuck with memorizing it last year because I vaguely remembered that at one point in all of my homeschool research I had decided we should definitely study Latin, but in all the craziness of everyday life, and trying to keep up with our memory work, my eagerness for Latin somehow sizzled.  I figured practicum would either re-ignite my … [Read more...]

Here Come the “Go Fish” Guys!!!

What a blessing it was to be able to be a part of a community-wide, multi-church effort in a tiny rural community who thought big, and trusted large.  When planners set out with the idea of having a "Go Fish" Vacation Bible School (VBS) curriculum followed by a REAL LIVE CONCERT from GO FISH, I have to admit, I was a skeptic.  How could they really make this happen.  Yet here it was, and IT WAS AWESOME!  We spent the last month doing the Ten COmmandment Boogie and singing about how the B-I-B-L-E … [Read more...]