Strawberry Time!

I took the kids strawberry picking last Saturday. We picked 11 pounds! On Sunday I took them to a local strawberry festival. (Am I good mom or what??!!) We’ve frozen about half of the berries. We were going to make jam, but I’ve found out the process is...

Being Renewed

I am reflecting today on what it means to be “renewed”. If a person is renewed, he is a “new creature”, the “old has passed away, the new has come.” We are admonished to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy...

The Message

Recently I purchased a copy of The Message. Am I really enjoying it! It’s quite different, a breath of fresh air. Here’s a passage I like: God’s love is meteoric, his loyalty astronomic, His purpose titanic, his verdicts oceanic. Yet in his largeness...

A Fun Time

Last night, as a family, we roasted hot dogs & marshmallows. Just us. Usually, we do those things when we have company. It was a joy to simply do it by ourselves. It showed the children that they are special enough to do this when we don’t have company, when...