A Prayer for Today

“O Lord and Master of my life, cast away from me the spirit of laziness, idle curiosity, love of power and vain talk. But grant me, Your servant, the spirit of moderation, humility, patience and love. Yes, Lord and King, grant me to see my own faults and not ot judge my brothers and sisters. [...]

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Questions and Concerns for the Whitewashed Femmes?

Because I made the offer at another blog, I thought I’d make an actual thread where people could ask questions of Jennifer and me.  We’re both somewhat outspoken (me more than Jennifer), and welcome the chance to clarify our thoughts for anyone sincerely interested in knowing what they are. So here’s your chance.  Comments will [...]

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A Moment of Clarity

I’m a working mom.  I work inside the home and I work outside the home.  And I can tell you that, by far, the harder job is the one inside the home.  At least for me.  Because of the field I work in outside the home, I work every other weekend.  God gave us a [...]

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Four Days of Crazy

I haven’t been around much lately as life has, once again, taken over. The past four days have been insane.  Wednesday morning, I watched my niece (3 months) and nephew (2.5 years) for a few hours.  My MIL picked them up and I then took my kids over to her house so they could continue [...]

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A Cute Kid Story

I have a cute kid story for this morning… Who remembers “Davey and Goliath”?  Its this show that the ELCA produced a long time ago.  We used to watch it every week and loved it.  My mom gave my kids a DVD of old episodes in their “treat bags” yesterday when we left her home.  [...]

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Servant Leadership

So, I’ve had a rough day today.  Between a cold, sick cranky kids, no energy, and a power outage, I pretty much began and ended my day with ice cream.  What can I say, I’m pregnant, when else can I get away with this?  So, tonight, I was thinking about what Patriarchy means and how [...]

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Teachings or Teachers?

Here is a trustworthy saying: If anyone sets his heart on being an overseer,he desires a noble task. Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must [...]

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Deeply Grieved

I am deeply grieved this afternoon.  I’m not going to go into details.  I have no words of wisdom or thoughts of reflection.  Suffice it to say this:  Come quickly, Lord Jesus!

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A Prayer Request

My mother had surgery yesterday, a planned hysterectomy.   There was supposed to be a bladder surgery but it could not be completed.  It was discovered that my mother has uterine cancer, and they feared transferring cancer cells to other parts of her body. The surgery was long and difficult.  My mother bled a great deal [...]

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Where Are My Duties?

In light of recent discussion on this blog, I thought this might be a good time to reprint this blog post. This post was originally published to my “Our Homeschool” blog on February 24th, 2005. We were about to go into the hospital to induce labor for our daughter Sarah who had multiple conditions that [...]

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