My Perfect Life Project

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Author:  Tashelga Parrott  Recently, my husband and I were discussing our children. What to do? Who to coddle? And who’s getting tough love? When it comes to blending a family, unless a woman conceives by Immaculate Conception, there is neither a perfect nor an ideal way that words around the topic can be spoken. The [...]

Back to Nature

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By Wendy Clark © 2013 In Romans 1:20 Paul writes, “For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse” (NIV). God’s eternal power and divine nature are clearly see and understood through creation.  So [...]

How to Savor Parenting: Three Steps

The You Are Special Plate

Author:  Tricia Hodges Being a parent is hard. We face the task of raising little ones, pre-teens or young adults – or all three in my case! We search for answers to this problem or that. We long for encouragement in our parenting. But sometimes we can lean so far trying to fix. We can [...]

Seedtime and Harvest

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Author: Tashelga Parrott Once, there was a farmer who planted bamboo seed. This farmer took care to give the seed to fertile, sunlit soil. He did water it every day.  A whole year passed after the seed was planted but then, there was no harvest. Other area farmers questioned the bamboo farmer and asked, “Where is [...]