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Recently, during my seven-year-old’s annual checkup at the pediatrician’s office, the nurse was asking him to answer a list of prescribed questions prior to the doctor coming in. It went something like this: Nurse: “What’s the name of your school?” My son: *blank stare* Somewhat impatiently, the nurse repeats: “The...
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A virgin conceived. A carpenter believed. Shepherds dutifully tended their flocks and angels joyfully followed their orders. God’s messengers made announcements from high in the heavens while a young couple made preparations in a lowly stable. A baby was born—rather the baby was born. The King of Kings left his throne...
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The Peacemaker Monthly Part Two – Get the Log Out of Your Eye The Peace Instruction Manual by Cara McLauchlan “When we overlook the wrongs of others, we are imitating God’s extraordinary forgiveness towards us.” – The Peacemaker, page 82 With the holiday season in full swing, there is nothing like...
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Our lives are full of entertainment. One can scarcely imagine a day without music, YouTube, Facebook, movies, Netflix, NFL, 19 Kids and Counting, video games, and iPods. It seems as though all our time is caught up with some form of entertainment. In the old days, entertainment consisted of...
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Yes, I am reading yet another book on productivity. With six children, an aging father-in-law, a self-employed husband, and an irrepressible desire to do something more, I just may have an excuse. I know I have many kindred spirits in the classical homeschooling family. I have already shared some excellent...
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We belong to a very small subset of the population. We live on one income, we have more than two children (in fact, at last count, there were five), we homeschool, and two of our children have disabilities. Those last two facts are the ones about which I receive...
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The Peacemaker Monthly Part One – Glorify God Falling Off the Rock by Cara McLauchlan “…if you believe that God is sovereign and good, you will be able to trust him and obey him, even in the midst of difficult circumstances.” – The Peacemaker, page 70 Recently, my son and...
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Fear is the constant companion of parents, is it not? When our children are sick or sickly, or have disorders, disabilities, and diagnoses that are known by an alphabet soup of acronyms, fear mounts quickly. I have faced my share of fear. Our daughter was known to have some...
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“…when I became a man, I put away childish things” (1 Corinthians 13:11, KJV). For decades, American culture has been pushing the threshold between childhood and adulthood further and further from birth. This is being done in the name of science, which supposedly is just analyzing the data and then...
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The Peacemaker Monthly Part One – Glorify God Oceans of Peace by Cara McLauchlan “By God’s design, the three dimensions of peace are inseparably joined. As one author expressed it, ‘Peace with God, peace with each other and peace with ourselves come in the same package.’” – The Peacemaker, page...
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Homeschooling is like parenting; it is a calling that begins with a gift from God: children. Like becoming a parent, becoming a homeschooler happens for a variety of reasons. My story begins with me not wanting my children in three different schools in three different states in the same...
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I felt like an alien in my own home, teetering on the verge of tears. Just days before, I was melting in the hot Guatemalan sun, mosquitoes attacking my shins. I could not have been happier. How I longed for that now as I felt the busyness of the...
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