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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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My daughter, a college student, has taken up an antiquated means of communication. She writes letters—the ones with paper, stamps, and envelopes. She has pen pal from her Challenge IV class. She writes to her mother and grandmothers, and they love it. Unfortunately, I have been way too slack...
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The Peacemaker Monthly Part One – Glorify God Breathe Grace by Cara McLauchlan “Peacemakers are people who breathe grace.” – The Peacemaker, page 11 I want to breathe grace. I love the idea of it and think I do breathe grace, sometimes, but oftentimes, not really. Quite often I breathe...
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“And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.” — Genesis 2:3 (KJV) What does your Sabbath look like? Recently, I was reading that the Sabbath, or “Shabbat” in Jewish literature, is described as a...
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But I Did All the Hard Work!! by Brian Tonnell For months you have been trying to hammer into your child’s head the fact that completing the square requires dividing the middle term by two and then squaring it to find the third term. Over and over you practice with him,...
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Nurture Your Soul – Psalms Summer Devotions Series Summer Splendor by Cara McLauchlan “Now is the high-tide of the year, And whatever of life hath ebbed away Comes flooding back with ripply cheer Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it, We are happy now, because...
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