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A Year’s Worth of Books

Do You Have a Reading Goal for 2019? How are your New Year’s Resolutions going?  How about a fun, easy one you can KEEP? My reading goal for 2018 year was to read 52 books.  While I didn’t quite hit that number, I enjoyed 44 engaging books, interacted with some new ideas, and learned some …

clarity

How to Gain Clarity of Mind

Sometimes fog is visible and we’re aware of it. But it can often pose as humidity that subtly dims our vision. We don’t notice the dullness and weight until the contrast of clarity brings perspective. An early glimpse of fall recently opened my eyes to clarity. The lack of humidity in the air made the …

Christmas

Take Time to Look Up This Christmas

Does Christmas make you feel claustrophobic? There are too many things in every corner of the house, too many events on the calendar, too many expectations to meet, too many things on my to-do list. Both my pants and my budget are too tight. It doesn’t help that yesterday while I was in Wal-Mart, the …

Should Christians Care about Motivation?

Why should we, as Christians, care about motivation? Isn’t this “internal locus of control” just a bunch of psychological blowing into the wind?  What does the Bible say about motivation? Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in …

Did Grandma Do Whole30?

What has been is what will be,     and what has been done is what will be done,     and there is nothing new under the sun.  Ecclesiastes 1:9 I am not under any delusions that I am living anything approaching a minimalist lifestyle.  I have way too many full kitchen cabinets, we have too many animals, …

Focus Like Grandma – In the Kitchen

This past weekend, we celebrated my grandmother’s 90th birthday.  She is a joyful, feisty woman with a servant’s heart and a contagious laugh – all packed in a 5 foot frame.  I absolutely adore her. I have been thinking a lot lately about how different our child-rearing time of life is from those of our …

What Does it Mean to be a Productive Mom?

Are you being productive with your time? Merriam-Webster defines productivity as having the quality or power of producing especially in abundance Does being a productive mom mean that we get a lot of things done?  Does busy equal productive?  Does it mean that we cross many items off of our list each day?  That we go to …