Articles on Family (Page 3)
Mothers and Prayer
It was 2:30 PM, Tuesday afternoon. “Señora!” a chorus of voices hollered from outside our property hedge. “Open the gate!” “Just wait,” I called back. “It’s not three o’clock yet.” Disgruntled murmurings sounded from the other side of the hedge. I turned to my wailing baby. Sinking into the rocker to feed her, I closed my eyes to relish each quiet moment before the coming…
The Day God Started a Tractor
This summer my family moved from our old home to a new home closer to our church. As usually happens, not everything got taken along. So, it was, that our tractor was left behind while we took the other, more important household items like the toys, books, and furniture with us. After we had moved into our new home and taken a week or two to get settled in, we began…
Meeting the Emotional Needs of Our Family
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. -Proverbs 22:6 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. -Hebrews 4:15 Sally stuffs her hands deeper into her sweater pockets as she kicks a stone ahead of her on the…
Genuine Relationships
“I wish I could ask other sisters at church advice on things I face with my teenage girls. But I’m scared to open my heart to the sisters here anymore; it doesn’t feel safe…” Veronica’s voice trailed off wistfully. *************************************************************** Washing and cooking for a dozen relief workers was strenuous work for Edna. And now…
Developing a Biblical Value System
Used by permission -see end of article Just a few miles from our home is a large junkyard. It’s out close to the road, and as I drive into town I cannot help but ponder the sight. Junkyards tend to be eyesores. People don’t like to look at them, so usually the local government requires a privacy fence to help the appearance of the neighborhood. Something about the chaos…
Dear Older Sister
But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine: That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to…
Swift to Hear; Slow to Speak
As we think about this subject, what comes to mind about your own life? For myself, as I look back to my teenage years, and even my twenties, I see the lack of this principle – the principle of being “swift to hear and slow to speak.” Now, nearly two decades later, I can see many times when my parents told me something, that I usually had something to say back. I was not…
Inspirations in Cooking
Gleanings from an inspirational sister’s meeting Thou preparest a table before me… Psalm 23:5 O taste and see that the Lord is good… Psalm 34:8 Eating is such a basic thing. God made food and created us with a need to eat. Like my husband says, God could have made us with a hatch to simply open up and dump in the food! Less than five minutes…
Children of the World
But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven. -Matthew 19:14 But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. -Mark 10:14 But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer little…
