A couple days ago, I came across this wonderful quote at the Serven Clan's blog...it's from the book Knowing God by J.I. Packer (which I still have yet to read)...

"God's love is stern, for it expresses holiness in the lover and seeks holiness for the beloved. Scripture does not allow us to suppose that because God is love we may look to Him to ( Read more... )

Recently I've found it very easy to become discouraged.  My life is not very exciting or eventful, I'm very lonely...these "trials" make it hard for me to find joy in the Lord and delight in the fact that I AM where He wants me to be...and His plan is perfect.   A couple days ago, I was having a particularly hard morning and remembered something I ( Read more... )

A couple different times I've mentioned "my stack"...a stack of books that, back around the middle February, I (foolishly!) promised myself I'd finish reading before I'd let myself buy any more new books...no matter how good of a price they were on the Amazon Marketplace (the independent sellers)!   It took me MUCH longer than I had thought it ( Read more... )

Last Saturday, I wrote about my experiences shopping as an average atypical girl.   I was on a search for some summer shirts and didn't find much...but my frustration was placated by a burrito at Chipotles.  Well, that shirt search continued today, but this time my shopping experience started, instead of ending, with a burrito... a free one, at that ( Read more... )

Well, no one ever saw it coming...but I am now an official, card-carrying (i.e. having) member of the Florida Parent-Educators Association (FPEA).  I never knew it could be this easy to be a "parent-educator"...in my case, you don't even have to have kids...it's amazing!

Okay, well, before any of you start wondering if, in the last couple days, I ( Read more... )

Well, to give you all something to read over the weekend, here are two good articles that I read today...

"Like To Watch" - Examines the subtle, yet serious, problems found in the lack of Biblical discernment in regards to various media.

"Getting To Marriage: What You Can Do" - A review of the book (that I REALLY want to read!), Getting Serious About ( Read more... )

My best friend just shared the following quote with me...she came across it on the the Boundless homepage (but it may be gone from there now...they change the quote every so often!).

"Heaven is not here, it's there.  If we were given all we wanted here, our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next." ~Elisabeth Elliot

While reading ( Read more... )

"It is always safe to dream of spring.  For it is sure to come; and if it be not just as we have pictured it, it will be infinitely sweeter."
~L.M. Montgomery in The Story Girl

"But as it is written: 'Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.'" ~1 Cor. 2:9

I've always loved the following part of Anne of Avonlea...found on the last page...when she's in a garden with Gilbert.  Don't you just happily sigh after reading something written by L.M. Montgomery....?

"For a moment, Anne's heart fluttered queerly and for the first time her eyes faltered under Gilbert's gaze and a rosy flush stained the paleness ( Read more... )

I've lately been reading a wonderful book by Elisabeth Elliot (I've yet to read a book by her that's not wonderful!) called The Shaping of a Christian Family...and came across some great quotes...they're not quotes FROM the author (those would be too hard to choose...too many great ones to choose from!), but are quotes from others with which ( Read more... )