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A Whole Different Level of Friendship
“Friends are the people you let in to see the mess of your life.. and love you anyway.” That statement (or one similar) has been rolling around in my head a lot, lately. I’m not sure if I heard it...
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For God will provide all of your needs… and He will give you the desires of...
I’m an emotional wreck right now. For months, God has been doing some amazing things in our lives that have left me in awe. Over the past year, we have been dealing with some financial situations in...
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The Presence of God
My mother-in-law, Elaine, left today, to go back home after having taken care of me and the kids for the past week while waiting on our new baby (details on that coming soon, I promise!) It’s always...
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Learning Love by Practicing Bach
Last night, my oldest daughter got to play in her first solo book recital (book one), performing all of the songs she has learned, so far, with the exception of a few pieces she’s working on from book...
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The Myth of Natural Talent (part one)
I mentioned yesterday that I’ve been researching what it would take to help my two oldest children reach their goals of becoming professional musicians.* To be honest, I wasn’t sure whether it could...
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The Myth of Natural Talent (part two) – Deliberate Practice
I mentioned yesterday that one of the things studies have found that differentiate those who are great at something vs. those who are merely “good enough” is deliberate practice. Scientific research...
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Why we don’t Celebrate Christmas
One of the questions I inevitably get asked around this time of year is why don’t we celebrate Christmas. Once upon a time, I had a lot of very elaborate reasons for not celebrating Christmas. As time...
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The Myth of Natural Talent (part three) – How failure leads to success
I’ve just finished reading two books that I’m pretty certain are going to change my life. In my continued research on achievement and deliberate practice, I’ve discovered more than I ever expected to...
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The Myth of Natural Talent (and ability, and intelligence, and personality,...
. Why can praising intelligence actually jeopardize a child’s success? Why are positive labels (“you’re so smart! you’re so talented!”) dangerous? Last week, I wrote about a neurological substance...
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Five Little Goats…
*UPDATE* For more information about our Nigerian Dwarf Goats, Dorking chickens, pastured eggs and poultry for sale in and around Bowling Green KY, visit our website: Faithful With Little Farm. . One of...
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Provision (Faithful with Little Farm, part 6)
Ask, and you shall receive … you have not, because you ask not. - Mat 7:7, James 4:3 . We don’t have the money for a farm. Period. It’s just not there. Maintenance alone on our animals – food, water,...
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Last update on Mocha
“I purposed that if I prayed for a thousand and no one got healed, that I would pray for another thousand.” - Todd Bentley This morning the vet called and recommended that we put Mocha down. She’s no...
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What I Want
I went digging through some old articles tonight and came across this one, from the blog Kisses from Katie, written by a woman who left her home in Tennessee when she was just 18 years old to travel to...
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I was going to title this post “big changes on our little farm” until I...
I’ve written before about the fact that we can’t afford our little farm. When we sit down and work out our budget, there just isn’t extra money from Jon’s paycheck for all the things we need. There...
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Welfare is NOT based on Christian values
I saw this posted on facebook the other day and it really flew all over me. Welfare is based on Christian values? Really? Being forced to provide for the needs of others is love? Stealing (yes, I...
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Addendum to “Welfare not based on Christian values”
When I wrote the post yesterday about welfare and other government programs, it was a pretty off-the-cuff emotional vent about some things I’ve been thinking a lot about lately and it occurred to me...
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Complaining about the very thing I asked God for
Today a friend and I went to visit a Jersey dairy a few hours away from us. When I spoke with the farmer over the phone (on three different occasions,) he assured me that he’d have five or six cows...
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Public/Private vs. Alternative Ed & Homeschooling… my thoughts and experiences
I watched a short documentary tonight about the high school I would have attended had we not moved just before my 8th grade year, Hume-Fogg Academy. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about my school...
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Saying what we should not
They learn to be idlers, going about from house to house, and not only idlers, but also gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not. So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage...
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Saying (doing) what we SHOULD
It didn’t take me long to realize that in all the venting I did in Thursday’s blog post, I spent a lot of time talking about what shouldn’t be done, as opposed to what should be. That really isn’t the...
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