Shoveling Snow while Snowing
I came across a little two line poem recently that gave a profound thought which could help some exhausted mothers of younger children. It read: Cleaning the house while the …
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Poem- My Hands Were Busy
MY HANDS WERE BUSY My hands were busy through the day. I didn’t have much time to play The little games you asked to do, I didn’t have much time …
Read More Susanna Wesley
Susanna Wesley is perhaps history’s greatest example of a Christian mother. Born in 1669, the youngest of 25 children, Susanna from the earliest days of her life had a desire …
Read More Excessive Toys
A Business Week article said Americans spend over $300 per year on toys. It’s a $21 billion industry. In fact, the article said the trend of giving toys for no …
Read More Childhood’s Expiration Date
Someone made the point that childhood has an expiration date. That’s an articulate way of saying exactly what the Apostle Paul said in the great love chapter, 1 Corinthians 13, …
Read More Character Meals
A bachelor made it his practice to have a special breakfast every Saturday morning by dining on a meal he called “deluxe Italian cheese toast.” He found his warmed over …
Read More Questions for Children
We all know we need to spend time with our children. Nearly every message I’ve ever heard or given myself on “Redeeming the Time” includes that point. But how can …
Read More Myth of Quality Time
In 1949 Popular Mechanics magazine wrote, “Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 ½ tons.” As time passes it becomes obvious that …
Read More Overdelegation
No one else can do what God wants you to do as effectively as you can do it. Redeeming the time means determining exactly what it is God wants us …
Read More Frozen Ground
An Alaskan farmer needed to build a fence and wanted the job done quickly. Each day, as the thawing of the ground permitted, he choped away at the frozen land …
Read More Tools not Toys
Do your children ever waste time? Of course they do! Children by nature are not given to thoughtfully investing time in the things that matter most. For them play, fun …
Read More Spoken Blessings
Did you know air passes through the nose at a speed of 100 miles per hour when a person sneezes? Something else also happens when we sneeze. We often get …
Read More Beginning a Family
A mother sea horse lays her eggs but then it is the father sea horse that carries the eggs in his pouch until they hatch. For some ladies who have …
Read More A Girl Named Diet Coke
Can you believe anyone would actually name their daughter “diet coke?” A couple in Yorkshire England did. But the Coke’s probably weren’t doing it to be cute, since little “Diet” …
Read More “Are we there yet?”
According to a recent USA Today snapshot, 80% of parents surveyed say their children ask “Are we there yet?” or something similar when taking a road trip. 19% of them …
Read More Children as Teachers
As my family and I travel doing seminars we often have the same conversation each night, just with different people. Since we have eight children, the oldest being 12 years …
Read More Maple Syrup
Do you like real maple syrup? Not the flavored corn syrup we call maple syrup, but real syrup that comes from maple trees in Vermont? That delicious real maple syrup …
Read More Floor Coverings
On December 15, 2003 route 11 in Bloomsburg, PA was closed for nearly 6 hours after a tractor-trailer jackknifed, spilling its cargo onto the highway. The clean-up took six hours …
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