One Sunday morning, a hard-boiled egg walked into a small Baptist church. It was cleverly disguised to look like a girl in a flowered dress with long, reddish-brown hair, and no one suspected the truth, least of all the egg itself. I know, for I was the egg. Oh, I looked so perfect on the…
Archive | May, 2009
So you’re graduating!
by Betsy Castleberry The grass has turned green, tulips and daffodils are blooming, and the class of 2009 is graduating! My brother is among the graduate pictures on our refrigerator this year. It’s an exciting time, as you close a chapter and turn a new page, wondering what the next season of life will hold….
Why I love Elizabeth Goudge
“It’s not just a question of love. It’s a question of life. There is a certain kind of love that is not only an incident in life but life itself, because it links you up with every kind of life that endures. In loving Ian, I don’t love only a man, I love the work…
The Moment of Remembrance
It’s more than a holiday. It’s more than a day for picnics and parties, for days at the beach. It is more than barbecues. It is a day to remember, and to honor those who have given their lives for their country. It is a day to realize and to understand the cost of war,…
Invisible Made Visible
It’s been years since I’ve read The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, but several snippets of the story remain deeply imprinted on my mind. Especially the long, desolate hallway in the magician’s house: the gauntlet Lucy had to run, in order to rescue those silly Dufflepuds from their inconvenient invisibility. Of course she could imagine…
If You Would Not Be Forgotten
It was my second trip to Colonial Williamsburg, and I felt as if I couldn’t soak in enough. I love the place, everything about it, but most of all, it is the History I love. It would take a life time to see it all, and the rolling farmland so full of history captured my…
Happiness At Home
I wrote this some three years ago, then a girl just out of her teens, not knowing when or if I should ever marry. But God has indeed brought that ‘perfect time’ into my life, and it has been the most beautiful thing ever, and I am thankful for the opportunity to put into practice…
Eloise Wilkin
Eloise Wilkin has always been my favorite children’s book illustrator. In fact, she’s probably my very favorite illustrator ever (excepting my husband’s drawings of classic cars and my daughter’s “pictures,” of course!). I grew up with my parents reading me the Golden Sturdy Shape Book versions of My Good Morning Book and My Good Night…
Links, values, and a thank you
If you’ve been clicking around on ylcf.org much lately, you’ve probably noticed that things are continually changing. I think I finally have all of our pages switched over to the new look (except for “the archives”-of the YLCF Journal and New Attitude-and they’re going to stay that way!). Despite the laborious copying and pasting and…
Of Wives and Mothers
“Too many women jump to some rather unfortunate conclusions when it comes to the concept of homemaking. They seem to associate it solely with child-raising, forgetting that in his divine order the Lord calls us to be wives before He calls us to be mothers. It is a wonderful thing to encourage women to be…
