So we know we’re supposed to Start Here and “do hard things right where we are.” But want to know more about Do(ing) Hard Things? Counterculture. Rising above the norm. It started as a teenage rebellion against low expectations.  And now there are thousands of teens being “rebelutionaries” who do hard things. In the spirit…

by Jessica Elisabeth Start Here: Doing Hard Things Right Where You Are was an especially helpful book for me. As a fourteen-year-old student whose days are filled with school, music lessons, and only-daughter-at-home duties, this book encouraged me that doing hard things includes everyday tasks. Alex and Brett Harris shared many stories of real-life rebelutionaries…

I thought it would be just another great book for teenagers by those Harris boys.  I planned to read it and review it.  Just like I read and reviewed Do Hard Things. But it wouldn’t really apply to me, of course. I read Start Here: Doing Hard Things Right Where You Are. And I was…

A room without books is like a body without a soul. -Cicero Click the images for captions and close-up views of the bookshelves of the YLCF Team Members (those who aren’t in the midst of cross-country moves and beginning deployment, that is!).  And start taking pictures of your own books: we’re having a bookshelf photo…

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. -Henry Ward Beecher They are piled artfully on the desk. They mount to the lampshade on the bedside table. They wobble in stacks as precarious as a loose boulder jutting over a snowy mountainscape. Oh, yes. And they…

During my teenage years, three brothers were born into my family: three delightful, exasperating, energetic little people who needed a lot of chasing, feeding, and lulling to sleep. As the oldest sister, I got to be part of that process. One of my favorite jobs was reading bedtime stories – as long as I got…

As a single young woman, one of the things God has laid on my heart is to reach out to younger girls who want to grow spiritually. God has opened doors in amazing ways, and over the last couple of years I’ve been in a position to really invest in the lives of several teenage…

In the evening hours of the past few months I’ve been transported to a faraway island: my husband has been reading aloud Daniel DeFoe’s Robinson Crusoe.  You’re probably familiar with the story: Crusoe is the lone survivor of a shipwreck.  He manages to survive with the fruit of the island upon which he lands, and…