I am not the deepest shade of green on the block when it comes to conservation and the “green living”….but I believe that God created this earth with all of the beauty and resources for us. It is a gift, and just as we guard our health, and because we want to guard our health, I think that each one of us would do well to take a look at what we can do in our own homes to be wise stewards, to waste less and to use wisely.
Archive | May, 2011
The curse of politeness
After personal experience and much thought about some of the things the Lord has been teaching me lately, I’ve come to a conclusion: politeness is a great destroyer of true fellowship and close friendships.
That may seem like a ridiculous thing to say…I mean, aren’t we supposed to be polite to each other?! Well, actually, according to the Bible, we are supposed to love each other. Jesus tells us that by this the world will know that we follow Him…”By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.” (John 13:35). And before anyone argues that being polite to each other is loving each other…it’s not. According to my trusty Oxford Desk Dictionary and Thesaurus, “polite” is defined as “having good manners, courteous…cultivated, cultured…refined, elegant”. Those are all nice things, but loving someone goes much deeper than just being courteous to them.
There
It was simply titled “There”, but it was one of the most powerful sermons I’d heard. The piece of paper on which I jotted the notes and main points is limp now, for each of the years that have passed since I first heard the sermon have proved to make the message it contained more…
Cinderella
Perhaps you would have laughed, peering into my kitchen last Friday afternoon. There was the pot of soup simmering on the stove, the challah rising forgotten in a bowl, the mop bucket, the grubby floor…
and the pealing bells and pomp of a royal wedding playing out live, just on the other side of the sea.
Singing psalms
For a long time I was very disillusioned with the contemporary Christian music scene. When I was younger, there were certain artists who I was big fans of and collected their CDs, but in the last ten years, I’ve been very unimpressed. It seems that so many of the songs sound the same, and in general, the lyrics are rather weak and trite. Granted, there definitely are exceptions to this, but even among the exceptions, I couldn’t find any artists that I just loved. That is, until several summers ago…
My Ebenezer
It is a simple, hard backed journal of greens with the words “each day has a miracle inside of it” printed on the front. It is getting worn on the edges, but its pages are filled with page after page of my life. Its a record of God’s faithfulness in my life, of the way that He has led, and a map of the road I traveled from there to here. It’s my Ebenezer…
Limited Money
Let me start with a disclaimer: I’m not an expert when it comes to saving money. I don’t really do couponing yet. Most of my tips won’t be anything new! But for those of you who are interested, here are some ideas that have been helpful to me. Bargain or Not? If I don’t need…
this Mother’s Day…
This Mother’s Day, two of us here on the YLCF team are celebrating even more than usual, with the arrival of new little ones in our homes!
Yet, this Mother’s Day, as I hold my newborn son close, my heart aches for the other mothers that come to mind…
[lots of links--a bouquet of encouragement for moms]
