I have a confession to make. It all started several years ago when I began to work on some problem areas in my life. I realized I had made relationships and guys the center of my world… But I made a mistake. I started teaching courtship like it was a Biblical commandment and hedging myself (and others) in with a lot of rules and regulations.
Archive | August, 2011
“What Does God Want My
From My Point Of View:
Home Sweet School:
“What Does God Want My
Husband-To-Be to Be?”
If some day in God’s perfect plan,
He provides just the right man.
What is my husband-to-be to be?
What kind of man is the one for me?
I want him to please God as Abel did,
And to walk with God as Enoch lived…
If I Were a Boy
Though I am not a model girl, I have longed to be a boy just long enough to show other boys how to act. For, having viewed boys from a girl’s standpoint, and having a girl’s idea of a model boy, I think I could make a decided improvement on the conduct of most boys.
First of all, if I were a boy, I would strive with all my might to be a manly boy…
From My Point Of View:
Purity Rings
I don’t have a purity ring (yet), but I wanted to let you know that your “From My Point of View” column has prompted me to get one! My parents and I have been looking for a ring, and I am very excited about it. To me it’s like the signet rings in the Bible: they were given to seal a contract or commitment between the king and another person…
Home Sweet School:
Proverbs 31 Homeschool Moms
Sometimes we just need to take time to do a “reality check” in our homes. We have to remind ourselves, “What does the LORD require of me?” Perfection, in this season of life, in our houses, in our homeschools, and in ourselves, is not going to occur!
Some homeschooling moms have this idealistic vision of a Proverbs 31 homeschooling mother who rises while it is yet early and prepares a large, nutritious hot breakfast for her family, (complete with homemade bread, she never buys “store-bought!”) then has time to devote an hour to the Lord in prayer and Bible Study (whoops! Make that two hours, an hour for each!) and then has the house all sparkling clean by 8:00 to start homeschool!
Wisdom on Waiting from Elisabeth Elliot
When we are waiting on God, which I think every Christian ought to be all the time, we do not have a time schedule in front of us. We don’t know when or whether God is going to answer a particular prayer or do a particular thing or get us out of a certain situation or change any of the conditions of our lives. And sometimes we think of our lives as being on hold.
I don’t think waiting on God is a merely passive thing. And certainly it doesn’t mean that our lives are on hold.
A Teenager’s Version of 1 Corinthians 13
Though I speak with respect and honor, if I don’t have love in it all, I speak vainly.
Although I may hear and understand my parents, and have faith enough that they’ll make the right decisions, if I show no love to them in the rough waters, I am nothing.
And though I lend a helping hand around the house, and give of my time to be of service, if I don’t have love in doing it, it doesn’t benefit me anything…
Around the Tea Table: Procrastination
Have you ever opened your desk drawer and been staggered at the amount of letters you haven’t yet responded to? Perhaps you’ve been horrified by the pile of books on your bookshelf that you are supposed to read. Or perhaps you’ve started half a dozen cross-stitch or sewing projects and left them all less than half finished. Maybe you have promised to write an article for your friend’s newsletter and missed the deadline by several days…
