In many ways, it feels like each of us are writing to “the girls we used to be.”
But we don’t want to be always looking back.
And that means getting to know you better—who you are now, not who we were at your age.
Gretchen
A random redhead who loves the Lord, her farmer husband, their curly-haired little ones, reading, writing, pictures, and chocolate.
The Money Saving Mom’s Budget (review & giveaway)
Whenever a program comes on the radio with money saving tips, we listen up — mostly out of curiosity. And at the end of the program, my husband and I compare notes, the result almost always being the same: we’re already following every money saving tip they listed…
home for the holidays
I’m looking forward to getting home, my husband sighed as he stretched in the driver’s seat.
I couldn’t help but agree with a tired but happy, “Me, too.”
We’d just been to visit my family. Back to where I used to call home.
But I’d noticed it even more than usual this time…
the one who says something random
In recent years, it’s been a few local “older women” who have reminded me that it’s okay not to do it all. It’s the ladies at my church who don’t know or care about my status online or even how clean my home is, but how happy my children are. It’s the online friends who have become real life friends that let me learn lessons along with them and speak courage into me when I don’t have it on my own.
second annual Post Card Exchange {and giveaway!}
We look forward to it every year. The exchange of Christmas cards and pictures. A time to catch up with family and friends. To find out how each one is growing and learning and changing. Hearing the highlights of their year.
And now we’ve adopted the same tradition, be it in virtual style, here at YLCF each year.
A Peek Into Your Passion with a Purpose (link-up)
The posts here at YLCF this month have shown a beautiful diversity of doing — and not only doing it well, but doing it with a purpose!
This month’s posts were just the beginning, though, to get you thinking about your passion, your purpose. Because now, it’s your turn…
When I write . . .
When I was in second grade, my mom would never have guessed that I’d grow up to be a writer. I cried more tears over my second grade A Beka Language Arts book than any other schoolbook except Saxon Math. Drawing lines and putting parts of sentences above, below, and beside was supposed to help…
A Peek Into Your Passion with a Purpose!
Each autumn at YLCF, we take a peek into each other’s lives. This year we want to know what your passion is. But we don’t just want to know the ins and outs of your favorite hobby—but the purpose for which you know God gave it to you.
From the Editor’s Heart
When I was a little girl, I was afraid of the dark. I always had to have a night light in my bedroom. My young siblings are the same way, calling out every night, “Leave the hall light on and my door open!” Last fall I began reading Stormie Omartian’s book Just Enough Light for the Step I’m On, and I realized that I’m still afraid of the dark—but in a different way. I’m afraid when I can’t see ahead in my life…
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.
