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.
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 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…
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.
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…
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.
I got it out the week my sister came. The two-inch binder filled with every single print issue of the YLCF Journal, The P31 — and Wonderful Books for Girls, The P.K. News, and Kittie’s Korner. I wanted a sixteen-year-old’s opinion on what was relevant to today’s teenagers. She gave the answers in the combination of sticky notes and laughter as she paged through the notebook…
Two potty accidents, a spilled bowl of oatmeal, no morning naps, and I’m finally stepping into the shower at 11 a.m. I take a deep breath and tell myself, “This is the new one.”
It’s just one of the memorable anecdotal reminders for moms in Rachel Jankovic’s new book Loving the Little Years: Motherhood in the Trenches… She’s a young mom of young kids. She doesn’t pretend to have it all figured out. She doesn’t tell you how to parent. Instead, she challenges other moms as she challenges herself: adjust your attitude, change your perspective.
