For over five years it has been my privilege and my joy to serve on the YLCF team. I have loved getting to know so many of you and seeing how God has refined and matured this community while maintaining the unique identity that makes YLCF what it is…
Lanier
Lanier served YLCF as a beloved part of the writing team from 2006 to 2011. She's writing elsewhere these days, but continues as a precious mentor and encouragement to the YLCF Team.
Quivering Daughters a review and a giveaway
In the midst of the many pitfalls of raising kids in this day and age, there have arisen a lot of well-meaning ideas for parents seeking to guard their children from the dangers, toils and snares waiting for them out there in the world. Leaders have espoused particular lifestyles and standards that hold out the hope of navigating young people safely through the hazards of youth and promising the fruit of mature and godly men and women on the other side. The problem, however, remains the old one that we have had from the beginning: people are not perfect and people make mistakes. No program can save us; no lifestyle can replace the need for the individual workings of God’s grace upon the human soul…
Twelfth Night Post Card
We’ve been engrossed in the mince pie cookies and gingerbread men…not to mention the Christmas snow that frosted our Dixieland!
But I wanted to be sure to wish you the most abundantly blessed of New Years.
Waiting Days
“It was a labor of love,” she told me, coming to my door on a November day and handing me a tissue-wrapped package, wrinkling her nose with a smile. There’s no doubt that it was. A host of paper leaves, hand-tinted in varying hues. Tiny pictures she knew I’d love, dusted with glitter and hidden…
Devoted to Devotions
first published on ylcf.org, August 31, 2006 read original comments here When I was fifteen, I decided that I needed more consistency in my devotions. So, I resolved to spend a certain amount of time in God’s word every single day. And I mean every single. Those of you perfectionists out there can appreciate, perhaps…
Ideals and Expectations, Part Two
first published on ylcf.org, August 4, 2006 read original comments here I would like to begin by making a clear distinction between ideals and expectations. You may remember my mother’s friend who adjured me: “throw your expectations out the window, but keep your ideals sky high”. I think it was only after I crossed from…
Ideals and Expectations, Part One
first published on ylcf.org, August 3, 2006 read original comments here “The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!” ~Marianne Dashwood How many of us sighed at that endearingly-rendered line of Kate Winslet’s in the…
Oldies but Goodies
Unless you’ve been reading YLCF for the past several years, you’ve missed a lot of really fabulous posts that have gone before. And even if you have been around for ages you may not remember some of the gems tucked away in our archives. Ranging from romance to reading, to serious study and downright fun,…
