It was the summer before I turned 13. The summer before I met Merritt. The summer my world changed from that of a little girl to a teenager. It was the summer I read His Perfect Faithfulness by Eric and Leslie Ludy.
All I knew about dating was what I observed from afar in the church [...]
by Anna of Hope Road Blog
The concept of “giving you heart away” is one that I have been familiar with since high school, and I have gone from embracing it wholeheartedly to questioning it. The idea is that with each dating/courting relationship, and even each crush, that you allow [...]
I first heard of Rebecca St. James from a homeschooled girlfriend half my lifetime ago. Soon after that Rebecca came to give a concert at our church. Several of the youth spent the better part of a day with Rebecca’s family setting up, helping out, and enjoying seeing a homeschooling family of nine who do [...]
I love that Jesus taught in stories. That has always given a lift to my writer’s heart, has always made the effort of putting pen to paper seem so worthwhile. In His parables He comprehended the fact that we are a story-loving lot, that tales of the just and the unjust are a universal language [...]
an excerpt from “The Magic Garden” by Gene Stratton Porter
So Amaryllis went home, and for several more years she went straight ahead studying her own lessons, keeping her father’s house, being the very light of her father’s eyes.Those were years when Amaryllis really grew. She was getting to be a woman now, very close to [...]
