Posted by Editormum on 10 January 2010 in Uncategorized |
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I’ve been thinking a lot about crosses lately. I daresay that sounds a strange topic of thought — it’s C.S. Lewis’s fault. Between Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters, I’m getting a lot of input about what Jesus meant when He said that each of His followers must “deny himself, take up his cross daily, […]
Tags: challenges, character, Christianity, faith, fear, grace, Jesus, karate, pain, parenting, Philosophy, Religion, True Stories
Posted by Editormum on 7 January 2010 in Uncategorized |
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I had actually intended to post about just the Law of Undulation today, as I have been listening to C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters over the last few days, and his concepts of the Law of Undulation and of humankind as a hybrid, amphibian creature subject to that law have been occupying my thoughts greatly. But […]
Tags: challenges, Christianity, CS Lewis, faith, fear, grace, Narnia, pain, Philosophy, Religion, scars, Screwtape
Posted by Editormum on 5 January 2010 in Uncategorized |
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Several of my good friends have challenged me on my assertion that I don’t pray aloud in public and I don’t witness to people. So maybe I need to explain. Because I am, in fact, under orders. My Lord’s last words on this earth were “Go and teach all nations, baptizing … and teaching them […]
Tags: challenges, Christianity, faith, fear, Religion, True Stories
Posted by Editormum on 4 January 2010 in Uncategorized |
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This post is long overdue, because I couldn’t figure out how to write it without sounding like I’m bragging. And I still haven’t really figured it out. So I’m just going to tell it as it comes out of my brain to my fingers, and ask my readers to believe that I’m really and truly […]
Tags: challenges, character, Christianity, Education, Family Life, fear, honours, karate, Religion, respect, True Stories
Posted by Editormum on 24 December 2009 in Uncategorized |
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So we’ve talked about this special Baby who came into this world, why He came, and the circumstances into which He arrived. But the story doesn’t end with the birth of a boy baby. Oh no. If that were the end of the story — well, it wouldn’t be much of a story. No! A […]
Tags: Christianity, Christmas, faith, holidays, Jesus, Religion, True Stories
Posted by Editormum on 23 December 2009 in Uncategorized |
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I closed yesterday’s post by saying that Christmas is all about the baby in the feedbox. Because that Baby was Someone special. God incarnate, come to tread on the soil of His creation, to rectify the wrongs done by the creatures He’d created, and restore them to fellowship with Him. Do you know that story? […]
Tags: Christianity, Christmas, holidays, Jesus, nativity, Religion, True Stories
Posted by Editormum on 22 December 2009 in Uncategorized |
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It’s Christmas time, and what attention can be pried away from the presents and the parties is focused on a feedbox in the stables of a second-rate hotel in a small farming town in Israel. No, seriously. Did you ever stop to think how the Christmas story told in the Gospels would sound if it […]
Tags: Christianity, Christmas, creche, holidays, Jesus, nativity, Religion, True Stories
Posted by Editormum on 18 December 2009 in Uncategorized |
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For several years, I’ve had a wonderful online friend named Mike. I knew him better by his screen-name, Metochoi, under which he moderated a Yahoo Group called Gothard_Discussion. I found the group shortly after my divorce, and several years after leaving the parachurch organization called The Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP) and its homeschool […]
Tags: ATIA, Christianity, death, eulogy, faith, friends, good works, grace, IBLP, kindness, logic, online relationships, Religion, True Stories, truth
Posted by Editormum on 12 December 2009 in Uncategorized |
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This has been a very tough year for my family, economically speaking. The recession really hit us hard, and we had to cut back really hard to make things work. Why, then, I can hear you asking, did you guys take a ten-day vacation to the beach?! Well, the kids and I talked about it. […]
Tags: Christianity, emotion, faith, Family Life, finances, holidays, prayer, Religion, True Stories
Posted by Editormum on 5 December 2009 in Uncategorized |
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I “butted in” on an overheard conversation the other day, and the thoughts that the topic inspired have been thundering around in my head like a herd of wildebeest, looking for the way out. Note to self: Butting in on overheard conversations is rude and you need to stop it. Even if the conversants are […]
Tags: Christianity, faith, Religion