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"The Sovereign Lord has given me an instructed tongue, to know the word that sustains the weary. He wakens me morning by morning, wakens...

Have you seen those keyrings or magnets with the adage “Teaching is a work of heart”? As I pondered this, I thought that it should...

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I can't shake off the thought that we must step away from life's busyness and find solitude and silence. Everywhere I turn, I hear people lamenting the noise and busyness of life, and maybe I need to keep speaking (and writing) about these ideas. A couple of weeks ago, our little Figs community group discussed a newsletter from S. D. Smith of Green Ember fame. (If you haven't read this series with your kiddos, sign up for his newsletter now, and you'll get a free copy of th

Disclaimer: I have been so concerned to use this title for this blog. In no way do I mean to imply that we shouldn’t have a rigorous...

Girl at a Window by Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again. – Ralph Waldo Emerson The Lenten season is here, and several one-hundred-day projects are happening across the web¹. I will do contemplative reading and notebooking using Laurie Bestvater's Studying to be Quiet: One Hundred Days of Keeping. L

I recently finished reading Modern Miss Mason by Leah Boden, and I was encouraged by the freedom that Leah is giving homeschooling moms across the globe. This post is a narration of part of a chapter Leah wrote called Creating Soul Space, and I have sprinkled it with some of my own thoughts too. Madonna and Child by Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato "Serenity of a Madonna.—There's a reason why the old painters, no matter how different their ideas about other matters m

We should all be wise to assess our habits as we head into a new year,.

Taking part in a reading challenge can be a fun way to meet your reading goals for the year. Our first readalong is The Man Born To Be King.

As the year winds down to a close, let us slow down too as we look to Jesus as the reason for our hope.

Have you had someone tell you yet how many days there are until Christmas? Or have you seen a meme to that effect on social media? I...

When a friend mentioned Holy Hygge¹: Creating a Place for People to Gather and the Gospel to Grow, I rushed to SCRIBD and saved it to my bookshelf. I have savoured it and enjoyed learning about this Danish lifestyle of slow and attentive living. In her chapter titled Well-Being, Jamie Erickson lays out various ways to take care of ourselves and others: to “regain a sense of value for ourselves and for our friends and neighbours” and to follow Jesus’ example to “have life—and