“A home without children! It is like a lantern and no candle; a garden and no flowers; a vine and no grapes; a brook and no water gurgling and gushing in its channel … Children are more easily led to be good by examples of loving kindness, and tales of well-doing in […]
“A home without children! It is like a lantern and no candle; a garden and no flowers; a vine and no grapes; a brook and no water gurgling and gushing in its channel … Children are more easily led to be good by examples of loving kindness, and tales of […]
“Take a wood-side spring outing … your children [will] discover the magic of crocus, snowdrop, promise and catkin; you will be charmed that old-fashioned childhood friends are still the best.” ~ Mrs. Sharps’s Traditions With her little furry kitten gripped tightly in her hands, and a basket for collecting pretty flowers, my youngest […]
The morning spring sunlight was streaming through the lace curtains, hung over the kitchen windows. Outside, we could faintly hear the refreshing calls and songs of the many birds who have returned for springtime. Fat robins, calm mourning doves and twitter-pated red-winged blackbirds frittered about on the treetops and lines of fences. My little […]
“If you would get a contended life, do not grasp too much of the world, do not take in more of the business of the world than God calls you to. Do not be greedy in taking in a great deal of the world, for if a man goes among thorns, when he […]
