Category Archives: Around the Home

Wonder & Enthusiasm of Childhood

“Society is giving more and more entertainment to children that is adult planned … it actually robs them of what childhood means. That is spoiling them. I always thought letting children be children to mean ‘preserving their innocence, wonder and enthusiasm’. Yet today, we begin when they are babies to dull that fresh eagerness with […]

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Little Things Mean a Lot

      The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; Song of Solomon 2:12     Has spring truly spring in Ontario? It may or may not be true spring – however, the weather has warmed […]

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A Sunday of Chocolate Cake and Choking Smoke

      It’s a quiet Sunday afternoon and I have just sat down for a well-needed cup of chamomile tea. The wind is howling outside, despite the lovely beautiful sunshine that is filtering through the kitchen window panes. My geraniums are in full bloom, sitting cheerily on the windowsill, their tiny pink blossoms searching […]

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A {tiny} Mission Field

   But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.” Matthew 18:6   “Mommy, when I grow up, I want to be a missionary,” my 11 year […]

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A Politically Incorrect Wife

“… Christian marriage is only possible in Christ. {and} you cannot have a united church without united marriages. It’s for that reason, you see, that marriage really, really matters… because … this is not about us – this is about Christ and the church. So, the question is, do I care enough about Christ and […]

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