Signs that Indicate your Nine-Year-Old may be Reading too much Nancy Drew

She thinks someone was in her room and advises you as to how she plans to “apprehend the suspect” (her brother, of course).
She argues with you about the pronunciation of the word “indictment.”
You mention a break-in that occurred at the church last night and she pipes up excitedly, “Were there any signs of forced entry?”

Clean Sweep

We are doing a clean-sweep of the kids’ rooms today.  I’m always amazed at how much junk my kids manage to accumulate.  I’m also amazed that one of my offspring is a pack-rat.  I honestly don’t know where that comes from.  Tim will throw away anything that is not nailed down.  His sentimentality quotient is close [...]

Snippets: Passion

“He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on.  There is no other.”
–C.S. Lewis

More Unusual Rules

I heard a lot of buzz on my original “Unusual Rules” post.  An adult from church who shall remain nameless (Chad), even broke one of the rules by spinning in the chair at the Starbucks by Costco.  Rebel!
Here’s a new list I’ve been accumulating for you:

Fencing with yardsticks is a backyard-only activity.
There will be no [...]

The Retreat Files – An Introduction

re·treat: 1) an act or process of withdrawing especially from what is difficult, dangerous, or disagreeable; 2) a place of privacy or safety; 3) a period of group withdrawal for prayer, meditation, study, or instruction under a director.
I’ve been to a few ladies retreats.  The first definition doesn’t apply so much; well, I suppose if [...]

100 Things

 As is customary in the blogosphere, I present here for your perusal a list of “100 Things” in celebration of my 100th post.  If you enjoy my blog, I would appreciate it if you would send a link to people you know who might also enjoy it.  I will blog whether or not people read, but [...]

Cumbered about Much…

Discouraged, I am.
Simply put, I’m feeling like Martha.  Not Stewart–I gave up on that years ago; I’m talking about the one in Luke 10:38-42.  You know the story: Martha was “cumbered about much serving” while Mary got “the good part”.  I can identify with Martha; I sometimes find myself being none too pleased with the Marys in my world.
I [...]

Search Terms

I’m struggling with the blog of late.  When the kids came back from Washington, one was sick and the other got sick and stayed sick all last week.  I’m also working on a huge writing project, writing a study guide for our church’s ladies retreat this fall.  I came to the realization last week that, [...]

Snippets: The Cross

“Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us.”
–John Stott

My Fundamentalist Education: A Memoir of a Divine Girlhood

I just finished reading My Fundamentalist Education: A Memoir of a Divine Girlhood by Christine Rosen.  Rosen, though she didn’t grow up in a religious family, attended a Christian school affiliated with Moody Bible Institute.  The book describes her experience in the school from kindergarten through junior high.  As an adult, she describes herself as secular, non-religious.  Given [...]