How being sheltered improves your socialization

Wow, I am really sorry guys. Yesterday was a pretty tough day for me, and I completely forgot about my poor blog. So I hope you’ll forgive me and read this, even though it’s a day late. I remember about three and half years or so ago, I was riding in a car with Bro. [...]

Why Do I Want to be a Mom at Home?

* chuckles * Ahem. Well, I don’t want to be a mom at home. But several of my friends do, and one of them gladly offered to write a guest post about it for me. Wasn’t that nice of her? Yes, it was. Anyways, without further ado and preliminary pontification, here is Kaitlyn’s post. In [...]

Abdication

    AB’DICATE, v.t. [L. abdica; ab and dico, to dedicate, to bestow, but the literal primary sense of dico is to send or thrust.] 1. In a general sense, to relinquish, renounce, or abandon. 2. To abandon an office or trust, without a formal resignation to those who conferred it, or without their consent; [...]

A Review of Stephen Lawhead’s Skin Map

    When I got The Skin Map from Booksneeze (at no charge, no obligations, very awesome), I really had no idea what to expect. I had already read a few of Stephen Lawhead‘s books, and I knew that he had a diverse range of style. So I dug in with no preconceived notions about [...]

Oh No! A Disagreement!

Laugh. That comic is funny, but it is also very true. How many times do we get bent out of shape, and spend precious moments of our time (and every moment is precious), trying to convince someone just because they are wrong? Think about it: there are over six and a half billion people on [...]

Rebellion and You

Image via Wikipedia What is rebellion? First, why do we care? That question is easily dealt with: 1 Samuel 15:23 For rebellion [is as] the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness [is as] iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from [being] king. Proverbs 17:11 An [...]

My New Mascot

Greetings all! We just got a really nice package from some really nice friends of ours in the States (the Manns). One of the items in it was to me, from 5-year-old Matthew. It was a nice little bear (he sent me a few other things too, very nice). I am 20. A professional web [...]

I Am In Love!

I like to put riddles in my statuses, and yesterday was no exception. I posted a short, 42 character message to twitter, buzz, and facebook, and sparked an explosion of responses like none other. The status was this: “I have a girlfriend; I am in love; she is perfect.” Some who knew me very well [...]

A Call to Arms!

About three years ago, I went to a boy’s home in Tennessee, called the Shenandoah Ranch Academy. It was for struggling teens (oftentimes runaways, addicts, or worse). I needed it. The nine months I spent at the Ranch contained some of the hardest months of my life. They also contained some of the best. Several [...]

Yippeee!! Oh, Sorry. (Mature Look)

Our family loves parties. We really do. We have tons of traditions that make each holiday and event special. Our Christmas is spread out from St. Nicholas Day on December 6th to Epiphany on January 6th, with many fun events in between (not the least being our traditional daily hunt for Joseph and Mary on [...]