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Four Words for the New Year

 

Four Words for the New Year

I’m not really one to make New Year’s resolutions. On one hand, I have a follow-through problem. I hate to say something out loud and not follow through with it (there’s a shamefully good chance of this) – so I’d rather just avoid setting myself up for failure. On the other hand, I genuinely spend a good portion of my life listening, reading, and thinking about how I could/should/will improve. I am a self-reflector by nature, and I certainly don’t wait until the new year to try and assess all the things I need to change about myself. I’m a work in progress. *Sigh.

But, this year, the new beginning has me thinking. I believe God has placed some words on my heart that I want to carry with me into this year – but not only into 2018 – into my future. I am feeling inspired and hopeful about things that are to come. Not only over the next 12 months but for my life and family in general. VIEW POST

Our Journey to Clean Eating

Our Journey to Clean Eating

Since I quit working outside the home and made it my life’s mission to be a good little housewife and SAHM, I was bombarded with the realization that so much of the “food” I was feeding my family wasn’t actually nutritious. No, I wasn’t trying to be perfect, nor was I driving through McDonald’s or buying Twinkies. But, growing up in the 80s and 90s (the peak of the convenience-food generation), I was just never conditioned to think much about what I was putting into my body. Clean eating wasn’t really on my radar. 

I’m not sure what put me into overdrive, but I discovered Lisa Leake’s 100 Days of Real Food blog and was instantly hooked. I stalked her blog then ordered her cookbooks and could hardly put them down. I pored over the chapters she dedicated to educating her readers on untruths and misconceptions we are led to believe about food. By Lisa’s recommendation, I snagged Michael Pollan’s book, Food Rules, at a Half-Price Books for about six bucks and read it in one sitting. Literally. (It really is a quick and easy read.) I have been on one mission ever since: REAL FOOD ONLY. VIEW POST

Fruits of the Spirit For Kids: Character Training and FREE Printable!

The Fruits of the Spirit for Kids

Character Training for Our Children

Every time I mess up – say something I shouldn’t, think something I shouldn’t, lose my temper, or act just plain ugly – I’m reminded of this verse:

Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.” John 15:4-5

Anything good in me isn’t me at all. Left to my own devices I’m just filthy rags. But, thankfully, God doesn’t intend for us to be left to our own devices. Galatians 5:22-23 gives us the well-known Fruits of the Spirit, the characteristics that will abide in us when we are in Him. I must communicate the importance of the fruits of the spirit for kids, too! VIEW POST

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