Beauty for Ashes

Have you ever seen a spruce tree with white flowers??? Thankfully, this single tree (other than some deer that were lost) is one of the only things on the farm that suffered long-term damage from the “long winter”. We didn’t weed-whack around it for a while and the Lord “made it beautiful in His time”. […]

An Unexpected Blessing

One day the phone rang. It was Aunt Judy calling all the way from eastern Pennsylvania. She had found an art store that was going out of business there and giving away their extra matt board. Knowing that we were starting an art business, she wondered if we could take it. Of course we were […]

40 Days

Forty days of prayer for our nation will begin today, September 1. Consider seeking the Lord whole-heartedly: praying, asking Him for a Scripture verse that would address America’s situation, and, most of all, looking for what the Lord would have you do to be a part its revitalization. Proverbs 1 or Psalms 1 would be […]

Minnesota Retreat!

Earlier this month I joined the Christiansen’s, Gomezes and Julie for a relaxing staff retreat in the beautiful countryside of MN. I’d never been there before and enjoyed my stay immensely! We had a grand celebration for Norm and Marlys’s 40th wedding anniversary, went hiking at national parks, boated down the St. Croix river that […]

Pic of the Month: August ‘10

Indiana Countryside

Self-Government

It has been a long time now since I posted, asking the question about Adams’ alleged quoted saying that the Revolutionary War combined the principles of government and the principles of Christianity. Denise, by way of leaving a comment, answered very well. Now how can we apply the relation of religion and government to what […]

Just Released: “The $100,000 Word”!

I did not want to write the book. When would I have the time? What would I write about? How would we get it published? We had never done anything of the sort before, and I honestly had a hard time catching the vision. I had always kind of dreamed about being an author some […]

25 Years of Homeschooling

Dad was really blessed to share the following testimony at the ATI Regional Conference in Indianapolis. God has been so good to us through 25 years of homeschooling! Here is a link to the video: http://familysupportlink.org/2010/08/18/video-lessons-learned-from-25-years-in-atidon-staddon/ Another post you might enjoy on the ATI Family Support Link Live! is Daniel’s testimony from the Bible Bee!

Virginia FEW Conference, 2010: Growing in Christlikeness

“And Zerah the Ethiopian came out against them with an army of a thousand thousands, and three hundred chariots. And Asa went out before him, and . . . called to Jehovah his God, and said, ‘O Jehovah, it is nothing to You to help between the mighty and him with no […]

A Place of Grand Reunions!

Saturday I flew into MN to meet up with our In The Gap team for a staff retreat! At the airport I enjoyed observing many grand reunions of those who had had a long day of travel. Suddenly faces lit up from across the room as people ran to greet their loved ones with a […]