Yes, I know. I told you last week that I’d be addressing marriage over the next few weeks. However, I’ve had this topic on my heart the last few days, and with Easter being this Sunday, this seems like the right time to share it. I’ll get back to marriage in my next post.

Usually I don’t like to be asked why God does something. God is so multifaceted and we are so limited in our understanding of Him (Romans 11:33) that I don’t think we can have an idea about all the reasons that God might do any certain thing.
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I don’t know how many people besides me have felt this way, but I was afraid of getting married. I guess it wasn’t getting married that scared me, but it was more making a mistake about whom I chose to marry.

Both of my parents were alcoholics. They finally divorced close to their 30th anniversary, but they’d had problems for many years. I knew I didn’t want a marriage like my parents had, but I had no idea how to do any better.

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Organization Tip #6

Ok, this is the last post on training your children to help around the house, at least for now. But first, let me tell you a little about our philosophy on teenagers.

We saw the teen years as a time to prepare for adulthood. We didn’t adopt the common mantra of our society, “You’re young; have fun!”

All the way through life, God uses the things we have gone through to prepare us for seasons and situations later in our lives. Why should the teen years be any different? Why would we encourage self-centeredness and self-indulgence in that one stage of life, expecting them suddenly to be different when they graduate from high school or college?Continue Reading

Organization Tip #5

I promised in my blog post a couple of weeks ago that I would explain how my room and bathroom got cleaned, since they were not on the weekly cleaning schedule; neither were the kids’ rooms and lots of other things that have to be done to keep a house running smoothly.

The idea is to get the work done without Mom having to do it all, so the key word is delegate, and your children are your team to whom you can delegate much of your work. My husband used to tell our kids that I was sacrificing to homeschool them, so they were going to help me by doing some of my work.Continue Reading