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moreToday’s Mothering Prayer: Why we do what we do…
On Wednesday, January 10 th, 2007“We want to present them to God, perfect in their relationship with Christ.That’s why I work and struggle, so hard,depending on Christ’s mighty power that works within me.” ~Col. 3:28 Lord, the flakes are falling softly here, in the morning quiet. I will work and struggle today… it will be hard.But what will work in me will be grea...
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moreToday’s Mothering Prayer
On Monday, January 08 th, 2007“Look, I have put my words in your mouth!” ~Jeremiah 1:9 They will press in today. It will get loud in here. There will be bickering. Tears. A meltdown or two. Put Your words in my mouth today, Father—what Your heart would express to these little ones. So they may know You, and Your love. “He could if He chose, repair our bodies miraculously without fo...
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Begin Again…
On Thursday, January 04 th, 2007In the beginning… my beginning… I am a four-year-old pressed close to Mama and the worn red book with its frayed spine, hearing her whisper the rhyme’s sing-song line: Poor old Michael Finnegan, begin again…As a child setting out into the big world, I never wanted to be miserable Michael Finnegan, always caught in beginning again. I wanted to get beginning behind me...
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moreGiving
On Wednesday, December 20 th, 2006We are rejoicing this Christmas with you. Most especially in the Advent of our Lord to the hearts of all mankind. Let’s open the door and welcome our Savior in.What shall we give Him?Matthew 25:40 “The King will reply, ‘I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.” For months, we’ve been wor...
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moreOur Song: Abide
On Friday, December 15 th, 2006Father God, Abide with me; fast falls the eventide;And such a day it was. (I woke late… up too long last night, planning and organizing.) So we began, praying and singing, listening and reading over bowls of cereal and orange juice. One of the bowls broke, the glass vase of red dogwood accidently tipped over by a well-meaning child. Another child insisted ...
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moreChild’s Scripture Catechism: Bible Verse Answers
On Wednesday, December 13 th, 2006Our favorite catechism with answers from Scripture, written by H.M. Eaton, 1849… can be purchased from Trivium Pursuit… I will periodically post the Qs and As we are working on memorizing around the farmtable. Q:Who made you?A:The Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground (Genesis 2:7) Q. How are you made?A: I am fearfully and wonderfully...
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moreHome: Filling and Pouring
On Thursday, December 07 th, 2006In the cool early of summer mornings, before the smothering heat of the July day seeps in, I haul a hose around to lavateras and hollyhocks, waking in their beds. Spray nozzle lost once again by curious, wandering children, I walk along with hose, continually filling the old aluminum water can, tilted to offer gentle morning showers to the flowers. I chuckle to...
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moreToday’s Mothering Prayer: Under the Wing
On Friday, December 01 st, 2006Heavenly Father….Thank you for bringing us into a new day…. how today we want to dwell in the shadow of Your wing, to feel Your warmth, Lord… to derive our strength from the essence of You. Today will have trying times… times when our flesh wants to give way…. then pull us close, Lord… remind us of Your presence in these...
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moreOne Question
On Thursday, November 30 th, 2006“Did the life I lived today please you, God? How many things do we check off on our to-do list before we can yes to a question like that? Only one. Have I loved well?… St. John of the Cross once said that, “at the evening of our day we shall be judged by our loving.” As we look back on the day, what we have done is not as important as h...
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moreBlotted Secrets
On Wednesday, November 29 th, 2006“In these pages I tell secrets about…myself because I believe that it is not only more honest but vastly more interesting than to pretend that I have no such secrets to tell. I not only have my secrets, I am my secrets. And you are your secrets. Our secrets are human secrets, and our trusting each other enough to share them has much to do with the secret o...
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moreHome: The Place of Story
On Wednesday, November 22 nd, 2006An old ash-woven basket laundry basket sits by the end of our couch. It once held our newborn babes in sleep, slips of light filtering through the weave in the late afternoon sunlight, warming new skin. Now it holds memories, photo albums stacked carefully end to end. As women long gone once swooped down into the basket for freshly laundered whites, my babies-n...
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moreMorning Gathering: Hymns
On Friday, November 17 th, 2006We sing a hymn at our daily Morning Gathering, the children with old song books in their laps. What saints have once thumbed these old pages? We join them in the heavenly refrain. This book, Then Sings My Soul is our “spine” for our hymn study, as it chronologically orders the hymns, each piece accompanied by a fascinating story of the hymn’s...
