Mini Book Review #9: Becoming Elisabeth Elliot, by Ellen Vaughn. A new favorite in my growing collection of biographies. Becoming Elisabeth Elliot presents a much more rounded view of Elisabeth’s early years than we have ever glimpsed—we see her insecurities, the difficulties with others that she covered over rather than gossip about, and her steady, determined drive to “do the…
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MINI BOOK REVIEW #8: Boundaries, By Dr. Henry Cloud & Dr. John Townsend. My short-and-sweet summary of the book everyone seems to be talking about these days! Boundaries is one of those books that I have seen mentioned and recommended by numerous acquaintances and a few close friends. After becoming a friend’s accountability partner after she read the book, I decided…
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My hope is not in essential oils…or Tylenol. My hope is in Christ. We live in an age of quick fixes. Your head hurts? Turn to one person, and he’ll tell you to pop two Tylenol tablets. Turn to another, and she’ll give you the perfect essential oils to rub on yourself and drop into your diffuser. A third person…
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Mini Book Review #7: Mere Motherhood: Morning Times, Nursery Rhymes, and My Journey toward Sanctification, by Cindy Rollins. Mrs. Rollins is known best for her championship of “Morning Time,” a homeschooling practice of reading and memorizing together as a whole family each morning. Mere Motherhood is far more than a how-to of homeschooling, though. It is a humble and funny…
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Why It’s Ok to Be Unappreciated: Playing to an Audience of One We’ve all had days, sometimes years, of feeling that our work goes unnoticed and unappreciated. Whether at work, at home, or in our church, there is behind-the-scenes work always lined up for us. Sometimes, it feels as though no one else knows or cares unless we forget to…
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