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Even though it is a timeless classic, I never could bring myself to read more than the first chapter or so of Jane Eyre when I was a girl. It was so dark, so bleak, rather oppressive, or so I thought. But last year when my 16-year-old daughter read it, loved it and started watching movie adaptations of it, I was drawn into the story. That was when
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Two are better than one. Because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls. For he has no one to help him up. —Ecclesiastes 4:9,10 During this month of February, a month when we think of hearts, flowers
Perfect family images
I alluded in November to the lost art of letter writing. I do not know about you but we are one of those families that send an end-of-the-year letter to out of town family and friends. OK, I admit that the past two letters were sent closer to Valentine’s Day, but no one seemed to mind. My strategy
My inbox runneth over
Ah, Thanksgiving. A time to appreciate all of our blessings. Truly we live in a country and culture of abundance. In so many areas we have far, far more than what we need or what we can keep organized. The piles in my life are a reminder, a rather mocking one, that I absolutely do not have it all together.
The Creep of Fear
Right now there are some scary things going on—and I do not mean just the decorations we see for Halloween! The Wall street debacle seems to threaten everyone’s financial security. Results of the upcoming election are uncertain and may result in further loss of freedoms. We are at war and
Heart & Book Lessons
As we start another new school year, I am thinking about how I can be better organized, how we might find a schedule that suits everyone’s needs, and how I can focus on important issues rather than issues which demand attention by virtue of their immediacy.