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Psalms 127:3-5 “Children are an heritage of the Lord… Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them.”

I was the youngest of four children so there was never a baby sibling for me to tend. My fam...

Even a laundry room catastrophe can teach a valuable life lesson.

When my oldest son was seventeen, he was assigned to handle the family laundry for an entire week.

Now, with nine people in the hous...

De-clutter your life to recognize the subtle, inspired indicators that lead you to success.

A few years ago, my husband and I took our seven children to a neighboring state for a read-a-thon. On the ...

One morning, my husband and I slept in a bit, because the day before had been so jam-packed with preparations for an event we were conducting.

Still tired, rather than rolling out of bed, we both jus...

A throwback journal entry from 2010:

At about 9 pm there was a knock at my door.

My dog immediately erupted into his deep and threatening 'woofing', so I opened the door to see who would stop by at ...

A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put i...

By James Chase

When I write the story of my life I would like to give it the title - "The Parable of the 2 x 4". In order to understand why let me share with you a story about a farmer and his mule. ...

By Angie Kleven

It had been a long grueling day and promised to be an even longer night. As I looked at the pile of medical records stacked on my desk that had to be transcribed by dawn, I stopped. ...

By Angie Kleven

In the book Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, there is a passage which has, quite literally, changed the way I think. It reads, "The psychologist tell us of a state, in whic...