So many of our earliest childhood memories involve Christmas time. Every element of the holiday enchants them, the focus of attention on a child in a manger delights them. I remember enacting the Bethlehem story in Sunday school pageants, donning the cardboard angel wings and trying to sing like an angel. The atmosphere was almost… Read More When Children Sing Gloria
The celebration of Christmas with music is an ancient practice, and that this tradition continues is especially remarkable in our time when tolerance of anything old is disdained and eagerness for the new is an obsession. Yet, the traditional Advent song of O Come, O Come Emmanuel has been passed down to us for at least 1,200 years, is heard… Read More O Come, O Come
During the Advent season, we focus on our favorite part of the Story of God, the entry into the world of our hero in the flesh, the birth awaited by all throughout the ages until that night in Bethlehem. Though we know the story well, and how it turns out, we revel all over again in the thrill… Read More Long Expected
I thought of the idea of homeschooling one bleak day in November 34 years ago, then dismissed it as a silly dream. Who ever heard of such a thing, except perhaps pioneers or missionaries too remote to attend a school? Two years later I was startled to learn that my idea was not unique. After that, I began purposefully… Read More Nothing New Under the Sun?
Mothering is an enormously demanding job with innumerable challenges. It is the work that is critical to the way the world goes and the Gospel is spread. Do you get overwhelmed, discouraged, think this mothering and teaching work is difficult–even impossible? Liz recently spoke at the opening session of the Grace to Build Retreat in… Read More New Audio Download Available!