Seeing Life From the Highest Vantage Point
By Contributing Writer, Kelly Crawford Growing a person is hard. As I sit here at the age of 40, hobbling down the home stretch with baby number 10, I can testify. But hard work isn’t the same as a sickness, like many treat pregnancy. In fact, I’ve often heard “too old to have a baby,” [...]
By Contributing Writer, Kelly Crawford I had vented to my husband on his drive home from work. Well, what else was I supposed to do with this onerous child who had me at my wits end? I mean, my husband and I are a team, we have to tackle this thing head on, and he [...]
By Contributing Writer, Kelly Crawford “Remember the principle of gardening: a lot of sweat and tears are required before the reward of harvest. It’s the same with mothering.” A reader sent me an email that is not unlike many that I receive, so I decided to include an excerpt and answer it here in a [...]
By Contributing Writer, Kelly Crawford “If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.” (1 Corinthians 13:1 ESV) Perhaps because it is easier to do something well–to hone a particular gift or practice–that throughout Christendom, humans have been tempted to [...]
By Contributing Writer, Kelly Crawford As I get older, I am more convinced of the importance of good nutrition and health. It is, after all, part of our basic obligation as stewards of the one body we have been given. Furthermore, as women raising and shaping the next generation, we need to be physically [...]
By Contributing Writer, Kelly Crawford Last summer, I found myself in a place no other human could touch. How can a place such as that be so painful and yet so glorious all at once? I was utterly depressed. Not so much an overwhelming sadness, though sadness was involved, but more of a despondency, the [...]
By Contributing Writer, Kelly Crawford Holidays gatherings, potluck dinners, food gifts and crowded calendars plead for us to find simple solutions to the year’s most popular feasting season. I have scoured and searched for some ways we are simplifying the food department this year. Share your secrets too! Food Gifts and Holiday Dishes Look for [...]
By Contributing Writer, Kelly Crawford Most men are not really complicated–we are. But I know I take my husband’s uncomplicated nature for granted. And too often, I default to trying to improve him in one area or another, instead of seeing and building his enormous strengths in so many other places. (Why do we major [...]
By Contributing Writer, Kelly Crawford I sit in the early morning hour, the quietness rare, as all my children still sleep. “Lord, meet me here.” I pray. It feels easy to rest just now. But ours is a busy, bustling household. With nine children, there aren’t many quiet moments in the day. And yet, [...]
By Contributing Writer, Kelly Crawford Perhaps one of the most crippling influences on the grown-up generation of our day was the advent of “the teenager.” Dr. Michael Platt writes: “There were no “teenagers” before World War II…. Instead of Teenagers, there were Youths. Youths were young people who wanted to become adults. However confused, wayward, [...]
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