Seeing Life From the Highest Vantage Point
By Contributing Writer, Kim Doebler While thinking back over the many lessons I’ve learned to create a smoother running home, I realized three of my top tips have come from the mouth of my husband. Perhaps I remember them so well because I balked at the idea of each of them. Although I balked at [...]
By Contributing Writer, Kim Doebler I have often struggled with the exercise craze that seems to have overtaken our country. It seems so consuming for many, even like an addiction. Then I look around me at the super market and I see the other side of the coin. There is so much obesity and so [...]
By Contributing Writer, Kim Doebler It was a nice Christmas gathering, until…..a young mom shared that her family celebrates Christmas with Santa. The opinions started flying. Some showed concern and offered solutions. Others were just interested in presenting how evil Santa is. Later, an older woman that had been in attendance called me. She was [...]
By Contributing Writer, Kim Doebler A few weeks ago I was helping my daughter with science. While quizzing her on the vocabulary words, we came to the word cohesion. Cohesion is: “the phenomena that occurs when individual molecules are so attracted to each other that they tend to stay together, even when exposed to tension.” [...]
By Contributing Writer, Kim Doebler Some people view quiet times as legalism. Our family has experienced them as a tool God has used to draw us near to Him. What is a quiet time? How often do we need to do it? Why do we do it? And are there “rules” to follow for having [...]
By Contributing Writer, Kim Doebler Preparing children for adulthood is something we start early at our house. We tell ourselves from the beginning that we are raising adults and not children, so our eyes are always looking ahead. Obviously we do not require of a toddler what we would require of a preteen, yet the [...]
By Contributing Writer, Kim Doebler It was out of a desire to raise children with godly character that we initially considered homeschooling. During the first several years of our marriage we were busy observing other families. Whenever we noticed a family that modeled what we hoped for our family, we would introduce ourselves and try [...]
By Contributing Writer, Kim Doebler My husband and son are going fishing in Canada for a week. Todd has prepared the perfect devotional for a father/son fishing adventure. It is also a great illustration of the importance of us being salt and light in this world. Even if you have very little interest in fishing, [...]
By Contributing Writer, Kim Doebler In a few months our home will be “teen full”. Our children will range in age from thirteen to eighteen. We enter one season while another one ends. We all recognize that there are seasons to our lives, but do we see the value in each one as we experience [...]
By Contributing Writer, Kim Doebler “When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.” Billy Graham Bad company corrupts good character. I Corinthians 15: 33 We talk to our children about their friends. Thy may be initially attracted to someone because that [...]
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