Come Enter the Mother’s Day Basket Giveaway!

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“All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother.” – Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) To bless a mom somewhere out there, several bloggers have put together a Blessing Basket just for the fun of it. It started out kind of smallish – and grew somewhat largish, don’t you think? Check [...]

Gems in the Web 5/3/13

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The walks and the ongoing discussions by C.S. Lewis and his friends were instrumental in making him the man that he was and that we honor today.  His thinking and his conversion were not developed in isolation but were cultivated in the warmness of lively conversation. Part of the greatness of C.S. Lewis is found [...]

Want to be Mentored? Here’s How!

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By Natalie, Editress of Visionary Womanhood I read a great article last week called How to Be Mentored without a Mentor. I don’t want to repeat too much of what Jodi wrote, so I encourage you to go over and read it. I do want to say that I have often given women the same [...]

Introducing our May Topic: Relationships

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God created us to be in relationship with Himself and in relationship with other human beings. It is part of how we are hard wired. Since the fall of the human race into sin, the enemy has taken what was meant to be beautiful and fulfilling and turned it into plain old hard work. Hey, [...]

How Does Your Garden Grow?

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By Contributing Writer, Yvonne Harink It’s been a long winter for us here in northern Alberta. After more than 6 months of a snow-covered world, we are eagerly watching the soil reappear and thoughts of gardening are sprouting up in our minds. Every year I am a little more excited about getting a chance to turn our little patch [...]

The “Pinch Me, I’m Dreaming” Homemaking Package of a Lifetime {With a Bonus Just for VW Readers!}

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{UPDATE: THE ULTIMATE HOMEMAKING EBOOK SALE IS NOW OVER!} Three HUGE Benefits for Your Life! Benefit One: A Comprehensive Homemaking Library For 6 days only, more than 75 well-known bloggers and authors in the homemaking sphere have joined together to offer 97 of their most popular eBooks and eCourses, valued at just over $600, for [...]

Practical Practices – A Ministry Mindset

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© rnl – Fotolia.com By Contributing Writer, Stephani This past school year I led discipleship courses for young ladies at a local homeschool academy. A recent assignment required each student to submit a personal question they wanted to discuss during an upcoming class period. One fourteen-year-old girl submitted this question: What are some practical things [...]

Building a Bird Garden with Your Children

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By Contributing Writer, Molly Evert The Vision Two of our sons have been avid bird watchers since they were little boys.  Their favorite place to watch birds was the woods beside our home.  When a building contractor destroyed those woods to make room for a new house, the boys were devastated! They devised a plan [...]

Mother’s Day is Only One of 97 Reasons to Watch this Video

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{If you can’t see this video in your email box, you’ll need to click through to the blog to watch it.} Pinch Me Please… That’s how I felt as I looked through my own Ultimate Homemaking eBook bundle last week. (Wondering how I got one early? Because The Best of Visionary Womanhood is included!) I [...]

Organizing Our Week Around the Lord’s Day

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By Contributing Writer, Jeannette Paulson On a Lord’s Day while in Burma a pastor put a note on his motel room door with instructions not to clean his room. When the cleaning lady asked why, he told her that he serves the God that gives one day of rest in seven.  She was amazed and [...]