I am a danger to the United States and the free world…

According to Jordan Sekulow, anyway. Any leader who is too scared to proclaim American exceptionalism or who rejects it outright poses a danger to the United States and the free world. Okay, maybe not, since I’m not a ‘leader’, just a tired housewife blogging somewhere in flyover country. I remember a debate from a few [...]

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Greatest Lesson of Life at Home

Parents, what do you want? Written by Amy Henry July 22, 11:26 AM Somewhere between the Roseanne Barrs and Martha Stewarts of mothering has to be a resting place. It is here I want to be, to spend my days focusing not on what best massages my maternal ego, but on what matters: Giving grace [...]

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One Thousand Gifts

faith tracy austin alexandra (princess) aislin (flower child) muddy acres – charlotte mason mecca music psalms the color purple mobile phones home school dark chocolate mt. olivet friends Sonlight piano lucy, gracie, goose, veronica, socks, sophie, angel, jasmine, fred, georgie, roxy, sugar, augustus, and however many chickens call this place home today bird feeders my [...]

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God is NOT the author of fear!

God is NOT the author fear! Satan is. Satan and (today) the Republican party. For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. 2 Timothy 1:7 Did you guess that I was talking about the health care reform bill passed by Congress yesterday? [...]

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Boycott Glen Beck? You bet!

Christians Urged to Boycott Glenn Beck by Laurie Goodstein Father Martin wrote on the Huffington Post: “It is not enough simply to help the poor, one must address the structures that keep them that way. Standing up for the rights of the poor is not being a Nazi, it’s being Christian. And Communist, as Mr. [...]

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What to do with Haiti’s orphans?

Aid groups urge halt to new Haiti adoptions Is it worse to be separated from family than to die in a country that doesn’t have the resources to feed and care for abandoned and lost children? I really don’t know which answer is right. But my mother heart tells me I would rather my children [...]

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Christians and Political Caricature

I’ve been meaning to post this since early September.  My friend Kristi posted this on a message board we both belong to and her message deeply resonated with me.  Actually, many of her words deeply resonate with me but these words are so close to my heart that I feel the need to share them [...]

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Is there a ‘cure’?

The Hidden Inner Life of Existential Depression Today, I try to avoid the news because it is a potential trigger. I realize almost everyone feels bad for victims of violence and disaster, and I’m not saying that I feel worse than anyone else. I’m just saying that I have repeated this cycle since I was [...]

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Misplaced Faith

Is faith in “intelligence” at the root of our current economic problems?  Is meritocracy killing America? Jeremy Beer’s thesis <“Wendell Berry and the Traditionalist Critique of Meritocracy.”>, is that meritocracy, the system in which the smartest people with the highest test scores run things, has given us a ruling class of jet-setting thinkers and talkers [...]

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Praying for Trinity

I’m always embarrassed to admit that I have e-maginary friends.  This is so important I have to share. The 4-yo daughter of a fellow Sonlighter nearly died one week ago today.  God answered his people’s prayers and today she was moved from the PICU to a regular room.  Praise God!  (Trinity’s daddy has been writing [...]

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A Time for Eggs

And eggs.  And more eggs. On Wednesday alone, Flower Child collected *TWENTY-SIX* eggs.  We are NOT used to this.  I am used to supplementing our home-grown eggs with a dozen or two of the icky eggs from Kroger at least once a month. I have no idea what to do with the extra eggs.  We’ve [...]

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