Do you have reluctant writers – or do you keep wondering if you should even bother making time for diary entries yourself?  Personally I love picking out new journals, but often find myself hesitating to sully them with actual writing.  It ends up I rely on my Well-Planned Day Planner to document our daily happenings.  [...]

Posted by: Melonie Kennedy on Thursday, October 13th, 2011 at 9:12 pm

Diligence makes the rough places plain, the difficult easy, and the unsavory tasty.
Richard Greenham
The Works of the Reverend and Faithful Servant Jesus Christ, M. Richard Greenham, Felix Kingston for Robert Dexter, 1599, p. 390.

Posted by: Melonie Kennedy on Wednesday, October 12th, 2011 at 9:02 pm

We homeschoolers are a tough breed.  We’re accustomed to finding the best deals on the best goods for our families.  Many of us rely on frugal living tactics, entrepreneurial ventures, and couponing trips that can make a dollar stretch more than one would think imaginable.
Needless to say, for a variety of reasons, we homeschoolers love [...]

Posted by: Melonie Kennedy on Tuesday, October 11th, 2011 at 10:55 pm

Thank Who?
By Jill Carattini
The four lines of what is commonly known as the Doxology have been sung for more than three hundred years.
Praise God from whom all blessings flow
Praise Him all creatures here below
Praise Him above ye heavenly host
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost
It has been said that the Doxology, which literally means words of [...]

Posted by: Melonie Kennedy on Monday, October 10th, 2011 at 9:50 pm

Much sickness – physical, mental, and emotional – surely must come from disobedience. When the soul is confronted with an alternative of right or wrong and chooses to blur the distinction, making excuses for its bewilderment and frustration, it is exposed to infection. Evil is given the opportunity to invade the mind, the spirit, and [...]

Posted by: Melonie Kennedy on Monday, October 10th, 2011 at 12:42 am

We must repudiate our confused loyalties and concerns for the passing world and put aside our misguided efforts to change culture externally. To allow our thoughts, plans, time, money, and energy to be spent trying to make a superficially Christian America, or to put a veneer of morality over the world, is to distort the [...]

Posted by: Melonie Kennedy on Thursday, October 6th, 2011 at 9:21 pm