While traveling around the country, I have had the opportunity to get a pulse on the homeschooling movement, while meeting many women and listening to a variety of speakers. I am encouraged at the many new and seasoned homeschoolers who are well-educated, well-spoken, and have good critical thinking skills. But on the other hand, I [...]
Posted by:Rebecca Keliher on Thursday, July 15th, 2010 at 1:54 am
“The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me.”
–Psalm 138:8
Most manifestly the confidence which the Psalmist here expressed was a divine confidence. He did not say, “I have grace enough to perfect that which concerneth me–my faith is so steady that it will not stagger–my love is so warm that it will never grow cold–my resolution [...]
Posted by:Rebecca Keliher on Sunday, May 23rd, 2010 at 6:01 am
I used to be a faithful listener to the national news. But in the last year or so with so much bad news, I’ve become more of a sporadic listener. Of course, I recognize that most news has rarely, if ever, been uplifting. The events deemed “newsworthy” are generally traumatic or catastrophic events. The collapse of the housing industry, the banking industry, the worldwide debt crisis, the recent oil catastrophe on the gulf coast, flooding in Tennessee and the continuing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, all serve as recent examples.
Posted by:Karrie Emms on Wednesday, May 12th, 2010 at 9:49 am
Dear Readers,
Jay Yount’s, our parent column author, wife (Ruth) was diagnosed with a brain tumor this month. I am requesting prayer for him and his family. Ruth had surgery yesterday and is in ICU. As I am following her on Caring Bridge, I read a letter she wrote to her church congregation. It is touching, [...]
Posted by:Rebecca Keliher on Wednesday, April 28th, 2010 at 10:34 pm
It is far from my intention to depreciate the value or deny the usefulness of books, without exception: a few well-chosen treatises, carefully perused and thoroughly digested, will deserve and reward our pains; but a multiplicity of reading is seldom attended with a good effect.
Besides the confusion [...]
Posted by:Rebecca Keliher on Monday, April 19th, 2010 at 10:06 am
As many of you know, our family left last Wednesday for a 4 month road trip, attending homeschool conventions across the United States. This week was our first convention and I have to say, on the one hand it was draining, but on the other, it was thrilling. There was much more to do than [...]
Posted by:Rebecca Keliher on Monday, April 12th, 2010 at 8:40 am
