All of the women in my family had our “Happy Hour” where we eat, ask questions about our marriages to strengthen each other, and laugh a lot. A few years ago, a woman came to share her testimony with us. She was married to Craig. He was tall, dark and handsome. He worked hard to provide for their family. They had three daughters together. He would come home late each day after working hard and instead of eating with the…
Hi Lori! My name is Susan. I am 27 and married with three babies. I am just writing to thank you for your writing – first for your book, and also for your blog and twitter posts (which I see on Pinterest). I read your book and Debi Pearl’s books on marriage probably about a year ago. They greatly convicted me, stirred my heart, and helped me to begin many changes in my life, marriage, and in raising my children….
“And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you” (1 Thessalonians 4:11). We live in such a loud culture that encourages us to be loud. Feminism is loud women demanding to be heard and demanding their rights. The harlot in Proverbs is described as being loud and her feet not abiding in her home. It’s difficult not to get caught up in all of the…
Our four children walk in Truth. They all love the Lord and for this, we are very thankful. There is no greater joy, as God’s Word tells us. I am going to tell you how we raised them. I know there are no guarantees. Some parents raise their children in the Lord and they will still turn away from the Lord. There’s no special formula, but I will share what we did. We were strict parents as I have shared…
Written by Lisa Vitello in her newsletter “New Harvest Homestead” from July 2005 Some of the fondest memories from my childhood are the times I spent with my grandparents. There were four children in our family and my grandmother would invite each one of us separately from time to time to spend the night and enjoy a special evening of one on one spoiling. In the morning, we would gather together in my grandmother’s kitchen for a simple breakfast of…
Recently, I have been reading through articles of a newsletter I received many years ago called “New Harvest Homestead.” There are many great practical ideas in this, and I wanted to share a few snippets from some of them. “We don’t want to sound like alarmists, and we are definitely not survivalists who believe everyone ought to run to the hills, but we are realists. We live in very turbulent times and circumstances can literally change in a day in…
Wow! I can’t believe how often women talk about *needing* a voice. God doesn’t seem to think women need a voice. He warns men about quarreling and contentious women. He commands women to be silent in the churches. He commands young women to marry, bear children, and guide the home so they don’t become tattlers and busybodies. He commands women to have meek and quiet spirits. He commands wives to win their disobedient husbands “without a word” by their godly…
Welcome to the world today….. Where sex is free and love is expensive. Where losing a phone is more painful than losing your virginity. Where modernization means nudity, profanity, and if you don’t drink/smoke dope you’re out of fashion/style. Where boys stay boys and never want to become men, and girls become men to rule over them. Where if you don’t fool your partner it’s because you’re not clever enough. Where the bathrooms have become photography studios. Where pizza delivery…
When I was 30 and my fourth was a baby, I became very sick and was sick for many years. I was forced to be home every day all day long. I mothered my children full time. I was always available for them. God taught me many valuable lessons through my sufferings. Children need and want full-time mothers. Children being raised by full-time mothers are far more secure and emotional stable than those who are not. Learn to suffer in…
There is nothing wrong with parents who come to the conviction that their daughters should only wear modest dresses in obedience to God, have their children not date but have chaperones while courting in order to keep their children sexually pure for marriage, not watch TV nor listen to secular music since most of it is debauchery and not dwelling on the good and the pure, and homeschool their children to keep them out of the public schools that is…