By Shari McMinn And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’ (Matthew 25:40 ESV) When we agree to take on the responsibility of parenting and home educating...
Expressing Love So Our Children Feel Love
By Shari McMinn Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but...
Cabin Fever: Frustration or Fun?
By Shari McMinn A continual dripping on a rainy day and a quarrelsome wife are alike; to restrain her is to restrain the wind or to grasp oil in one's right hand. (Proverbs 27:15–16 ESV) The above Scripture is just as relevant to us today as it was...
Peacefully Navigating the New Year
By Shari McMinn And He awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. (Mark 4:39 ESV) During the hurricane which is sometimes called Christmas, we can find ourselves overwhelmed...
Instilling a Thankful Heart
By Shari McMinn Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. (Colossians 3:16 ESV) Oftentimes, children who...
Trauma and the Need to Redeem October 31st
By Shari McMinn Ghoulish masks. Headstones. Risque costumes. Scary Clowns. Witches and warlocks. Do you agree that this is the sight in every single store you enter during October, even when just to buy groceries or gas? When two of our adopted...
Baseline Start for a Home Run Year
By Shari McMinn Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into...
Back-to-School: Resetting Routines
By Shari McMinn Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into...





