Homeschooling was a given for us. My husband and I never sat down and had a conversation about it. We never methodically weighed the pros and cons. It just made the most sense to us, intuitively. So we went for it,…
Homeschooling was a given for us. My husband and I never sat down and had a conversation about it. We never methodically weighed the pros and cons. It just made the most sense to us, intuitively. So we went for it,…
I recall from my director days at pregnancy resource centers a statistic: that one of the high risk groups for women becoming pregnant at young ages was that of young women in or coming out of foster care. Our own …
As the mother of adopted children and later as a kinship parent to her grandchildren, Susan Seavers has sometimes felt misunderstood by other Christian parents. “I think it comes from wanting to meet the need…
Jordan Smith has been writing on occasion for Living Letters since its inception. Each time she has shared with us…
Another year gone. They go so fast. I was in my teens when my mother said to me that the older one gets, the faster time seems to go. As a youth, I thought that was nonsense. I think that was yesterday when she sai…
(“The clouds you so much dread are big with mercy”—William Cowper, from “God Works in a Mysterious Way,” 1774. Cowper struggled with fear and depression his entire life but wrote…