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The Door in the Wall
by Marguerite De Angelo This was a very...
27 May 2023
Children are naturally curious creatures and with so many under one roof coupled with the fact that we homeschool, we...
Christmas for Beginners – Day 5
Abraham Just the gist (for small children and others with tiny attention spans): Abraham was kind of a big deal. He was a man of extraordinary faith and obedience to God. Abraham pretty much did everything God asked of him. God gave...
Christmas for Beginners – Day 4
Noah Just the gist (for small children and others with tiny attention spans): Noah was a righteous man so when God decided to destroy all the evil people with a worldwide flood, he had Noah build an ark to save himself, his family and two of every animal....
Christmas for Beginners – Day 3
The Fall Just the gist (for small children and others with tiny attention spans): Adam and Eve disobeyed God and were asked to leave paradise. Thankfully, the story didn’t end there. God promised to send a savior who would reopen the...
Christmas for Beginners – Day 2
The Creation of Adam and Eve Just the gist (for small children and others with tiny attention spans): God created Adam and Eve. For those that can handle just a bit more: “Then the Lord formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the...
Christmas for Beginners – Day 1
Creation Just the gist (for small children and others with tiny attention spans): From nothing, God created everything. For those that can handle just a bit more: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void,...
Happy Feast Day of Saint Andrew the Apostle
This is Saint Andrew, Saint Peter’s brother and one of Jesus’s apostles. He was the first called. And though he wasn’t renamed and had God’s church built on him, he didn’t let it come between he and Peter at the family Thanksgiving get together. In fact, he gave Peter...
Christmas for Beginners, An Introduction:
Like many parents, I wanted my children to keep the actual meaning of Christmas at the forefront of their mind during Advent. This is no small task living in a culture that is...
Happy Feast of Saint Cecilia (November 22)
This is my confirmation saint. Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of musicians. I was in band and under the impression that I would graduate and play in a symphony even though I wasn’t even first chair in a high school band class. If only I’d known back then...
Die Hard: How It Ultimately Shows Our Hunger for the Living God
It's that time of year - Christmas music in the air, the smell of pine filling the house, tenderly wrapping gifts for loved ones and arguing to the death over whether or not Die Hard is a Christmas movie. Behold, the indisputable proof: It’s a theme repeated over and...