Tag Archives: children

Made of wedding dresses and formals in ivories and pale pastel colors, they’re cut from the smallest patterns and trimmed with lace. They are made for both boys and girls. These precious gowns serve as burial garments for infants who are stillborn, or too small or ill to survive. Several ...

Where have the fathers gone?

Imagine God in his blinding glory sitting uplifted on his throne. He is looking through his radiance among the billions of inhabitants on earth. He zooms in on one of his young children, who is a resident of Sacramento California. There I was sitting at my desk wondering how I ...

Susanna raised her family 300 years ago, but her wisdom is timeless. She was the mother of nineteen children, losing nine of them in infancy or childhood. Two of her sons founded the Methodist Movement, one was a music composer. Her husband left her for a two-year period while she ...

Parenting the Way They Should Go By Renee His small five-year-old hand lay gently in mine as we walked back to the van.  His beautiful boyish grin beaming from ear to ear as the puddle edged into view. “Mom, can I please do a huge jump?” I knew all to ...