tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47246829183463102792024-03-12T19:55:37.644-05:00Homespun ChildrenKristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14059654831478577018noreply@blogger.comBlogger162125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724682918346310279.post-39474238776577221302023-12-28T12:03:00.003-06:002023-12-28T12:03:49.964-06:00Real Treasure Your only REAL estate is above, where moth and rust do not corrupt, nor thieves break in and steal. Nothing is more unreal than “owning real estate”, for within a few years it will belong to somebody else, no matter what we do.” Vance Havner “For here we have no continuing city, but we seek the one to come.” Hebrews 13:14“Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14059654831478577018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724682918346310279.post-86603583004516824632023-12-28T11:58:00.004-06:002023-12-28T11:58:55.469-06:00How to Be Perfectly MiserableThink only of yourselfExpect to be appreciatedBe envious of others Be suspicious of others Hold on to bitterness and offenseHave high expectations of othersGet upset when people are ungrateful to you for what you’ve done for them.Live for pleasure, always need to be entertained.Never serve othersThink of all you don’t haveCompare yourself with othersThink people exist to make you Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14059654831478577018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724682918346310279.post-90768111702894269382023-12-04T12:30:00.001-06:002023-12-04T12:30:10.107-06:00A Father’s Love Where else could a bleary eyed 3 year old learn best how to trust her Heavenly Father’s arms to hold and keep her, but from her own earthly father? Dustin has been working two full time jobs right now and still makes time for his little girl. (Only 17 days left before his last day at DFA!)She sees him rush in the door from work, getting ready to work up at the barn and often says,Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14059654831478577018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724682918346310279.post-47369674499757186552023-10-30T14:18:00.003-05:002023-10-30T14:18:40.550-05:00Healthy or Toxic Relationships? 20 Things to Look For. Do you have any difficult people in your life?Many people are in dysfunctional and toxic relationships and don’t even know what a healthy relationship supposed to look like. Here are a few healthy traits to look for and strive to be ourselves for others. 1. You feel loved and accepted when you’re around them. You don’t feel the need to put up a front, but can be completely honest Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14059654831478577018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724682918346310279.post-83628546602200655202023-10-29T14:12:00.001-05:002023-10-29T14:12:09.447-05:00Choose Wisely Surround yourself with those who make you laugh, not cry behind closed doors.Those who love you, not purposely hurt you.Surround yourself with those who encourage you to love and follow Jesus,Not those who live for pleasure and the pride of life that take your focus off the eternal. Those who refuse to gossip about others in your presence, knowing if they gossip to you, they will Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14059654831478577018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724682918346310279.post-91205961941504004042023-02-08T00:03:00.002-06:002023-02-08T00:03:12.419-06:00Biblical Womanhood? What’s that? What IS a woman? To find the answers, we must look to the One Who created women to get our worldview. God’s Word alone must be our standard as true believers. What characteristics does God use to describe a godly woman and what is God’s will for women who are wives and mothers? Of course God’s 1st will for us as women is to “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14059654831478577018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724682918346310279.post-15188067157398012402023-02-07T23:48:00.001-06:002023-02-07T23:48:15.390-06:00No Good Thing Will He Withold “The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want.”Ps.23:1“No good thing will He withhold from those who walk up rightly.” Ps. 84:11What is it you want? A husband, a wife, a child, a new job, a faithful friend, better health, or more money in the bank account. So many times the things we pray for or subconsciously want are not “good” in the eyes of God because He knows they would be Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14059654831478577018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724682918346310279.post-10843641478651805842023-02-07T23:45:00.002-06:002023-02-07T23:45:31.351-06:00 PRACTICAL STRESS SAVERS FOR MOTHERS!1. Write things to do on a list and plan your day. You most probably won’t get through your list, but at least you have a plan.2. Make a game of household chores as you do them with your children. 3. Make your schedule your servant, not your master. 4. Play a game or have a competition while doing the chores with your children.5. Enlist the children to fold the laundry and put it away.&Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14059654831478577018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724682918346310279.post-91697150908954737982023-02-07T23:43:00.005-06:002023-02-07T23:43:33.892-06:00Wait Up Wait UpLittle tike who followed me,Standing scarcely to my knees,Proud mama of a blue eyed son,You couldn’t wait to walk and run.Reaching arms as if to say,“Wait up for me, don’t walk away.Wait up, my steps are small and slow,I need some time so I can grow.”A little boy who now explores,Whose classroom is the great outdoors.“Fast” is the word he goes by now,Time, won’t you please slow down Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14059654831478577018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724682918346310279.post-8454925741914046102023-02-07T23:16:00.004-06:002023-02-07T23:16:52.228-06:00I Need You Lord I Need You, Lord.I needed you Lord, as a little girl, scared of the dark, blankets pulled over face, scared to take a breath. I needed you Lord, teenage girl, running from the One I needed most, trying to find satisfaction in everything but You.I needed you Lord, young mother, not knowing what I was doing, but acknowledging my need for You for the first time to make me into the Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14059654831478577018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724682918346310279.post-44713454323647717602023-02-07T23:11:00.005-06:002023-02-07T23:11:45.751-06:00Those You Allow in Your Life Surround yourself with those who make you laugh, not cry behind closed doors.Those who love you, not purposely hurt you.Surround yourself with those who encourage you to love and follow Jesus,Not those who live for pleasure and the pride of life that take your focus off the eternal. Those who refuse to gossip about others in your presence, knowing if they gossip to you, they will Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14059654831478577018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724682918346310279.post-5394479776024216982023-02-07T23:09:00.003-06:002023-02-07T23:09:30.891-06:00If You Doubt Your Salvation There used to be a time when the enemy would cause me to doubt my salvation. One month I’d feel saved and the next I wasn’t quite sure. It wasn’t until I truly understood with my heart that it wasn’t about my performance that I felt true peace and rest. It wasn’t about how many Bible studies I did, how many times I witnessed to others, or how “good” I could be. One year ago I was Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14059654831478577018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724682918346310279.post-29719856633319962712023-02-07T23:02:00.002-06:002023-02-07T23:05:20.744-06:00The Weaker Vessel Women are the “weaker vessel”- God1 Peter 3:7 Feminists hate this truth and deny it.It doesn’t mean women are not as important or valuable as men, but different.God made men with 10 times the amount of testosterone than women! 💪 Men are generally built stronger and created to be leaders. They were made to be protectors and providers of women and children. Of course, we Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14059654831478577018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724682918346310279.post-4737006693310491442023-02-07T20:52:00.005-06:002023-02-07T20:52:29.919-06:00Free Will and Our Children Free will. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a 100% guarantee that our children will all love and serve Jesus? We spend our entire lives pouring into them. We pray for them and with them, we read God’s Word in family devotions, we talk about His goodness and mercy, we teach them how to serve others, we warn them of the consequences of our choices and the devastating results of willful sin. And soKristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14059654831478577018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724682918346310279.post-6481868844839137582023-02-07T20:46:00.009-06:002023-02-07T20:46:54.239-06:00 Levaquin Toxicity and the Grace of GodI'd like to share my story of Levaquin toxicity with hope that I could help others who have experienced devastating effects from fluoroquinolones and encourage you to educate yourself before taking a medication in this class. "My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge." Hosea 4:6In April 2020 following the birth of my sweet baby girl, I was readmitted to the hospital after testing positiveKristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14059654831478577018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724682918346310279.post-2614706638008387932023-02-07T20:43:00.003-06:002023-02-07T20:43:32.132-06:00Danger! Do Not Ever Take This Medication! Levaquin, Cipro, Fluoroquinolones! I love my friends and family too much to not tell them about two things- The danger of taking fluoroquinolone antibiotics and how Jesus is the only Way of salvation which leads to true inward peace! Totally unrelated, but two things I’m passionate about! We are all very busy people, but I ask you to please take the time to research these drugs and warn your loved ones of the danger. Even Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14059654831478577018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724682918346310279.post-11054132995143224292023-02-07T20:39:00.005-06:002023-02-07T20:39:40.939-06:00The Significant Importance of a Godly Father Dads these days are too busy.“God will turn the hearts of the father TO their children.” -AWAY from the love of money and serving mammon,AWAY from corporate greed, AWAY from the American Dream, AWAY from excessive desires for sports, hobbies, leisure, and entertainment.“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes. And he will turn the heartsKristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14059654831478577018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724682918346310279.post-26455607122034134212023-02-07T20:20:00.001-06:002023-02-07T20:20:19.086-06:00A Storm is Coming! Are You Prepared?The world listens to secular doctors when they warn about disease, sickness, and
pestilences. They listen to weather forecasters warning about approaching
storms. Yet those same people get angry at believers who warn about perilous
times coming. Prepare! Protect! And the herd listens. We take seriously anything
to protect our earthly bodies that are passing away, but nothing to prepare Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14059654831478577018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724682918346310279.post-52297927565987328142023-02-02T10:29:00.005-06:002023-02-07T20:31:24.018-06:00What I Want to Say to Young Moms
I was expecting my first child before marriage, in the middle of college, my
boyfriend and I were both teenagers, and not living for Jesus. Things looked
pretty bleak for us as we got married and we wasn’t off to a good start. BUT GOD
🙌🏻🙌🏻 got ahold of both of our hearts and we repented of our sin and decided to
live our lives for Him. He hasn’t called us across the world (yet) or up on a
Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14059654831478577018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724682918346310279.post-28056642684043325892022-07-26T22:24:00.002-05:002023-02-07T20:25:37.728-06:00What God Says Vs. What Satan Desires
"And so train the younger women to love their husbands and their children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the Word of God may not be reviled. Titus 2:4-5
"And having a reputation for good works:" what are those good works? "If she has brought up children, has shown hospitality, has washed the feet of saints, has cared Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14059654831478577018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724682918346310279.post-68689529879714057062022-07-26T22:20:00.003-05:002023-02-07T20:30:37.875-06:00When Pharmaceuticals Do More Harm than Good
(My own personal story) Some quick facts:
-Prescription drugs taken “as prescribed” rather than abused are the fourth leading cause of death in this country,
-They kill as many Americans every week as we lost on 9/11 in The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. (Stats: US News & World Report). -Did you know that there were 20 times more deaths due to the Covid shots than guns in Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14059654831478577018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724682918346310279.post-52989127683397712292021-10-25T10:24:00.003-05:002021-10-25T10:24:50.828-05:00Worthless Things
Most of the things we see are false, worthless, and temporary. We often wonder why we feel down, unmotivated, drained, and defeated, and usually blame our circumstances, other people, hormones, or a list of other things. Seldom do we realize the true cause is neglecting quality time in prayer and reading God's Word. We can't expect to be full of life when we consistently feed on things thatKristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14059654831478577018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724682918346310279.post-33090045260547817832019-03-16T15:51:00.000-05:002019-03-16T15:51:00.520-05:00Parenting Tips I’ve Learned (Not Mastered) Throughout the Years
1. More is caught than taught.
Be what you want your children to be.
2. The rod and rebuke give wisdom, But a child left to himself brings shame to his mother. Proverbs 29:15
I actually think of the last part of this verse every time I hear complete peace and quiet in the house from my mischievous 3 year old. ;)
3. Never discipline in anger.
4. You cannot be a better mother than you are Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14059654831478577018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724682918346310279.post-16370540981881002022018-12-11T14:53:00.000-06:002018-12-11T14:53:06.469-06:00An Idol in Your Pocket?
A smart phone can be a blessing or a curse depending on the way we use it. Many are unwittingly entangled in a system that they find nearly impossible to escape- the system of the World Wide Web.
The word “web” is defined as a:
network of fine threads constructed by a spider from fluid secreted by its spinnerets, used to catch its prey.
a filmy network spun by some insect larvae, Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14059654831478577018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724682918346310279.post-30885613610004257732018-11-26T05:00:00.000-06:002018-11-26T05:00:04.750-06:00The Christ of the Lonely RoadI read this article in The Sword of the Lord, an Independent Christian Publication, and thought I'd pass it along to my readers because it really blessed me. I wish I knew the author, but it was unlisted in the newspaper.
We have heard of “The Christ of the Indian Road,” “The Christ of the American Road.” “The Christ of Every Road.” Somebody ought to write about “The Christ of the Lonely Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14059654831478577018noreply@blogger.com0