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Book Review: “True Life: Practical Wisdom from the Book of Ecclesiastes” by Carolyn Mahaney & Nicole Whiteacre
Introduction Have you ever felt like no matter how much you try to organize things, they never turn out quite how you’d like them to? Do you spend your life trying to make special moments happen, only to watch them slip through your grasp? Do you feel like life is an endless cycle of repetitive activities that you must do over, and over, and over again? How can you find joy when things go terribly wrong? True Life: Practical Wisdom from the Book of Ecclesiastes provides you with answers and encouragement from King Solomon himself, who had every earthly pleasure and found no satisfaction in any of it. “Vanity of…
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Happy Thanksgiving {Weekend}
Dear Readers, Thank you for following Teacher by Nature for another year! I’m so thankful for all of you, and it is such an encouragement and a joy to write for you. I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving with family and friends, and if the holiday season is more challenging for you than anything else, I pray that you would find rest in the peace of God through Jesus, which surpasses all understanding. We had a fun day with my family. Our menu consisted of turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, green beans with bacon and mushrooms, butternut squash soup, dinner rolls, pumpkin pie, cherry pie, and sugar cookies. After…
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Not My Own Will, Lord
I want to quit striving;I want to just beA star in your sky,Or a fish in your sea,Following your currents,Obeying your signs–Not my own will,But your good designs. *** Photo: Young mergansers following their mom at sunset
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Do I Really Believe that Fullness of Joy is Found in Jesus?
You make known to me the path of life;in your presence there is fullness of joy;at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.Psalm 16:11 Psalm 16 is one of my favorite Psalms. The Corner Room, a folky Christian band, put Psalm 16 to music on one of their albums. It’s a lovely rendition of the Psalm. Verse 11 always stands out to me. If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you’ve certainly read about my struggle with overeating. I’ve accepted that this will probably be a lifelong battle for me; however, victory belongs to the Lord. In a recent article from Desiring God, Scott Hubbard says, “Christians commit sins.…
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My First Few Weeks of Teaching (And What Happened)
We started school almost three weeks ago. The first week went by slowly–I felt like a month had passed, when really it had only been a few days. The next week went by even faster. This past week flew by so fast that I kept thinking Tuesday was Monday and Wednesday was Tuesday. I had a feeling time would start to pass quicker the longer we went to school. School seems like a trip to and from somewhere you have never visited before: the trip there seems to pass slowly, mile and after mile filled with new sights, but the trip home buzzes by so fast you can barely remember…