“For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.” – Jeremiah 2:13 If you’ve ever made bad choices and traded purity for false security, if you’ve ever looked to a man to be for you what…
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About: Andrea Parunak
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- Andrea homebirths, homeschools, and home churches, and when she gets a spare minute, she can usually be found writing, reading, baking, or sewing. Her deepest desire is to bring glory to the Lord, and she regularly posts on what He’s teaching her over at her blog, Pursuing Titus 2.
Author Archives: Andrea Parunak
A Mother’s Comfort
One of the most profound ideas that I have carried with me throughout my mothering journey thus far is something I read back when children were just a wonderful hope I was trying to prepare for, and that was the idea that we, as parents, are our children’s first introduction to how life works. We…
Parenting on the Pendulum
So much of the Christian life is about balance. Like a pendulum swinging back and forth, a journey far in one direction is often followed by a journey equally far in the opposite direction. A Christian who has focused for years on all that God expects of His people may wake up one day exhausted…
Let Him that Hath Two Coats (and Her that Hath Six Strollers)
I blame the beginning on being a weird and lonely only child*. Too poor to afford Guess jeans and Esprit shirts, too girlie-foo-foo challenged to wear my hair in a French braid with feathered bangs, and too Christian to participate in the daily sass-a-thon, I had very few friends in public school. Recess was misery…
Of Baby Weight and Nightgowns and Being Revealing for our Husbands
A marriage thought from the archives. Whenever I talk about modesty, I always try to emphasize that the reason it is so important is that immodesty is so special. It is truly a delight for men, but it’s supposed to lead them to revel in their wives, not go around their days in a constant…
The Purple-Faced Pharisee and the Freedom to Actually Believe in Something
It’s been open season on Pharisees lately. They make good sport, and you don’t even need a license. All it takes is a scathing anecdote about a time someone who has a larger subset of convictions than you do behaved badly. This is often offered as proof of the pernicious legalism of a given belief….
Sheltering, Backlash, Fear, and Balance (Hopefully)
It always makes me squirm just a bit, wonder a little. I come across these testimonies of people who have fled out of big family, homeschooling culture, people who feel like it really damaged them, even ruined their lives. And I always ache for them when they tell of the harsh emptiness of trying to…
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