“To be Busy at Home”

Here At the Well, the goal is for us ladies to encourage one another to live out the admonitions of Titus 2:4-5, which tell us to “be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be…

Life After Death

I woke up early on Sunday morning, my eyes still swollen with the tears from the middle of the night before, my husband’s words of consolation still echoing in my ears… “We lost a baby, my love. Our lives will never be the same.” I miscarried our fifth baby on March 12. For two weeks,…

Bless His Name

Bless the Lord, O my soul, And forget not all His benefits:  Who forgives all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases, Who redeems your life from destruction, Who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies,  Who satisfies your mouth with good things, So that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s. Praises be to…

How Love Can Heal

Our past, it’s not pretty. We don’t deserve the love we share, the pure and holy marriage bed. Experts say there should be problems, people with pasts like ours have ‘issues’ in marriage, especially the bedroom. Love really does cover and heal. Perfect love does. No, we have not loved perfectly, but He does, our…

Childhood: A Vanishing Mist

It was a sleepless night. And I woke up without a gentle and quiet spirit. Then as the morning went on I was attempting to bring some peace to the chaos when Husband called and needed an errand attended to. I opted to take the four youngest children, ages six and under, with me on the errand…

Important Jobs

Our fifth anniversary was coming up and we planned a week long trip. Our plan was to visit with my husband’s sister and her husband before heading to Tennessee to visit some Civil War sites. The history we learned and the places we saw were fun…made even more fun by the fact that we were…

Humbled and Hungry

I took all five children to prayer meeting by myself. At 9:30 P.M., on the way home, while I talked on my cell phone to my husband still working at his office, the baby started crying and then screaming about a diaper newly wet, and the two-year-old began to sob because she was afraid of…