I love this song, because it reminds me that Jesus is God’s Son, and how much it must have broken God’s heart to see His Son suffering and dying like that. It also shows the power of love – God’s love. This is from the Newsong album “People Get Ready”. You can read it like a poem story. Arise, My Love Not a word was heard at the tomb that day. Just shuffling of soldiers feet as they guarded the…
Parts of this are a reprint from March 25, 2005 An African-American spiritual, “Were You There?” Were you there when they crucified my Lord? Were you there when they crucified my Lord? Oh! Sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble. Were you there when they crucified my Lord? We sang that song in choir. The deep, low notes of the “tremble, tremble, tremble” part always make me shiver. Two Good Friday/Easter hymns that I love: When I Survey the…
Originally published on March 20th, 2007 at Onward & Upward While Paul and I had a long-distance relationship, one of the things we missed most was seeing each other every day. To make things better, I made a website for him called “An Ashley a Day Keeps the Doctor Away!” Every day, I took a picture of myself using my tripod and uploaded it. He got to see what I wore that day, how I did my hair, whether I…
I thought this blog post was really interesting, about a study done on kids who were homeschooled and kids who were in traditional schooling all their lives. It was taken from psychology professor Richard G. Medlin’s article, “Home Schooling and the Question of Socialization,†Peabody Journal of Education, Vol. 75 (2000): 107-23. (Hat tip: A Dusty Frame) For the record, I don’t believe that homeschooling is the only educational option for parents and kids. However, I am excited to homeschool…
(Sorry this post is so long! You can download a pdf of this post here.) I’ve wanted to do a post on birth control for a while. Several people have asked me what methods we use, since we have opted not to do any hormonal birth control. I wanted to help by giving some more detail on the options available should one choose to go this route, for whatever reason. First, let me say if this topic makes you uncomfortable,…