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Author: Kim Longden

For My Friends

Peace in the Process

14 Jul 2022
By Kim Longden A few days ago, I was sitting in the optometrist’s office with nine-year-old Jonah listening to the hushed tones of the eye exam in progress: “What is…
Exegetical Study…

Money, in a Fish

7 Jun 20228 Jun 2022
By Kim Longden When my oldest son was little, we read from the Beginner’s Bible each night at bedtime. One night we opened up to a story entitled “Money in…
For Me…

Dooby Dooby Doo

27 Jan 202227 Jan 2022
By Kim Longden “Look mom!” my three-year-old said proudly, “I’m decorating!” I looked up from my computer to see that I had been so engrossed in typing, I hadn’t noticed…
For Me…

Little Helpers

7 Jan 2022
By Kim Longden Last month, I came across a photo taken over ten years ago that made me smile. I had just finished making Christmas cookies with my kids (all…
For Me…

Go and Tell a Friend about Jesus

6 Dec 20215 Dec 2021
By Kim LongdenI’ve noticed that lessons for children in Bible curriculums oftentimes end with an exhortation for them to go and tell a friend about Jesus. This puts an image…
For Me

Fear Not

24 Aug 2021
By Kim Longden My daughter makes adorable crochet creations, and she and I decided to give it a whirl and try selling one on Facebook Marketplace. A woman from out…
For Me

Childlike Joy

28 Jul 2021
By Kim Longden I remember being a new mom and looking nostalgically at my little children experiencing delight and wonder at everyday things in their world. I wished to be…
For Me

Unexpected Emotions

6 Jun 20216 Jun 2021
By Kim Longden One evening during the recent Memorial Day weekend I took a walk through our neighborhood. It was noticeably quieter than usual—many houses empty and closed up as…
Discipleship Tools…

An Experiment in Family Devotions

27 Apr 202127 Apr 2021
By Kim Longden For many years we wanted to have a family devotion time, but didn’t know where to start. Was there a specific format for family devotions? What resources…
For Me…

I Can’t Fix Everything

6 Apr 2021
By Kim Longden A few weeks ago my son’s goldfish died. Bubbles the Fish had been struggling for a few days, and at the ripe old age of three had…
Discipleship Tools…

Our Resurrection Garden

29 Mar 2021
By Kim Longden One of my family’s favorite Easter traditions centers around the yearly planting of our Resurrection Garden. We started the Resurrection Garden tradition several years ago, and although…
For Me…

My Zoom Room

4 Mar 20213 Nov 2021
By Kim Longden I remember a year ago sitting with my Bible study group praying for those in the world who were facing the coronavirus. Unbeknownst to us as we…
Discipleship Tools…

Our Family Calendar Tradition

15 Jan 202114 Jan 2021
By Kim Longden At the start of each year, we have the tradition of taking down the previous year’s kitchen calendar and going through it month by month as a…
For Me

Mom’s Trash Can

15 Dec 202015 Dec 2020
By Kim Longden My mom went to be with the Lord six months ago, and one of the things we brought from her kitchen to ours was her trash can.…

Choose Kind

30 Nov 20201 Dec 2020
By Kim Longden It was my son’s last treatment and all had gone well, but as we were leaving I received information about our account that was, at best, really…
For Me

Let Your Light Shine

22 Oct 202021 Oct 2020
By Kim Longden For the past several years we’ve had the tradition of getting away to a cabin on a lake for a few days before the busyness of fall…
For Me

Faith Like A Child

19 Aug 202019 Aug 2020
By Kim Longden Oswald Chambers, a preacher who lived in the late 1800’s, says: A child’s awareness is so absorbed in his mother that although he is not consciously thinking…
For Me

Seek First His Kingdom

22 Jul 202022 Jul 2020
By Kim Longden It was ten years ago, and we were at a fork in the road. We’d just had our third child, we were in the process of moving,…

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