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 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.…
For Me 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,…
Discipleship Tools… A Reluctant Visual Faith-er 22 Jun 2020 by Kim Longden About a year ago, I reluctantly signed up to go to a Visual Faith™ presentation at our church. I was there to support friends who had coordinated…
For Me… Adding Margin to My Day 20 May 202023 Oct 2020 By Kim Longden I am a pretty task-oriented person, and if left unchecked, I will plow through human interactions for the sake of getting things done. Today was one of…
For Me Practicing Forgiveness at Home 17 Apr 2020 By Kim Longden I like to think of our home as a proving ground—a place where things are tested and tried out. One of the things we have been testing…
For Me… The Power of Music in Family Life 24 Mar 202017 Apr 2020 By Kim Longden Several years ago, my husband came home with a Bluetooth speaker and set it on the kitchen counter. Looking back now, I can trace back to this…
