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Source: google.com via Leslie on Pinterest And when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of the LORD, and journeyed not. Numbers 9:19 Missionary friends of ours, the Schepers family in the Dominican Republic, have been home on furlough for about six months. They were scheduled to return to the DR yesterday, but God had other plans. Last Saturday, as they slept in a hotel room in Kansas City, MO, someone stole their van, with the attached trailer. Everything they had was in that trailer: their clothes, their passports from two countries, their papers allowing them to work and live in the DR, things they had bought to take back with them, their computer . . . everything. As I write this, they have rescheduled their flight for mid-March, and the governments of the US and Canada are working with them to replace their passports and such as that. Things are working out, but for now, their "cloud" is ta

On the Way Home contains the journal entries of Laura Ingalls Wilder during the Wilder family's move to Mansfield, Missouri in 1894. Seven years of drought had forced Laura and Almanzo to leave South Dakota and begin a new life in Missouri. This book details their journey through bustling cities, across muddy rivers, down uncertain roads, and through inclement weather. Each journal entry is short, so the account of their six-week trip can easily be read in one or two sittings. Her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, sets the scene at the beginning of the book and concludes with her own memories of their first weeks in Missouri. With those insights, you come to understand a little more about the spirit of pioneers like Laura and Almanzo and their sheer determination to succeed at whatever they set out to do. I can't imagine traveling in a wagon in the heat of summer! The Wilders left South Dakota on July 17th and arrived in Mansfield on August 30th. Before they lost

I'd never read Little House on the Prairie  until just a couple of weeks ago for the Laura Ingalls Wilder Reading Challenge at Stray Thoughts . Once again, I loved it! This is the second book in the series about Laura Ingalls Wilder's childhood, although it is third in the Little House set (the second book is Farmer Boy , about Almanzo Wilder as a little boy, which I am currently reading). It covers the one year that Laura's family actually lived in a little house on the prairie in what was then known as Indian Territory. According to Wikipedia , the events in the book took place during the years 1869-1870, when Laura was just 3-4 years old; however, Laura portrays herself in the book as 6-7 years old, to maintain the timeline begun in the first book, Little House in the Big Woods . It seems that many of the events in Little House on the Prairie  were stories told to Laura later by her parents and older sister, Mary. The book takes us along as the Ingalls family leaves

Source: Uploaded by user via Susan on Pinterest My husband preached a very practical message Sunday morning explaining how to measure our heart for God. His text was from Acts 13, where Paul stood and preached in the synagogue in Antioch, giving a history of the nation of Israel. In that sermon, Paul mentions that God said of David that he was "a man after mine own heart." We know that David was not a perfect man; he sinned many times, and some of those sins were what we would call "big" sins . . . although we realize that all sin is big sin in God's eyes! David committed adultery and murder, for example, but he was still called a man after God's own heart. So what was it about David that made him a man after God's own heart? And can we, who often sin, still be considered women after God's own heart? Here are the measures that my husband shared to see if we have a heart for God: The first priority of my life is my relationship

Little House in the Big Woods is the first book in the Little House series of books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Since I've never read the series, I decided to start with this first book for the Laura Ingalls Wilder Reading Challenge at Stray Thoughts . It was a fascinating look into the lives of ordinary people in the mid-1800s. This book covers the year that Laura turned 5 years old, although I've read that she was actually only 3 years old when these events took place. Her publisher seemed to fear that no one would believe she could remember with such clear detail happenings when she was so young! Personally, I'm amazed she could remember them so clearly at 5 years old! Little House in the Big Woods begins with the daily activities of the family during the fall harvest and slaughter season. I was impressed with how much food they managed to preserve and set aside in their little home - and all without electricity or running water! We follow their lives through the long

This devotion was also posted at KJV Blog Directory . I teach the preschool bus kids on Wednesday nights. One recent Wednesday night was a doozie! We have them for about 40 minutes, and in that time, my helper and I had to separate three boys at least three times. They had each other in headlocks! Two little girls went to the bathroom at the same time (my mistake) and didn't return for several minutes. My helper found them in the same stall playing with lip gloss. One little girl was crying the whole time because she was hungry. Another little girl insisted she was going to help me with everything and would not sit down - well, most of the children won't sit down for long. Crayons were tipped over intentionally - and all over the floor - and play dough time was wild.  But also within that 40 minutes they quieted and listened to a story from the Bible about how God took care of the children of Israel in Egypt and a character-building story with two kittens named