Soul Nourishment #3

"Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." - Proverbs 16:24


"The point of being a keeper at home is to provide a haven for a godly family to thrive." -Carolyn McCulley

I not only want to be encouraged in my Femininity, but want to encourage my husband's masculinity, and this book was helpful in learning how to best do that - Reading Your Male: An Invitation to Understand and Influence Your Man's Sexuality

"Never has there been a generation of men with so little direct influence from their childhood by a strong and healthy male template." -Mary Farrar

"Mothers contribute uniquely to the process of preparing their sons to be great dads." -Mary Farrar

"A woman gives (a man) a reason to harness his masculine energy - to build a home, obtain and keep a job, remain sober, live within the law, spend money wisely, etc.  Without positive feminine influence, he may redirect the power of testosterone in a way that is destructive to himself and to society at large." - James Dobson

The Lost Art and Practice of Family Devotions
"Parents should instruct their children in the Word of God, and in the principles of our holy religion. The reading of devotional literature should be encouraged and every proper opportunity should be embraced for religious instruction." - Brad Winsted


"It's always about the people.  Making a home is not about the physical space; it's about the people who are coming and going from this place."


A good thing to do when our spirit is troubled. . . .
"I am a woman troubled in spirit. . . . I have been pouring out my soul before the Lord. . . . and the Lord remembered her." -Hannah, 1 Samuel 1:15,19


"It is odd that a million Baptists of the South can furnish only three men for all of China.  Odd that with five hundred preachers in the state of Virginia, we must rely on a Presbyterian to fill a Baptist pulpit here.  I wonder how these things look in heaven.  They certainly look very (strange) in China." -Lottie Moon, 1873


"If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him." -C.T. Studd, 1885


"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." -Jim Elliot, 1955