vine and shoots

"Your wife will be like a fruitful vine in the very heart of your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table" (psalm 128.3, esv/nasb).

For those of you who love that sweet coconut taste...

Click on the title to see an easy recipe from Allrecipes.com. Enjoy!
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the girl in the mirror (proverbs)

no matter what (psalm 104)

upcoming MG novel

upcoming MG novel
This is a photo of the headwaters of the Wadi Jordan that Alan took on his study tour in Israel. It's the setting for my upcoming middle grade novel VOICE OF A SERVANT, which tells the story of Naaman from three unique servant viewpoints

matthew henry on psalm 128:3

"Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table." psalm 128.3, esv

“The wife...not only as a spreading vine which serves for an ornament, but as a fruitful vine which is for profit.... The vine is a weak and tender plant, and needs to be supported and cherished, but it is a very valuable plant.... The wife’s place is...by the sides of the house, not under-foot to be trampled on, nor yet upon the house-top to domineer..., but on the side of the house, being a rib out of the side of the man. She shall be a loving wife, as the vine, which cleaves to the house-side, an obedient wife, as the vine, which is pliable, and grows as it is directed. She shall be a fruitful vine, not only in children, but in the fruits of wisdom, and righteousness, and good management....

“The children shall be as olive plants...though wild by nature, yet grafted into the good olive, and partaking of its root and fatness...straight and green, sucking in the sap of their good education, and likely in due time to be serviceable.” —Matthew Henry

purpose statement

The purpose of this blog is to encourage you as a woman as you strive to fulfill God's unique and beautiful purpose for your life, especially as it pertains to your role "in the very heart of your house" (ps 128.3, nkjv).

Whether it's devotional thoughts or fast-and-yummy recipes, great children's literature or random kid quotes, helpful links or Christian book reviews, my goal is to be a help to you.

We are vines, and we need support and love if we're going to be as fruitful as God intends us to be. And isn't that what the body of Christ is all about? Supporting one another, building each other up, until the tendrils of our vines reach upward into heaven and "we all attain the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature [womanhood], to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ" (eph 4.13, esv).
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