Thankfully for my parents and my children, they are all musically gifted. But unfortunately, the music gene skipped over me. :)
Now, don’t get me wrong…I LOVE music and wish I could play an instrument…but my brain just can’t seem to put it all together.
Recently during a visit with my parents, we enjoyed a little musical [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Jam Session
Posted in Family life on June 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Baby Audrey
Posted in Faith, Family life, Parenting, tagged Faith on June 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Please get your box of tissues.
I wanted to post this link about an amazing family who has walked a difficult road over the past year. In a world were the sanctity of life is so challenged, the Smith family took a definite stand for the life God created.
Here’s a link to a video/song [...]
Spiritual Lessons from the Garden Pt2
Posted in Agrarian Thought, Faith, tagged Add new tag, spiritual lessons on June 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Any agricultural project takes focus. A strong, healthy garden has much to do with long hours of hard work and focus (though the Father is ultimately responsible for the harvest). Likewise, our walk with the Father is much a result of focus. We don’t need to focus on doing stuff but on Him. In the garden, when [...]
Handprints
Posted in Family life, Parenting, tagged blessings, children on June 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here is a poem I have always loved. My MIL has it posted in a frame in her basement with some cute handprints of Paul and his brother, Brian when they were young boys. So, I thought I’d share it with you and if you like it, you can get some molds and do handprints of [...]
Serious Baby!
Posted in Family life, Parenting, Uncategorized, tagged babies on June 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Go ahead, make my day!
Spiritual lessons in the garden
Posted in Faith, Gardening, tagged Gardening, spiritual lessons on June 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It’s amazing all the things one can learn in the garden. Not only great life skills of learning to grow your own food, but when you really get in there and get your hands dirty…there are many spirtual object lessons just waiting to be “un-earthed”.
Lesson One :
Weeds….these pesky things are quite a conversation piece. When [...]
The cost of HIGH living
Posted in Agrarian Thought, Faith, Family life, tagged amish, cost of living on June 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We recently had the privilege to talk with an Amish family who is in the same stage of life as us. They are in their 30’s and have young children. Even though we live in very different environments, I believe we have lots to learn from each other (especially what we could learn from them). I even [...]
What’s in a Name?
Posted in Faith, Hebrew Roots, tagged bible study, roots on June 1, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Since we are newbies at the whole “blogosphere”, I thought some of you (all 2 of our readers-Ha!) might be wondering where we came up with the name “Taking Root”. Well, a few months ago when we first started thinking about doing a blog and brain storming about a name, we wanted it to represent [...]
