Where'd you go?

Sorry about that. We haven't meant to go silent on you. At least not unexplained.

We (Gayline, Brooke, Jenn, and Robin) are in the process of taking a step back and looking at how we want to proceed with the blog in 2010. We're looking at everything from topics to design.

That being said, would mind taking a moment to let us know what kinds of things you'd like us to be talking about? Are you a homeschooling mom who needs encouragement to keep at it? Are you a single woman who's feeling lonely? Are you a single mom struggling with disciplining your kids? We'd love to be able to speak to where the women of TFC (and hopefully others!) are right now.

And while you're at it, it'd be great if you let us know what you think of the current design. Does it display well on your computer? Is it easy to navigate?

Thanks in advance for your input.

Look for us to come back in full swing on February 1!

New Year--Old Resolutions

I love New Years' Resolutions. I am awesome at making them...just not as successful at keeping them...I'm resolving to work on that.

My list of resolutions for 2010 is shorter than previous years. My focus this year is in making relevant resolutions, accompanied by carefully-laid plans (the hardest part!) on how to move toward attaining the end results I desire.

It is a good mental exercise--resolution-making...sitting down and thinking.

Speaking of 'thinkers'...New Years' Day is too perfect of an opportunity to not do another Jonathan Edwards 'resolution post.'

Rather than listing for you my resolutions for 2010, I think that you would be much more profited by hearing from one who has stood the test of time.

Here are eight choice resolutions from Jonathan Edwards to start off the new decade.

1. Resolved, that I will do whatsoever I think to be most to God's glory and to my own good, profit, and pleasure, in the whole of my duration, without any consideration of the time, whether now or never so many myriads of ages hence. (Resolution 1)

2. Resolved, never to do anything that I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life. (Resolved 7)

3. Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly, and frequently that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of them. (Resolution 28)

4. I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live if they were to live their lives over again. Resolved, that I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age. (Resolution 52)

5. Whenever I hear anything spoken in commendation of any person, if I think it would be praiseworthy in me, resolved to endeavor to imitate it. (Resolution 54)

6. Resolved, to endeavor to my utmost to act as I can think I should do if I had already seen the happiness of heaven and the torments of hell. (Resolution 55)

7. Resolved, when I fear misfortunes and adversities, to examine whether I have done my duty, and resolve to do it; and let it be just as Providence orders it. I will, as far as I can, be concerned about nothing but my duty and my sin. (Resolution 57)

8. Resolved, very much to exercise myself in this all my life long, that is, with the greatest openness I am capable of, to declare my ways to God, and lay open my soul to him: all my sins, temptations, difficulties, sorrows, fears, hopes, desires, and everything, and every circumstance; according to Dr. Manton's sermon on Psalm 119:26. (Resolution 65)

Happy resolution-making!