Author: gemsjewel

When You Need Music That Calms Your Soul

EDIT: I wrote this when I first started this blog but I felt like I needed the reminder of this calming music after a crazy... Read More

God Understands My Need

There are many things I’ll never understand How God is present with people in every land. How He created the earth, and put it in... Read More

Homeschoolers and Testing

I couldn’t think of a clever title for this topic.  A couple of weeks ago, the girls were finishing up school and they had their... Read More

STAND UP FOR JESUS IN A FALLEN WORLD

“Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;” Ephesians 6:14 Are we ashamed to share the Gospel? ... Read More

Tea, Taxes And A Nighttime Party

Our nation is not even begun and yet the colonists are starting to see the need to break from England. After England won the French... Read More

Peace When Children Leave Your Home

I love to sing and I especially love to think about the words I am singing.  Yesterday was no different as our church sang the... Read More

Faith Of Our Mothers Living Still

“Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.” Exodus 20:12 Every... Read More

God Speaks Through His Word

A few lazy clouds could now be seen With the sun shining brightly in between. The wind then brought the clouds together Which to us... Read More

Another School Year In The Books

 “Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord.” Psalm 34:11 Another year finished and I can only hope the... Read More

A Shelter For Me In The Storm

“For thou hast been…a refuge from the storm…” Isaiah 25:4 We live in the south where we have to be prepared for hurricanes.  It can... Read More