Author: marilynhowshall

Is your homeschooling working for your children? Do they come alive with the education you’re providing? Are they fully and deeply engaged with your method of homeschooling? If you’re like some homeschoolers, your children may be at best tolerating your methods, and at worst resisting and refusing to do what you’re assigning. The majority of… Continue reading Is Delight-Directed Learning For Your Family?

Dear Friend, I remember when the Lord spoke to my heart to lay down my schooling efforts for a season and just watch my children—really observe them and their play, their interactions, and how they were connecting to real life and how they were learning. Over the following months He opened my eyes to see… Continue reading Whole-Life Curriculum, Are You Using Yours?

April 4, 2013 ~ Issue 41 Hello Friends, If you’ve been trying to draw closer to God’s heart, then you know that heart-level obedience to Him is the key to experiencing His love for you, but you may still face obstacles that seem to stand in the way of truly coming into the Lord’s embrace.… Continue reading Close to God’s Heart

March 22, 2013 ~ Issue 40 ~ “Coming to the Finish Line!” Hello Friends, Have you ever started something, a project or a process, that you couldn’t finish due to big interruptions that took weeks and even months before you could pick it up again? My most recent delayed project is marketing the “Making Heart-Level… Continue reading Coming to the Finish Line!

March 7, 2013 ~ Issue 39 ~ “Becoming Self-Aware” Hello Friends, It’s adorable when a 3-yr-old becomes more self-aware! Jim and I were having a lot of fun playing “hide-and-seek” with our little grandson, Jesse. It’s so cute the way a toddler “hides” by standing in full view of whatever space he finds to hide… Continue reading Becoming Self-Aware

January 31, 2013 ~ Issue 38 Hello Friends, Recently, we received a letter kindly asking us to explain our policy for rotating some of the LOLACHE benefits and also our pricing of products. Since we really want you to understand us, know us, and support us, we thought that all of our members may benefit… Continue reading The Cost of Ministry-Focused Business

January 16, 2013  Issue 37 ~  “Our First Year ~ LOLACHE Benefits in 2012” Hello Friends, As I’m settling into my new home, I’m also easing my way back into business. I’ve so missed my work and routine, but I’m particularly hopeful now that my work space is once again in my home. I’ll be… Continue reading Our First Year ~ LOLACHE Benefits in 2012

Happy New Year Friends, Facebook is now asking me what my New Year’s Resolution is. I haven’t made resolutions since my life BC. But as many people do who walk in vital purpose, I set realistic goals for my life, both yearly and seasonally, but life has a way of taking us by surprise at… Continue reading Happy New Year

September 6, 2012 ~ Issue 33 Hello Friends, Do you know how to connect with the Holy Spirit’s work in you to give you power for the overcoming life? Do you know how to receive correction and instruction from Him? This story is about the gift of the precious Holy Spirit and how He became… Continue reading God Gives Me a Powerful Helper!

September 6, 2012 ~ Issue 32  Hello Friends, When the Lord first brought me to faith in Him, one of the earliest works He began doing in me was to provide course corrections about what His standards for righteousness are. I had formed my own standards and needed the corrections and instructions of the Lord… Continue reading God Gives Me Course Corrections