Category: Posts by BARBIE POLING

Hello Sweet Moms, I’ve been thinking about sowing and reaping lately. Galatians 6:7 tells us that whatever we sow, we will reap. I wanted to encourage you in your sowing and your patience toward your reaping today. I’ve been doing some sowing. I’m trying to grow some grass. We’ve moved into a new house, and… Continue reading Sowing Seeds and Patiently Waiting

It seems of late, there are many Christian Homeschoolers who are embracing an extreme black and white idea about whether or not spanking children is God’s will. I don’t have a need to get caught up in a debate about what is God’s will in this issue or any other issue. I don’t claim that… Continue reading A Natural Motivator

[from the archives] My story is taking several blogs to cover (starting here). I’m going into the details in order to expose the realities of dealing with our flesh, and the relational nature of what God is wanting to do in us. So often we mentally agree with truth, while failing to see how that… Continue reading Stripping Off My Former Nature

A couple of weeks back, some friends came to visit, and they asked, “Are you feeling settled yet?”—We had moved only two weeks prior. “Oh yes!” I said. I began to explain how I had felt settled here in our new town before we even got moved or unpacked a single box! I’d been making… Continue reading Home is Where Love Is

[from the archives] I’m continuing my story from my last blog post. The next morning which was a Saturday morning, the kids and I went out after breakfast and cleared the rest of the branches off the road. It took a very short time, and so we set about digging up the power lines and… Continue reading The Grudge Continues

[from the archives] This post is a continuation of a series starting here. When we stop allowing others to control us, often the controlling person doesn’t like the new relational arrangement. The controlling person frequently ends up escalating the controlling behaviors in order to put the relationship back into their comfort zone. This happened for… Continue reading Escalating Control

[from the archives] (My story is continuing on from my previous posts beginning here) Throughout the summer of 2006, my husband and I got together every now and then to visit with Jim and Marilyn Howshall. Among other things, we discussed plans to form a once a week discipleship group with other couples. Each time… Continue reading Telling the Truth??