Category: Posts by BARBIE POLING

[from the archives] Continuing on from my last blog post— In the morning, Phillip was out early searching our property and the next over vacant property for Rusty in the daylight. I again puzzled to myself at his uncommon concern for my dog, but I was grateful for his help. We had some errands to… Continue reading Love Empowers Repentance

[from the archives] Right around the time of the events I’ve been writing about over my last few blog posts (starting here), our family got a dog named Rusty. I grew up having dogs, and I’ve always loved dogs. My husband didn’t grow up with dogs, and didn’t really care for them, and my kids… Continue reading Love Draws Hearts Together

[from the archives] Continuing on from my last blog post—As I met with Phillip each morning loving on him and encouraging him in his small tasks, over the first couple of weeks, he began to melt into my arms a bit, and be a bit less stiff.  Sometimes my husband Tim would be home during… Continue reading Love Empowers Some Closeness

[from the archives] With my new understanding—love empowers obedience, which I wrote about in my last blog post—I began to think about my new idea’s application toward a particular issue that I was repeatedly having with my son Phillip who was 13 yrs old at the time. Phillip was regularly resisting my attempts to bring… Continue reading Love Empowers Some Simple Tasks

Hello Friends, We hope you are well and learning much in your family! As many of you may be aware, our family has been lately preparing to make a geographical move. In our earlier years as a family, we used to move frequently, but we’ve been in this house for more than 8 years now.… Continue reading The Freedom of Clearing Out

[from the archives] A few months after my whole family’s life was radically changed through the miraculous events that I’ve written about and discussed in Remembering Ellen and Empowering the Transfer of Moral Values and Faith, I was sitting in my friend’s living room visiting as my kids and hers were all in the family… Continue reading Love Empowers Obedience

[from the archives] In my last blog I wrote about Rachel’s dream to play horn in a wind quintet and I described her process of bringing it into reality. The quintet was finally all set up when classes started last week. Two days before the first rehearsal Rachel came into my room. She explained to… Continue reading They’ll Know We are Christians by Our Love

Dear Friends, I hope you’re having a wonderful fall time of making memories with your family! This last week my husband and I went with our kids to get some pumpkins to carve for our fall season. Just last year at about this time we had gone to a pumpkin farm where there was a… Continue reading You Are His Workmanship