More Than Books: Ages 12+

Miss Jocelyn | August 19, 2009

This list is a part of our series of reading lists: More Than Books Lists, here at Training Daughters, Teaching Wives. You will find more book lists as well as the code for the icon for your own site on More Than Books.

Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
Generations of readers young and old, male and [...]

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In Defense of the Beauty of Womanhood

Jacque Dixon | August 6, 2009

I don’t mind if you
open the door
or take out the trash for me.

I don’t mind if you

fill up the gas tank,
and shovel the dirt, you see.

I also don’t mind if you
open the jar;
Nope, I think that’s sweet.

I can do it myself
I’m not really weak;
They’re not things that I couldn’t do.

But doing [...]

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Spring Rain

Jacque Dixon | April 8, 2009

by Miss Hannah

Spring Rain
Outside it was cold and muddy.
The plants are getting watered.
The goats stayed in their pen.
The chickens were out eating the short grass.
I would like a sunny day.

Miss Hannah is our spunky little 9 year old. She is the fifth-born and the 4th daughter in our family and loves her pretty blog home [...]

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Spring Sun on Warmed, Wet Fields

Jacque Dixon | April 6, 2009

The sun shines on rolling fields
waiting to be plowed
as it sets again
after a day of softly falling rain.
~Jacque Dixon
Isaiah 45
18For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am [...]

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Fine Attire

Jacque Dixon | December 31, 2007

I am working on the “After Highschool” series and writing on the role of women, modesty, and Biblical-living has made me ponder a lot on how we view ourselves as women/young ladies. In everything we do, let it be for His glory and not ours.
Fine Attire
We do not adorn ourselves with fine apparel
For that does [...]

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