tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74019220616019135332024-02-19T17:32:17.746-05:00PrincapecosSuzannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03319124569497129096noreply@blogger.comBlogger170125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7401922061601913533.post-46062299653469844942018-09-11T12:39:00.001-04:002018-09-11T12:39:35.796-04:00Review: Susie (The Life and Legacy of Susannah Spurgeon)
Moody Publishers provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for a review; however, the views stated here are my own.
So much has been written about Charles Spurgeon that it's surprising that more attention has not been given to his wife, Susannah. Though often parted due to ministry or health issues, the love between Charles and Susie preserved a bond of oneness that, undergirded Suzannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03319124569497129096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7401922061601913533.post-35028983836451502732018-09-05T21:13:00.001-04:002018-09-05T21:20:47.235-04:00Review: Devoted (Great Men and Their Godly Moms)
Cruciform Press provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for a review; however, the views stated here are my own.
One of the hardest roles I've ever held is that of mother. It's truly a case of on-the-job training. And because it's so hands-on, I have tended to focus on the practical day-to-day aspects of mothering. Now that my kids are young adults (though not all launched), Suzannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03319124569497129096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7401922061601913533.post-66540597804841568072017-04-23T11:56:00.002-04:002017-04-23T11:56:54.386-04:00Adversity
Some of the women from church have been discussing Jerry Bridges' classic work, Trusting God. I was first introduced to this book years ago, and it was (and continues to be) very helpful in helping me understand God's sovereignty.
This is one of many, many quotes I've marked in my book. It was worth sharing, and I had a few extra minutes this morning (as I'm home with my sick hubby). Read Suzannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03319124569497129096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7401922061601913533.post-21055752286191378392017-01-27T11:49:00.003-05:002017-02-02T14:13:14.631-05:00Analog vs Digital (or How I Use a Bullet Journal)
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The author of one of my favorite e-newsletters recently confessed that she's struggling in her attempted transition to using a bullet journal. I've experienced a similar struggle over the past couple of years; in fact, last year I attempted to go full-on digital*. And failed.
My search for the perfect calendar/project system began in high school (nerd Suzannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03319124569497129096noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7401922061601913533.post-69080182601467832842017-01-07T16:58:00.000-05:002017-01-08T15:29:28.307-05:00Don't Waste Your Snow Sunday
I originally posted this January 23, 2016, but have made a few updates for this posting in 2017.
Our church has cancelled tomorrow's church activities, thanks to Winter Storm Jonas (in 2017, it's Winter Storm Helena). I'm reminded of a time when our oldest was about eight years old. We were staying home from church (due to some complications in my pregnancy), and Jeff told Christopher Suzannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03319124569497129096noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7401922061601913533.post-80325596449489735582016-10-30T15:53:00.002-04:002017-01-08T15:28:27.023-05:00Review: Martin Luther
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Martin Luther, Simonetta Carr's latest addition to the Christian Biographies for Young Readers, tells the story of Luther's life and the beginning of the Suzannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03319124569497129096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7401922061601913533.post-23018396206348769062016-10-30T15:53:00.001-04:002016-10-30T15:58:21.699-04:00Review: Christ All Sufficient
"Through the power of the gospel and the work of the Spirit, we are being restored to our humanity. The gospel makes us fully alive, fully ourselves. By God's grace, we are becoming human again."
Brian Hedges
Over the past year, my pastor has been teaching through Colossians. It's been a much-discussed epistle in our home for years (in case you don't know, I happen to be married to my Suzannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03319124569497129096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7401922061601913533.post-38712295514458761172016-10-23T18:27:00.003-04:002016-10-23T18:27:25.960-04:00Review: The Dynamic Heart in Daily Life
"People actively make choices all day long. These countless decisions flow from the more hidden dedications of the heart. Whether strongly conscious or less conscious, the heart's intentions drive a person's actions. People are, in large part, who they choose to be."
Jeremy Pierre
The Dynamic Heart in Daily Life: Connecting Christ to Human Experience is a convicting personal read, as wellSuzannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03319124569497129096noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7401922061601913533.post-9361947165086625772016-08-10T17:57:00.000-04:002016-08-10T20:10:43.038-04:00This and that 8/10/16
I'm still planning to catch up on those book club posts (in case anyone was wondering), but until those are ready, I thought I'd do a quick round-up post for you.
Despite my well-known aversion to exercise of any sort, I've (re)started Pilates. I'd done a little Pilates at home before, but the online instructor was young, bubbly, and just exhausting. I found a bunch of free workouts from TheSuzannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03319124569497129096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7401922061601913533.post-71320431085154565552016-07-17T18:09:00.000-04:002016-07-17T18:11:21.108-04:00Book Club: The Marks of Biblical Friendship
Chapter 3 of The Company We Keep took us a bit deeper into the nuts and bolts of biblical friendship. The chapter outlines "four characteristics that distinguish wise friendships": constancy, candor, carefulness, and counsel.
...friendship isn't so much a series of things we need to do. Friendship is more about who we need to be.
...friendship flourishes best when we seek to be and Suzannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03319124569497129096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7401922061601913533.post-87798764448781724102016-06-29T16:28:00.002-04:002016-07-17T18:13:13.036-04:00Book Club: Everyday Substitutes
In our summer book club's discussion of Chapter 2 of The Company We Keep, we recognized that, in a fallen world, we often seek out and settle for relational substitutes rather than biblical friendships. As we discussed in Chapter 1, sin turns us inward.
Because of God's common grace, relationships built on these substitutes might even thrive for a time, but they all fall woefully short of Suzannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03319124569497129096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7401922061601913533.post-8739243177496715272016-06-18T11:11:00.000-04:002016-07-17T18:15:18.755-04:00Book Club: What is Biblical Friendship?
Detail from The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo Buonarroti (public domain)
As I shared in my last post, some ladies in my church are meeting together for a book club this summer. Our first meeting was this week, and we discussed the first chapter of The Company We Keep by Jonathan Holmes.
To give us a foundation for biblical friendship, Holmes takes us to Genesis. He points out that the Suzannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03319124569497129096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7401922061601913533.post-78815833727003209722016-06-13T09:47:00.000-04:002016-07-17T18:16:19.474-04:00Summer book club reading
I've never been a part of a book club before, but I've just jumped in with both feet!
A group of women from our church will be meeting weekly to discuss The Company We Keep: In Search of Biblical Friendship by Jonathan Holmes. The ladies have been asked to consider the following questions after reading each chapter:
What most surprised me in this chapter?
What scriptural truth did I learn?
Suzannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03319124569497129096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7401922061601913533.post-45101440409718334572016-04-18T18:25:00.002-04:002016-04-18T18:25:09.102-04:00The Day God Shut My Mouth
The kids must have been about five and seven years old. Their friend, Kayla, was hanging out with us that day. Everything was going smoothly that morning as the kids busied themselves with schoolwork and I tidied the house for our church's Bible study that evening. And then lunch happened.
I'd warmed up ravioli for the kids and served the girls first. Then, as I brought Jared's bowl Suzannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03319124569497129096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7401922061601913533.post-91109228535829724832016-03-18T17:29:00.000-04:002016-03-18T17:34:25.224-04:00Review: The Garden, the Curtain, and the Cross
The story of this book is the story of the whole Bible (but a lot shorter!).
The Garden, the Curtain, and the Cross is a beautifully illustrated telling of man's rebellion against and God's gracious plan of redemption. As all good stories should, it starts at the beginning:
A very long time ago, right here in this world, there was a garden.
The author, Carl Lafteron, brings the story of theSuzannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03319124569497129096noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7401922061601913533.post-3034850783484097822016-01-22T15:49:00.001-05:002016-01-22T15:49:54.359-05:00Reasons to celebrate on anniversary of Roe V Wade<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Suzannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03319124569497129096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7401922061601913533.post-58960907869141383132015-12-29T18:01:00.000-05:002015-12-29T18:01:28.639-05:00Review: Do More BetterI always considered myself to be a reasonably organized and productive person. Many years ago, while working in the PR department of a Christian college, I was introduced to a jam-up time management system. I loosely followed and adapted it for the rest of my working-outside-the-home career. But almost twenty years ago, when I became a stay-at-home and sometime part-time work-at-home mom, all of Suzannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03319124569497129096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7401922061601913533.post-13340113024244862592015-12-13T19:28:00.000-05:002015-12-13T19:40:44.873-05:00Dear Wormwood {The Oh Hellos}
Some of my young friends have been talking about a new album from The Oh Hellos. I wasn't familiar with this group, but thought I'd give them a try (especially since I found out how much I'm enjoying Josh Garrel's new album, Home, and I'm thinking he wasn't especially writing for my demographic, either).
I liked many of the songs right away; others are growing on me. The musical style is Suzannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03319124569497129096noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7401922061601913533.post-70642432989300931052015-12-08T18:31:00.000-05:002015-12-08T18:31:15.053-05:00This and that 12/8/15
Photo: The Jungle Photo; alterations by princapecos
Tim Challies recently posted this 2016 reading challenge, and it looks interesting. I've tried reading challenges before but found it difficult to keep up. I think I'm going to try doing this one as a bit of a scavenger hunt. That'll help balance out my reading, and I think it will be fun to see how many checkmarks I have by the end of the Suzannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03319124569497129096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7401922061601913533.post-64270462754551495622015-12-04T14:27:00.001-05:002015-12-04T14:27:04.493-05:00Dancing with our daughters
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Suzannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03319124569497129096noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7401922061601913533.post-30573684005939336512015-11-27T15:16:00.000-05:002015-11-27T15:16:23.958-05:00Death to Life
It's November, and I'm surrounded by
death and decay.
As the leaves hit the ground
and begin to brown and crisp,
it occurs to me that
fall is a picture of the fall
of man.
All through the bleak winter the trees will
point and reach.
When they stretch heavenward,
it's as though they are crying
out to God for new life.
They yearn for something beyond
the bleak.
And in the spring their buds Suzannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03319124569497129096noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7401922061601913533.post-33673398534635654592015-11-23T12:15:00.001-05:002015-11-23T12:15:20.780-05:00This and that 11/23/15
See those little hands? Those little hands (which belong to my youngest, Jared) will be 17 years old in just one week. Unbelievable. I took this picture back in 2009 during our family's annual pumpkin farm trip.
The ladies over at girltalk are currently sharing a blog series on emotions. Are emotions good or bad? Do I stifle them or just let it all out? This is such an important topic for us Suzannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03319124569497129096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7401922061601913533.post-20384594242936578352015-11-05T08:47:00.000-05:002015-11-05T08:47:22.843-05:00An unrelenting friendship
I mentioned that I was reading this book. It's been very encouraging. More to come, but I did want to share this little gem of a quote with you.
Good to remember.Suzannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03319124569497129096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7401922061601913533.post-32678627597704953752015-11-02T20:48:00.000-05:002015-11-02T20:48:31.182-05:00This and that 11/2/15
We're settling in to our new Virginia home and enjoying a beautiful autumn. Last week, Jared and I traveled with some other homeschoolers to visit Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home near Charlottesville. It was beautiful and educational, but most of all it was a great chance to get to know some folks a bit better.
Most evenings, Jeff's been reading aloud to us from To the Golden Shore: TheSuzannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03319124569497129096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7401922061601913533.post-80769763629914724192015-10-28T12:26:00.002-04:002015-10-28T12:26:14.399-04:00Death to Life, or Why I Love the Fall
It's my first October in Virginia, and this desert-raised girl has been eagerly anticipating the fall color. Almost overnight, the leaves have exploded into brilliant oranges, reds, and yellows.
I love the fall. Winter, not so much. But spring? Spring is my favorite.
It seems a bit morbid to love watching the process of leaves dying. And then, depending on the length of seasons where you Suzannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03319124569497129096noreply@blogger.com0