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I was blessed to grow up in a home where my father loved my mother and my mother respected my husband. I'm not quite as gentle or mild as my mom is, but when my temper (or "passion," as I preferred to call it) would rise up within me over something my husband had done, I would think, "How would my mom act?" That was often enough to bring me into line. Some of today's thoughts come from what I witnessed as I grew up.

My goal is to bring a little bit of Scripture, a sprinkle of encouragement, and a dash of hope to your day. I love a good cup of coffee (brewed like this), but if some other drink is more your style, I'm sure that will work. The point is for you to take a break from crazy living, just long enough for a sip of joy.

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I’ve often wondered why the Proverbs 31 woman’s husband is mentioned as being somewhat famous as one of the things she is praised for. I mean, how can a wife help it if her husband is highly respected or not?! Read More

God’s precious Spirit would never guide you down any path that contradicts what He has commanded in His Word. We know that the Bible says wives are to be in submission to their husbands “in everything” (Ephesians 5:22-24), which obviously must include the way we teach our children.

Sometimes the command to submit to my husband frustrates me. After all, he is away at work for most of each day and cannot see how our household runs minute-by-minute. I often feel that he doesn’t understand the problems my son is having in phonics, the hassles I face when trying to teach algebra while preschoolers are getting into trouble, or the difficulties of trying to finish laundry while reading chapter books aloud.

Why should my husband get to be the “principal” of our school when he is rarely on school property during the school day? Read More

You can read our family’s dramatic story of supernatural deliverance from the power of hell here. At the beginning of that story, I was a regular evangelical Christian as most of you were or are still. None of the churches I attended from the time I was a little girl, taught us what was in the Law of Moses, being obsolete, as we were taught. By the end of that story, I had become convinced that Torah-keeping had not passed away, and was already implementing what I was learning in my own life, and to the extent that I could manage it, my family.

Even though my husband lived and walked with me through God’s dramatic restoration of our children after I began keeping Torah, he did not share my belief that there was a cause and effect relationship between the two. He did not see the need for re-evaluating all the doctrine we had ever been taught, as Bereans, to see if these things were in fact so. For a while, we were a divided household. Read More

Thank you for taking time to sip coffee with me. I hope your day is tov⁠—good and accomplishing what the Creator designed you for. Everything your hand finds to do, do it with all your might and for the glory of Yah!

Shalom,

~Anne Elliott

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