OVERWHELMED BY MY BLESSINGS

The Meadows’ family vision statement is:   Living, loving, learning, leaving a legacy of Christ-followers impacting the world.   It’s an eas...

How can you discover the vision for your family? Think about these thoughts: Your vision needs to be everlasting, and an on-going goal...

Robin and I had never written our family vision down until a few weeks ago when we were asked to do it for a project we are working on. I do...

Last week, I asked a question about openness , which led to a second question: What are you going to do about being put here on this earth? ...

Being a good father takes change like it does to become a Christ-follower. We are born without righteousness and without what it takes to be...

As the soon-to-be newest member of the Many Meadows , I've been blessed to witness not only how heritage has affected the family thus fa...

Bad fathering can have a devastating impact on a family not just for the here and now but for future generations. A bad father is not just l...

Little did I know so many years ago when I was running from my family's heritage of living off the land that first my husband and then m...

God led our family to be pioneers in many ways.  While I always just wanted to be “normal”, God didn’t call our family to be that way. I got...

It’s a mind picture imprinted on my heart.   Each morning as I was ready to head to school, I’d find my dad… a cup of steaming black coffee,...

In our family whenever the word heritage was brought up it always made me and my brothers and sisters roll our eyes, groan and take a comfor...

Heritage, simply put is “practices that are handed down from the past from heir to heir.”   If you are like me I want those practices to be ...

It was at an event.   There were several couples and we didn’t know anyone.   At a break in our session a nearby gentleman is meeting us for...

There were some things leading up to Anna’s and my younger siblings' dread of the “H word” that I must admit I, and the siblings closer ...

I remember it all too well.  We had just finished our family book reports, and all seven of us kids wanted to hurry up and watch Saved by t...

For the next couple of weeks our family is bringing you a series on Heritage.  This is a core value of our family, something that Dirk taug...