The last days are not for the faint of heart or the spiritually out of shape.

I was raised on a farm in Kansas where we lived next door to my Grandma Dew, and I was her shadow. We went everywhere together - to the bank, the doctor, the Early Bird Garden Club, and to an endless procession of Church meetings.

If you're serious about sanctification, you can expect to experience heart-wrenching moments that try your faith, your endurance, and your patience.

Look to the Lord and not to the world for your ideas and ideals about men and women.

Because again, if Lucifer can make an aberration seem normal- or better yet, evil seem normal, he has made striking inroads.

Motherhood is more than bearing children...It is the essence of who we are as women.

Think about what there is to learn from your heritage, good and bad, and about what you want to cultivate and not cultivate.