http://vaughnshire.com A multi-generational vision for advancing the Kingdom of Christ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:08:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I don't know about all boys, but our boys are attracted to mud like bees to honey.... or flies to fly tape... or chickens to clean porches... Our very large mud puddle ( soon to be my beautiful garden pond one year)  is a favorite stomping ground for two highly energetic boys.  Here I ... http://vaughnshire.com/2008/07/03/boys-and-mud/ ...for a young entrepreneur http://vaughnshire.com/2008/07/02/a-day-at-the-office/ I can't say that I have spent all my time playing with my new little boy.  He has given us our fair share of sleepless nights and fussy times.  There have been lots of diaper changes and walking the floor.  He's a serious boy, but will occasionally crack a smile or ... http://vaughnshire.com/2008/07/02/those-lazy-newborn-days/ It is a blessed sight to see a young man be about the business of men instead of being idle.  The problem with having boys pursuing the work of starting up businesses is that it ultimately affects me in ways that my flesh would rather not be affected by.  This morning, I attempted ... http://vaughnshire.com/2008/06/25/about-the-business-of-men/ We grow lots of rocks and weeds in our humble garden, but we are also enjoying some real food grown by the efforts of our children.  It is a challenge in self-restraint to ban myself from stepping foot into the garden this season--I am good so far.  The children have been working ... http://vaughnshire.com/2008/06/24/in-the-garden/ Sonny Scott, a writer from Mississippi, really hit a cord with this article published in the Daily Journal.  While he specifically addresses the issue of home schoolers from a cultural perspective, between the lines, he discloses a huge issue between those actively seeking answers in the Word of God and ... http://vaughnshire.com/2008/06/23/home-schoolers-threaten-our-cultural-comfort/ If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honorable; and shalt honor him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: Then shalt ... http://vaughnshire.com/2008/06/22/on-the-lords-day/ If you could have know how farm illiterate/challenged we were just a few years ago, you might appreciate some of the farm stories all the more.  I remember driving by a neighbor's farm not long after we had moved from out of the city and looking at all their "goats" ... http://vaughnshire.com/2008/06/17/the-5-year-old-farm-boy/ A very excited 7 year old boy came flying in the house announcing that one of his "Super Buff" chickens finally laid an egg! These 2 "chicks" are important to him because they are the ones he nursed back to health 5 months ago.  http://vaughnshire.com/2008/06/16/the-super-buffs-are-laying-the-super-buffs-are-laying/ What do abortion, women voting, the industrial food chain, and our knowledge based economy have in common?  They are leading factors in the decline of the American birth rates.  This is one small piece of the puzzle highlighted in "Demographics and the Culture War" an article written By Stanley Kurtz ... http://vaughnshire.com/2008/06/13/the-urbanized-feminized-aging-population-of-the-earth/