Blog roll--Seeking Faithfulness

Since she posts such a great one today, I must highlight another site on my blogroll—Seeking Faithfulness written by Holly. Holly is a pastor's wife and a mom to 7 beautiful children. Today, she examines the death of personal dreams in favor of God's calling to marriage and family and in doing so, captures the wrong thinking in Molly's post.

Holly's posts are always pointing the reader towards the audience of One and away from the world's applause. She is humble and has amusing and practical posts on motherhood that fit where I am and push me onward. Holly's blog is one that has fed me the most spiritually, of all of the blogs that I read. (On a side note, she also has a blog for pastors' families that is great too. I need that kind of experienced wisdom.)

Some of my favorite posts from Holly are:

This one where she writes of her husband's service to the family and her love for him
This one about an older couple and their faithful love
This one entitled, "Trust, submission, and reliance"
This one and this one about mothering little babies in the night time
This one entitled, "Mothering through sickness"
And my favorites, "Losing Myself" and "Losing Myself, part 2"

Blogroll

I have pared down my blogroll as I have also pared down the blogs that I keep up with. In trying to be a better steward of my time, I have limited the blogs that I read because I wanted to really focus on the best of the best—the stuff that consistently spoke to where I am and what God is teaching me. As I have time over the next few weeks, I am going to highlight these blogs, giving a glimpse into why they are so instructive or encouraging to me and hopefully enticing you to check them out for yourself.

The first one that I will start with is Amy's Humble Musings. I believe that Amy's was the first blog that I ever kept up with. Her style is witty (always) and sarcastic (some of the time) with lots of self-deprecating humor and pithy observations on being the mother of little ones. Her theology is consistently pushing towards Christ and away from the world, with much emphasis on grace, sanctification, purposeful living, and seeking God's glory above all else. She has agrarian dreams and DV we'll be hearing soon about her family's transition to country living (I wish I could arrange it for them to move to Mississippi—she'd be a great neighbor)!

Here are some highlights from Amy...

• On simple living/agrarianism
• On motherhood--both the daily struggles and seeing it in light of eternity
• On children as the good life
• On people (her most recent post and an example of her witty insights that will have you laughing and agreeing)