I am a traveller and I must not be finding fault, I am in another man’s house, and it would be bad manners to find fault in someone else’s house, even though things are not as much to my liking as at home. If a man meets with bad weather, he must be content; it […]

Have you ever wished you had something and then realized that you already do? Yesterday I was thinking that in my next kitchen I want to make sure that I have big wide drawers for all my kitchen utensils. I’ve been shoving them into two narrow drawers for the past ten years, and my toddling […]

How many times do men and women, when they are discontented, let their thoughts run, and are musing and contriving, through their present discontentedness and let their discontented thoughts work in them for some hours together, and they spend their time in vain! When you are alone you should spend your time in hold meditation, […]

Much has been written about humility; it is a grace that is entirely contrary to our fallen nature. Thomas Watson said, “Man is a proud piece of flesh,” and there is no denying this truth. All the more reason why we are to pursue this virtue: “Seek the Lord, all you meek of the earth, […]

Here is a lovely virtue that women are designed for. It isn’t in found in a list of virtues like some of the others we have discussed, but women are charged to be domestic, to be capable homemakers.
Domestic means simply, home-loving; enjoying household affairs; a devotion to home and family life.
Domesticity encompasses everything that has […]

In speaking of obedience as fruit of love to God, Thomas Watson says this: “There are some sins which are not only near to us as the garment, but dear to us as the eye. If we love God, we shall set ourselves against these, both in purpose and practice. Also in forgiving our enemies…This […]