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Baby Blessings: An Alternative to Traditional Church Ceremony

Baby blessing is a ritual that is becoming increasingly popular with new parents. Read on to learn about baby blessings and see if this is something that is right for your baby and your family. A baby blessing is a welcoming and blessing ritual for your baby that isn’t associated with a particular church or religion. While people who are unfamiliar with this practice may think it is something new age or without an element of traditional religion, this is far from the case. A baby blessing can encompass many different ideas and meld together religious beliefs and traditions. In … Continue reading →

Keep Showing Up

While I often write about the need to shake things up and create new ways of doing things in our home businesses, I also think there is definitely a place for consistency. One of the places that I think our consistency can really pay off in our home businesses is in just showing up—dedicating a certain amount of time and energy every day (or regular working days) to working on our businesses—whether we are doing anything flashy or not—can be the glue that holds our businesses together. There is something to be said for just staying in the game. Sitting … Continue reading →

Would Your Customers Call You “Dedicated”?

One of those lessons we learn again and again in life is that our own self concept of what we think we are like, doesn’t always mesh with other people’s perception of us. Sometimes that doesn’t really matter and we don’t need to care what other people think of us. When it comes to our home businesses and our reputation as a business person, whether people think we are dedicated or not, actually does matter. Dedication is one of those words I wrestle with a bit. After all, one man’s dedicated person is another’s work-a-holic, but I do know that … Continue reading →

Dedicating Children

Within the Christian denominations, there are some churches that believe in baptizing a baby and others that provide an opportunity for dedication. Perhaps there are churches that do both, but I’ve never attended one. When I was told of my own dedication, I was under the impression the purpose of it was to give the baby to God by recognizing them as His child. Though I think that is part of it, I realized when it was time to dedicate my own sons, it was so much more. With my first son, my husband, me, my mom and aunt all … Continue reading →

Ruth’s Example

The book of Ruth starts by describing the sad circumstances of a woman named Naomi. Naomi marries Elimelech and they have two sons, Mahlon and Chilion. Elimelech dies and leaves Naomi with her two sons. Mahlon and Chilion each marry a Moabite woman, one of whom was Orpah and the other was Ruth. Mahlon and Chilion also die, leaving Orpah and Ruth widows with their mother-in-law (who is also a widow) Naomi. (Ruth 1:1-5) Orpah and Ruth both weep with their mother-in-law and vow to return to the land of Judah with her. Naomi encourages Orpah and Ruth to go … Continue reading →