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Devotionals With Laura: Laura Ingalls' Favorite Bible Selections, What They Meant In Her Life, What They Might Mean In Yours
Laura Ingalls Wilder was a wonderful writer and an eager Bible reader. After her death a list of her most cherished Bible selections was found in her Bible. Devotionals with Laura discusses these Bible passages, including -- how they might have fit in with Laura's life; what they might mean in our lives; and how they affected the Little House® books.Devotionals with Laura is for those who love the Little House® books and who love to read the Bible.We also include comments from her writings that may relate to the passage and we consider how the scripture relates to our lives, as she related them to hers.When we have done these Devotionals with Laura, meditated on the passages she meditated on, considered her words for life's critical times, and have taken in deeply the very words of Almighty God, then we can begin to understand how Laura's little Bible helped shape the Little House®books.
206 pages, Paperback
First published November 7, 2008
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Dan L. White
23 books9 followersDan is an upper-60s father of five grown children and grandfather to twelve grandchildren who has lived and worked with his wife, Margie, for over forty years. For the last almost thirty years, they have lived a quiet, laid-back lifestyle on their forty acre farm not far from where Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote her famous Little House books. Dan has written a number of books about Laura Ingalls and on other subjects including marriage and homeschooling. In 2006, they began Homeschool Helpers to encourage Christian families to center their lives around Christ with the homeschooling lifestyle. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Homesc...
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October 13, 2009
It's a habit for me give bunch of stars to all my favorite books, authors and anything 'related' to them.
This books intended to tell what Laura's thought about Bible verses and the meaning of it in her life. But I can't find any insight whatsoever new from this book. Seems like all the verses mentioned here more like a garnish in the meal. Not edible, just to make it look pretty.
But in some parts describe what kind of person she was, and what the Lord meant in her life. Exp I never knew that she was stricts and had strong opinions. She had a temper and it flared. Daughter Rose sometimes described her mother's responses as snapping or flaring.
I remembered Pa Ingalls had once warned Laura about that tendency. He told her that she sometimes haste and acted too quickly.
Growing up reading her, Laura is like my childhood friend, someone that I related to, look up to and sometimes being jealous to. Come off of it she's not perfect, she never described anyone is perfect either. Her life is constant struggle; they're working hard, her sister blind, her brother died and once living in a hole! and I almost forgot she lost her son too.
But anyone can't help feeling happy reading her books. Ma knitting and Pa atarted playing his fiddle, washed today's trouble for tomorrow must be a better day.
Not many know Laura's books helps a great deal of many people's lives. For her book released at the same time after The Great Depression in 1930. Too eager historian even claimed that after World war II, when the Germans and Japanese had fought so bitterly against US, the US government had Laura's books translated to German and Japanese, because the books gave such a favorable impression of America. The Germans and Japanese have been US allies ever since!
Laura wrote eight book; nine, if we include The First Four years. Well I just simply love her books. I should put her favorites verses on my my review here, instead I just love one of her famous quote.
"So, if we are eager to help in putting the world to rights, our first duty is to put ourselves right. To overcome our selfishness and be as eager that others shall be treated fairly as we are that no advantage shall be taken of ourselves; and to deal justly and have a loving charity an mercy for others as we wish them to have for us"
"Laura Ingalls Wilder"
This books intended to tell what Laura's thought about Bible verses and the meaning of it in her life. But I can't find any insight whatsoever new from this book. Seems like all the verses mentioned here more like a garnish in the meal. Not edible, just to make it look pretty.
But in some parts describe what kind of person she was, and what the Lord meant in her life. Exp I never knew that she was stricts and had strong opinions. She had a temper and it flared. Daughter Rose sometimes described her mother's responses as snapping or flaring.
I remembered Pa Ingalls had once warned Laura about that tendency. He told her that she sometimes haste and acted too quickly.
Growing up reading her, Laura is like my childhood friend, someone that I related to, look up to and sometimes being jealous to. Come off of it she's not perfect, she never described anyone is perfect either. Her life is constant struggle; they're working hard, her sister blind, her brother died and once living in a hole! and I almost forgot she lost her son too.
But anyone can't help feeling happy reading her books. Ma knitting and Pa atarted playing his fiddle, washed today's trouble for tomorrow must be a better day.
Not many know Laura's books helps a great deal of many people's lives. For her book released at the same time after The Great Depression in 1930. Too eager historian even claimed that after World war II, when the Germans and Japanese had fought so bitterly against US, the US government had Laura's books translated to German and Japanese, because the books gave such a favorable impression of America. The Germans and Japanese have been US allies ever since!
Laura wrote eight book; nine, if we include The First Four years. Well I just simply love her books. I should put her favorites verses on my my review here, instead I just love one of her famous quote.
"So, if we are eager to help in putting the world to rights, our first duty is to put ourselves right. To overcome our selfishness and be as eager that others shall be treated fairly as we are that no advantage shall be taken of ourselves; and to deal justly and have a loving charity an mercy for others as we wish them to have for us"
"Laura Ingalls Wilder"
November 9, 2014
I loved this devotional. I have had a love of all things Laura Ingalls Wilder for many years. I have read her books, and read them to my children. I also have many books about Laura's life and I own the whole tv series, though it is only based on her life and is MUCH in error, still I love the series.
This devotional is wonderful. 18 passages were marked in the front of Laura's Bible. Laura new her Bible well. She read it enough that she could insert scripture in her article writing. Not just the scriptures that the unsaved know of, but all of scripture, from the middle of the OT to Hebrews, she even quoted Lamentations.
Here is a favorite quote from the devotional...
“At some point, though, we hit such a severe crises that we realize that overcoming it is beyond our power. We cannot save ourselves. At that point, we have to leave it “in God's hands.” What a fearful statement that is – “It's in God's hands now!” When in fact, whose hands are better to hold us in a crisis?
A first principle of life is that God should never be the last resort.
He is to be our refuge or shelter, near to us, so that we never fear. If God is to be near to us in a time of crisis, then we must be near to Him in times of comfort. If He is to be with us in the storm, we must be with Him in the calm. Christ will always be by our side, if we are always at His feet.” (from pg 24)
This devotional is wonderful. 18 passages were marked in the front of Laura's Bible. Laura new her Bible well. She read it enough that she could insert scripture in her article writing. Not just the scriptures that the unsaved know of, but all of scripture, from the middle of the OT to Hebrews, she even quoted Lamentations.
Here is a favorite quote from the devotional...
“At some point, though, we hit such a severe crises that we realize that overcoming it is beyond our power. We cannot save ourselves. At that point, we have to leave it “in God's hands.” What a fearful statement that is – “It's in God's hands now!” When in fact, whose hands are better to hold us in a crisis?
A first principle of life is that God should never be the last resort.
He is to be our refuge or shelter, near to us, so that we never fear. If God is to be near to us in a time of crisis, then we must be near to Him in times of comfort. If He is to be with us in the storm, we must be with Him in the calm. Christ will always be by our side, if we are always at His feet.” (from pg 24)
June 27, 2016
I have been a big fan of Laura Ingalls Wilder since childhood, so finding a devotional book that includes her journal entries describing her faith in relation to events in her life is pure joy!
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