Hey ya’ll! I’m Stephanie. Texas Native. I’m happily married to David, my best friend and Army veteran, for 24 years. Together we are raising our tribe, teaching and training our seven children: Victoria (23), Gregory (18), Rebekah (16), Irelyne (14), Dalton (13), Moriyah (8), Elisheva (6).
We spent nearly 5 years living on our 40 foot RV traveling with David’s job and were so blessed with this amazing opportunity. We were able to meet so many of our blog followers in person. Homeschooling on the road was amazing and I’d do it all over again if given the opportunity. We are currently enjoying our fourth year on our beautiful homestead in rural Alabama where we continue to cultivate a lifestyle of wholehearted ancient path living.
I started blogging back in 2000 as a young mom and military wife. It was a way to stay connected with family over the miles and eventually would turn into an amazing tool of connecting like minded believers. After we returned to Israel in 2015 I decided to close my blog for a season and was heartbroken to return home after 3 months to find all my information from the past sixteen years was gone. I tried contacting my web host but apparently there was a glitch. It was very heartbreaking for me. My husband has continued to encourage me to start this up again. After taking a two year break in blogging I am happily back to establishing an online presence once again. As always, I love to share about my passion for family, home decor and organization, and our strong faith. I’ve decided to start fresh. I was able to recover a lot of my blog posts from the past twenty years but most were lost. Writing is certainly an outlet for me and I enjoy sharing and encouraging others. So, if you followed along with us in the past then welcome back and if you are new here I’d love for you to join in on our journey!
Below was written in 2012-
Being the wife and mother that I was created to be is my heart and deepest passion along with teaching our girls to embrace the same calling and training our boys to be men of virtue, a characteristic that is lacking in our culture these days. Our boys are blessed to be surrounded and growing up with their sisters and to see and experience what biblical womanhood should look like for their future wives.
My children and I are blessed to have such a loving and devoted husband and father. He’s an amazing Father, husband, mentor and friend. David is a retired Army Ranger Officer. He works from home and we are truly grateful. He spends every free moment with us and is careful to give quality time to each of us. We each benefit from his understanding of Scripture, leadership, wisdom and discernment, and of course his great cooking/baking abilities. 🙂 He loves the LORD with all his heart.
We believe in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Our heart is to seek out the heart of the Father by following in the footsteps of Messiah Yeshua through obedience to His word and walking with humble submission before Him sharing truth wherever He leads us and in everyday living by shining our light and sharing the hope that is within us. We are passionate about the restoration of the Land and people of Israel and deeply desire to share this with others.
Through the years as our family has grown we have always served our Creator. Over the last decade, our family has been transitioning into walking in the Hebrew Roots of our faith as our eyes were opened to this truth. We study the scriptures from a Hebraic perspective verses the greek mindset that is completely opposite. I talk a lot about that here and how we apply these truths to our lives by living out our faith through a lifestyle of learning not so much in a classroom setting but in the setting of real life! Our family ministry is one of being “watchmen” to the lost tribes of Israel and to awaken the hearts of those that are asleep to the truth!
The late newspaper columnist and humorist, Erma Bombeck once said this about family. “We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another’s desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.” However, we have not waited to figure out the common thread that bonds us together, yes we are a family but we see our family as part of the bigger picture of the family of Yahweh.
Our desire is to raise up children who walk with the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob serving him with their whole heart. After all, the heart is what the Father sees, not the outward appearance (1Sam. 16:7), hence the name of our website. We believe worship is a lifestyle. We try to have daily family worship/devotions in our home and believe this will lay the foundation for multigenerational faithfulness. Therefore we also homeschool so that Deut. 6 is being lived out daily and we are talking of the ways of Yahweh morning noon and night and we can meditate on the Word all day long.(Psalm 1)
Yes, we share toothpaste and diseases, inflict pain and kissing to heal it in the same instance, we laugh, love, and pray. Far from perfect, we are making our way on this journey together, though not in the mainstream of society; it is where Yahweh would have us, on the set-apart path, sold out for HIM! May HE alone receive ALL the glory!
We are happy to share in our journey with you. Please let us know you were here! May our Father richly bless you!
“Great is YHWH, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable. One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.”
(Psalm 145:3-4)“There will be a day when watchmen cry out on the hills of Ephraim, ‘Come, let us go up to Zion, to YHWH our Elohim.’”
Jeremiah 31:6
Psalm 119:33-38
“Teach me, O YHWH, the way of your statutes and I shall keep it to the end. Give me understanding and I shall keep your Torah; Indeed, I shall observe it with my whole heart. Make me walk in the path of your commandements for I delight in it. Incline my heart to your testimonies and not to covetousness. Turn away my eyes from looking at worthless things, and revive me in your way. Establish your word to your servant who is devoted to fearing you.”Joshua 1:8
Do not let this Book of the Torah depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you guard to do according to all that is written in it. For then you shall make your way prosperous, and act wisely. textIsaiah 62:1-3
“For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth. And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the YHWH shall name. Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the YHWH, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy Elohim.”
Hear, O Yisra’ĕl: יהוה our Elohim, יהוה is one!
{Deuteronomy 6:4-9, Mark 12:28-30}
