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Image credit: Gemini and me When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, “I drew him out of the water.”    Exodus 2:10  Throughout history, women have been overlooked, oppressed, kept lower – even just a little lower – than men. We have fought for our place in society. The women’s suffrage movement for example, beginning in the latter half of the 1800s and led by people like Susan B. Anthony, worked tirelessly for more than seventy years to secure women the right to vote in America. But this societal placement has not kept women from being crucial factors in the history of the world. Yes, a few women have risen to power, ruling and leading nations, like Cleopatra, Queen Victoria, and Joan of Arc, but much more frequently it is the common women, the housewives and midwives among us who play a much more pivotal role. Today’s story ( Exodus 1:15-2:10 )– coming straight from the words of scripture – highli...

Image credit: Gemini and me but the Israelites were exceedingly fruitful; they multiplied greatly, increased in numbers and became so numerous that the land was filled with them. Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt. Exodus 1:7-8  God is a good and just God. When Abraham had journeyed to the land of Canaan, God knew what the people of the land; the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites would do and what they would become, but they hadn’t become that yet. He knew their great-great-great grandchildren would be wicked and awful, even more than Sodom and Gomorrah in Abraham’s day, but they weren’t there yet. Even though God knows what will happen, He still give us the benefit of living it out. If He dealt with us ahead of time, don’t you think we’d wonder if it really would have come out the way He said it would? God is good and just. He didn’t punish the people of Canaan in ...

Image Credit: Love God Greatly  I don't know about you, but I am NOT a fan of this whole three-week break between studies. I think I'll need to pick out a book to go through for the next break. But, for now, I'm very, very ready for this next study! In Never Forsaken  we'll be journeying with the Israelites through the wilderness and seeing what lessons God has to teach us through the book of Exodus. We'll take a long look into Moses' life and ministry, and I am certain that God will be showing us how it relates to our life today as well.   Follow along with me here at the Salty Zebra Blog, or join in on the fun! You can grab your study materials for free on your phone with the Love God Greatly App  or you can purchase the digital version of the study here . If you're a paper book person you'll have to wait a minute for shipping, but you can grab the study on Amazon  and get it in a couple of days. I would also strongly encourage you to join Love God Gre...

Disclaimer: I am not a financial professional nor formally trained in any way. The information in this post is designed to inspire, not direct you. I highly recommend working with a financial advisor, like my amazing one, Josh Collier , when dealing with your family's investments. Image credit: Gemini and me  There was once a Countryman who possessed the most wonderful Goose you can imagine, for every day when he visited the nest, the Goose had laid a beautiful, glittering, golden egg.  The Countryman took the eggs to market and soon began to get rich. But it was not long before he grew impatient with the Goose because she gave him only a single golden egg a day. He was not getting rich fast enough.  Then one day, after he had finished counting his money, the idea came to him that he could get all the golden eggs at once by killing the Goose and cutting it open. But when the deed was done, not a single golden egg did he find, and his precious Goose was dead. ( The Goose W...

Disclaimer: I am not a financial professional nor formally trained in any way. The information in this post is designed to inspire, not direct you. I highly recommend working with a financial advisor, like my amazing one,  Josh Collier , when dealing with your family's investments. Image Credit: Gemini and me ;)  Last week I wrote a post sharing about what I had learned about covered call options. It was written from a place of naivete and may have caused some of you concern because of that. Sorry. Since then, I've learned more, A LOT MORE. Yes, I read through the 96-page  Characteristics  and Risks  of Standardized  Options  document and several other blogs and websites and my eyes were opened. I found out that the covered calls that I had been learning about were just a tiny corner of this vast arena known as options trading, a corner that I'm pretty happy staying in.  I'm a learner, a researcher, and as I read up on covered calls, I found out...

   Disneyland truly is one of the happiest places on earth for my husband and I. Several times over our relationship, including our honeymoon, we've popped down for a few magical days. It's been about ten years since the last time we did this, and both of us are starting to feel like it is time. Yes, we've been to Disney World since then, but it's really not the same. Because I've been to Disneyland so many times, it's a familiar, comfortable booking process for me, but just in case it's new to you, I thought I'd share my steps. What Comes First?  With most trips, you need to decide whether to book the flight or the hotel first. Most of the time this will land on the side of the flight, but because we are blessed with the ability to fly for free with my daughter's airline benefits (she's a flight attendant), the first piece of this puzzle I need to consider is the hotel. Because of the huge variability in hotel and ticket prices with Disneyland, ...

Disclaimer: I am not a financial professional nor formally trained in any way. The information in this post is designed to inspire, not direct you. I highly recommend working with a financial advisor, like my amazing one,  Josh Collier , when dealing with your family's investments. Photo credit: Dee Jones of Open Door Photography  She considers a field and buys it; out of her earnings she plants a vineyard.  Proverbs 31:16   I don't know how much thought you've given to the field that the Wife of Noble Character in Proverbs 31 bought, but it's been on my mind lately. This wise woman saw a field that she thought would bring benefit to her family and she bought it. First off, this means that her husband saw her wisdom and trusted her with the family's finances so she had money available to buy a field, that's not nothing. But then we get to the part where out of her earnings she planted a vineyard. How did she get earnings? It's not like buying the field autom...