Why I Write Here – Christian Encouragement for Older Women:The Biblical Homestead
Welcome, friend.
I don’t know how you found your way here — maybe a quiet search for encouragement, maybe curiosity, or maybe you just needed a moment to breathe. However you arrived, I’m glad you did. And I hope you’ll stay awhile.
This blog isn’t just about me. It’s about us — women who’ve lived enough life to carry some aches and questions, but also enough joy and grit to keep going.
It’s about home. And faith. And the kind of community that feels like neighbors from another time — the kind who might show up with a coffee mug, share a slice of cake, or sit beside you on the porch swing for a conversation that ends in prayer. The kind we need more than ever.
Here on The Biblical Homestead, you’ll find a quiet place to settle your thoughts, strengthen your spirit, and rediscover that you’re not alone in the work you’re doing — both in your home and in your heart.
🧶 Why I Started This Blog
I’ve watched the world drift further from what’s good, lasting, and sacred — and I’ve seen how little it values aging, particularly in women.
But aging was never a mistake. God built it into the design. And I believe there’s honor in growing older, not shame — even in the creaks and wear of it.
I started this blog because I wanted to be a voice — not the loud kind, but the steady kind. A voice for women who’ve lived long enough to see more behind them than ahead. Women who still carry responsibilities but often feel overlooked. Women who wonder if they’ve done enough, or if they’ll find new purpose in this next season.
Over the years, I’ve heard the same themes whispered between the lines — loneliness, overwhelm, longing, and sometimes a quiet regret for what was lost, what we gave, or what passed us by unnoticed.
This is my way of answering that whisper with encouragement. To remind us both that joy still lives here, today — not back then or someday — but now.
A Bit About Me
My husband Ron and I have been walking this life together since 1989 — serving the Lord since 1993, and homesteading since 1997.
We’ve raised four sons in two “sets” — our oldest grown and building a life of his own, our youngest still at home, growing up among goats, firewood stacks, and kitchen-table wisdom. It puts us in a unique season — one foot in the world of adult children and another still firmly planted in schoolbooks and scraped knees.
We live off-grid and try to keep things simple — not because it’s trendy, but because we’ve found that’s where clarity and peace live. Through this life, we’ve learned more than we ever expected — about ourselves, about God’s creation, and about Him.
This lifestyle has surprised us with our own strength… and revealed our weaknesses more than we cared to see. Homesteading isn’t for the faint of heart — but it is for the willing, the prayerful, and those who keep going even when the going is slow.
🌿 What You’ll Find Here
This space offers more than words on a screen. It offers:
- Peaceful encouragement for days that feel heavy
- Wisdom from the field and the kitchen, tested and refined over decades
- Old-fashioned practicality — from recipes to rhythms to rethinking your day
- A laugh shared in good humor, and a touch of mischief to lift the heart
- And perhaps most of all, a sense of companionship — for when you’re tired of doing it all alone
Whether you’re here for a devotional, a recipe, a quiet journal entry, or a gentle word to carry into tomorrow — this space is for you.
You don’t have to be at the same stage of life as me to find something here.
You just have to long for something real, rooted, and God-honoring in the middle of a world that often forgets what matters most.
And if you’re a bit younger — maybe just beginning the homemaking journey or figuring out what it means to be faithful in the middle of busy days — I hope you’ll find encouragement here too. This blog is also a space where we can live out the spirit of Titus 2, where “the aged women… teach the young women… to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children” (Titus 2:3–4).
Whether you’ve walked many miles or are just starting down the path, there’s room at the table for you here. of a world that often forgets what matters.
📬 Let’s Stay in Touch
Pour yourself something warm and wander through the site.
And if something stirs in your heart as you read — don’t be a stranger. Leave a comment, or send a note.
It would be my joy to hear from you.