Naomi Pratt

Naomi Pratt

Naomi is an elementary teacher turned stay-at-home mom who lives in northern Ontario Canada with her husband Justin and their 6 children. She is passionate about home life and natural beauty and seeks to serve God and hear Him in the ordinary events of everyday life.

Ordinary Life

How much of life is made up of repetitive, menial tasks? And how do I think of them as meaningful and fulfilling and eternally significant?

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Average Can Be Useful

Each of us, however ordinary, are told in Romans 6 to yield to God. There is no minimum requirement of stardom. God is looking for anyone who is willing.

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Anxiety and the Things that Cannot be Shaken

The Lord gives and the Lord takes away. But there are some things that will never be taken away.

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When God does the Counting...

Though unnamed and unnoticed by the masses, she was very special to Him, and at an hour of great duress for Him.

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Make the Choice

Jochebed’s decision to cut across the demands and norms of Egypt and trust in an Almighty God had shown Moses that this was the way to freedom.

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Float the Boat

It must have been a momentous day when Jochebed placed her precious little treasure in the basket she had made, and placed him in the Nile, among the reeds.

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Build the Basket

What’s a mother to do when Pharoah is feeling threatened and murderous, and she knows beyond the shadow of a doubt that the crocodiles in the Nile are hungry for Hebrew babies?

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Spiritual Growth

Grace and Effort

My best isn’t really good enough ... and this helplessness reminds me afresh that I absolutely need God’s grace

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Defy the King

Mothering is a great anxiety-ridden enterprise in our present world, filled with evil dictators and “hungry crocodiles”.

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Tips and Tricks to Make Your Home Like God’s

God is a homemaker. He, in turn, calls us to be homemakers.

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Spiritual Growth

As a Little Child

There are times when, just like a little child, we know we are being carried somewhere, but we don’t know where, or why, or how long it will take to get there.

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Homemaking as Exiles

How are we exiles living in this world? Are we simply killing time until we reach our true home?

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Spiritual Growth

Hope for the Hard Days

Hope seems to be slipping away these days, doesn’t it? But I just want to tell you. The story isn’t over.

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Home – Permanent or Transient?

If I had Him and no fixed address, could I be satisfied and useful? If I had Him and an unchanging location or ministry, could I accept that and be content to use it for His glory?

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Spiritual Growth

A Roadmap to Christian Living (Psalm 23)

Are you willing to follow Him wherever He leads?

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Spiritual Growth

Burying Treasure: The Eternal Garden

What we are and do now is just like a seed or a bulb: plain, understated, easy to dismiss. But the potential is worth noting!

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Spinning Straw into Gold

Is there anything of lasting and eternal value in our daily lives?

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Keys to Joy in the Humdrum of Life

“Can you find joy in this day? Can you find joy in this moment? Can you see the bright spots? Can you stand tall and brighten the day for the people around you?”

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Come Home

Home. The very word evokes longing. What is it about the idea of home that God has put in our hearts and uses to woo us, to comfort us, to give us hope and security?

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Beautiful Chaos

How do I find quiet in the middle of the chaos?

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A Good Confession

Our God is not a God of penance and earning. A good confession is enough.

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Loosen Your Grip

When we restrictively try to protect what we love without allowing for growth, we end up strangling and suffocating the very thing we are trying to hold on to.

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