![]() ![]() In 1874, they moved from Wisconsin to Walnut Grove, Minnesota. Wilder described her early years as "full of sunshine and shadow." When she was growing up, she and her pioneer family repeatedly moved from one Midwestern town to the next. She had an older sister named Mary two younger sisters, Carrie and Grace and a younger brother named Charles, who died at nine months old. In her books, Wilder would later come to call the cabin "The Little House in the Big Woods." Two years after her birth, in 1869, her family moved to Kansas, which would become the setting for her book Little House on the Prairie. Wilder was born on February 7, 1867, to Charles and Caroline Ingalls in their log cabin just outside of Pepin, Wisconsin. On February 10, 1957, she died at age 90, on her farm in Mansfield, Missouri. Laura Ingalls Wilder published Little House in the Big Woods, the first of her well-known Little House series that eventually spawned the hit TV program Little House on the Prairie, in 1932. (1867-1957) Who Was Laura Ingalls Wilder? ![]()
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That is not to say that all unbelief is emotional, but it is to say that our decision-making in regards to what we believe about God is never isolated from our affections. The problem with our nature is that it corrupts our minds, inflates our ego, meddles with our vision, and darkens our understanding so that when God decides to tell us anything, we determine its integrity by how we feel over who God has revealed Himself to be. It was communicated through the world and the Word. If Savior, we trust.Īll of the above wasn’t discerned without help. How we live is the evidence of what we believe about God. ![]() ![]() What the mouth doesn’t say, though, the heart still reveals. 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