A friend wrote me a note one day, asking me how it was possible for me to be an encouragement to others in the midst of dealing with my own chaos, discouragement, and feelings of failures. She had a brief glimpse into the chaos of life that I was dealing with at the time, and…
Spiritual mentorship is a piece of the spiritual growth journey that is often missing in the busy mom’s life. In the midst of parenting, marriage, and often times, helping to provide financially for their families, busy moms find themselves without a spiritual mentor. Spiritual Mentorship for Busy Moms: Lacking Personal Discipleship Having found myself in…
Last Christmas, I’d had it. I was tired of the “me” mentality that seeped into the Christmas season. It was time to find a way to get my kids focused on the reason we celebrate the holiday – a season of blessing. Each day of Advent, as we counted down to Christmas Day, we opened…
Keeping Christ in Christmas is more than telling our kids the story of the manager, the shepherds, and the wise men over and over again. That’s a part of it, but we want them to have a bigger picture understanding of why Christmas matters. We want them to have a biblical understanding of Christmas that…
Yesterday was the second day in a row that we’d gotten a message from the school letting us know that one of our children was struggling to make good choices. To be honest, it wasn’t really a surprise since we’d been seeing behavior issues at home with this child, but it meant we needed to…
In just a few days, I will get to hold my newest grandson. It is always an amazing time when you hold a little one in your arms for the first time. I plan to pray the same prayer I have prayed over each grandchild and at key events in my life, as have others…