Bring Your Babies to Church
My husband and I were blessed with a beautiful baby girl nine and half months ago. She is such a joy and is filled with excitement about everything! She’s chatty…
Contentment Takes Courage
I never thought of contentment as a thing that takes courage, until it became increasingly hard to grasp. Last year my family and I moved into an older home. We…
How A 5-Year-Old Can Change The World
"It is nice, Baby, but there are so many people here who are hungry and who don't have homes. It makes Mommy sad but you know what else? It makes…
When the pain jumps out to scare us
Sometimes pain jumps out and scares us. It could be a pain we experienced years ago. A pain we have long forgotten and even escaped. The hurt was deep in…
A Thank You to the Nurse
Today you did your job, but you also went above and beyond. You not only took care of me, but you also took care of my babies. As I walked…
From Disney Princesses to Driver’s Licenses – Letting Go as Our Teens Grow Up
Raising teenagers is not for the faint of heart. I’ve always heard this and known it to be true, but had not experienced it fully until I went for the…
Spiritual warfare is real
A few years ago, the topic of spiritual warfare was more or less a mystery to me. I’d rather stay out of it, was my unspoken motto. When I brought…
Why Accepting Imperfection in Family Prayer is Important
Family prayer with little ones is really, really, really difficult. They aren't really capable of much focus yet, and some days they're just having a bad day and nothing is…
The thread that ties courageous women together
I am mildly obsessed with reading of the lives of women gone by. Memoirs, biographies and the like. I swallow these books whole in an evening and then pout that…
When a father wants to fix something he cannot fix
Dads make everything better. And that is why it breaks my heart to watch my husband in a situation where he cannot fix our baby boy who is in heart…
We are praying for a Christmas miracle
We write this with heavy hearts because we are asking you to please pray with us for a miracle for the son of one of our contributors, Kali Dawson. She…
God doesn’t mind the noise – take your kids to church
You know them. That family, with multiple small kids. The one that comes in every Sunday. The one you are hoping doesn't sit near you. The one that some Sundays…
