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When prayer helped me to stop comparing myself to others

Post author:Amber Palmer
Post published:September 5, 2021
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The weight from the loaded backpack I had been lugging around all day, along with my children’s heavy attitudes, started to weigh down my body and my heart. Although we…

A letter to my child about hurting

Post author:Jennifer Toscano
Post published:August 29, 2021
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My beloved, I wish I could protect your heart and shelter you from pain. When I see your eyes tear up and big emotions flood your heart I would do…

Our children are watching us – and it matters

Post author:Elizabeth Spenner
Post published:August 28, 2021
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If ever there was a picture to encapsulate the emotions of our children this past year...this is it. I took this photo a few days before our girls returned to…

How A 5 Year Old Can Change The World

Post author:Regan Long
Post published:July 24, 2021
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“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…

The day I gave my stroller away changed everything

Post author:Regan Long
Post published:July 20, 2021
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"...it was the day I gave our stroller away." That is my response when people ask me what my turning point was. This is when I can confidently say that…

This is what it means to say that “life is about the journey”

Post author:Manndi DeBoef
Post published:July 15, 2021
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My fiancé and I both got a seemingly random shot of good news today. As we were discussing the details via phone, I half-jokingly said: “Babe, we are going places.…

Can’t stop worrying? Here’s what I do.

Post author:Kali Dawson
Post published:July 13, 2021
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I'd be lying if I told you I wasn't worried about the state of the world and raising my babies in it. Not a day goes by that I don't…

My father killed my mother. This is how I forgave him.

Post author:Pamela Whitehead
Post published:June 18, 2021
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Father’s Day? Whew… I didn’t grow up knowing my father. I knew “of” him and what he had done - but that was it. I came to know him as…

Public School Teacher to Catholic Homeschooling Mom: What Changed?

Post author:Kim Kerfoot
Post published:June 16, 2021
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Growing up, I always wanted to be a teacher. I received my elementary education degree from the University of North Texas upon thereafter I would get my first job as…

God meets mothers where they are

Post author:Elizabeth Spenner
Post published:June 10, 2021
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Have you ever stopped to think about just how often God meets mothers where they are? For, mothers, their to-do lists never end. Their minds never stop whirling. Their hearts…

More than 40% of Millennials Don’t Believe God Exists. We need to take some responsibility.

Post author:Pamela Whitehead
Post published:May 26, 2021
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According to a new poll, 43% of millennials don’t know, care or believe that God exists. Believers everywhere see this and clutch their pearls saying, “Well, I neva…”. But we…

Secrets from a Mom who Homeschooled her 11 kids

Post author:Donna Chick
Post published:May 22, 2021
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We were a homeschooling family for 24 years. My husband and I decided to homeschool our 11 children for many reasons, not the least of which was to bring our…

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