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…
I was Unwanted, Rejected and Aborted. Yes, I was aborted.
“I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from You when I was made…
Tantrums and Triggers
All the parenting books in all the world can’t prepare you for the emotions that rise up when your child screams at you, slams the door, and yells, “I don’t…
Forgiveness and reconciliation are not the same
How in the world did you forgive the people who raped you? How in the world did you forgive your father for killing your mother? How did you forgive…
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…
Who are you working for – evil or good?
The lights on my dashboard illuminated the cloud of my warm breath hitting the frozen air as I pulled out of the hospital parking lot in a daze. The fuzziness…
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…
