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How to be Present in Your Children’s Lives Even with a Busy Schedule
You have so much pulling at you - school schedules, meal planning and preparation, needy babies, kids’ bickering, work schedules, sickness, keeping the house clean, etc. The day starts and you feel like there’s barely enough time to be still and breathe. At the end of...
A Simple Formula to Help You Respond in Love Even When There is Fear or Anger
“Refrain from anger and turn from wrath; do not fret - it leads only to evil.” Psalm 37:8 The Bible makes it sound so easy, doesn’t it? Just don’t be angry, God seems to say. There is no need. And worrying about x, y, or z will only lead to bad things. So...
Leading Your Children to Christ
I was talking to my sister’s boyfriend about what first attracted him to playing the guitar. He said it was his dad. As a child, his dad would play the guitar at night, and he would sit there and listen to his dad play until his mom found him and sent him back to bed....
A Mother’s Purpose
“What is my purpose?” It’s a question that I hear often and that I have thought often myself. Once your first baby comes, you are transported into the world of motherhood. You start to look at life differently, your priorities shift, and you give more love than you...
Lifting the Weight of Discouragement
Discouragement comes in many forms. It comes when the house feels like it’s a continual wreck. It’s there as the baby cries all night for the third night in a row. It sinks in as the numbers in the bank fluctuate unpredictably. It seeps in when the children won’t stop...
3 Steps to Start Enjoying Life When You Feel Like You Are Dropping the Balls
I don’t know about you, but I really have to watch my train of thought in the little moments of life or else I end up missing the most precious of moments trying to play catch up. In the mundane of everyday tasks, I love to daydream about the future. Sometimes that...