Raising kids. Keeping House. Choosing joy, every day.
This is like a nightmare from a science fiction novel. You bring your child to the top Children’s Hospital in your area, a child that already has problems but right now needs treatment for a cold, only to find our that they will not treat …
It’s amazing how fragile our faith can be, especially during times of waiting or trials. We teach our children that God is all-powerful, all-knowing and always present, but then we function throughout the day as though He’s dead. We’re Confessional Christians, yet practicing atheists for …
Peter is teaching a series to our teen youth group about loving others well by working well. He presented an interesting concept about life vocations that I immediately thought would benefit moms of little ones. He was warning the teens not to be all consumed …
We censor our kids’ reading and viewing materials. There, I said it. Yesterday I wrote about giving Matt a book to read in High School that contains some foul language. We don’t typically read books with foul language in them because we become what we …
If you are like me, you have goals for yourself. You’ve thought them through, prayed over them, and planned them out for your week, month and year. I sit weekly and plan on paper so I can see visually, in blocks of time, any discrepancies …
Just a quick post to share a few fabulous resources with you. I’m currently reading Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World Study Guide: Finding Intimacy with God in the Busyness of Life by Joanna Weaver and highly recommend it. I have the print …
I can’t help but notice a common thread in many of our new year’s resolutions. Not only can our resolutions show where our desires have gone outside of the bounds of God’s word driving us towards our small idols, but our resolutions sometimes reveal …
It’s a new year with a clean slate and 2014 has no mistakes in it yet. I woke to a foot of snow this morning and was reminded how the snow covers all the flaws of our back yard and makes it beautiful, just like …
I am easily distracted by the general fabric of everyday life. Layers of noise confuse me, and with a large family, this is not something that can be helped, because kids are noisy and ask lots of questions (sometimes all at the same time), and …
No Christian should rejoice when another Christian falls into sin and it should be troubling whenever the name of God is dragged through the mud due to high profile ministry leader’s hypocrisy and corruption. Sadly, I’m too old to be shocked anymore by ministry men …