EVERY MOMent COUNTS!
We all want to raise good kids. We want our children to be kind and compassionate, loving and forgiving. How in the world do we teach them these things??? From my experience, we simply cannot do it on our own. But we can point them to the One who is good, just, and perfect! Here [...]
One of the things that years’ of research with men and women, boys and girls, has taught me is that the genders are just (gasp!) different. It always stuns me when people push back against this idea – as if acknowledging differences will somehow suck our society through the space-time-continuum, back to the bad old [...]
This life is so often not funny. There are a thousand things in a week that make me want to weep. BUT, then something happens that reminds me that there are still so many things that can make me smile, shake my head and laugh. Here’s one of my latest!
Remember the notes when you were a child? Will you be my friend? Circle one: Yes or No Ah, if only it were that simple now.
Recently, I read an intriguing book, “Tombstones and Banana Trees” by Medad Birungi. The premise of the book resides in the author’s journey of forgiveness within his family. A good yet tough read as you visualize the insanity of how broken people inflict harm on relationships. The chaos marked the young boy. The family list [...]
“I can’t get my stepkids to eat healthy foods,” a stepmom shared with me. “When they are at their mom’s house they eat fast food and stuff filled with chemicals. But at our house I feel it’s important to eat a lot of vegetables and everything organic.” She continued. “This is becoming a huge issue, [...]
Accept where you are in life. Be ready for the hard questions. Challenge Yourself… You are stronger than you think! Depend on God. He will lead your family. Encourage your children (and yourself) to try new things. Find supportive friends who listen and love you well. Grieve fully what has been lost. Don’t move on [...]
It has been ten years since the day I taught my family how to love … and they never forgot it. You see I was weeks from delivering my third child and my belly was a big as a barn. It was becoming more and more difficult to pick up around the house, especially going [...]
My kitchen was a chaotic deafening hurricane. Six people in my little kitchen eating breakfast, finishing lunch-packing, and the decibel level quickly rising to unbearable levels. Two of my boys were both yelling for the sake of making noise, my toddler was whining for juice, my preschooler was singing, and my oldest was trying to [...]
I am finding that God is always at work, caring for each detail of my life. Putting into place things I could not have fathomed. I am learning that God knows all and is putting things in place according to His plan, even years in advance. Read Part 1 Here Nineteen years ago, I gave [...]
