Welcome to “She Says Saturday,” where we are pleased to introduce you to Shannon Williams, a member of our MomLife Today community! We invite you to connect with her here at MomLife Today or visit her blog at My Shannonigans. Be sure to leave a comment and share this post to support Shannon as she uses her [...]
Pray for Haiti
January 14, 2010 By
As you go through your day, we hope your thoughts and prayers will be with the hurting people of Haiti and those who are laboring to assist them. This is the plea of one missionary mom who is living through the aftermath of the earthquake: The sun is about to come up. The aftershocks continue. Some [...]
Feeling the Labor Pains in Adoption
January 8, 2010 By
by Mitzi McBride Often times I have thought, Wow, adoption is great! Physically easy, and no pains of childbirth! My waist is a bit smaller nine months into the adoption process than it was nine months into pregnancy. But less painful and tedious? I don’t think so! I recall my labor with the birth of my first [...]
“Are these YOUR children?”
November 24, 2009 By
Editors Note: In honor of National Adoption Month we welcome Mitzi McBride as a special guest post contributor. Mitzi and her husband Shane are part of the Hope for Orphans team here at FamilyLife. by Mitzi McBride “Once our eyes are opened, we can’t pretend we don’t know what to do. God, who weighs our [...]
National Adoption Month
November 6, 2009 By
by Christie Erwin November is National Adoption Month and November 8 is Orphan Sunday. On one hand, I love this month because it is a time to celebrate all of the families that have been brought together through the miracle of adoption. On the other hand, my heart is weighed down by all of the [...]
Handling Tantrums
February 11, 2009 By
Editor’s note: Welcome back to one of our repeating guest bloggers: Ginger Plowman. by Ginger Plowman A mom recently emailed me, desperate for a solution for handling tantrums. In reading her plea for help, memories flooded in of a certain little someone throwing tantrums when he didn’t get his own way or simply didn’t want [...]
True Greatness
January 19, 2009 By
Editor’s note: We are pleased to welcome a guest post by Gina Smith, familiar to some of you through her blog Chats With An “old lady”…may you be blessed through her today. by Gina Smith I have the privilege of being around quite a few mothers with small children. I remember a visit we had with a family [...]
The Weak Leading the Strong
November 25, 2008 By
Editor’s Note: November is National Adoption Awareness Month. Hope for Orphans, a ministry of FamilyLife, invites you to visit Cry of the Orphan to learn more about the needs of orphans around the world. We invite you, once again, to hear from Kristin Swick Wong the author of Carried Safely Home. by Kristin Wong We [...]
Hospitality to God’s Children
November 22, 2008 By
Editor’s note: This week is the annual Cry of the Orphan campaign and FamilyLife hopes you will become informed and involved. Listen for special broadcasts this week on FamilyLife Today. We would like you to meet adoptive mom Kerry Hasenbalg who is part of the Shaohanna’s Hope ministry team. by Kerry Hasenbalg A Father to the fatherless … is God [...]
Maybe
November 21, 2008 By
Editor’s Note: Hope for Orphans, a ministry of FamilyLife, invites you to visit Cry of the Orphan to learn more about the needs of orphans around the world. We invite you, once again, to hear from Kristin Swick Wong the author of Carried Safely Home. by Kristin Swick Wong I started the car engine in [...]
