EVERY MOMent COUNTS!
As I was writing and researching the Life Ready Woman Bible Study, one of the truths that most impacted me was just how much we modern women have bought into the myth that we can have it all, all at the same time. So often, the reason we are stressed and torn is that we [...]
It was my first day working from home. And I was terrified. I couldn’t stop the doubts from swirling through my mind. Had I made the wrong choice? Could I really make this work? Or were we going to be eating canned soup for the rest of our years? In my mind’s eye I can [...]
My early days with Twin A and Twin B (as the hospital called them) bring back a lot of memories, mostly vague. There wasn’t much sleep happening in those days, so the recall is a little fuzzy. I do remember reading in a magazine at the hospital that for triplets, the number of hours required [...]
There’s nothing like being convicted by one’s own Bible study. As I write this, I’m sitting at a women’s ministry event in Minneapolis, grabbing a few precious minutes alone in the green room to return emails, finish a chapter for my new book, email my husband, text back and forth with my 12-year-old daughter about [...]
Growing up in a family with 10 children, there were always chores to be done. No one was exempt from helping with chores and there were many to go around. Now I have 10 children and the same goes in my household. Chores galore and no exemptions. It is so very heartwarming to see my [...]
To get anywhere in life, you need to have goals. Not just dreams, not just lofty ambitions, but specific, realistic, achievable goals. If you don’t know where you’re aiming and you lack purpose, you’re liable to end up anywhere… and it’ll probably be the wrong side of the tracks. Write it down One of the [...]
I’m not a big gardener, but I grew up watching a vital truth unfold as my mother poured effort into her garden day after day, seeing no visible results at first, but knowing the results would come. I would get impatient staring at bare soil after hours spent tilling and planting and weeding, but she’d [...]
Idea #1 - Prepare a meal together as a family and take it to a sick or elderly friend this week. Idea #2 - Encourage your family to look each person they meet in the eye, smile, and simply express their appreciation for them. Idea #3 – Deliver a baked good, or even disposable plates and [...]
I must confess to a not-so-generous reaction when I was summoned for jury duty recently. Sadly, my thought process was not, “Oh, good, I have always strongly supported the notion of a free and just society, and I get to participate!” No, it was (I’m paraphrasing here): “Oh, crud.” Am I the only one who [...]
Do you have room for one more child? While we lived in a little three-bedroom house, we adopted three kids to add to the three I had already birthed. We didn’t really have room in the house. But we had room in our hearts. What if I told you we then added three more? Crazy? [...]
