EVERY MOMent COUNTS!
Three years into our marriage, my husband and I lost our firstborn, a daughter we named Molly Ann, to a rare brain aneurism that we didn’t know about until she was born at 41 weeks. She lived a week and touched more lives than most do in a lifetime. Eleven months later we gave birth [...]
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 [...]
Valentine’s day is my favorite holiday. I don’t necessarily need to go out for dinner or get an expensive gift from my husband. In fact, I honestly don’t mind if we do anything at all. The reason I love Valentine’s day is because I love to stock up on all the heart shaped things that [...]
My weekly “To Do List” has no space for interruptions. Yet there are times when guilt motivates me to make space. Last Fall our church leadership launched a series on generosity: “Give ‘til it Helps!” So appropriate for the holiday season, I thought. I could give money to a worthy cause, empty my closets of [...]
The most important gift we are giving our children this year won’t fit under the tree. It can’t be wrapped nor can it be opened in one day. This gift requires them to begin to die to their selfish desires. This gift will open their eyes to some ugly truths about this world- poverty, slavery, [...]
Every year our parents ask for Christmas lists for our family. And every year I struggle to come up with enough ideas. I also dread the crowds fighting over the latest toy craze and standing in long checkout lanes while Christmas shopping. I’m fairly certain this is not the scene God intended when He sent [...]
“Oh, no — May is here,” the woman muttered as she stared at her calendar. “That means Mother’s Day is coming.” She sighed. “It’s the worst day of the year for me.” She shared that her daughter had been tragically killed in an auto accident many years prior. Although she has a son, Mother’s Day [...]
Disappointment is an emotion I didn’t expect to experience on my first Mother’s Day. I had set my expectations a little high: breakfast in bed, pampering, long nap in the afternoon, glory and honor showered on me for my accomplishments in the first nine months of being a mother. Instead I woke up nauseous from morning sickness with [...]
Why limit Mother’s Day to one day (May 8th)? Celebrate the sacrifices of the women in your life all month long. And this year expand your focus and see if there is a mom you can bless this month. Need some ideas? Before Mother’s Day, take a single mom’s children for the day to give her [...]
