Note: This is the second in a series about our 20th anniversary year. If you want to read the background on that, go here. It’s a regular February day….the mundane task of putting away laundry falls to me. I go about the motions like I always do: opening drawers, depositing …
At the beginning of January, it seems like everyone is making new goals or resolutions. I jump in tentatively by choosing a word of the year. But the reflections I make about life on the eve of each birthday feel a lot more personal. Tomorrow I will be officially a …
It seems like it was from another lifetime and just yesterday both at the same time. In June, it will be twenty years since the day I walked down the aisle in white and joined my groom, also in white, at the front of the church to say our vows. …
It had been a few thousand years since He had unrolled the sea and made passage for His children. But the simple truth is when we don’t see with our eyes, we tend to not fully comprehend. The evening Jesus suggested that He and His disciples get into a ship and …
This will be the fifth year I choose a word for the year to guide me as I grow and learn and try to achieve a few goals. Here are the words I’ve chosen the last four years: 2018: Renovate 2017: Habits 2016: Build 2015: Cherish Since God worked on …
Just about a year ago, I had big plans to renovate my life. As often happens, things didn’t go quite the way I planned. My health and home are still the same. Our school year is going better, but not yet optimal. Instead of me working hard to renovate my …
I became a mother 16 years ago and my youngest child is now 7. It feels strange to type those numbers. I suppose that means I’ve experienced birth, babyhood, the toddler and the preschool stage four times. I have put two children through elementary school and one through middle school. …
Money. The word evokes different emotions for different people. Some fear it. Others desire it. Many misunderstand it. In Christian circles, we get a lot of mixed messages about money. Some Christians don’t talk about it at all because they view money as evil. Others talk about it a lot because they …
My word for this year is “Renovate”. Drawing from several different definitions, my working definition is: “to restore to a former better state of active, healthy, well-balanced growth”. The main areas I’m trying to renovate are my health, my home and our homeschool. I didn’t have a specific area in …
Hey Mama! I see you in the grocery store, frazzled, with eyes about to spill over and join your toddler’s ugly cry. I feel your angst as you Google symptoms at midnight, trying to decide whether your child’s raspy breathing calls for a visit to ER or the application of more Vick’s VapoRub. …
