“When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, You knew my path…” Psalm 142:3 When I was a fairly new Christian and a young Mama, I had no idea that raising children would require me to walk by faith – I mean, completely trusting the Lord for their futures, especially when life was confusing. Difficult circumstances [...]
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Over the next nine months I will be writing about the fruit of the Spirit and its cultivation in our lives. With each post I’ll be including a free embroidery pattern download featuring the month’s topic. — Have you ever stopped to think about how your family will look five years from now? How about [...]
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For 24 hours we are selling True Christian Motherhood for just $1! (PDF version only) Here is what people are saying about True Christian Motherhood: “This ebook is a heartening work that will inspire you to follow the Lord, build your home on His truths, help you to develop a vision for beautiful womanhood, [...]
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“Love suffers long, having patience with imperfect people.”* When I was a young mom, I wanted to have the perfect family. As you can imagine, this put a lot of pressure on my husband and children to try and live up to my expectations. Mind you, I had it on good authority from all the [...]
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Sunday mornings can be a hectic, chaotic time. Instead of causing us to focus on and prepare our hearts for worship, it is often a time of frustration, resulting in the family arriving at church frazzled, irritated, and “fashionably” late. And, while this tends to hold true throughout the year, this phenomenon seems to multiply [...]
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Today we have a guest post by Jenny Ervin of A Mother’s Heritage: They rocked their babies gently with the blankets wrapped carefully around each one. When it was time to pray all three began their motherly sway as they tenderly bounced their little ones to sleep during family worship. Yes, there they stood. My [...]
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It’s not too late to start some new Thanksgiving traditions that teach our daughters how to bend, serve, and love others! Maybe I wouldn’t have done it if we weren’t so far away from family. Or if we had never lived as foreigners. But for the last 12 years we’ve lived as displaced persons and [...]
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Stephanie, over at Pure Modesty, a wonderful blog that offers modest resources and encouragement: has recently reviewed my new ebook, True Christian Motherhood, and here is what she said: “As a Christian wife, homeschooling, toddler-chasing mama to many and a baby due this spring, I have very little time to read books [...]
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