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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When people begin to talk about their relationship with the Lord, and their time in the Word and in prayer with excitement and passion, do you find yourself eagerly nodding in understanding and agreement? Or…do you cross your arms and roll your eyes, assuming it must be forced, and phony. After all, no one is that passionate [...]
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Juggling ministry and children can be challenging, especially if we are trying to meet unrealistic expectations as shared in an earlier post here. According to the scriptures, our first and foremost ministry is the care of our families and home, but does our ministry end there? Just as there is no room for the neglect of [...]
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Even when our own don’t exist, we young women like to talk about our future marriage, home, and children, don’t we? Simply put, we were made for that kind of life. And occasionally you might hear us ask each other with a hardly-suppressed grin, “So, if you were married tomorrow and had a home of [...]
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While visiting with a friend after church, we began sharing stories of our younger mothering days. You may be an older mom now or maybe a younger mother with small children. I share a little of my story here that you may relate to~when my first son was born, I was just 21. As a [...]
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