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Choose a Series to Renew Hope Today!
Looking for a new series to give you an extra shot of hope? Hope is non-negotiable. It's a necessity, and any great length of time lived without it carries devastating consequences for us and for those nearest to us. Hope makes all the difference in our ability to move through this life with confidence and resilience. It is said that “to live without hope is to cease to live.” ~Dostoevsky We have a huge capacity for hope, yet it’s the one thing we have so much trouble capturing and hanging onto with certainty. Each new struggle threatens to snuff out hope's light before it barely has time to kindle a roaring fire in our spirit. It seems this one necessity of life needs constant seeding and tending in our souls. Our hearts long for continual renewal of Continue Reading
We Are Made to Brave Imperfect Motherhood
Before experiencing motherhood for myself, I had this expectation that I was going to be a better mother than my mother ever was. That is if I was ever going to be a mother at all. To be clear, I had a healthy childhood and my mother did a masterful job at caring for all of her children but as far as I could see motherhood was a tiring, messy task, with little to no reward. These thoughts were so deeply ingrained, were it up to me, I would have lived my life to ensure that children were not on my radar. Then I met my husband and began to see the possibilities of love. We were married when I was 22, and I had my first child at 23 which was manageable at first. Then our family of three became a family of four...then five. Somehow I went from not wanting kids at all to parenting Continue Reading
Prepare Your Child for a Blessing with Big Picture Thinking
When it comes to big-picture thinking, it seems there are countless more parenting books and resources promoting the concept of living in the moment. And while I'm all for learning to appreciate these singular gifts and even continue to count them myself, I believe limiting ourselves to the here and now of motherhood also limits us and our children. How easy it is for just one moment to consume and drain and overpower us faster than we consume our first cup of morning coffee. How quickly we lose focus and motivation because the impact of a moment knocks us off-balance and even off course. And how unexpectedly we find ourselves held captive by the drama of a moment we can't seem to escape. Instead of marking our moments, they leave a nasty smudge on us and our day. We become the mom Continue Reading