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At the start of kindergarten, the concept of "bullying" was foreign to me. I was shy, because I hadn't been around a lot of children other than my siblings. I didn't know that kids would single out one another and pick on them, as I had been taught "do unto others as...
Coming to Terms with an Imperfect Faith
If there are two elements that have characterized my faith since I started seeking a deeper relationship with Jesus about four years ago, they would be doubt and cynicism. Is that an oxymoron, “doubtful faith”? In any case, I think it’s the truth. I feel gutted to...
Mommy Guilt
The sun isn’t even up yet as a young mom gets ready to leave for work. Quietly she tiptoes into her children’s rooms to gently kiss them goodbye before she leaves for her double shift. She lingers for a moment, hoping for one to stir and open his eyes so she can see...
Decisions, Decisions!
Decision fatigue is a real thing. The trusty Wikipedia defines decision fatigue as, “the deteriorating quality of decisions made by an individual, after a long session of decision making. It is now understood as one of the causes of irrational trade-offs in decision...
Train Up a Child
I have lived in my current home for almost 15 years. In that time, I have seen my neighbor boy grow from preschool, to the elementary school’s gifted program, to drug addiction and jail. I watched his parents take him to church, involve him in sports and Boy Scouts,...
A God You Can Trust
I LOVE sci-fi movies, I love action movies, and I love superhero movies. But when I watch movies about “gods” and “demi-gods,” as awesome as some of the movies are, I can’t help but see how they fail in comparison in so many ways to our One, True God! Since we do have...
Pain Avoidance
Romans 5:4 “And endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation”. This scripture makes it clear that character doesn’t just happen. Character must be developed through patient endurance. Just writing this makes me...
What Budget?
When most people think about resources to help develop a budget (or refine one that has been neglected), many don’t realize all the important information they have available right in their online banking account. Although I previously worked in a retail bank setting,...
Allergy-Free Sneaky Veggie Casserole
I’m very fortunate that my kids usually like their veggies, but I know that’s not true for every parent. Then you add in my son’s dairy, egg, and peanut allergies and my recent discovery of my own dairy intolerance, and things get even more interesting. No hiding...
Listening to Him
I was prepping for my annual guests last summer – a car full of women from Iowa arriving to talk, walk, shop, and eat for three days. We first bonded during the parenting years, in adjoining foxholes, during the “parenting war.” We would slip each other intel – often...
