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Encouragement for every season of lifeDoing the Un-Fun Stuff
It’s been almost a year-and-a-half now since I visited my girlfriend in Tennessee. She had lost her husband to cancer about five months before our visit and my husband, John, had just been diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma. I remember a point in our conversation when...
Five Ways to Help Your Child Find Their Purpose
Written by Guest Contributor, Katie Nguyen Do you want your child to be happy? I know that is an easy question, but let me ask it this way: What are YOU doing to ensure your child will be happy when they grow up? As parents, we all do our best to encourage,...
Kathy’s Quick Fix Tortillas
I love easy-to-make recipes! My schedule is quite busy and I often need quick meals that I don’t have to think too hard about. I’m happy when I can find one that I can leave in the crockpot on the “warm” setting so my husband and son can help themselves when I’m away...
Endless Love
I drove down the road, sobbing salty tears of frustration and discouragement. Once again, I felt like such a failure. Letting out an exhausted sigh as I parked my car at the craft store, I doused my eyes with saline to mask my miserable mama's cry. I felt lousy and...
Where’s Your Garden?
There is an old hymn called In the Garden (also known as I Come to the Garden Alone). It was played at my grandfather’s funeral nearly 30 years ago and it still UNDOES me every single time I hear it. But several years back I heard a story that has helped me to change...
What I Want My Children to Know About Forgiveness
It was a childhood hurt that Sarah carried with her into young adulthood, but the lesson it taught her about forgiveness was powerful. She had a relative, Samantha (Sam), who, when they were both children, caused her no end of grief. Sam had a way of making Sarah feel...
School’s Almost Out – Don’t Panic
The countdown is on. Memorial Day is behind us and the unofficial start of summer has begun. Lazy days at the beach, picnics, corn on the cob, fireworks, and iced tea are all waiting for us. So are the kids and that dreaded phrase, “I’m bored.” I love having my kids...
Let it Go
This was supposed to be some encouraging moms article, meant to remind you just how awesome you all are (you SO are!), or so I thought. Funny how we decide what God means sometimes isn’t it? I felt the title Let it Go laid on my heart weeks ago and I went with the...
Tips From the Laundry Gestapo
Back in January my friend Jen Spiegel wrote an article for this site on how to transform an old T-shirt into a scarf. It’s a super cute idea, but it turns out that her creativity was born out of her, um, lack of laundry skills. In my family I was once referred to as...
Menopause
I was chatting with a woman yesterday, and we were talking about hair. Not the hair that grows on your head but random hairs that suddenly show up around your fortieth birthday, staring back at you in the mirror, usually while you’re attending some public event and...
