“Mom,” my oldest son whispered and nudged me. He nodded to the screen in front of us. We were at church and the worship leader was reading from Philippians 2, a passage we had just finished memorizing together. My youngest then looked up at the screen and noticed the familiar words. He turned to me, smiled, and […]
My husband and I were recently faced with a difficult decision. We had come to a crossroads in our life. Whichever way we turned and whatever decision we made would affect the course of our lives for decades to come. It was one of those decisions where we were desperate to know what God wanted […]
Everything seems to be changing. In our culture, beliefs that were once considered common are now flipped upside down. Freedoms, morals, and even the definition of the words we use in our society have changed in recent years. In our daily life, things are always changing too. We lose jobs, our kids grow inches in […]
When I first became a mother, I felt overwhelmed with the responsibility of raising an eternal soul. I felt inadequate and insufficient. Add to that the fatigue and weariness of daily life as a mother and I felt drained both physically and spiritually. I desperately needed help, guidance, and wisdom to navigate the uncertainties of […]
When I was pregnant with our first child, my husband and I struggled to find a name we both liked. Some we didn’t like the sound of. Some were already taken by close friends. And then of course, there were those names that reminded us too much of people we had known in our past. […]
You know those sweet commercials about baby products where mom and baby are bonding over bath time? Those always make me tear up. I’m a sentimentalist. It doesn’t take much for me to cry. It never has. Sometimes, it’s been a source of frustration for me, the way my emotions lie just below the surface. I never […]