(This post contains affiliate links, which means I may receive a small commission – at no extra cost to you – if you make a purchase through one of these links.) Have you ever walked into a room and your heart lit up? You closed your eyes and felt the tension melt away. Energized, creative,
6 Discipleship Principles for Raising Kids to be Bold Christians
This post may contain affiliate links, which means I may make a small commission – at no extra cost to you – if you make a purchase through my link. As always, all opinions in this post are mine. I remember the day I got my first disciple. The day started early. Although the event
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16 Ways I’m Raising My Kids Differently than My Parents Raised Me
(This post may contain affiliate links, which means that I may receive a small commission – at no extra cost to you – if you make a purchase through one of my links.) Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it. (Proverbs
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Curious Faith & Personal Growth
10 Reasons Why I Apologize to My Kids…+ABC Method of Biblical Apologizing
It happened in an instant. Even with his lips pressed together, he looked like he was licking taffy off the roof of his mouth. But his crinkled eyebrows and wet eyes told a different story. Some people think autistic kids don’t have normal feelings, but I knew better. Because I had just made my son
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Home & Family
3 Simple Ways to Create Resilient Kids When You’re Having Marriage Trouble
“Daddy’s going to live by himself for a while. But we love you, and that’s never going to change.” No one gets married expecting to say these words to their precious children. Once, we sat together rubbing a hand over a large belly and imagining the happy future of the child within. But this wasn’t
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Home & Family
Path, Fence or Fortress: How to Stop Toxic People from Destroying the Peace of Your Home
This is part 2 on How to Make Your Home into Your Dream Sanctuary. To read part 1, click here. In my last post on making our homes into our sanctuary, we discussed how our attitudes affect our home and what we can do about it, as well as how to create a welcoming environment,
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Home & Family
How to Make Your Home into Your Dream Sanctuary
This is the first post in a series about creating sanctuary in our homes. Join me and fellow readers over the next few weeks as we “fluff our nests”. Let’s get started. Pssst…if you like this post, will you share it on Facebook and Pinterest? Thanks! You know the place. It’s a white farmhouse in
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Home & Family
Two words that kill your contentment as a mom…and one simple solution
Two words sure to kill contentment: “I deserve.” A furtive shadow cast on the floor alerted me. I whipped around just in time to catch my son running off with an apple. And not to eat it, either, that I knew. The fruit bowl was empty, so he’d been at this a while. I tore
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Home & Family
8 Myths about being a Stay-at-Home Mom
1 John 3:18 “My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.” How many of us are living lies, and don’t know it? Too many stay-at-home moms – and women who want to stay home – get trapped by misinformation about the stay-at-home lifestyle. Dreams and