Place Yourself

Okay, here’s the deal. You have everything you need to make it through tomorrow, but it’s not pacing yourself that is going to make the difference, it’s placing yourself...placing yourself in the hands of your God, asking Him to carry you.  Close your eyes and picture...

Advent

December is coming in hot! It’s three shorts days after Thanksgiving this year!  In this hectic season, it's easy for families to get so busy that the time flies by and we miss out on creating memories and experiences that are most important. A few years ago, I...

Prep For Conversation

Alright people, put on your oven mitts and get out your jello molds because here comes Thanksgiving. One of the things I love most about Thanksgiving is the time for side-by-side conversations. Whether it's watching the Parade, playing a game, or working alongside...

How To Approach Visiting Your Family’s Church

There will be a lot of us visiting churches over the holidays. Maybe you don't usually go and you want to set the tradition for your kids, or maybe you will be visiting somewhere different with family over the holidays.   Our natural instinct will be to question, “How...

Personalized Gifts

After we had our first baby, my husband and I decided that for Christmas we would give our child three gifts. After all, the Wise Men gave Jesus three gifts, and they were "wise," so that seemed like a good consistent plan going forth. (We did a lot of that rational...

What Does Faithfulness Look Like Today?

As I ran this morning, I saw a woman with a new puppy. "Oh, what a cute puppy. Congratulations!" I commented as I passed her. She gave me a weird smirk. I continued running, and further down the path another woman was walking with an empty leash. The puppy was not the...

Thankful Hands

Okay, I’m not sure there is a more fun art project when you are a kid than tracing your own hands. And as parents, do we ever get tired of seeing them? Several years ago, we started tracing our hands on fall colored paper, and then we would carefully cut them out. We...

Be Your Best Self, Have A Better Holiday

The deer on our acreage are getting lazy. Earlier in the fall, when my three-year-old son would yell from the windows, they would look and scatter, jumping the fences and running into the forest. Now, as I ride the tractor towards them, they look up at me and go back...

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