Learning to Actually Practice God’s presence You can CHOOSE to practice the actual presence of God with you. Yes, like so many of the other things that God desires for us, it is a choice. We can be like Brother …
Category Archives: Parenting
Looking Back Through much of my life, I’ve lived as though I have been looking through a rear view mirror. Wishing things were different. Discontent. Sad. Christmas can sometimes bring that out in every person. Christmas Past Are there skeletons …
I think I could have handled the whole thing better. The question posed on someone else’s FB feed was: How do you explain to your daughter that you don’t want her to have a Barbie doll? Of course, there were …
Flashback While out walking today, I had a flashback to a time in Delaware as a single mom of 2 young children. There were many challenges in those days. Not having a car was one of them. Loaded down with …
It’s that Back-To-School time of year. Back to scheduled days. Scheduled bed times. Scheduled meals. Back to busy days. To car pooling the kids to sports and fun events. What is a Mom to do in order to keep her …
Progressive ideals When I married, I held tightly to the progressive ideas of my Baby Boomer generation. One of those ideas was that society was so evil and corrupt, I couldn’t stand bringing a child into the world. The Vietnam …
No woman likes to admit it, but mother’s day makes us vulnerable. We try not to make comparisons with other families. We try really hard to not have any expectations. Yet, how do you not have expectations? Perceptions and emotions …
A couple of newspaper articles intrigued me because they were very different and yet had one thing in common: Young men that were not self-absorbed.They knew what they wanted and nothing was going to stop them. Not tradition. Not fear. …
I have experienced the best AND the worst My job…NOW as a stateside missionary and as a Christ-follower for nearly 50 years…and as a woman who has experienced the best AND the worst life has to offer and yet I …
I learned a bit by going through these changes myself. Even though there will always be a bit of sadness because my kids are off on their own; and even though my friends later told me that they thought I …