Praying Psalm 28:7 for Your Children

Scripture! It changes hearts. It changes lives. And it is the MOST POWERFUL TOOL we have to pray for our children! Today, sweet moms, would you take just a few minutes to seek God’s face on behalf of your children? If you’re not sure how, we are here to help. Almost every week we share from a Scripture you can pray for your children. Today, pray for their hearts. Pray that God will assure them that He alone is their strength. Pray that they will trust Him with ALL of their hearts! Keep praying. Keep crying out for your kids. …

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Funny ‘Mom’ Stuff – Just for Fun

I love to laugh! How about you? So, today, I thought I’d share a couple MOM videos that I hope will bring a smile to your MOM HEART! Just for fun…  Click here if you can’t view this in your RSS feed.   There’s a lot of truth in this video and a funny look at why we really are BETTER TOGETHER!   Click here if you can’t read this in your RSS feed.  

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TherMOMeter: Setting The Temperature In Your Family

As a young mom, I had no idea that my mood could and would set the temperature for the entire house; actually I wasn’t aware yet, but I was the therMOMeter of my home. If I was in a bad mood, it eventually bled over and made everyone else have a bad mood too. My boys were little when I decided to test this idea out. I decided that no matter how I “felt” that day I would take a few notes and see how quickly my attitude started affecting how the kids (and even my husband) were behaving in …

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Setting Sail

So, today my Nile rushes before me. It’s the door of the kindergarten classroom. It’s the car keys jangling in his pocket. It’s the foster child walking away with my heart. It’s the church aisle and bouquets of flowers. It’s the goodbye before the train, the car, the plane leaves.

And I must open my hands to release.

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104 Date Night Ideas instead of 50 Shades of Gray

My mother thought if she loved my father enough, he would change. He didn’t. Instead, I watched my father love my mother to the best of his broken abilities. I watched my mother become less of a woman, and I watched my heart break into millions of little pieces as my mother would clean up the glass from one of my Dad’s anger fits or hold an ice pack to a broken nose; deep down I knew this wasn’t real love or healthy.  Flash forward fifteen years later. I am raising two girls and one precious boy. My fifteen year old …

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Your Children are Not a Statistic

I’ve done the research. The statistics for single parents and their children are not encouraging to say the least. From failed marriages, to increased drug and alcohol use, crime, and depression: the picture of children from single family homes is bleak. And it makes me angry. Not because I’m in a demographic that I never wanted to be in—isn’t that the case for most single moms? Not because the statistics always take a negative bent—I mean, seriously, almost every one. And, not because what they say has the power to keep some women in bad situations because they fear for …

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Four Foundations for a Happy Marriage

I think it’s time to really just get real about marriage. Marriage isn’t always easy and you don’t always like each other. But there are four things that can help you have an amazing marriage no matter how tough things may get. So…in light of the upcoming “Holiday of Love” I thought I’d share some thoughts on love and marriage in a rather exposed, up-close and personal kind of way. My husband is my best friend. But it hasn’t always been this way. However, now…after 28 years, I can say we are more in love now than the day we said “I …

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