What Our Choices Have to Do with Knowing God More

Okay y’all! So, I’m just gonna be real here. Some of you aren’t going to like what I’m getting ready to say. Do you really treasure God’s Word? Do you embrace the truth that you need to read and memorize it? Are you hungry to know and understand the Scriptures or are you satisfied with making the sum of your time in the Word an Instagram view of a verse created as a cute graphic meme? Recently, I spoke to some moms about how they don’t have time to read God’s Word or really spend time in intimate prayer. So, …

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Smart Summer Strategies

Summer’s Here! Whoo hoo! Kids are out of school. No rushed mornings. Or, at least no homework or projects due.   BUT….are your children controlling you? Or, are you building into them the following admirable traits?  Personal Responsibility  Do you want to raise a slob or someone who knows how to pick up after themselves? It may not bother you to pick up a 2 year old’s sippy cup. But if your 7 year old knocks over his apple juice and leaves it on the table, you may be rightly annoyed. And it isn’t cool for a 12 year old to leave cans of half drunk sodas …

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To the Mom Who is Barely Hanging On

    When I was a young girl, all I wanted to be when I grew up was a mom.  While my friends were making plans to have a career or be someone famous, I day dreamed of being a mom and what my family would look like.  We would have the perfect house complete with a white picket fence.  I would drive a minivan and volunteer for local charities. I would greet my husband at the door every evening with a kiss after his long hard day at work.  I would have a girl and a boy (because isn’t …

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Come Away With Me

Every week or so, I feel a strong tug on my heart, a prompting from the Lord, to COME and GET AWAY with Him for awhile.  I may be dropping my kids off at school in the morning (it may have taken 14 years, but we are finally out of the baby/toddler/preschool stage!), and I hear His voice, quietly beckoning me to come on a walk with Him. So I do!  I grab my journal and Bible (and camera!)—sometimes even buy a nice cup of coffee for the time—and I drive to a nearby park called Fox Run.  It is …

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A Tool for Staying in the Word

From the outside my Chronological Bible looks worn. Green fabric is frayed around the edges revealing the thick cardboard underneath. The front and back covers are clinging to the spine by a thin piece of tape and the dust cover has long been lost. The letters on the spine are beginning to fade. “Looks pretty beat-up,” my hairdresser noted as I opened it while waiting for my color to set. I smiled and nodded, “I’ve been reading through it for over four years now.” For more than four years I have been reading chronologically through the Bible. That green raggedy …

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