• I had to decide between faith and fear. I decided I have a big REAL God in this artificially flavored world.
    Godly Parenting

    Real God in an Artifically Flavored World

    ShareTweetPinShareWhatsApp0 SharesToday, (contrary to everything I’ve been trying to do all year) I purposefully gave my child high fructose corn syrup, artificially flavored, red dye #40 (or whatever is causing cancer this week) on a stick. Yep, all the rules of how we’re trying to eat clean – broke ’em. Nobody died. I don’t even think I gave her cancer. I have been learning a lot about our food this past year, and frankly, it’s terrifying. It is hard to find anything the experts can agree on. So today the rubber met the road, and I cried UNCLE. My daughter gets ferociously carsick on her best days. Every trip past…

  • Mother's Day is full of perfect images, but we're imperfect and that's how God's plan works best.
    Adoption,  Godly Parenting

    Mother’s Day 2014

    ShareTweetPinShareWhatsApp0 SharesAs a blogger, it can be hard to write about holidays or events on demand. I’ve spent all week trying to approach writing about Mother’s Day. My entire blog is about being a Christian mother, and I covered a lot about becoming a mother in an earlier post, Seriously Harvard? that dealt with Samuel 1, Hannah’s story. Plus, many of my friends are struggling this year with having lost a mother or a child, or never having been a mother in the traditional sense. I understand that pain. Being barren myself, Mother’s Day has been hard for me for a long time. I’ve never even gotten to experience the…

  • This tiny tyrant rules my heart, but I need to raise her to be the woman and Godly wife she is meant to be.
    Godly Parenting,  Marriage

    Imagine your tiny tyrant – a Godly wife

    Share18TweetPinShareWhatsApp18 SharesHow do I raise a Godly wife if I’m still learning how to be one? I originally wrote this post two years ago, I’m both encouraged by how far I’ve come and humbled by how far I still have to go. This morning I was reviewing the book I’m reading (The Excellent Wife by Martha Peace). The author discusses how she was a spoiled-rotten only child when she first got married. Her selfishness and lack of self-control were destroying her marriage. I read this and for the first time really realized that my daughter is not only going to grow up to become an adult, woman, mother, but also…