Your Kids Are More Important

Your Kids Are More Important

Do you know who the 3 most important people are in the life of a mother or father? I’ll give you a hint, you’re not on the list. #1 is definitely not yourself.

Christ's Compassion for our Kids

Christ’s Compassion for our Kids

I’m tired. The idea in my head is that I need to lay down and get a nap, so I try to do so while my boys are playing downstairs. Then I hear my oldest say, “Uh-oh, he peed!” My son, who has been doing…

God spoke and I didn't want to listen

God Spoke and I Didn’t Want to Listen

He didn’t speak to me with an audible voice or anything like that, but this past week, God very clearly asked me to do something, and I really didn’t want to do it. As I was doing my Read. Write. Pray. he guided me in a…

Better a Neighbor Who is Near...

Better a Neighbor Who is Near…

Last summer, the summer of 2015, before my little Orange had even turned a year old, the unthinkable happened. I was sitting down in the living room reading something, while my boys played around different areas of the house. I could hear them, and they all…

What Every Marriage Needs: Cow Dung

What Every Marriage Needs: Cow Dung

Seriously! Cow dung is essential! Okay, maybe it’s not essential to a great marriage, or even to anything in life except maybe farming. But here’s the real essential ingredient to a happy marriage: laughter. As a Christian, I am well aware that laughter is not…