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When It’s Not Easy To Get Pregnant
Maybe it’s your sister who’d give anything to see a positive pregnancy test or your best friend who is enduring the pain of another miscarriage. Maybe your coworker is staring down the barrel of...
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A Simple Pick Me Up for Exhausted Moms
No one really understands “motherhood tiredness” until they’re a mother. It’s as if being this tired is a right of passage. Sure, you hear the jokes and stories, but believe me: it’s a special kind of...
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Motherhood and Mental Illness
Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Psalm 42:5 Last week a missions team from Sydney spent the week with our church to serve us and help us run some evangelistic...
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To The Moms Who Have Gone Before
In the season of raising young children when we are reminded time and time again to cherish the season, to enjoy every moment, well-meaning unsolicited advice and self-inflicted guilt is overwhelming...
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The Creative Mom’s Guide to Blending Life and Art
Yesterday, my daughter asked me to paint with her. My first inclination was to say, “No.” There are a lot of things I love to do with my children, but sitting down and painting ranks pretty low on the...
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Going to God with a Wheelbarrow for Mercy
The minute I go on a diet, or give up something delicious for Lent, all of my focus and energy gets stuck on wanting that: craving Cheetos, obsessing about chocolate. I admire people who can cheerfully...
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Sometimes Mom Just Needs a Hug
Well I started my night crying out of frustration and ended it with a whole different set of tears. After a long day at work and my hour-long commute across the city for daycare pick up, my eldest...
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Satisfied.
Screaming follows me down the hallway as my steps move faster toward my bedroom. For 30 minutes our 3 kids have taken turns melting down and screaming my name. Nothing will satisfy them but me. Milk...
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Finding My Seat at the Table of Gratitude
My little Halloween pumpkin is rotting on my front step. Here in Tennessee, our unseasonably warm fall has not treated our carved decorations well. I know it is time to move on, to grab the pumpkin by...
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Don’t Worry, It Gets Better
I had this moment the other day. See, I was cooking a meal for a neighbor; actually, I was cooking two meals for two neighbors. One was new and the other was going through a hard time so I just...
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