3 Fun Things to Do with Your Kids This Thanksgiving

It’s the week of Thanksgiving, which means your kids are officially out of school or in their final days before Thanksgiving break. If your family is like mine, you are so ready for some time off from school so you can eat delicious food, catch up with family and friends, and begin your Christmas shopping (and decorating!). While it is easy to fill this week with lots of activities, the thing that I cherish most about Thanksgiving is it can be a time to rest. My favorite part of Thanksgiving is taking a nap after lunch on Thanksgiving Day!!! While …

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Mirror, Mirror of the Word – Tips For Effective Bible Reading

“Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all?” How many times have we heard this line from the story Snow White? The Wicked Queen asks the magic mirror this question every day, and until the appearance of Snow White the reflection responds that she, the Wicked Queen, is the fairest. The only problem with this answer is that the mirror is only looking at outward appearance. It does not judge her evil heart, blackened with jealousy and cruelty. What would she have done if the mirror had pointed out her wicked ways? There is no such thing …

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Trusting God With Your Children’s Future

Do you ever worry about your children’s future? The world is so unsettled right now. There is so much violence occurring on a daily basis. People are angry and confused. Everyone feels they have the right to believe whatever fits their fancy. No one has the right to tell someone else he is wrong. Children are indoctrinated with views that are contrary to God’s word. Many are falling away from the Biblical model that their parents provided for them. What will happen in fifty years when we are gone and they are left to fend for themselves? What will they …

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The Example of a Nursing Mother

1 Thessalonians 2:7 “But we proved to be gentle among you, as a nursing mother tenderly cares for her own children.” There are not many experiences that are sweeter than cradling a tiny baby in your arms and nursing her. This was one of my precious joys of motherhood, and a memory I will always keep. The bond that forms between mother and child while nursing every few hours throughout the day and late night becomes so strong you believe you would do anything to provide for and protect that child. Though not every mother has this opportunity of being …

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Perfectionism is Overrated!

Micah 6:8 He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, to love kindness and to walk humbly with your God? Hi, my name is Sandy, and I’m a closet perfectionist. And I know that perfectionism is overrated! No one would know my secret if they looked at my house, my hair, or my clothes, but somewhere down deep there is a desire for perfection. My heart races and my nerves shake when things are not in order. I used to tell my children I could not make …

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When Your Husband is Snared by Sexual Sin

When our husbands are snared in sexual sin, where do we go for answers? Click To Tweet Cassie’s life reflected peaceful perfection. Three beautiful young kids, a stylish new home, all topped off with her handsome husband she adored. They met and fell head-over-heels in love at the young age of eighteen, and now ten years later were joyfully living out the American dream.  Until, that is, venomous pictures popped up without warning early one morning. Images spilling from the screen, forgotten to be deleted from the computer’s history, reached out tearing into this sheltered young mother’s soul. Her tranquil, in-control …

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When the Christmas Season Hurts

What happens when the Christmas season hurts? Usually just saying the word Christmas brings up a bounty of fun family memories – snow, family, the smell of a fresh cut tree and yet this year, for many people just the thought of the Christmas season brings tears to their eyes. What happens when the Christmas season hurts? Practical tips to make it through this Christmas. Click To Tweet It’s a powerful parallel, on one hand there are millions of people everywhere that are full of the Christmas spirit. You know who they are, they just can’t help themselves, they have …

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Daylight Saving Time Can Help

This year fall back can really be helpful to you, mama!  Your kids may be staying up late for Halloween. If so, just remember that DST and Halloween fall on the same night this year. But great news…your family GAINS one hour of sleep. Tonight, the autumn clock will fall back by one hour and most of us in the western world will gain one very precious hour of sleep. Let the kids sleep in if they stayed up late from their Halloween tromping and candy corn comas. Hey..it’s only for one day. It is NOT worth the battle in the morning. Another opportunity is to …

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Limitless Wisdom

James 1:5-6 “But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But he must ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind.” Parenting is a job that takes infinite wisdom. From the moment our babies our born, our experience, patience, and endurance are taxed to the limit. Even all the books that are out there cannot help us with every situation we will face in the …

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Have You Fallen Into the Planned Parenthood Trap?

I felt helpless laying flat on the table, doctors talking in hushed whispers as they hovered around me. I gripped onto my husband’s quivering hand as he sat and sobbed. As the ultrasound wand circled my swollen belly, I felt like a lab-rat being inspected from the inside out. The pictures on the ultrasound screen spoke two different messages: one to the doctors of deformity, illness, malady, dysfunction; the other to me of a precious silhouette with hiccups, clinched fists, cute crossed legs, sweet nose.  The professionals started urging me to take the “best road,” to terminate the pregnancy and …

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