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Intentionally Building for Christ

It’s time to up the ante. Pour it all out, everything you are counting on and holding fast to, because complacency is rotting our families from the inside-out. We need to step into each situation, each interaction, each opportunity…pur-pose-ful-ly. Say it slowly in your mind. Make it your mantra. Just like a dear friend I have serving in a dangerous land. She must be alert for the safety of all those around her is at stake. She must live, pour it out fully and trust that God will show her how and when and where and why. She is tied securely …

DIY Chocolate Mint Lip Balm

This is a fun, super easy project to do along side your kiddos! Perfectly glossy as well as soothing, your lips will absolutely love these! The mint warms your lips while the chocolate adds a yummy taste and slight tint. Most of these ingredients you will already find in your kitchen. The rest can be purchased through Amazon.com. I use transparent clear lip balm containers found here. Your mouth will love the all-natural, skin loving ingredients. Remember these have no preservatives, so enjoy them within six months! (This won’t be a problem-trust me!) Do you have any DIY …

The Most Important Thing the Bible Says About Pain

In 2008, I was blissfully naïve about miscarriages, infant loss, and infertility. I was pregnant with my first child at the time, and I was that pregnant woman. You know the one. She posts “belly pics” every month of her pregnancy. She can’t contain her excitement. That was me then…before loss. Now, four miscarriages, hundreds of tests, and thousands of dollars later, I’m not so naïve. I know a lot more about pregnancy loss and the battle of infertility that thousands of couples face each day. After scouring websites, books, and pamphlets for months on end, I learned way more …

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Health(ier) Meals for Families On-the-Go

Once upon a time, when my girls were babies, I made majority of their baby food. I have always enjoyed being creative in the kitchen but since I’ve been working part-time, it has been so much harder to put a home cooked meal on the table each night. We juggle two work schedules, mother’s morning out, church, gymnastics, working out, and family/friend time each week. Needless to say, some nights our dinner consists of pizza or chinese food! In an effort to keep up with our on-the-go family, I’m trying to get back to food basics with health(ier) options for …

You Already Have Good Land

We had lived in our house in California for eight years at the time. It was a beautiful two-story at the corner of a quiet court, and we loved it. We loved our neighbors too. But after being there for eight years, I started to get an itch for change. It wasn’t that I wanted to leave where we lived. In fact, thinking about that was the hard part. Our kids had many friends in the neighborhood, and so did Mike and I. It was the desire for something different that drove me: I had grown up in a single …

15 Ways to Break Your Child’s Heart

Working with parents and kids I have seen the little ones (and older kids) totally deflate when mom or dad parents or interacts a particular way. There are 15 arrows that always pierce the tender hearts of our kids. Let’s put these weapons down. If you want to break your child’s heart and crush his spirit, do these 15 things: Do these 15 things if you want to break your child’s heart.@themominitiativ @loriwildenberg #RaisingKids Click To Tweet Discipline in anger. “You are grounded for life.” Criticize rather than correct. “That’s a stupid way to solve that problem.” Lecture rather than …

A Mother’s Speech

Oh! Be careful little mouth, lips, tongue what you say. For the father up above is looking down in love. I remember singing this song as a child. There was a season in my life when I wasn’t closely connected to God. I had wandered from worship, fellowship and intimate time spent daily in God’s Word. I became self-centered instead of God centered. How do I know? My vocabulary changed. Things I thought I would NEVER say started escaping from my lips. My attitude was NOT gratitude. I was stopped short when what I said was repeated by my young …

Kids, Costumes and Dressing Up for Sunday School

Are some battles reserved for Sunday mornings? Despite our best intentions and Saturday planning, it may seem the Enemy and all his minions move against us. It’s no wonder we give in on Sunday to what we would refuse on a weekday. While it’s still mid-week, let’s talk about kids, costumes, and sabotaging Sunday School. We don’t leave Sunday morning decisions in the back of the car. We bring them in and send them to Sunday School. Because of that, we can’t afford to hope for the best with costumes and kiddos at church. What healthy, costume-owning child hasn’t imagined …

Are You a Grandmother Estranged from Your Grandchildren?

Recently, I received an email from a grandmother who was asking me to pray with her because she was estranged from her granddaughter. Her heart is broken, finding it very difficult to deal with the situation, like many grandparents do today. When we reach the mid-life years of our lives we look forward to becoming grandparents and very excited when our first grandchild is born and the grandchildren that follow. However, today there are many grandparents with broken hearts because they are estranged from their grandchildren. Being estranged from your grandchildren often results in many negative emotions. Sorting out exactly …

Soak Me in Your Laundry by Marcie Gribbin

Soak me in your laundry and I’ll come out clean, scrub me and I’ll have a snow-white life. Tune me in to foot-tapping songs, set these once-broken bones to dancing. Don’t look too close for blemishes, give me a clean bill of health. God, make a fresh start in me, shape a Genesis week from the chaos of my life. Don’t throw me out with the trash, or fail to breathe holiness in me. Bring me back from gray exile, put a fresh wind in my sails! Give me a job teaching rebels your ways so the lost can find …

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