Pray in the Spirit at all times and on every occasion. Stay alert and be persistent in your prayers for all believers everywhere. Ephesians 6:18 NLT Moms of teenagers, buckle up, all the bumps and bruises you went through in the baby, child, and adolescent stage start to prepare you for the adventure of parenting today’s teenager. I’m not trying to scare you at all, just speaking the truth in love from one mom to another. So, let’s put on our safety harness and walk through some of this together, shall we? As the mom of two teenage boys it …
What is The M.O.M. Initiative anyway? And How can I be involved?
Have you ever wondered what The M.O.M. Initiative is? What we do? How you can be involved? Ever wished there was a book that could help moms navigate the difficult waters of motherhood from a biblical and real-life perspective, yet also serve as a tool that is uniquely designed to make small group study and mentoring moms easy and relevant? This past week I was interviewed on a local news station to share about what The M.O.M. Initiative is, the BETTER TOGETHER Conference we are holding in Jacksonville, Florida on July 31st through August 2nd, and how you can PRE-ORDER …
Feed My Lambs
“Do you love me?” Jesus asked Peter – you and me, too. “Yes”, Peter answered. Jesus told Peter – and you and me – “Feed my lambs. . . . Shepherd my sheep. . . . Feed my Sheep” (John 21: 15-19) A few weeks ago, my family chose to sponsor through Compassion International an 11 year old boy in Haiti. He is one of those lambs that need feeding, literally and spiritually. My support allows for others to spiritually mother and father this boy – and it allows those spiritual parenting hands to fill bowls and make soul-contact that …
more than family
My sister-in-law, Kari Beth, is more than family to me. She’s my friend. Before she and I married brothers, we shared a suite in our freshman dorm. It was totally arranged by God that we would be suitemates because we had actually met as little girls through a mutual friend who had moved from Kari Beth’s hometown to mine. So, when her dark ponytail bounced through our bathroom door to say hello on a blazing hot August day ten years ago, I knew that this was someone meant to be in my life. Since then, we’ve shared pizza together in …
WEEK of LOVE at The M.O.M. Initiative ~ GIVEAWAYS & Buy 1/GET 1 TICKETS to BETTER TOGETHER!
It’s here! The WEEK of LOVE at The M.O.M. Initiative! The week we LOVE on all of you with great GIVEAWAYS every day of the week AND the week we offer tickets to the BETTER TOGETHER CONFERENCE for BUY 1 / GET 1 at the regular price of $49 (that’s 2 tickets for ONLY $49). BETTER TOGETHER is 3 DAYS with 19 authors & speakers CONVERGING in ONE PLACE and sharing over 40 WORKSHOPS for YOU! AND it’s the week we invite YOU to BUY 1 / GIVE 1 to sponsor a ticket for those sweet moms in low income neighborhoods, crisis pregnancy …
Why Moms Matter
A few months ago, I read a funny post about why God made moms. When asked why God made mothers, one second grader said, “She’s the only one who knows where the Scotch tape is.” This is certainly true in my home, and I’m guessing it might be true in yours as well. (Why is it we are the only ones who remember where things are put away?) Unfortunately (and all jokes aside), we moms sometimes agree with this young girl. We feel like all we ever do is clean, cook, or run errands. It’s tempting at times to wonder …
Teach Us To Make The Most Of Our Time Visual Verse
Time. We have a limited amount of it. Once it’s gone, it’s gone. Tomorrow will come and we will have 24 more hours to make the most of our time. What if, sweet moms, we purposed to make the most of that time by being fully present with our families. Fully aware. Fully involved. and fully ready to see what God would have us do with each of those minutes in that day for our kids and our families. It’s not a checklist, nor is it a “dream” of all the great things you will get done that day, but …
How To Have A Jesus Loves You Party With Your Kids For Valentine’s Day
We love because he first loved us. 1 John 4:19 ESV February has now become the month of love. No longer just a single day, on the actual day of Valentine’s Day, but in a lot of ways the whole month is celebrated by showing those you love how much they mean to you. Honestly, I think it is fantastic idea, but truth be told, our loved ones should know how much we love them all the time…not just on a day, or during a special month that society tells us to celebrate. As a …
Mom, You Can Follow Your Dreams!
“If you could do ANYTHING and know it could succeed, what would it be?” I ask this question often—when I have coffee with friends and when I speak to mom groups. Usually I see nods . . . then I see tears. We all have dreams, don’t we? Yet we don’t know how in the world we can follow them. Maybe you’re just trying to catch up with laundry and errands. Maybe you’re just trying to figure out how to get to T-ball practice and get dinner on the table tonight. I understand. I’m a mom of six, and I’ve …
Taming “Those” Behaviors
Actor & Comedian Ray Romano is quoted as saying, “The more I go through parenting, the more I say I owe my mother an apology.” Too funny and TOO true! I remember about eight years back when I was a mother of a post toddler, a soon-to-be-tween & a pre-teenager, I felt like I didn’t know what I was doing a majority of the time. Some days, the goin’ was pretty smooth. However, when “those” times came—the ones where behavior problems, entitlement issues and disrespect rose up—then I would lean on the wisdom of the great parents I knew who …