For good or for bad, we parents are the biggest influences in our children’s lives. The way we live creates an impression on kids for the rest of their lives. As scary as that sounds, that’s exactly how God designed family to be. The Bible teaches that parents are to...
A few years ago, there was a Facebook fad going around. It was a friend quiz called “How Well Do You Know Me?” After miserably failing the tests of several of my closest friends, I sent my own in return. To my gratification, they also failed. So all was fair in...
When my first child was born, a certain quote became very important to me. I found it in a stash of newspaper clippings in a box of odds and ends that was passed to me after my grandmother died. I had this little clipping for years, but in my first year of motherhood,...
A friend of mine has worked almost her whole life. Even in elementary school she helped her parents keep their restaurant going. So it was quite a shock to her when she had to stay home for three weeks while she changed jobs. “It was so boring!” she said. “I would get...
I remember hearing the song “Mary Did You Know?” by Michael English for the first time after becoming a mom. I had always loved the song, but hearing the message as a mom gave me a new perspective. The song is a series of questions to Mary, the mother of Jesus, asking...
