Mommy Moments Link Up
Welcome to Mommy Moments! We hope you all had a week filled with wonderful memories! I have enjoyed getting to know all the new mamas linking up and sharing their lives with us! I can’t wait to hear more from you all again this week! We are excited to be adding in a new co-host this week, Micah from Deeper Life Today! Make sure you stop by to welcome her as the newest member of our team! Motherhood has its seriousness and frustration as well as its laughs. That’s why we are here. Life is much easier when traveled with
What Children Really Need
There are moments of motherhood that are difficult. Life gets busy and the family suffers. We hurry, rush and snap at each other and wonder why everyone is so irritable. And he took a child and put him in the midst of them, and taking him in his arms, he said to them, “Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me, receives not me but him who sent me.” Mark 9:36-37(ESV) Then there are other moments. Sweet mama moments, when it feels like a little slice of heaven is looking right into my eyes.
Cultivating Calmness: 1 Simple Step to Calmer Mornings
If you missed last week’s post about Cultivating Calmness you can view it HERE. I am not the master of calm mornings, but I have been the creator of completely chaotic ones. I guess you could say, I have learned the hard way what not to do in the morning when children need to be fed, dressed and sent out the door for school. But all things should be done decently and in order. I Corinthians 14:40(ESV) Let’s be honest, early mornings and children do not always go smoothly. If you add in a tired, irritable mom, you will have
Silent Stealers of Joy: Good Intentions & Guilt
After a long day of mothering, wife-ing, friending, loving, helping, caring, cooking, cleaning, shopping and everything else-ing, I snuggle into my bed and the thoughts of what I should have done differently begin. My thoughts parade through my mind like a slide show highlighting the little things I forgot to do or say. I think of how I should have answered my friend differently or stopped what I was doing to make that needed phone call. I remember the way I rushed my husband out the door so that I would have more time, only to kick myself when I
Cultivating Calmness: Turn Down the Noise of Life
There is something relaxing about the sound of God’s creation reacting to the ebbs and flows of nature. I enjoy the enchanting sound of birds chirping, rain falling on the roof and leaves as they rustle in the cool breeze of fall. Too often life seems to drowned out the simple sounds that God created. The noise of life bombards our lives and it takes major effort to lower the volume of life. How do we turn down the volume of life when life does not slow down, shut down or stop? Here are a few simple ideas. 1. Limit
What If God Does Not Answer My Prayer?
This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. I John 5:14 (NIV) Breathing deeply, I prayed the same prayer I had prayed for weeks. “Lord, please give me an answer.” I could not understand why God would not answer my prayer. My husband, who had been perfectly healthy, was suddenly in a hospital bed surrounded by perplexed doctors. If the doctors could find the problem maybe they could begin treatment. I desperately wanted to know what was wreaking havoc on my soulmate’s body. I prepared myself for
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