I can hear the bell ring just like it was yesterday. Laughter and voices filled the hall before I even exited the classroom to head to the cafeteria for lunch. Backpacks bumped against each other as everyone raced out the classroom door. Although some of the voices and faces I saw moving were my friends, […]
5 Tips to Help Your Kids Handle the Disappointments of 2020
I can’t count the number of times this year I’ve sat my kids down to tell them that a beloved event or activity was canceled due to the pandemic. I can see their three little faces lined up on the bottom bunk bed. I can feel the tension in my heart, knowing the words I’m […]
You’re already living the dream
“You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, all whose thoughts are fixed on you!” (Isaiah 26:3, NLT) A few years ago, a dear college friend told me she’s living her dream. Four kids crowd her house, the budget is tight, noise and mess are constant, and yet she reminds herself daily […]
Sticky Notes, Bananas, and a Tank Full of Gas
My husband tells me he loves me several times a month. Oh, I don’t mean that he snuggles up to me next on the couch and sweetly whispers in my ear while we are watching Shark Tank and splitting a thin crust veggie pizza, heavy on the sauce, which is our current practice on Friday […]
3 Types of Conversations that Cultivate Strong Communication in Marriage
We’ll never forget the night the Lord revealed the importance of using conversations to cultivate strong communication in our marriage. We were a newly engaged couple on fire for the Lord and were thrilled that the Lord was speaking to us. Having conversations and a strong marriage? That’s brilliant. And we were all in. Seems […]