Yoda once said, "Do or do not. There is no try." Y'all, Yoda wasn't human. And, if there's anything I know about being human, it's this: Some days, the triumph IS the trying. Not the outcome, but the effort. As a mom, many days, all I can say is, "I'm trying." I'm trying to hold it together when it all seems to fall apart. I'm trying to teach them to ...
Refuge
"Redeemed from the pit." Christians hear that (and think that) phrase quite a bit, and with good reason. God's pulled me from a few pits, I promise. But when I visited Kenya last month, I saw someone on the first day out. I watched a young girl be pulled from refuse and given a refuge. Nine months pregnant. An orphan. She spent her days digging for food in the city dump. Now, she and ...
Treasure this: You’re free!
Don't you just love it when you happen across something beautiful in God's word? Something you've never seen before? The kind of thing that stops you in your tracks and sinks deep into your heart, transforming your thoughts and changing your perspective. In like a minute and a half. It's the kind of moment when you have no doubt that the word of God is living and active because God just ...
You are NEVER just a mom.
I've seen others do it. I've done it myself. That little half-shrug that goes with the standard response to the question, "So, what do you do?" "I'm just a mom." A little lie wrapped up in a shrug and sealed with a sort of half smile. But still a lie. Because you have never been "just" a mom. And neither have I. My pediatrician and I were talking about it this ...