Happy Wednesday, everyone! I want to kick this week's Encouraging Word Wednesday off by announcing the winner of last week's giveaway! Congratulations, Angel Penn! Email your mailing address to me at charlie at mississippimom.com, and I'll send a copy of Learnable Moments for Moms your way! If you haven't read Angel's blog, visit today! She writes so many encouraging posts about marriage ...
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What it means to be SO LOVED
The small house was dimly lit and fairly shabby, marked by an air of neglect that went deeper than a need to sweep. The woman who lived in it wore the same expression of being tired, overlooked, unwanted. Her small house was a symbol of her status: she was the wife who was unworthy. In her culture, multiple marriages were common, and often the importance of the wife ...
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 ...
A Gift in a Gift is a Gift
There are no presents under our tree. I haven't started wrapping them yet. If you're like me, and you haven't wrapped your gifts gets, maybe you could wrap them in these beautiful, handmade gift bags? They're small and perfect for things like jewelry and ornaments or things of similar size. They're made of African batik fabric, and all money from sale of them will go directly ...