“This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine…” We have all hummed this catchy little tune a time or two. It is based on Matthew 5:16. Jesus had just finished healing thousands and giving us the gift of the eight beatitudes. Jesus wasn’t talking about making sure we turned on our porch lights at night. He was talking about letting the Holy Spirit shine brightly within us. The Holy Spirit is sent to each believer to dwell with us. This “glow” means the light within you is how you allow yourself to be led by the Holy Spirit.
Six Strategies to Raise Kind Kids & Teens
If you want your child, tween or teen to be kind, you’re wasting your breath. Lip service doesn’t do the trick. A recent study suggests parents have to work harder to show that they actually value things like helping an elderly stranger as much as they do getting A’s. Kindness isn’t taught, it’s caught.
How To Be A Better Mom According To The Bible!
Welcome to the mother ‘hood’: Where you will forever be chasing how to be a better mom. Motherhood is a place where you have no control over anything. The time and day no longer matter. Your purse has officially become a dumpster fire. Showering is optional, coffee is not. Sleep will be nonexistent for the next 18 years, and everyone will have an opinion on how you handle the hood. You will repeat yourself a hundred times just to get shoes on. You will never get to pee alone again and now you get to cross your legs when you sneeze.
This should be the official welcome declaration that is read in the tone of the Miranda Rights to every new mother as she waddles to the bathroom in her hospital mesh underwear just after birth.
Brave Moms Raise Wildly Brave Kids
It’s no secret my siblings and I were raised by wolves. Being the product of a desert raised dweller growing up in the 80’s, my mom’s philosophy to mothering was this, “Outside!” My five siblings and I spent hours on end out of eyesight, playing in the gullies and washes of our Arizona home. We…
The ADHD Bills of Rights – And encouragement for every parent of an ADHD kid.
I knew this summer would be hard–but I honestly didn’t realize how hard it would be. Can I be honest for a minute? I have been lonely, angry, and guilt ridden. I know it’s summer, I know we are all busy, but what made issues for me more intense was realizing I had no one…
Breaking the Beauty Paradox: The Legacy I Want to Leave My Daughter
A note to my new subscribers and mama friends. If I could just reach through this screen right now, I’d hug you and hand you a cup of caramel drizzle coffee. I’m a mom to three: Cheyenne (almost 15), Elijah 7, and Tori Grace is five and my hubby and I just renewed our vows…