by Angie Tolpin It was one of those days — you know the kind; itʼs only 2 oʼclock and you’re already exhausted. You’ve just finished putting the little ones down for their afternoon ...
Now I know why my mom never really finished books when we were growing up. Because now I have those same stacks of half-finished books everywhere — by the bed, near the couch, on my desk beneat...
by Tammy Kennington I have a confession to make. It begins with the birth of our first child. One glance at his precious, wrinkled, newborn face and I knew Ben was destined to attain great things. I ...
by Anne Demitre “Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.” (Corrie Ten Boom) I dreamed it ever since I was just a girl — this dream of being called mommy. It grew with me. It was a ...
If you are a woman, whether you are married or single and whether or not you have physical children, there is a maternal spirit within your very nature. That maternal spirit has been given you by God...
I was eleven years old – bookish, imaginative, shy, average – when I met Bethany. I had outgrown any possible cuteness, but not yet grown into any possible maturity. Bethany was sixteen. She was beau...
You know me inside and out,you know every bone in my body; You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit, how I was sculpted from nothing into something. Like an open book, you watched me grow from con...
You know you’re the second mom in a big family when… You start saying the same things to your siblings that your mom said to you. Your siblings accidentally call you Mom. You’re always counting heads...
My family loves music and our little ones are no exception. From the time he was very small, Cedar loved to bop around to music and he had surprisingly good rhythm for a baby. As he got older and mor...
Guilt. It stalks us, confuses us, winds its tendrils around our throats and suffocates us. And mothers seem to have captured the dubious honor of cornering the market on guilt. We receive it in the c...
by Holly Clouse The first time I heard it, I froze. I was talking to my son, and I told him something, and I sounded exactly like my mom. It was the same phrase, the same tone. “Is my mom here?” I th...
We settle into our seats at church, finally counting enough spaces for our large, mismatched family, and breathe a sigh of relief just before the music starts. As the music minister makes his way to ...
It was an evening of failure. Failure on my sweet girls’ part to behave like sweet girls, as they instead fussed and whined and let petty arguments take hold between them. Even worse, failure o...
by Mrs. Steve Castleberry (continued from part 1) Teach your child the things of Christ. Deuteronomy 6:7 instructs us, “And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them ...
by Mrs. Steve Castleberry III John 4 says, “I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.” I am an older mom of eight children – the oldest is thirty and the youngest is eleven –...
by September McCarthy Newly married and walking into a church service with my husband, he is holding my hand — I can feel his ring against mine. I love this man. Sitting in the pew, shoulder to...
I watched her with her children today. The gentle voice. The soft instruction. She didn’t try to moderate disagreements from where she was at the kitchen counter; she didn’t wait until she was finish...
1. Let yourself grieve. More than once. When I found out that my sister-in-law was pregnant with twins, I cried huge blistering tears over the ultrasound pictures. And I thought, “There. I mourned ne...
It had been a rather hard evening. After two busy days with only too-short car naps, we had some very tired kids. A very fussy baby and a toddler who would start throwing a tantrum at the slightest p...
The point is, if we dress differently, we will act differently. We will be ready for whatever the day hands us; we will be ready to pursue our day with intentionality. (page 15, Frumps to Pumps) It&#...
Selfishly, I want this site to ‘grow with me’ — but I was so blessed by how it served me as a ‘younger’ woman that if YLCF served younger, single women more, I would rej...
Do you feel confused when you look into your wardrobe? Are you overwhelmed when you go shopping? What is your style? For clothes? For shoes? For accessories? Finding your style is never going to be q...
It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want – oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache...
What, exactly, is modesty? And why, when modesty can be defined and described with poetic words like “restrained by seemliness” and “delicate”, do I struggle with a number of ...
When you feel insignificant and when you feel too small, remember that courage doesn’t always roar. Remember that God doesn’t give us courage until we need it. Remember that brave isn’t always fighti...
Q. I have known this guy for a few weeks and he says he is in love with me. But I don’t really want to be in a relationship right now. I have no idea what I am doing. I just need some advice o...
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Once upon a time in the land of the glass hearts, there lived a young girl. This girl, as all the girls did, carried with her a heart. While she was young it was kept safely on the nightstand by her ...
Oh Jerusalem, you’ve given me so much this weekend: adventure, good fellowship, a sun-burned nose, and a heart-full for pondering. This Good Friday was also the night of the Passover Seder meal...
I don’t have a lot of money to invest in converting my current rental into a tried and true green-friendly home, but I honestly believe that conserving energy and being careful with our world doesn’t...
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