Tag: motherhood
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Can A Stay at Home Mom Have a Say in the Budget?
A clear call from the Lord to leave corporate America to be at home with my girls left me feeling unsure about how to engage in our family’s budget. Would I completely lose all financial freedom now that I didn’t have income-producing work? What if I wanted to purchase new clothes, items for the house, […]
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3 Things to Teach Our Children about God’s Holiness
“Mom, she (her sister) said that if I look at God, my eyes will burn out!” exclaimed my daughter. Just another typical afternoon fulfilling my roles as chauffeur and referee to my three children. Recalling that the girls had recently studied the story of Moses and the burning bush (Exodus 3:1-17), I was grateful to […]
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3 Reasons Children Need to See Their Parents Wrestle with Their Faith
I’ve never been one to shy away from difficult conversations, believing that hard truths and awkward situations should be addressed swiftly and directly by using logic and facts. And then, I became a parent. Children ask tough questions—questions that need solid answers. In our family, our daughters’ inquiries often revolve around the subject of faith. […]
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5 Things to Remember When Your Children Ask Tough Questions
I recently read that the average American spends about an hour a day in the car. For mothers of school-aged children, the amount doubled. And in some cases, the amount of time tripled, which led me to question if I was making the most of “car time” with my children. Answer: not often enough, so […]
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Choosing Grace in Everything
This devotion originally appeared on Proverbs 31 Encouragement for Today. Crash! My stomach lurched as I sprinted into the bedroom where my 14-month-old daughter greeted me with a toothy grin. There on the littered floor, she played among a fallen lamp with a couple of scattered, small picture frames — and all the contents from […]
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Hello God? Are you Listening?
Devotion first appeared on Choosing Him Ministries. I wearily walked back into the restaurant, my thoughts dark and my heart heavy. Suddenly, our server appeared with a note—a note with the exact words I needed at that very moment. It wasn’t a coincidence. It wasn’t just a random act of kindness. It was God speaking […]
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When We Don’t Have the Answers
Anyone else’s children ask hard questions? Feeling hopeless because you don’t have all the answers right now? Check out the post below for some encouragement.
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Attitude is Everything
While I was growing up, my parents constantly reminded me to remember my manners and to mind my attitude. Attitude. See, I’ve been “attitude – challenged” since an early age. When things go MY way I am as happy as a clam, but when things go differently or someone steps in my way, I get […]
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Manage Your Schedule before it Manages You
During a recent conversation with a friend, she lamented, “I feel so out of whack; I just can’t seem to get myself or my children on a schedule.” Chuckling, I replied, “I can’t seem to get myself off of a schedule.” My love for all things structured and pre-planned comes honestly, for I come from […]
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It Takes A Village
Recently, I read an article stating that America is actually one of the few cultures in the world that tends to rear families tightly within their nuclear unit. In many other cultures several generations live in the same house, or at the very most, within a stone’s throw. However, I have noticed more American women […]
Laura R Bailey 