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How to Show Gratitude by Using Your Words “One kind word can change someone’s entire day.” – Anonymous So far we’ve talked about the spiritual, mental and physical benefits of cultivating a grateful heart as well as: 6 Ways To Cultivate A Grateful Heart Today! How […]
How to Choose Gratitude Through Your Day Are you still unsure about the whole cultivating gratitude thing? I understand it can be tough to wrap your brain around, especially if you are in a challenging season. It can seem almost impossible to choose gratitude through […]
How to Start Growing a Habit of Gratitude Right Now Once you are committed to creating a habit of thinking of what you’re grateful for each day, it’s time to consider making it a written activity! I know it can be intimidating for people who […]
6 Ways To Cultivate A Grateful Heart Today Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. 1 Thessalonians 5:18 If we are truly seeking to cultivate a grateful heart we need to begin the “practice of gratitude”. […]
How To Cultivate A Grateful Heart – A Gratitude Challenge Definition of gratitude: the state of being grateful: Thankfulness As I was having (yet another) discussion about patience with my 3-year-old the other day, things took an unsuspecting twist. Me: Baby girl, where is your patience […]
” Homemaking is easy. I’ve got it all under control.” Said no woman. ever. How true is that? If we’re being honest we need help with homemaking. Lots of help. And that’s ok – it’s even a good thing! God created us as individuals with […]
As the season changes, I find myself looking ahead to the upcoming Holidays. I’m looking at the good and…. um, the hectic. Before we hit it head on, I believe fall is a great time for a refocus. My heart has been prompted lately to […]
What then are we to do about our problems? We must learn to live with them until such time as God delivers us from them…we must pray for grace to endure them without murmuring. Problems patiently endured will work for our spiritual perfecting. They […]
10 pm and the house was finally quiet. I ran through the checklist in my overwhelmed mind. I grasped at anything that would make me feel accomplished that day … What could I check off that would say all the busy was “worth it”? Could […]
“Well that didn’t go well” my oldest girl proclaimed. She was right. Sadly it was mostly Mom and Dad’s attitude that was at fault. After nearly 20 years of marriage, that night we still managed to create what we now call the “s’more fiasco”. A […]
“Mom, I really am OK!” I heard my daughter respond once again to my questioning of how she was doing. It had been a rough spring. In Florida during what should have been a fun-filled Spring Break, we discovered she had broken her right foot. Her left had been […]
Is it hard to be a girl in today’s culture? Perhaps. With being a teen or tween, secular expectations on what to look like, what to wear, what to value and the rush to grow up is overwhelming. As a girl, tween or teen, […]
As you strive to continue raising godly girls, I encourage you to teach them the difference between courting and dating. Though I believe the Lord had a plan for my life, I also believe that if I had truly understood the clear difference between the […]
Raising Godly Girls requires respect. Do you Respect your daughters? Of course! For most of us that would be our first response to this question. It was mine, but as I’ve looked more closely at my relationship with my daughters I’ve found that I’m not […]
Anyone who has ever read my blog or listened to my podcast knows that I went through a long phase of legalism during my teen years. The primary way this legalism played out in my own personal life was in my practice of taking […]
Girls today are faced with scary, heartbreaking statistics when it comes to body image. Over 80% of 10-year-olds are afraid of being fat 53% of 13-year-old American girls are unhappy with their bodies. This number grows to 78% by the time girls reach 17. By […]
I was called into her office. I couldn’t help but notice how cold everything felt. It was impersonal and gray. But this was the moment I had been waiting for. Did I have a chance at this modeling thing? Could I make the cut? She […]
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I still remember the way my knees felt. I have never, before that point, or thankfully since, been taken to my knees with such a quickness. I remember the phone feeling like a ton of bricks. I remember hearing a cry… or a scream? and […]
