Have you ever been in a rut where it feels like all you are doing with your child is correcting and disciplining? We are in one in our house right now with our six-year-old son. It feels like every ask is so hard: Time to brush your teeth; The bus is coming in 20 minutes; […]
My eight-year-old daughter and I were singing our hearts out to “Jingle Burgers” (YouTube it!) the other night on our way to help host bingo at the local assisted living space. After the song was over, I had her pause before picking a new one to tell her what the boys, my husband and sons,
To say my 6 year old son has a sweet tooth, is a great understatement. During this season of Christmas and holidays our counter and cupboards look probably like many of yours, filled with extra treats and baked goods. He asked me the other morning if he could have a Christmas treat from the counter.
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In the late hours of the night, I heard our bedroom door open and little feet coming towards my side of the bed. My 8-year-old daughter was coming to ask for help with her bloody nose. Several hours after getting her taken care of and back into bed, my 1-year-old cries out for a bottle.
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This weekend I did a major closet purge. It feels so good to have space and easily shut the drawers, but it was also kind of hard. Saying goodbye to certain items was saying goodbye to a season of my life (I no longer need as much business casual). I was saying goodbye to other items
Mark and I have been in Florida the last 3 months. It’s been in incredible time with the Lord. He’s preparing us to hit the road running when we return to MN very soon. He’s been speaking to us about our church (https://rt4sanctuary.org/), the foster care initiative and our house of healing (aka the Encounter
The Lord has been speaking to me about how priorities (the plural) almost goes against the very definition of priority: something given the time, attention, importance above all other competing alternatives. Once we have more than one priority, we have to decide still between alternatives which can carry confusion. I painted this picture a couple
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When anger rises in me, I often see two paths in front of me: to respond in outburst or reaction or to stuff it down and ignore it. Let’s be honest, if I am angry enough at the trigger, I don’t actually see those two options before reacting in an outburst! The issue with those
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The Bible says the joy of the Lord is our strength (Neh 8:10). It is a gift to us and in us from Jesus (John 15:11) and a fruit of the Holy Spirit inside of us (Gal 5). Joy is such a powerful gift we have access to, but also seems to be a hard
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The transformation a caterpillar goes through to become a butterfly is very interesting. Although the DNA of both creatures are identical, the genes that are “turned on” and “turned off” are not the same. In the cocoon, the caterpillar’s organs and body essentially turn to goo in order to grow instead a completely new structure