I keep a Bible Study and Prayer notebook. Since I’m a note taker, it’s the perfect place to store those notes from sermons, workshops, and books. As I read Scripture, I jot down verses that strike me, how it applies to me or life in general, and prayers it leads me to. Yesterday, I was [...]

I received my Family Christian Stores sales event flier this week in the mail. I was enjoying skimming the titles and reading the little blurbs about the books that caught my eye when I stumbled upon the title “The Christian Atheist” by Craig Groeschel. Maybe you’ve already read this book. If you have I’d love [...]

After you’ve dealt with your child’s initial anger (see Part 1) and only when you sense your child’s heart softening can you begin guiding them in rebuilding their relationship with God. If your child has never experienced anger with God, this is invaluable ground work for the unavoidable. In dealing with their illness, your child [...]

As Christian families who have children with health challenges, in the middle of our fear for their futures one thing that gives us peace is our child’s relationship with God. When so much seems to go against them, they’ve been given an incredible gift that healthy kids usually don’t get so young; our kids have [...]

Today, we’re going to time to look at the dangers our children face when they embrace their labels or disease. We’ll also find that we face the same dangers. I know that I’m taking the chance of really stepping on some toes, but please remember that I know these dangers because I’ve experienced them. This [...]

Welcome back to our second day of talking about the good, the bad, and the ugly of labels! Most adults do not allow kids to call each other names. We would see it as bad behavior and correct it, right? If we believe names like “Fatso”, “Shrimp”, and “Four-Eyes” (sorry, I know those are actually [...]

Hi, Sweet Parents, Right now I’m feeling so thankful, peaceful, and joyful I had to share it with you! You may not know that the devotions I create for my biweekly Ezine “The Heart Challenge” are tested before I send them out. They are my family’s devotions too ! Well, tonight after some awesome homemade pizza, [...]

It’s Good Friday, and my thoughts keep going back to the cross. I’m thinking about just what was nailed to the cross on that day. Sound strange? There’s a continuous whisper in my soul that there was so much more than what my mind can comprehend. As He’s so cruelly fixed on that cross again [...]

I’m sorry it has taken so long to update you! The truth is, Thursday’s appointment wiped me out, and my writing wasn’t making much sense . (Hope I can do better today!) Seth’s check up went very well – we couldn’t have asked for better. I was on Cloud 9 when they checked his oxygen level [...]

“When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained, what is man that you are mindful of him…” (Psalm 8:3). My family got to see Hubble 3D at the Imax last night. What strikes me this morning is that when David wrote this Psalm he [...]
