In an ideal world, everyone would always get along and our feelings would never get hurt. Unfortunately, we live in a world that sin has entered so sometimes we’re not going to get along with others and our feelings will sometimes get hurt by others. This is when forgiveness comes in to play. The Bible speaks a good deal not…
We’ve all been there. We wonder if we’re doing this parent thing right. Am I reading to my child enough? Is he eating healthy enough? Am I spending enough time with him? And the list goes on and on. I was having one of those days recently where I was wondering if I was doing things “right” when all of…
Life doesn’t always go the way we planned. There are some weeks when it seems like every productive thing I had planned went up in smoke. I had one of those weeks this past week where nothing I planned went right. It can be frustrating when it happens for a day, but it can be disheartening when it looks like…
In my last blog post, Reading Your Bible vs. Studying Your Bible, I talked about how I let life get the better of me and stopped reading my Bible daily like I had been. One of the excuses I used was that we had just moved and I had put my study Bible in a box that I thought was…
I wouldn’t necessarily say that studying the Bible on my own and actually fully understanding it is one of my strengths. I have heard people teach an entire lesson based off of one verse and wished that I had the knowledge and wisdom of the Bible like they did. How did that read a part of the Bible and get…
Have you ever felt guilty for getting annoyed by your child? I have. And I sure hope that I’m not alone in this. Don’t get me wrong, I love my son with every fiber of my being. He is my heart. He is my world. But sometimes, he makes me want to scream. That’s actually what first inspired this post…
I mentioned before in my post Faith Over Fear: 10 Ways to be a Stay at Home Mom that if you’re in God’s will, He’ll take care of you. Trusting that God will take care of you is easier said than done. I used to constantly check our bank account and would have little anxiety attacks if I didn’t…
For the longest time, I just wanted to be a mom. Nothing else in this life mattered. Every time I tried to figure out what career I wanted after I graduated college, I always thought about how that job would affect my time with my family. A lot of the jobs that I had been interested in would have…