Do you ever get so busy with the everyday that you forget the long-term? I do. There’s always so much to do, and sometimes it might cause us to wish for a different season or an easier life. That’s why this short poem/essay caught my eye….and pierced my heart. The perspective can be applied to…
There are things that matter and we think they don’t. There are things that don’t matter much and we think they do. It’s not that we purposely set out to ignore important things or elevate unimportant things. We just get busy and busier. Before we know it there’s a skewed sense of priorities. We forget…
Someone recently wrote to ask me how she could become a more organized Mom: QUESTION: I am as far from a Type A personality as they come, and I struggle (still!) with productivity and discipline. As a Homeschool mom of 5, with number 6 due in just weeks, I am convicted of how important discipline…
Unfortunately, Moms don’t get do-overs. We can’t go back and start over with our children or husband, as much as we wish we could. Knowing what I know now, there are a lot of things I’d do differently. Let’s start with a short list of “5 Things I Wish I’d Known as a Young Mom.”…
The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one’s “own,” or “real” life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one’s real life – the life God is sending one day by day. ~ C.S. Lewis This quote is so…
If a good night’s rest seems like a faraway dream, welcome to motherhood. The season of having little ones sometimes seem to require more of us than we have to give. Having “been there, done that” for about 25 years, I *get* the feeling of desperation that sometimes overwhelms tired moms. Here are some ideas…