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Why Are You Showing Grace To Them? They Hurt ME!
Read Luke 19:1-10 Everyone always seemed to have a problem with Jesus spending time with sinners. I used to believe it was because they mused that if Jesus was Who He said He was then sinners were too far beneath Him. Maybe they perceived that those sinners weren’t worth His time. I suppose that it was even that he shouldn’t associate with that “type”. That is until I read the story of Zacchaeus AFTER just speaking some pretty harsh words to God. From my perspective, He was fighting more for the person who had hurt me than for me. I was the one begging God for help but it seemed…
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Let Them Do The Hard Things
Hey Boy Mama, Let them do the hard things. It’s hard to see our babies begin to grow and take on the world’s challenges. It’s hard to see them try and possibly fail. It’s hard to watch them work hard, strive, prepare, put in the time, and not know if it will pay off. Let me let you in on a little secret… It ALWAYS pays off. It pays off by watching the evolution of your boy into a man! Let your boys do the hard things. Let them do the hard things because soon, the hard things become the lessons. They become the very thing that taught them grit,…
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They Ruined My Life!
“Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:” Phil. 1:6 kjv What did I do to deserve this??? Have you ever asked yourself that question after being mistreated? Have you ever questioned God’s goodness when your closest companions hurt you? Have you ever wondered if you will still be able to fulfill your calling when your life, as the result of others, looks drastically different than “it’s supposed to look?” After all, you were the one going to church every Sunday. You were the one being faithful. You were the one praying and…
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Being A Boy Mom Ruined Me
I didn’t know that the day I got married, God would give us four boys. Here I am now, sixteen years later…ruined. Every Sunday when I walk into church, there is someone running ahead to open the door. Every shopping day there is a much taller person than I to reach the top shelves. Every project that requires more muscles than I can muster, there is a strong arm willing to lend its aid. Every time I go through a dark parking lot after realizing I forgot one item on the grocery list, there is a bodyguard. Every time I cry there is a loving arm around me, ensuring I…
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BURY THE DEAD
13 And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou wilt give it, I pray thee, hear me: I will give thee money for the field; take it of me, and I will bury my dead there Genesis 23:13 I was having a hard day again. It seems to happen at the most inopportune times, amidst the chaos of appointments and holidays, and always before Mother’s Day. The past comes creeping in like a predator in the night. Without warning it’s standing right before me and I appease it with a plate full of resentment and a side dish of anger. I…
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Dear Fathers Of Daughters,
Dear Fathers of Daughters, Please stop saying you are going to greet your daughter’s date with a shotgun on the front porch when he arrives to pick her up. There I said it! This Boy Mama has had enough. There are numerous mothers out there who are raising up responsible and admirable men! Men who will and want to respect women like your daughter. Men who will greet you with a firm handshake and say “yes sir” or “no sir”. Men who will open a car door and pull out a chair. Men who have standards. Men who can recognize red flags in a relationship. Men who can discern between…
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Why Did God Choose The Rainbow?
12 And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: 13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. 14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: Genesis 9:12-14 I don’t know about you but Fear seems to be the battle I face the most as a mom. I feel like most days I’m white water rafting down the river…
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When Our Dirty Laundry Airs!
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 To this day I can’t help but break out in laughter at the thought of what happened one day while teaching preschool. I was just beginning my journey as a boy mom and was privileged to have several rambunctious boys in my class. Each Friday the children would take…
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A Worth That Doesn’t Spill Over
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, Ephesians 1:3-5 Our family lived in an RV for three years. We didn’t have a lot of the conveniences that we had while living in the house. My kids, who had to wash every dish by hand, desperately missed having a dishwasher.…
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Quit Telling Your Kids “I Trust You”
I think we can all agree that parenting is challenging no matter the era, am I right!? But, I do think that raising kids today does have its unique set of challenges compared to our counterparts. According to Pew Research Center, sixty-six percent of U.S. parents would agree with me. As a mom of boys, I feel a tremendous responsibility to raise boys who are strong in their relationship with the Lord and God-fearing men of integrity. I know there is a mom of a daughter out there who will one day entrust her sweet girl in the care of my son. I pray that I make good use of…
