Prayer Journals, Christian Motherhood and Inspiration
Whether or not you truly have a break in the summer, I think years of school train us to see summer time with a sense of wonder and a time for new adventures. Along with treks to the swimming pool and road trips with the family, you might be thinking of setting a few personal intentions for this season. Reading more? Walks in the morning? I know one of mine
This content first appeared on our podcast, Prayer in a Noisy World but because it’s one of our most commonly asked topics, we wanted to share it here along with a free PDF (sign up below) to help you pray for your spouse! What if there was one thing you could do today that would take just a few minutes that would have an eternal impact on your spouse and your marriage, would
On my second Mother’s Day, I shared this photo and said“That day you are reminded of all the ways you show love that you never even realized showed love.”Isn’t that so true? Isn’t that what Mother’s Day is all about? Showing our moms what they’ve meant to us and why we are grateful, especially those things that normally don’t reveal themselves every other day of the year? It’s a chance to
I remember last summer when I was going through lots of anxiety and discouragement and I reached out to a few friends I knew would pray for me. Asheritah Ciuciu was one of those sweet gals and she sent me back the most encouraging message on Voxer. She emphasized things in prayer that went far beyond my circumstances. Around the same time, I was reading one of Paul’s epistles (I
It’s been 6 years since I’ve shared my night routine so I thought it was time to share my updated routine. I think we’ve all heard it said, a good morning routine starts at night. So if you have a goal to make time to pray and read your Bible each morning, I hope the tips in this post help set you up for that, while also just being a
If you want to see me get fired up, ask me about repetitious prayers. I’ve noticed as I’ve done podcast interviews over the last year on prayer, the topic will come up and I get so excited to respond because I think we tend to feel very defeated about praying the same things over and over again, and I hope to show a different side to repetitious prayer and share
It’s been 3 years since Grumpy Mom Takes a Holiday was released! When I first started writing the book, I hadn’t really heard moms talk about toxic mommy culture (believe me, I looked!). It wasn’t a topic of conversation that the way moms are stereotyped by the world might actually be damaging to our view of motherhood. That seems pretty crazy to even think because I feel like we’re seeing
This quarter was a weird one for books! I barely read some weeks because of Covid and the flu and found it really hard to get back into reading because I watched sooooo much TV while in bed because my brain just couldn’t work. One thing I learned was just how much more TV makes it harder to read. I picked up some books that normally would have been no
The recurring lesson the Lord has been teaching me about prayer over the last two years has been related to the importance of praying with others. For as long as I’ve been praying, praying with others felt very much like something extra, but not a necessity. But that changed after hard seasons last year where I literally felt carried by not only having people pray for me but to actually
A while back, I shared a blog post in my monthly newsletter about Brett McCracken’s blog post on what he calls a “wisdom pyramid”. It’s basically a play on the food pyramids of yesteryear and our consumption of content. The emphasis is to show where we can find wisdom and how counter it is to adjust where we currently seek it. Judging from the number of people who clicked over
Today’s blog post is short but an important one! I had planned to write it for Instagram but I think it needs a spot of its own on the blog. If you’ve been around prayer for any length of time, my guess is you’ve heard the verse from Matthew 18:20, “For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.” It’s used in church services to