Prayer Journals, Christian Motherhood and Inspiration
Everyone is coming out with their fiction reads for the summer and y’all know me well enough to know that your girl struggles getting into fiction. I can enjoy fiction but it’s just really hard for me to find a good one! I’m a natural hypochondriac so stories of cancer and illness aren’t exactly relaxing. I also get really into a book when I’m reading it. When I was newly
One of the biggest reasons we say we can’t pray today is because we don’t have time or we’re just too busy. This can be an enormous mountain we feel we’ll never conquer! Essentially, the belief is that to pray, we have to figure out how to not be busy first. Today, I want to flip that thought and show you how the things we are going through in our
Sin is destroying our intimacy with God. And I can prove it. One look at our search history for our website reveals what’s heavy on people’s hearts: the most searched phrase on our blog is some variation of “when I feel distant from God”. We all long to feel close to God and hate that feeling of distance from Him. We’ve shared a good blog post on the multiple reasons
If you’re a fellow mom who is fighting for joy, you know that can be pretty tough to do surrounded by other moms. Maybe you’ve read Grumpy Mom Takes a Holiday and you’ve learned how to shift a perspective from the negative mom narrative that the world is telling us to something much more hopeful and of the Lord. But what do you do if you’re surrounded by mommas who
If you spend a few minutes poking around our blog, podcast, YouTube, and social, you’ll see that we have prayer tips galore! We are all about helping you start off a habit of focused prayer time! But today I wanted to share not specific tips but instead want to hone in on what you need most right now. Maybe you’ve started the habits, read the tips, and are still struggling
Celebrating others when I’m in a busy season does not come naturally to me. It’s really easy to get self-focused and think what’s happening in my life is too big to take time for someone else. I cringe just admitting that, but my actions remind me it’s true no matter how embarrassing it is to say it out loud. My twin sister, Natalie has always been really good at celebrating
In today’s world, we’ve probably all dealt with anxiety in some form or fashion. It’s no secret that with recent events, statistics have gone up. In this series, we’re combatting feat with faith as we chat with a friend of Val who’s fought cancer, and we’re also pressing play on anti-anxiety scripture being read over us.**Grabbed your prayer journal for 2023? They’re available now in our shop! ** Ep. 70:
After a day full of activities when everyone is finally in bed and you have a minute to breathe, you think it’d be a moment to rest. Instead, the inner critic comes out, swallows up any peaceful moment, and replaces it with guilt. It reminds you of: ✔ the to-do list you barely touched today ✔ the pots that will spend another night in the sink “soaking” ✔ the home
Even after having written 6 books, it still feels weird to call myself an author. If someone asks me what I do, I usually say, “I sell prayer journals… (and a little quieter) and write books.” I’m not sure why I still struggle so much with owning the title, but I do. So it should be no surprise how I feel about signing books. 😳 I associate a signature with
If you’ve been a Christian for a while, you’ve likely heard the Lord’s Prayer many times. You might have even groaned when you saw this blog post. Ugh, Val, give me something fresh! Can I just say, as someone who’s been in church since I was 18 months old, I hear you! It’s easy for this set of words that feel so antiquated and basic to hang out in the
Today, I’m sharing the biggest mistake I ever made having to do with prayer. It’s great when we can learn from our own mistakes, but it’s even better when we get to learn from someone else’s, right? 😜 You know our whole mission is to help you grow your prayer life so if I can save someone else from making the same assumptions I’ve made, I hope it will help!