The busy of May, with the end of the year kindergarten graduations, 8th grade graduations, end of the year musical performances, a Double Blessing baby Shower, and June birthday’s celebrated on May 30th, because, well, Double Blessing pregnancies are early bird pregnancies, right? We’d figured that after the 15th of June, it’d be too close to a July 17 due … Continue reading →
If I had to choose three prayers I’ve prayed whose answers gave birth to other prayers, I would choose to trace the prayer-ology of praying for God to show me who He wanted me to marry, for more children when we were unable to conceive again after our first son was born, and when I gave my writing to God, … Continue reading →
What Bibilical Women Reveal about Motherhood: Part IV Mother’s Day is a tender day. It is tender for the new mother who holds a precious life so fresh from God in her arms—and finds herself overwhelmed with so much love, so much to do, so much she never realized she didn’t know. It is tender for the mother of littles … Continue reading →
What Biblical Women Reveal About The Journey to and Through Motherhood Part II:Mother’s-n-Waiting: What God Reveals in the Barren Journey Motherhood is full of surprises. Some surprises warm the heart and sustain. Some surprises unnerve, shaking us out of our comfort zone. The only one never surprised? God! After all, He planned each child’s life before their first breath was … Continue reading →
What Biblical Women Reveal About The Journey to and Through Motherhood Part II:Mother’s-n-Waiting: What God Reveals in the Barren Journey You might wonder that a mother with five sons has any credibility talking about The Barren Journey. Maybe that’s because you don’t know my infertility journey. Maybe, possibly, in the heat of the challenge, it’s like being on the outside … Continue reading →
Just as Veterans Day recognition cannot fully plumb the depths of the effects of battle on the soul of a soldier, neither can Mother’s Day fully plumb the depths of the effects of the journey to and through Motherhood on a mother. It, too, is often a battlefield—a faith battlefield won only through a mother’s determination to not give up … Continue reading →
“But he would withdraw to desolate places and pray.” Luke 5:16 A desolate place – at first I thought of it as a sad place, a dry place, an unhappy place. Then I realized a desolate place wasn’t that at all. It was a place empty of outward distractions. How I need a “desolate place” few days–and if I cannot … Continue reading →
(I first wrote this on an After-Resurrection Sunday Monday Morning in a Covid-19 Isolation lifestyle in 2020. I revised it in 2022 on another After-Resurrection Sunday Monday Morning when I was struggling with sciatica pain before my son’s wedding. Both times, I needed the encouragement of that call to meet Jesus in Galilee –Hope in such goodness planned by a … Continue reading →
“I’ll make a list of God’s gracious dealings, all the things God has done that need praising,All the generous bounties of God, his great goodness to the family of Israel—Compassion lavished,. love extravagant.”~ Isaiah 63:7, The Message “The Dayenu” (It Would Have Been Enough) is a Passover song of gratitude, remembering what God has done for the Jewish people. I’d never heard of the Dayenu until The … Continue reading →
