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Posts in the "Spiritual Sundays" category:
Spiritual Sunday: Getting “Ready” for Church
Worshiping as a family at church each Sunday is one of my top priorities, but getting ready for church is often much harder than I anticipate. What have you done to teach your children reverence for spiritual things in your life?
Go Gently
Lately I’ve been feeling the need to go gently, speak gently, do more things gently, as a mother. Our responses determine the climate of a relationship, of a home.
Spiritual Sundays: How Do We Become Like Salt?
In many ways, the role of salt compares to the roles of mothers. You simply can’t “sprinkle” your mothering on at the end. Your mothering needs to be “baked in” to your child.
Book Summary: When Motherhood Feels too Hard
Filled with uplifting messages for each day of the month, When Motherhood Feels Too Hard is a powerful reminder of the divine role of mothers and the divine help they are entitled to. Through personal experiences, poems, scriptures and quotes, author Kelly Crawford offers mothers a spiritual lifeline for when it “feels too hard.”
Spiritual Sundays: Greeting the Dawn
On a normal day, irritations can pile up and I roll with the punches. However, on a day like yesterday, I just can’t handle the toys, blankets, clothes, and Legos that are STILL on the floor (despite three kids being asked three times to clean them up). What to do?
Spiritual Sundays: Grace or a Spotless Kitchen
How many times have you looked into pleading eyes, wanting to say no, but ultimately saying yes? How many times have you been glad that you did?
Spiritual Sundays: The Invisible Woman
It’s tough to feel like your efforts go unnoticed and like there’s nothing to show for your back breaking, heart wrenching work. Whenever I’m feeling this way, I am reminded of the following excerpt from Nicole Johnson’s novel, The Invisible Woman.
Book Summary: In Praise of Plan B
This book gives the reader freedom to accept that life does not have to be perfect in order to be rich and rewarding. Joy can be found in spite of circumstance, and contentment and peace are far greater reward than short-lived success.
Spiritual Sundays: What Do You Do When Life Is Hard?
I went to visit a mother the other day who is going through ten times as many challenges as I am. As we spoke she said, “I know I won’t be challenged beyond what I can bear, but I feel so maxxed out. How am I going to get through this?”
Book Summary: A Love That Multiplies
In their second book, Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar, best known for their TLC show “19 Kids and Counting”, talk about their family systems, beliefs, traditions, and give readers “an up-close view of how they make it work.”
Spiritual Sundays: Phases of Life and Perspective Gained
My last two babies are licensed teenage drivers. The eldest of my four children is set to marry in June and my college-age son is batting around career ideas. I’m trying to figure out what happened to all those little kids who used to run around and drive me crazy?
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