by Julie Roys  Young mothers beware! If you allow motherhood to dominate your life, it will suck your passions dry, make you lose your identity, and lead to misery and depression! No matter how crazy it makes your life, or the lives of your husband and children, pursue your dreams! Find your calling! Be all you can be! Ever...

By Kimm Crandall As I was grocery shopping the other day, and while I was pushing around my overloaded-with-groceries cart, I saw a long-time friend–a younger mom with four little boys spilling out of her cart. It was a loud yell from one of the boys that turned my head toward her. We chatted across...

By Elisha Galotti The other night I sat on my son’s bed telling him a story about a man that I love. The conversation began with Jake, my 5 year old, asking me through held-back tears not to be angry with him for something rude he had said to another kid at his school. Assuring...

  By Abigail Waldron In the weeks and months following my daughter Celia’s birth, almost a year to the day after her older sister Avaleen should have been born, I kept telling people what a dream baby she was. And it was true.  She rarely cried or fussed, started sleeping nine to twelve hours at...

By Nikki Daniel As a pastor’s wife, I hear one complaint about motherhood over and over again: loneliness. As my pastor, my husband hears me share about one thing over and over again: loneliness. Let’s face it, friendships are very difficult to maintain when you have children at home because extra time is hard to...

By Jessica Thompson You finally get everyone to sit down together for a time of family devotions after a long day of car-pooling, making meals, doing laundry, and cleaning up 1,000 messes. You have high hopes for this time to be sweet and possibly even life-changing for your children, but before you even finish the...