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 Kyle Worley The light from her lamp illuminated the base of the door to my bedroom. I can still remember waking up and walking to edge of my door to make out what her whispers said. I could hear faint words, “Lord, would you protect my sons…would they grow up to love you…would they...

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 Candice Watters When I was single, quiet time was the hour or more I spent reading my Bible and praying before heading off to work for the day. There was a season of life, however, when uninterrupted quiet time was a distant memory. Quiet was measured in minutes, not hours, between crying babies, squawking...

By Tina Gist Do you have “hot spots” of clutter around the house? For instance, are there spots where junk mail lands, dirty laundry ends up on the floor, books don’t get re-shelved, clean laundry collects, toys get scattered, and before you know it you are tripping over the vacuum cord? The Gist Family home...