Doing Kingdom Work When You Don’t Have a Platform (Or Even If You Do)

A friend and I had a Voxer conversation over the weekend about discipleship and doing small things and where God has given us opportunities to serve. I shared some thoughts with her that have been bouncing around in my heart for a few months now: thoughts that have impacted how I spend my time. Then […]

When You Don’t Know Your Calling

God’s will used to be a totally mystifying subject to me. Was I going to grow up and be a missionary? Was I supposed to be a teacher? A lawyer? A stay-at-home mom? Would I have two kids or ten kids? Who would I marry? Where would I go to college? What was my calling […]

When We Listen to Lies

Sometimes I get to ten in the morning and realize I’m ready to go back to bed. The kids are fighting. I already feel behind. I think, “What’s the point in going on when I’m making such a mess?” We are all telling ourselves an internal story. Every single day, we are the voice in […]

How To Simplify Fall

One of my favorite quotes by Rach Kincaid is “brave yes, firm no.” I want to spend my time doing exactly what God wants me to do (even if it’s scary or hard) and not being distracted by other good things or worse, by bad things. Now that our vacation to the beach is over (last […]

How To Be Consistent

Sometimes people ask me how I manage to blog when we have four small children and I usually smile and shrug because they don’t really want to know the answer. They want to pretend that I’m a super-person doing things that they could never do because then they don’t have to change. Then they aren’t […]

For Your “What Is My Life?” Moments

I’ve had a few What is my life? moments lately. I shared that thought with my husband a few nights ago before bed. Sometimes life just doesn’t work out like we thought or expected. Often we are surprised, shocked, even resentful of what we face in life. The next morning I read more of the […]

6 Reasons Why I Sleep Train

I’m a fairly relaxed sleep-trainer. We need to be flexible because of our lifestyle; we will not be home every single night at 8:30 to put the baby in his bed. (You need to know why you are sleeping training and what results you want to be successful at this. Don’t just adopt someone else’s […]