A good friend of mine, whose children are all grown, tells the story of one of her sons, a boy of iron strong will, never bending for anyone, including his weary mother. She prayed for him, not that God would take her son’s strong will away, but that He would turn it for good. The…
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Just say, “Yes!”
The Lord has been showing me just how much I say no. It seems no matter what the children ask, my answer is, ‘no’. Often times it comes out of my mouth before they even finish their request. What would it be like, if for just one day, I said, ‘Yes!’ ‘Yes’, to reading a…
Managing Sibling Conflicts
***Today, Bambi Moore of In the Nursery of the Nation joins us as our newest contributing writer At the Well! Please welcome her!*** “I had dat foste!” It’s like nails on a chalkboard. And it’s been around since Eve gave birth to Cain and Abel. It grieves my heart when my children argue, bicker and habitually…
When Your Credentials Get a Fever
About a year ago, in an attempt to win the Insane Mother of the Year award, I took my poor little family, struggling with sore throats, runny noses, and fevers, on a roughly fourteen hour each way trip to New York City for my college roommate’s wedding. If it had been for anything else (OK,…
In the Quiet
Five-twenty AM, it’s just him and I in the quiet of the morning. The tick-tock of the clock is magnified as we talk in hushed whispers to one another. Today is the day. The long planned for and anticipated day. Deer season has begun. We talk about what he’s going to do, where he’s going,…
Serve Them Apples of Gold
A verse in Proverbs says “A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.” Simply meaning a right word spoken at the right time is a thing of beauty. Each one of us has our own “quirks,” or certain things we do a certain way – and it probably makes no…
Doing the “Hard Things” in Parenting
Some things are easy and some are hard. There are things that come naturally and things that don’t. Another way of saying it is that we are gifted in certain areas, and others…not. Seems obvious, no? But one thing that I constantly have to remind myself of, is that when we do the hard things,…
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