**At the Well is Celebrating Moms this week! Happy Mother’s Day to all the Mothers, Grandmothers, and Daughters, from all of us At the Well!** Motherhood. Is it hard sometimes? Sure it is…like all things that are worth anything in life. Being a full time wife and mom to six children is challenging, especially as…
Wait, Part 2 of 2
(If you missed Part 1, you can read it here). Ten years after I had turned that magical number of eighteen, God allowed me to walk through an intensely painful year. I have no doubt now that the Waiting refined me to withstand what I would walk through. Knowing God, the years of depending upon Him,…
What are You Making?
“What are you making, Mom?” My 3-year-old son–the one of my children who is most in touch with his stomach–asks this question of me regularly. On my good days, I have my well-planned menu hung on my fridge, my grocery shopping done, and I know exactly what I’m making. Telling a hungry boy that a…
Turtles in the Snow Cheesecake Bars
In our house, my soon-to-be 15 year old son is our dessert connoisseur. That is why I collaborated with him on a new recipe to enter in an online contest. We did come up with a great recipe for the contest (we’ll have to wait to share that one). Our favorite recipe was eliminated because…
Submission Does Not Make You a Doormat
Oh, it is that word that so many wives dread to hear. Submission. However, submitting to your husband does not mean you have given your entire life away, nor does it mean you are now a doormat. “Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife,…
Cluttered Home – Cluttered Heart
For those whom He foreknew [of whom He was aware and loved beforehand], He also destined from the beginning [foreordaining them] to be molded into the image of His Son [and share inwardly His likeness], that He might become the firstborn among many brethren. Romans 8:29 AMP This is a picture of Nashville, TN. Our…
A Tale of Two Daughters, or Do What You’re Told First
Saturday: I had bitten off more than I could chew, as usual. My husband was going to a men’s Bible study in the morning and then staying at the host’s house to spend the day in a rented cherry picker taking down a tree in the front yard. I was supposed to bring pizza over…
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