Our words hold the power to transform our children’s’ lives. Here are 7 simple phrases you can say to be a fountain of life to your child. Try them this week, and watch as it transforms their hearts– and your own.


Moms can work for much more than just an income. If you choose to work, your job should be something that gives you more purpose and freedom. (Money Making Mom Book Review)


Her words were in Times New Roman, 12 point, only because she had fallen too weak to script them by hand.


“Mama, the song is sad.” He breaks from his block tower construction and catches my gaze. I noticed it after he spent an evening watching The Piano Guys videos on YouTube with his Daddy, this new sensitivity to the emotion of music; a subtle awareness far beyond his two years. He had sat on his Daddy’s lap, wholly entranced […]



“Mama, the song is sad.” He breaks from his block tower construction and catches my gaze. I noticed it after he spent an evening watching The Piano Guys videos on YouTube with his Daddy, this new sensitivity to the emotion of music; a subtle awareness far beyond his two years. He had sat on his Daddy’s lap, wholly entranced […]



What if this year, for Christmas, we toned down on the things that tend to take us apart, and instead give gifts that encourage “Remember When” moments?


My husband slowed the car as we passed by the old wooden gate. “I don’t know, Babe.” We gazed out over the lot, a sparse expanse of tree trunks punctuated by the occasional lopsided evergreen.


We fail so often to realize it–that those rough seasons are a part of a bigger picture. A bigger season. A season of age. Of days, weeks, months, years.


Thankful can be a tricky thing to chase down.
But something holy transpires within us when we turn from thinking of thanksgiving as a response, and instead see it as command. Something we were created for.


While I was trying to teach my boys the importance of meeting people in their need and loving them to Jesus, they ended up teaching me something big, too.



While I was trying to teach my boys the importance of meeting people in their need and loving them to Jesus, they ended up teaching me something big, too.



I knew that something was terribly wrong the moment I opened the door to the microwave. I saw it, but could it really be?
Yes. Yes it could.


Raising kids stirs something deep in our souls — an innate knowing that our time is finite. Taking my kids outside in creation, I’m discovering how to stretch our time and pack it to the brim with meaning. God’s creativity provides the riches of resources for teaching the next generation who He is and how He loves us. Join our adventure and discover inspiration and resources for refusing rush, creating habits of rest, living intentionally, and making the most of this beautiful life!

