Spoiler alert: I love poems. I love reading them, I love writing them, and I love sharing them! The Lord gave me these poems as prayers of blessing for the sons and daughters in our lives, and I hope you love them as much as I do. Boy Version Dear God,Please bless this child and …
For the Lord has comforted his peopleand will have compassion on them in their suffering.—Isaiah 49:13 (NLT) The Lord will comfort Israel againand have pity on her ruins.Her desert will blossom like Eden,her barren wilderness like the garden of the Lord.—Isaiah 51:3 (NLT) Grief doesn’t feel good. It is debilitating and all-consuming while in the …
Being a mama is hard work and definitely not for the faint of heart! If you are in need of some encouragement in the midst of all your mama duties, I hope this poem will remind you of just how important YOU are—to your kids and to your Heavenly Father. Dirty dishes, crumbs on the …
Would you think it was weird if I told you that I’m kind of obsessed with children’s Bibles? I hope not, because I am! “Why?” you may ask—because having one or more really well-done children’s Bibles is one of the absolute best ways to get our kids interested in God’s word! It is never too …
Let’s be honest—sometimes when our kids are wanting or needing something from us when we’re trying to get something done or we’re hoping for a momming-break, it feels pretty, well, inconvenient. Like when we’re trying to prep for dinner and someone is wanting help with their homework. Or when it’s bedtime and we’ve tucked them …
Confession: sometimes, I don’t feel like a very good mom. Like on days when I find myself losing my patience or, gasp, raising my voice with my kids. Or on days when my toddler’s temper tantrum over not being allowed to eat ice cream at 10 am or my adolescent’s sassy remarks just about send …
Upon returning home from the hospital after having lost my precious twin babies who were born pre-term, I felt so alone. So scared. So broken. My daughter was born stillborn, and my son lived only a few minutes after being born. I was completely uneducated about stillbirth and pregnancy loss and had no idea that …
As a parent, dealing with your kids’ nighttime fears is inevitable. At one point or another, our sweet little ones are bound to start feeling scared of the shadows on the wall, monsters under their bed, or boogeyman in the closet. Whether the fears are born from something scary or unsettling they saw on a …
Before becoming a mom, I never really paid attention to the quality of the products that I was buying. That entirely changed after the birth of my first full-term daughter in 2018. When you become a mom, you become 100% invested in ensuring the health and safety of your child. For me, this pursuit to …
How can a loving God allow a baby to die? Why wouldn’t He step in and keep it from happening? Wouldn’t He want to protect me from that? And protect you from that? Where was He when my daughter and son were born prematurely and quickly passed from this life into the arms of Jesus? …
