For those who are grieving and those who are loving and supporting those who are grieving—two years and beyond is significant. I assu...

*** This post was also featured on the Huffington Post as part of  Common   Grief ,  a Healthy Living editorial initiative.  Until I a...

I t was a much needed hang-out Saturday in our house. And looking back on this day, it is so obvious how important un-busy time is for famil...

S o here I am with a confession.  While I have been hearing, even going through bits and pieces and motions of this intentional season in my...

I t wasn’t so much that I wasn’t ready for Christmas this year.  Truth be told, I didn’t want Christmas at all this year.  Every part of me...

What Mom Wants You to Know... Mom's Bible - Psalm 139 A wise friend recently described the absence we face when a loved o...

I headed to church Wednesday to pick up my son.  His middle school youth group was celebrating summer with an outdoor movie night on t...

I don’t have it all figured out as a parent.  But the one thing I have learned the hard way is that my parenting goes better when I take in...

How Doubt Can Make Us stronger photo credit: freeimages.com Let's just be real.  Chances are good, you've had it, and y...

One of the inspirations for this prayer was a song called "Hallelujah Christmas" by Cloverton.  I heard it first on Facebook...

40 Days of John Day 40: John 21:15-25 Jesus has just finished having breakfast with some of the disciples following their fishing trip. ...

40 Days of John Day 39: John 21:1-14 Jesus appears to the disciples three times after He is raised from the dead.  We get to read the th...

40 Days of John Day 38: John 20:19-31 "Then Jesus told him, 'Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those w...

40 Days of John Day 37: John 20:1-18 Mary Magdalene goes to Jesus' tomb and realizes Jesus isn't there.  She goes and gets Peter...

40 Days of John Day 36: John 19:28-42 John talks about Jesus' death on the cross, and His burial in today's reading.  The Son of...

40 Days of John Day 35:  John 19:1-27 Jesus is beaten, tortured, forced to carry His own cross, nailed to it, and left to die. All the...

40 Days of John Day 34: John 18:19-40 Jesus gets questioned by the high ranking leaders of the the day.  The reality is that they are...

40 Days of John Day 33: John 18:1-18 Jesus gets arrested in today's reading.  Peter denies being one of Jesus' disciples.  The t...