The month of May just zoomed by, as I was crazy busy with adjusting to summer vacation with the kids at home, my part-time job, and everything that goes along with that. Honestly, I’ve been doing a whole lot of “looking in my house.” How God Gets Our Attention Thinking over the last six weeks… Read More »
I’ve had a blog (albeit, in several different forms) since 2008. I’m amazed by a couple of things when I look around at other moms with successful money-making blogs. Some of these bloggers have been online and working for a shorter amount of time than I. There are a dang lot of women bloggers, but… Read More »
“I sensed God was calling me to the mission field.” “We really felt God was not calling us to leave just yet. We felt there was more work to be done.” “I’ve always felt called into teaching.” Have you heard people say these types of things when they’ve been discussing their life’s plans or work?… Read More »
Today I have the great pleasure of being the host on Day 7 of the Virtual Blog Tour for FaithLeaps: The Christian Mom’s Guide to Passion, Purpose and Profits by author Alyssa Avant. On the last stop of the tour, Alyssa visited Rosann Cunningham’s blog at Christian Supermom. Below is the great interview I… Read More »
One of the Bible verses that stays with me through thick and thin and good times and bad is this one: The wise woman builds her house, but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down. —Proverbs 14:1 (NIV) I think I like it because it’s appropriately convicting, yet practical as it offers… Read More »
My daughter had a school project due. We headed to Michael’s, which is, of course, a requirement for all school project creations. Something about that day’s trip was different for me. I don’t know. I’ve shopped in Michael’s hundreds—maybe thousands—of times. But that day, I was nostalgic. I longed to trim photo edges with scallop… Read More »
(My friend, Jamie at BlondeMomBlog, posted this cartoon with her year-end post. I had to borrow it for mine. I love it.) It’s a new year—the perfect time for reflections and fresh starts. I’m a real sucker for cliched rituals like that. And so, I look back and look forward. I started this blog one… Read More »
This is not anything new, really. My house is always a mess. By “house” I mean both my physical dwelling, as well as my mental/emotional/spiritual “house.” And I straddle sanity between enjoying the permission to be unstructured with the overwhelming desire to “get it together” and get it cleaned up. The first few weeks of… Read More »
Ready for a little bit of True Confessions? Here we go. I’m struggling big time lately with turning to my sin to mask and medicate my pain. And I realize I’m doing this. And it’s not working (duh), but I’m still doing it anyway. And … it’s not even in the “big” stuff, either. It’s… Read More »
photo credit: LifeSupercharger I heard a sermon a few months back about the idea of pruning. At the Bernard house, we’ve learned the hard way that when plants, trees, and shrubs aren’t probably trimmed at certain stages of growth, they become unwieldy messes. Their limbs climb high and awkwardly or stick every which way. During… Read More »