Five Ways to Keep Going in Your Bible Study For two summers I babysat my younger cousins who lived across town. They were nine and seven. I was around thirteen or fourteen. Their mom went to work at 7:30 each morning. So instead of my mom getting up early and dragging out my brother and sisters, I rode my bike across town each day. I relished the feeling of freedom, peddling on the backroads. I traveled the same roads each…
6 Feelings I’m Feeling about Back to School Last week my two oldest birdies flew.  Maybe not the way I would have pictured life, five years ago, but here I am. A first-time “Kindergarten” mom. Yes, I have a little girl in Kindergarten, but I’m talking about my older boys. The ones who will be in 4th and 2nd grade are my making feel like I’m in a glass case of emotions. I’m the kindergarten mom, who will cry cried buckets…
How do I free myself from fear? I didn’t know the fear building up until one night I sat shaking on the couch. My husband and I were talking about the future, and it seemed my heart was torn in two. I knew I trusted God, but in those moments He felt so far. Where was God in the middle of the unknowns? We have our son, and his medical needs are so much less severe than our daughters. We…
What summer plans do you have this summer? How do you read your Bible on vacation? A month ago we left for China. We were there for over two weeks. Although it wasn’t a vacation, we were out of our routine for awhile. It was been a much different trip than the last time. Even though it was so much less stressful, I still struggled with reading my Bible consistently. It was hard, living in a hotel room with various…