Sleeping on the couch-a lesson in thankfulness

If you’ve followed my blog for awhile, you know that I operate a small daycare. But you may not know this interesting little fact…my three teenage sons and I lived in the daycare before we were able to buy our own home. Yep, that was as fun as it sounds....

Only a moment

Some stand uncertainly, arms wrapped around their children. Others grip the iron bars of their prison in desperation. But all eyes are fastened on Luke, as one man asks him the question they all long to voice. “What’s going to happen to us?” A short...

The right side of the road

“You’re on the wrong side of the road,” my mom calmly told me. (Really, she was calm. I promise.) “Oh, right. That could have been bad.” (Cue nervous laughter-because that’s what I do when I’m flustered.) You might be...

Never give up

Kaylee clung to the 66-foot climbing wall, about 1/3 of the way up. I could see the teenager from my youth group was tired. “Okay, I’m done. I can’t go any further. Let me down.” “No. You can do this. I’ll let you rest, but...

God’s not dead

  It’s heating up here in the Ozarks. (We skipped spring and went straight to summer, as did most of the country!) A couple days ago, my daycare kiddos and I were hanging out in the shade in the backyard, trying to beat the heat. We discussed our favorite...

God is good all the time

No one ever told me it would be this hard. Being a mother, I mean. No, the hardest thing wasn’t the labor and delivery. (Although that wasn’t exactly a walk in the park.) Or the seemingly endless nights of little sleep and crazy days of chasing toddlers....

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