A Light in the Darkness

When's the last time you took time for yourself? Most of us as mothers have a hard time taking a break and spending time with ourselves. We are so busy with our jobs outside of the home (if we have them) and then making sure the home stays in order, the kids are taken care of, breakfast, lunch, and dinner is prepared, and then making time for our husbands, that we usually put ourselves on the back burner and then a year has gone by and we have not made time for ourselves. We end up at our whits end, our nerves shot, the kids are on our last nerve, and it takes an act of God to do anything with our husbands. Does this sound about right? If we are honest with ourselves it probably is. So how do we make time to have time to ourselves? There are several ways. Since most of us don't take naps when the kids take a nap, that is a good time. Just make sure that your have-tos are taken care of ahead of time so you won't think about them and then take some time for yourself. Anot...

Child Like God knows exactly the right time that we need something. Last night Chuck and I neither one could sleep. We both were having trouble with panic attacks for some reason. Then it started storming and woke the kids up and they both ended up in the bed with us. As soon as they both got in the bed, Chuck and I both realized that the kids were exactly what we needed to calm us down and to give us a big hug. I started noticing how God lined it all up that Chuck and I were having panic attacks and were scared, it started storming, woke the kids, they both ended up in the bed with us, and they both just wanted to be held and to give hugs. I also started wondering today about the verse where it says “childlike faith” and started wondering exactly what that means. I wonder if one thing this childlike faith Jesus is talking about is that when Jesus tells the kids to do something, they just do it. They don't stop and think about it. Kids are smarter than you think. We can learn ...

Be quick to say I'm sorry. Today was not one of my best days when it came to my son. We went to Wal-Mart to get groceries and he got under the basket and I didn't realize he had his finger in the wheel and I started pushing the buggy and then I heard this loud scream and looked down and his little finger was purple and split open. Once I got him calmed down we continued shopping and he would not be still. He kept getting up and walking around and getting in front of buggy and I finally snapped. I yelled at him and when we got to the car he didn't want to get in his car seat and my daughter was still in the buggy and I yelled at him again. Later tonight I started thinking about my son and was wondering what he was thinking about the whole situation. I realized that if I had of just strapped him in the buggy (even though he didn't want to be strapped in) I wouldn't of lost my temper and wouldn't of yelled at him. I realized that I need to be very careful wit...

Did you know that Jesus loves us all the same? That's right He does. He died for every last one of us. That is how much He loves us and He hates to see any of us try to go through this world alone without Him. Tonight Chuck and I went to NLC to support an old friend that we have not seen for years. The first time this friend and I met I was not saved and he was one of the key people that led me to Jesus. After I started dating Chuck, this friend had some things happen in his life and he turned away from Jesus all together. As years went by I would ask people how he was doing and every so often I would see him in passing and then one day he showed up at our church at a Celebrate Recovery event. Chuck and I found out where he was and Chuck went to visit him today and then we went to church with him tonight. Chuck and I did not see him for almost 7 years, but we never stopped praying for him. We believed that one day he would come back to Jesus. We believed that one day something ...

Love Your Children Have you ever looked at someone like a Worship Pastor, Youth Pastor, Pastor, Children's Director, etc. and pictured your son or daughter doing that? I don't know about you but the thought of my kids being a part of the next generation bringing people to Christ brings me to my knees. It leaves me speechless, but in order for them to get there we as mothers need to do something to get them there.   #1 Love them hard. You may not know this but when you love your children, you are showing them the love of God. When you love your children you take time out for them and show them through your words and actions who Jesus Christ is. #2 Love them harder. As your children grow and learn more about Jesus and who He is, don't be afraid to let them take the wheel from time to time and let them show you what you have showed them to prepare them for later down the road. #3Love them the hardest you have ever loved them. Once you have showed them th...

So often when we get an idea, thought, design, or anything like this, usually it is at the worst time for us. We are either sleeping and can't sleep until we write it down, doing chores or helping the kids and you can't do anything until you find something to write it down on, or driving and you have no place to put your thought. Am I right on this? This is exactly how I function. I have had a thought while driving and it was so good that I had to pull over and write it down and then continue on to my destination. So why is it that we get most of our awesome thoughts and ideas at the worst times for us? Well I cannot answer that to be quit honest with you, but I do know that it goes right along with something else that ususally comes at the worst time for us. Know what that (or who) is? Jesus. Yep that's right Jesus. The majority of the time when Jesus asks something of us, it is at a time that we just don't think is right for us. So what do we do? Well we can ignore ...

So what do you do when you love to write and then someone asks you to write something and you draw a blank. You think of so many different things to write about but when it comes to actually putting it down into something worth reading, nothing. There is just nothing there to write about, nothing to expound on, nothing. So what do you do? Well you just keep writing in hopes that something you do write will eventually be worth reading. It is the same way with being a mother. We as mothers the majority of the time love being a mother but there are times that we just simply don't know what to do. Everything we think about doing comes out wrong. The kids just keep getting louder, we drop everything we touch, we forget to feed a kid. We realize our toddler hasn't had a bath in three days and it all just keeps building up. So what do we do when those times come? Well we just keep being a mother and hope that something we do will eventually come out right. We as moth...