A few weeks ago I learned why we don’t often visit Bruce at work. Taking all four boys to eat lunch with Bruce to celebrate Quade’s 7 1/2 birthday and Knox’s 1st birthday was two bananas shy of a fruit basket. Watts greeted Bruce’s employees by lifting up his shirt. Price proceeded to pour salt & ...
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Confused? Overwhelmed? “Do the Next Right Thing”
I opened the email and read the question. Immediately my mind jumped 10 years ahead. All the “what ifs” and “what could be” filled my thoughts. I allowed my concerns with what others might think, my schedule, my desires, the future unknowns to pile up and paralyze me. “Much of this confusion arises from taking too long view. We think of years rather than of moments… It is hard to plan ...
They DO grow up
My first little guy was a challenge. He was cute & chunky, but cried a lot. He ended up having severe reflux & gas issues for his entire first year…crying for hours and hours at night. We swaddled, patted, paced, swung, shushed…with no luck. This past ...
Best Behavior Modification Tool: Mommy Time
Thank you all for your kind words and prayers after my post on Monday. I wrote that post for myself. I needed to get the words out & I felt like I would be inauthentic if I wrote any other words. Since my expectations on how it was received were low, it was such a blessing to my soul to be ...
Taking Credit for the Good….and the Bad
I was complimenting one of my mentors on her amazing 4 adult children and she responded with: “I decided awhile ago that if I’m going to take credit for the good that they do, I’m going to have to take credit for the bad too.” Great point. We pour a lot of time and effort into our children. On a day-to-day basis we don’t typically see the fruits ...
My {in process} Story
Looooved today’s post… it’s the first thing I read this morning when I woke up and looked at my phone. Good stuff. btw, I ordered the book recommended. The Mission of Motherhood…. just gave you props yesterday on my blog.
thanks friend! You are too kind. I hope you enjoy Mission of Motherhood…it changed my view of the whole journey. (pst…thanks for sharing on your blog).
Great post at the perfect timing! Fear has consumed me lately (mostly over school decisions) and EVERYTHING you said about being fearful over not being a good wife, fearful over how my kids turn out, fearful over what others think….rings TRUE in my heart. Through many verses and circumstances, the Lord laid something on my heart at the beginning of 2013 – “Ashley, I want you to replace fear with faith this year” – and I never imagined how many opportunities He would give me to practice that! Thanks for a post that I needed to read TODAY!
Oh yes after writing it I realized it was back to parenting in fear or parenting with faith. Thankful He could use what He is teaching me to minister to you. (miss ya!)
Chills on this one, Heather. Chills. I have never heard of John Croyle, but wow, wise man, and those are words I need to hear again and again. Thanks for sharing.
He was so awesome Erika…blunt truth. How can you not hang on his every word knowing how many children he has helped walk into adulthood? So wise.
Love this!!!!! Needed to hear it! What an eye opener. Thank you for always sharing
Definitely good stuff!!
Great recap, Heather! I too was surprised how much I learned from John’s talk.
Great post!
Do you know if there’s any way to get the talks of this conference on audio?
thanks debra! I went to the website: http://www.lifeway.com/n/Product-Family/dotMom?type=events&intcmp=iTeam3-MTX-dotmom-search-20120501 and didn’t see any mention of tapes available. Sorry!! Definitely plan on going next year. It was great!
Bummer. Thanks for checking anyway!
This is amazing. I fear and worry about everything but something about hearing some of these things really opened my eyes that God is in control and as I still need to parent I can also relax knowing that God is watching over my children as well. Thank you for sharing this was so awesome.