APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  When our girls were young, I often wondered whether the small tasks of mothering meant anything. I had moved from a successful news career to a life as a farmwife and stay-at-home mom. Life was a series of nighttime wake-ups,...

APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  There's something about the written word, isn't there? Something about being able to hold a slip of paper or a card with someone's handwriting, with the words they've thought about and inscribed just for...

APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  How often do we stand before our little ones and children admitting our weaknesses and asking for God's help. I'll be honest, I'd rather hide the hard stuff from my kids. I want to protect them. I want...

  APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY When my kids were very little and I caught them doing something they had been told not to, I would kneel down beside them and say, "You can't obey on your own. You need Jesus' help to do it. Ask him to help you obey." I took this...

APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  As my kids approached the preteen years, I thought hard was coming to a close. I can hear you experienced teen moms, I can hear you experience teen moms laughing from here. After over a decade of...

  APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  For the past few months, my children and I have been working through the names of God in our personal Bible time. When we came to shepherd, I asked my children what they thought a shepherd does for his sheep, and their responses...