As I sat in a special room of my house the other day, I read the question posed in a Family Fun magazine article, “How do you teach your children gratefulness?” Well that got me thinking…how DO I teach my children gratefulness? The way I see it, teaching gratefulness cannot be done without teaching compassion at the same time. They Continue Reading →
I saw Jesus today. Yep, I did. I know you think that’s unbelievable, but I saw him face-to-face. He looked right into my face while I wiped His. I also saw Him when I fed him a hot meal and filled up his cup with milk for the 100th time. He even stared right back at me with a surprised Continue Reading →
This is a post I wrote from our adoption blog. It really straddles both blogs that I write so I put it on both, but for those of you that read both–this one ends a little differently. I’ve been reading a book called, “The Mission of Motherhood” by Sally Clarkson lately. I’m pretty sure I’ve underlined more than I haven’t, Continue Reading →
I was reading this article in the new Focus on the Family magazine. The basics of it was that we focus so much on what kids want to be when they grow up–their profession, not what type of person they will be. It really got me thinking and how I want to foster character, not the accomplished tasks in my Continue Reading →