As our community and world continues to deal with stopping the spread of the Coronavirus, I pray that your family is healthy. Whether it’s distance learning with the kids, balancing work, out of work, struggling through loneliness, separated from loved ones, or serving the community, we each have our own challenges right now, and for many of us they are new challenges. Maybe you are one of the many fighting the virus, I would love to be praying for you. …
With our schools closed for a few weeks, and maybe even the rest of the year, life as we know it has changed! I have many friends feeling anxious about how this will all work! School at home? It’s overwhelming. I’ve been a working, homeschool mom for eight years now and there are days I still feel overwhelmed. I’m praying for you and your family! You should know, I may very well be the worst homeschooling mother there ever was. …
Chances are like me, you smell like hand sanitizer and you are deeply concerned about what is going on with the coronavirus. It’s where many of us are. I’m finding myself more neurotic and more of a germaphobe than ever before. (And that’s saying a lot!) We know it’s not in our mind because we see what’s happening around the world and around our country. Schools are closed. Theme parks closed. Many of us are working from home. The shelves…
Have you ever lost something that was dear to you? I was recently given a peek into the past of a young woman. Her grandparents were missionaries and gave her a Bible of her own on November 18, 1987. She was just a little girl. That Bible found its way into my hands last week. It was serve day at my church. We were clearing out items from another church property that we are moving into when I found a…
Over the weekend, we went through all of the Valentine’s Day cards and treats that my 4th grader received in class. She felt so loved. I remember those days…the ones where I was forced to give a Valentines to even the bully in my class. Everyone was included, everyone felt “loved”. The rules change when you get a little older. My other daughter is in 7th grade and at her school you can buy a flower to be delivered to a…