A Mama's Guide to a Fit Summer: Tips on exercise, eating, & "space"

Clare

Well, well, well. Here we are in June. My kids have been out of school since the last week of May so I am definitely in the swing of summer break! There is no doubt that summer comes with mixed emotions–relief from the intense mornings, lunch packing, and homework, yet a bit of frustration trying to juggle everything you did in those hours they were gone!

Who Else Wants Simplified Celebrations?

Christy Fitzwater

On my calendar for last month were two college graduations, eight birthdays, one anniversary, and one adoption. Two of our long-time friends turned 50, and those were “biggies”.

Next month the calendar is even fuller.

I’ve noticed that the pressure to celebrate, in an impressive way, all of the people in our lives has grown over the years.

Hit Your Knees Before You Hit the Phone {or tap away on the keyboard}

Karen Ehman

I love to talk.

For as long as I can remember, talking has been my favorite pastime. My teachers used to comment that I talked too much in class. Later on in middle school and high school, I became that chatty girlfriend of the group. Then in college, the thing my husband said he most loved about me was the way I could talk. I could work a room, making the shy ones feel included. I could talk to everyone from the college president to the bag boy at the local grocery store.

Although my husband loved my verbal skills when we were dating, it didn’t take him long on our honeymoon to have this thought: “When is she ever gonna stop talking?” In fact, he has decided, should I go before him, what he will put on my tombstone.

A period. 

Yep, I’ll finally be done talking.

4 Steps to Help Your Children Fight the Comparison Trap

4 Steps to Help Your Children Fight the Comparison Trap

Angie Tolpin
Discipling Children, Faith, Parenting, Teens, Friendships

We’ve all been there, the comparison trap. That place where we don’t feel good enough, where our standards and expectations of ourselves meet who we really are. That place where we look at what others are doing with their kids or what we think they are doing, and we feel like a failure. Social media perpetuates this comparison trap and we fall for the bait over and over again. 

The comparison trap is a very real place and we are all tempted to fall into it. Whether it be comparing our marriages, jobs, families, children, churches, you name it. But what we don’t often realize in the midst of fighting the good fight against falling into this trap, is that our children are also being tempted to fall into it as well.

Sanctification Through Motherhood

Carlie Kercheval

Sanctification is something that every Christ-follower desires to emulate. To be holy, set apart, and consecrated to our Lord is really the ultimate goal for a Christian. And while God uses many of our day-to-day circumstances to prepare us for His service, undoubtedly much sanctification occurs through motherhood.

 

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