“You’ll never get pregnant again.”
Our hearts broke as my fertility doctor dropped those cold words on me and my husband when our daughter was two and a half, several months after experiencing a devastating miscarriage from an ectopic, or tubal, pregnancy. The fertility treatment I’d tried failed miserably…
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Motherhood: The After Party, for When Your Nest is Empty
The invitation arrives when you least expect it, folded neatly like fresh towels warm from the dryer and wraps, unexpectedly, around your heart. The invitation reads something like this:
Dear Mom:
You are cordially invited to a party. An After Party.
Your children are growing up. They’re heading out of the nest and all those years of love and sacrifice, cooking and cleaning, disciplining and discipling–are coming to an unceremonious end. This is your invitation to Act 2.
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Will you take The God Dare?
What’s the crazy dream God has dropped in your heart? What is He asking you to do you know you couldn’t possibly do on your own? In fact, if you try to do it on your own you’re pretty much guaranteed to fall flat on your face? Has He given you a wild, preposterous, secret, …
Hello There 2019!
As I’ve said before God’s economy is never wasteful and He never squanders the life training He gives us. He will use everything you’ve gone through when you trust Him to lead. God will call out the big dream He placed in your heart decades earlier and give it wings, if you’re willing to step out. Both Abraham and Moses prove you are never too old for God to use you—and both of these remarkable biblical heroes changed the world.
Today’s Grace is the Only Grace You Have
“But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.” 2 Corinthians 12:9 While she was alive, my mom never missed the chance to remind me …